pamela.is Pamela is a tech emotionographer, documenting our emotional life with technology. Her work brings together creative research, affective computing, and expressive interfaces to make heartfelt and humankind technology.
Pamela is writing about the internet and emotion. She's currently writing a book All the Feels with Little, Brown and Company coming out in Fall 2025. She’s also written a book about Emotionally Intelligent Design, book chapters about technology and well-being, and articles about the ethics of care, emotional artificial intelligence, and emojis too.
Pamela is speaking about the age of Big Emotion and everything that comes with it, from cars that care and cities that are mood-aware to robot pets and emotion-aware video chat. She's given talks in real-life and online, at festivals like SXSW and NEXT, major tech events like Web Summit and TNW, corporate events at IBM and Google, and on the TEDx stage.
Pamela is teaching the next generation of designers about the emotional side of technology at Pratt Institute in NYC. She’s delivered guest lectures at Parsons School of Design, Stanford d.school, University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon, and ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination.
Pamela is working with compassionate companies from Audible to Zeiss, and many others—Accenture, Asurion, Barco, Dassault Systemes, Discovery Channel, Home Depot, IKEA, NBC Universal, Philipps, Twitch, and more. She advises all kinds of startups trying to implement emotion tech.
Pamela is feeling hopeful about the future of empathic technology, how we can design less addictive phones and more honest bots, and how to create ethical emotion AI.
