Frederic Kaplan graduated as an engineer of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications in Paris and received a PhD degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University Paris VI. He worked ten years as a researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris and supervises now a new team on interactive furniture at CRAFT laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). His most recent research focuses on the design of robotic objects. In 2008, he founded OZWE, a company that produces interfaces of a new kind
