People Björn Hartmann Björn Hartmann is Faculty Director of the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research in Human-Computer Interaction focuses on novel design, …
People Hannah Stuart Professor Stuart’s research interests include: Dexterous manipulation; Bioinspired design; Soft and multi-material mechanisms; Skin contact conditions; Tactile sensing and haptics. Mobile robots face a rapidly expanding range of potential applications, …
News From Radioactive Blueberries to Virtual Limbs: Berkeley MDes’s Award-Winning Designs Berkeley Master of Design students have been busy! Recent graduates and current students alike have been winning design competitions with some thoughtful and evocative projects: Gia Kirk of the MDes2024 cohort and her team took second place in the iHackHealth Appathon. …
People Jiayi Liu Bio Disciplinary artist + designer. I am passionate about designing innovative and meaningful solutions to empower people. My work explores emerging technology, user experience, performance, self-expression, and interactive arts. …
Student Works BioInspired Design Audiomycelia Jan-Simon Veicht (Jan) MDes Fall 2022 Design for preferable consumption Introduction Our systems of mass production live on the edge of their capacity. We simultaneously recycle and destroy through our con- tinuous cycle of consumption and waste. …
Student Works product design student thesis sustainability Aer Susanne Pierce Maddux MDes Spring 2022 Project Aer, is an innovative material-forward design approach solving for sustainable and affordable home air filtration. Project Aer explores theinherent values, versatility and beauty of the material active charcoal by using it to replace plastic parts and as act as a filtration mechanism. …
Student Works educational XR TeachXR Hannah Bartolomea MDes Fall 2022 How might we enable high school teachers to use XR tools to enhance classroom storytelling? Introduction It is difficult to teach microscopic chemistry topics. Virtual and augmented reality technologies have been shown to improve student learning of 3D science topics by allowing students to learn about these concepts in 3D space (Johnston et al., …
Student Works AR VR Limino Qianyi Chen (Daisy) MDes Fall 2022 Interactions for Dynamic Blending Virtual and Real Environments in Head-Mounted Displays Introduction Existing works have been studying how can the physical world be integrated into the virtual world in MR systems, …
Student Works Empathetic Design HCI robotics Poetic Technologies Benal Johnson MDes Fall 2022 Rethinking design paradigms around technology. Introduction The variety of design decisions around interfaces, contextuality, and emotion in current smart home technology leaves a case for exploring how they could be designed differently. …
Student Works educational environmental design sustainability VITALIS VITALIS is a surgical experience for plants that simulates what a renewed relationship with our natural environment might look like. Abstract As the consequences of the Anthropocene unfold, …