I am currently a Masters student in the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab. I received my B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science with a concentration in Arts, Media, and Engineering from Arizona State University.
I am interested in creating technologies for children that leave room for the children to design and make decisions for themselves, and which support imagination and storytelling. I have worked on motivational home environments, robots with real-time programmable behaviors, and on remote-communication technologies for distance play.
I am obsessed with:
making things, miniaturized things, repurposing found materials, color, home design, tactile materials and in general the sense of touch, symbolic meaning and coded communication between people, depaysement (that sense of disorientation when encountering something completely new), pockets, good stories, anthropomorphization and characters.