Peter Kahn

Psychologist Peter Kahn is the Director of the Human Interaction with Nature and Technological Systems (HINTS) Lab at the UW, where he explores the psychological effects of the rapid degradation of the natural world and the speed of technological development, both in terms of its computational sophistication and pervasiveness. Peter and his team dive into questions that arise out of these trends, such as how interaction with nature benefits people physically and psychologically, the psychological effects of interacting with technologies that simulate, mediate or augment nature and using deep and meaningful interaction with nature to revision and contribute to urban sustainability.

Peter is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ecopsychology. He is also the author of five books with MIT Press, including Technological Nature: Adaptation and the Future of Human Life. His publications have appeared in such journals as Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction and Journal of Systems Software.