Prof. Monica Bordegoni is full professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. She is the coordinator of the Virtual Prototyping group at the same department, and is member of the scientific board of the the makerspace POLIFactory Lab, and of the I.DRIVE Lab (research on interaction between driver, road, infrastructure, vehicle and environment) at Politecnico di Milano. Prof. Bordegoni’s interest in the area of Virtual Prototyping, Virtual/Augmented Reality technology and systems and their application in the engineering and industrial design sectors, multisensory interaction, product experience, haptic technologies and interaction, emotional engineering. She has published more than three hundred scientific articles in refereed journals and conferences. Prof. Bordegoni has received several honors and awards for her research contributions, including ASME/CIE best paper award in 2016 and ASME/CIE – VES best paper award in 2018, and the Design and Emotion 2016 Best Paper Award. She chaired the Executive Committee of the ASME-CIE Division in 2016/2017 and the ASME-CIE conference in 2016. She is member of the Advisory Board of the DesignSociety (2015-2019).