Philippe Zimmermann studied Environmental Sciences in Zurich, Switzerland. He worked in the corporate IT-Departments of IBM and Siemens for several years before he co-founded a company for web application development. Since 2001 he works at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in the Man-Machine Interaction group where he also pursues his doctoral studies. His current research interests include the measurement of affect in the context of HCI and affective reactions to design and designed objects.