A visual tool inspired by Indigenous Lenca and Mestizo worldviews that helps designers trace how sensations and feelings emerge and flow through our interactions with objects and environments. Paper under review.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A biomaterial-based wearable and companion app that lets users curate their sound ecologies. It moves beyond conventional noise-cancellation technologies and reimagines sound curation as a relational, ecological, and care-based practice informed by disability and neurodivergent ways of knowing.