Thaís

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

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.