Lucy E. Dunne is a professor in the Department of Design Innovation, College of Design at the University of Minnesota, where she founded and co-directs the Wearable Technology Lab. She is a co-author of "Functional Apparel Design: From Sportswear to Space Suits" (Bloomsbury, 2015). Her research is focused on wearability and garment-based wearable technology, and explores new functionality in apparel, human-device interfaces, production and manufacture, and human factors of wearable products. She has received the National Science Foundation’s CAREER award, a US/UK Fulbright Commission fellowship, and the NASA Silver Achievement Medal for her work with functional clothing and wearable technology.