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Thaís
Thaís
I design interactive environments where technology becomes a space for embodiment, cultural imagination, and collective worldmaking.
I design interactive environments where technology becomes a space for embodiment, cultural imagination, and collective worldmaking.
I design interactive environments where technology becomes a space for embodiment, cultural imagination, and collective worldmaking.
































Sneak peak of my active explorations
Selected Projects
Co-creating interactive systems and methods that expand how we access, imagine, and care through technology.

Sound Clouds
A large-scale ambient AI interactive installation where people move giant inflatables to generate playful visuals and soundscapes. It turns curiosity into joyful community play and meaning-making, pointing toward possible futures in adaptive, responsive environments. Over 200 participants engaged with Sound Clouds at a public exhibition in Atlanta. Papers accepted for CHI and NeurIPS.
AI
UX
UI
TEI
Ongoing
Installation
Publication

Sound Clouds
A large-scale ambient AI interactive installation where people move giant inflatables to generate playful visuals and soundscapes. It turns curiosity into joyful community play and meaning-making, pointing toward possible futures in adaptive, responsive environments. Over 200 participants engaged with Sound Clouds at a public exhibition in Atlanta. Papers accepted for CHI and NeurIPS.
AI
UX
UI
TEI
Ongoing
Installation
Publication

Sound Clouds
A large-scale ambient AI interactive installation where people move giant inflatables to generate playful visuals and soundscapes. It turns curiosity into joyful community play and meaning-making, pointing toward possible futures in adaptive, responsive environments. Over 200 participants engaged with Sound Clouds at a public exhibition in Atlanta. Papers accepted for CHI and NeurIPS.
AI
UX
UI
TEI
Ongoing
Installation
Publication

Solace
An immersive VR experience that uses Western and Emirati poetic traditions to design affective environments that transform abstract concepts like loneliness, memory, and identity into interactive, spatial, and felt experiences. Published at ArtsIT.
VR
Technical Art
Indigenous Knowledge
UX
Product Design

Solace
An immersive VR experience that uses Western and Emirati poetic traditions to design affective environments that transform abstract concepts like loneliness, memory, and identity into interactive, spatial, and felt experiences. Published at ArtsIT.
VR
Technical Art
Indigenous Knowledge
UX
Product Design

Solace
An immersive VR experience that uses Western and Emirati poetic traditions to design affective environments that transform abstract concepts like loneliness, memory, and identity into interactive, spatial, and felt experiences. Published at ArtsIT.
VR
Technical Art
Indigenous Knowledge
UX
Product Design

Road To Acceptance
A VR serious game that turns the five stages of grief into symbolic, interactive environments using embodied interaction to help players understand and demystify grief. It was evaluated by mental health professionals to study how XR can support emotional literacy and neurodivergent-inclusive therapy. Published at DiGRA and SeGAH Conferences.
Game
VR
UI
UX
Publication

Road To Acceptance
A VR serious game that turns the five stages of grief into symbolic, interactive environments using embodied interaction to help players understand and demystify grief. It was evaluated by mental health professionals to study how XR can support emotional literacy and neurodivergent-inclusive therapy. Published at DiGRA and SeGAH Conferences.
Game
VR
UI
UX
Publication

Road To Acceptance
A VR serious game that turns the five stages of grief into symbolic, interactive environments using embodied interaction to help players understand and demystify grief. It was evaluated by mental health professionals to study how XR can support emotional literacy and neurodivergent-inclusive therapy. Published at DiGRA and SeGAH Conferences.
Game
VR
UI
UX
Publication

Photovoices: Grad Student Belonging
A participatory study where graduate students use photography and storytelling to surface how belonging is felt, negotiated, and co-created in academic environments. Findings will inform more just, student-centered policies and guide the design of more supportive co-curricular experiences.
Design Research
Ongoing
Disability Justice
Mental Health
Belonging
Participatory Design

Photovoices: Grad Student Belonging
A participatory study where graduate students use photography and storytelling to surface how belonging is felt, negotiated, and co-created in academic environments. Findings will inform more just, student-centered policies and guide the design of more supportive co-curricular experiences.
Design Research
Ongoing
Disability Justice
Mental Health
Belonging
Participatory Design

Photovoices: Grad Student Belonging
A participatory study where graduate students use photography and storytelling to surface how belonging is felt, negotiated, and co-created in academic environments. Findings will inform more just, student-centered policies and guide the design of more supportive co-curricular experiences.
Design Research
Ongoing
Disability Justice
Mental Health
Belonging
Participatory Design

Hope you like my watercolors!

Hope you like my watercolors!

Hope you like my watercolors!

Hi, it's me :)

Hi, it's me :)

Hi, it's me :)

Love writing and reading!

Love writing and reading!

Love writing and reading!

Big Zelda and Hades fan!

Big Zelda and Hades fan!

Big Zelda and Hades fan!
Behind the practice
I am an interactive systems engineer, design researcher, and creative technologist from Honduras, working at the intersection of embodied interaction, cultural expression, and Human-AI encounters
My work combines emerging tech (AI/XR), tangible + embodied interaction, interactive environments, and participatory research to create culturally situated designs that empower communities to imagine and shape new futures together.
Embodied Interaction
Embodied Interaction
Research Through Making
Research Through Making
Culturally Situated Design
Culturally Situated Design
Interactive Environments
Interactive Environments
Interactive Environments
Participatory Design
Participatory Design
Participatory Design
Social Action Research
Social Action Research
Social Action Research
Product Design
Product Design
Speculative & Plural Futures
Speculative & Plural Futures
Care & Justice-Based Design
Care & Justice-Based Design
Care & Justice-Based Design
Tangible Interfaces
Tangible Interfaces
Tangible Interfaces
Rapid Prototyping
Rapid Prototyping
Interactive Systems Engineering
Interactive Systems Engineering
Interactive Systems Engineering
Material + Play-Based Research
Material + Play-Based Research
Speculative Futures
Speculative Futures
Culturally Situated Design
Culturally Situated Design
Research Through Making
Research Through Making
How I make
I combine creative tech, interdisciplinary research, and community-based activations to support how people shape—and hack—the futures they imagine together
I combine creative tech, interdisciplinary research, and community-based activations to explore how people shape—and hack—the futures they imagine together.
Curiosity has taken my work across continents.
My practice learns and grows through the communities and contexts I engage with.
Curiosity has taken my work across continents.
My practice grows through the communities and contexts I engage with.



I’ve collaborated with universities, government institutions, arts organizations, and communities across the globe.
I build, learn, and design through partnership and shared imagination.
Let’s Create Together
I love working with interdisciplinary and curious people. Whether you want to collaborate, brainstorm, or exchange ideas, I’d love to connect.
Let’s Create Together
I love working with interdisciplinary and curious people. Whether you want to collaborate, brainstorm, or exchange ideas, I’d love to connect.
Let’s Create Together
I love working with interdisciplinary and curious people. Whether you want to collaborate, brainstorm, or exchange ideas, I’d love to connect.

















