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Interfaces, tools and installations, many of them for people who are often left out: blind smartphone users, people living with dementia, visitors to a heritage city, people looking for words for a feeling.

NeuroPottery cover: virtual hands pulling up the walls of a clay pot on a potter’s wheel

NeuroPotteryA shared pottery wheel in VR: one person’s brain signals turn the wheel and fire the kiln, another person’s hands shape the clay.BR41N.IO hackathon, IEEE SMC 2026 · 2nd place · read more

reflecting on emotions with AI cover

reflecting on emotions with AIHand-drawn emotion cards and AI-generated guidance, tested with visitors at DIS 2025.2025 · read more

MEMEX storytelling app cover

a storytelling app for MEMEXThe information architecture, privacy model, screens and style guide of an app for sharing stories about places, built for migrant and marginalised communities.Interactive Technologies Institute, Lisbon, 2020 to 2021 · read more

Lost in Place cover: a figure half hidden by projected fog

Lost in PlaceAn interactive installation about dementia. Fog covers the viewer’s image, and only moving keeps it clear.Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 2016 · MinD 2019 · read more

wayfinding with dementia cover

wayfinding with dementiaA wayfinding tool for people with dementia that guides by their own landmarks, shaped by a month of fieldwork in Arnsberg, Germany.Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and University at Buffalo, 2019 · read more

braille touch pad cover

braille touch padA tangible layer for typing braille on a touch screen, tested with blind users.[year] · INSIGHT 2018 · read more

window to walled city cover

window to walled cityAn augmented reality window onto the old city of Ahmedabad.National Institute of Design, 2011 · read more

smart room signs cover: fingers finding a tactile tag on a room sign

smart room signsTactile NFC tags that let blind and visually impaired visitors confirm a room by phone, tested with ten people.IDeA Center, University at Buffalo, 2018 · read more

accessible audio tour cover

an accessible audio tourA beacon-based tour of the Richardson Olmsted Campus for sighted and blind visitors.Buffalo, 2019 · read more

gestures for a smart TV cover

gestures for a smart TVA library of eight gestures, from unlock to volume, drawn from how people already gesture at screens.Emotome, Ahmedabad, 2012 · read more

my learning lab cover

my learning labA self-assessment dashboard that helps learners understand their accessibility needs and track their goals.Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University, 2015 to 2016 · read more

AR and installations cover

AR and installationsA web-based AR viewer that shows apartment plans in 3D on a printed marker, and a touchscreen game installation about sustainability for ONGC.Experiential Design Lab, Delhi, 2010 · read more