Rural Co-Design Experiences ︎︎︎
Designing disruptive education programs in higher education to increase value to partnering communities in the context of participatory design projects.︎ 2019 - 2022
MIT Media Lab | Diversa
Colombia
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MIT Media Lab | Diversa
Colombia
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CabildoXLatAm ︎︎︎
A participatory digital space to learn, strengthen, and design collective responses to the pandemic. The event brought together civil society actors, governments, communities, and citizens.
Dormio ︎︎︎
Dormio is a wearable device that uses biosignal tracking to detect hypnagogic sleep states. It uses this information to prompt users with information with the goal to explore the relations between sleep and creativity.
International Development Design Summits︎︎︎
Hands-on design experiences that bring together people from all walks of life to create low-cost, practical innovations to improve the lives of people living in poverty.︎ 2015-2018
Diversa, MIT D-Lab
Colombia (multiple locations)
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Diversa, MIT D-Lab
Colombia (multiple locations)
#PD #STS
The Role of Social Robots in Fostering Human Empathy ︎︎︎
Using biometrics and designed interactions with social robots, we explored the question: can social robots support children in elementary school rebuild empathy skills?
Social Robots in Zero Gravity ︎︎︎
As research connected to space exploration becomes more accessible, opportunities to improve austranauts’ experiences by better supporting their connection to loved ones on Earth. In this work we asked: can we enable social connectivity between astronauts and people on Earth through an embodied agent?
Curious Learning ︎︎︎
How do children interact with a platform for self-guided literacy learning?We did a cross-cultural analysis of data collected from two digital literacy deployments in Wolenchete, Ethiopia and Roanoke, AL, USA to answer this question.