“human-computer interaction” is great and all, but have you tried “human computer” interactions ??

also since I'm now hopping on the research talk circuit, I've decided to make a new professional (??) animated profile pic (shout-out to my partner Brian for knowing exactly how to position the camera according to my specifications 😆)

happening on Friday!! I'll be talking about my research on building systems that can extend human creative skills -- thank you for inviting me 🥰🥰

There's only so much that I can say in 280 characters, so come to our talks and visit our demo booths (and take home your own barrier-grid animation fidget toy 😉)! See you in Busan~ 🇰🇷

🎞️FabObscura: Computational Design and Fabrication for Interactive Barrier-Grid Animations Authors: Ticha Sethapakdi, Maxine Perroni-Scharf, Mingming Li, Jiaji Li, @JustinMSolomon, @arvindsatya1, Stefanie Mueller

🌱SustainaPrint: Making the Most of Eco-Friendly Filaments Authors: Maxine Perroni-Scharf, Jennifer Xiao, Cole Paulin, Zhi Ray Wang, Ticha Sethapakdi, Muhammad Abdullah, Patrick Baudisch, Stefanie Mueller

⚙️Meta-antenna: Mechanically Frequency Reconfigurable Metamaterial Antennas Authors: @MarwAlAlawi, Regina Zheng, Sooyeon Ahn, Katherine Yan, Ticha Sethapakdi, Junyi Zhu, Stefanie Mueller

Packing my bags for #UIST2025 !! I'm very fortunate to have been a part of 3 exciting papers this year! Here's a sneak peek at each one.....

🚀 The #UIST2025 teaser video is live! Sneak a peek at this year’s amazing technical program 👉

Lots of exciting things happening at UIST this year!! I've had the pleasure of being Community Co-Chair with @formanfunction and will be moderating the Women's Lunch Panel on 9/29! ✨ We have a fabulous set of panelists across academia & industry. Join us! 👩🏻‍🔬👩🏾‍💻 (poster by Jack!)

I really should make a longer thread about FabObscura once I get around to it...until then, here's a GIF of a parallax-based animation that we made with the system! (s/o to Rufus Butler Seder for sharing the animation with me)

FabObscura made it to @TheOfficialACM TechNews, which is pretty neat! Thank you for promoting the work!!

+ huge thanks to Maxine, Mingming, and Jiaji for being wonderful coauthors!! 💕

+ special thanks to @arvindsatya1 and @JustinMSolomon for co-coadvising me on this project & expanding my brain in different directions, and ofc thanks to my advisor Stefanie for always supporting my weird ideas

Thank yous @MIT_CSAIL for the lovely article!! I had a lot of fun working on this paper and I’m so excited to present it at @ACMUIST this year :))

I'm curious to hear what folks would have done in that situation and if anyone has ideas on how to make autonomous vehicles safer!

My friend commented that "riding in a Waymo dehumanizes the riders". I'll be thinking about that one for a while. In the meantime, I guess I'll use the 3 complimentary Waymo rides I got for getting out of the situation alive.

I'd usually feel safer in a Waymo late at night than going into the car of a complete stranger. But this reminded me of how there are situations any human with enough common sense knows to get the hell away from, while a robot would sit around defenselessly.

I tried to keep my head low, out of fear that some of them had guns. We didn't know what else to do; there was no alarm system, no way to override the controls. We considered calling the police. After the longest 10 minutes of my life, the car was finally able to get us out.

We contacted Waymo support and they were minimally helpful. To make matters worse, calling support automatically turned on both the emergency and backseat lights, which only drew more attention to us. Even upon seeing us in the car, men continued throwing things at the windows.

As we were stranded there, the group started crowding around us. Some tried to enter the vehicle. Others threw beer cans at the window. At some point, people were sitting on the car. My friend and I watched from the backseat in horror as chill lofi beats played on the speakers.