About Me as Researcher:

I am a PhD candidate in Computational Media, working and collaborating with Dr. Lane Harrison and Dr. Phoebe Toups Dugas. I study how interactive media, games, and data interaction systems shape people’s felt experiences, judgments, and behavioral orientations, and I translate those "diagnoses" into feel-able, experiential systems that help people understand complex information and feelings, and/or make better judgments.

My research is driven by two connected questions: (i) What design factors make people feel cared for, harmed, anxious, immersed, euphoric, deceived, or recognized? (ii) How can knowledge from interaction design help in transforming these insights into prototypes that make complex experiences, information or data, events or phenomena, and/or social issues more felt, testable, and reflective?

I approach these questions through what I think of as media experience diagnostics that examine how design contributes to particular feelings and interpretations. I also build experiential prototypes based on these diagnoses, drawing on game and interaction design, including playful data systems, VR/AR environments, and interactive visualizations that help people explore uncertainty, consequences, and social complexity through action. My most recent reVISit-Games and reVISit-XR work also develops study infrastructure for deploying, logging, and replaying interactive system and XR experiences in empirical visualization and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) studies.