Neurobiologist-turned designer. Currently pursuing a Masters in Interaction Design at Carnegie Mellon University.
Work spans the digital and physical, including multisensory exhibits, creative direction and strategy, interactive installations, and user interfaces.
Design Research
Workshop Facilitation
Feature Development
Interface Design
XR Prototyping
2023-Ongoing
Dina El-Zanfaly
Daragh Byrne
Zhenfang Chen
Andrew Knowles
Tate Johnson
Semina Yi
Yumeng Zhuang
Design Research
UX Design
Conversation Design
Motion Design
Metal welding is a craft manufacturing skill that can be unusually difficult to externalize and represent to novices. Building competency requires an apprentice to iteratively practice embodied skills and sensitize themselves to a sensorially complex practice. To explore these challenges, a series of co-design workshops was conducted with a youth program in welding and fabrication. Opportunities for mixed reality, sensing, and tinyML processes to augment welding training and practice were identified, leading to the design of an extended reality welding helmet and torch which enhances the embodied learning of welding in three key ways.
Combined motion-sensing and visual XR feedback helps improve proprioceptive
and embodied learning
Acoustic sensing focuses learner attention on non-visual cues of weld performance
Biometric sensing enhances mindfulness and stress management in sensorially challenging environments
Augmenting Embodied Learning in Welding Training: The Co-Design of an XR- and tinyML-Enabled Welding System for Creative Arts and Manufacturing Training
ACM Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction 2024
Honorable Mention
Augmenting Welding Training: An XR Platform to Foster Muscle Memory and Mindfulness for Skills Development
ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces 2023
Best Demo
