I design and prototype physical-digital toys that help people tell stories through making. These projects come from my PhD thesis, Techniques for Physical Storytelling, and earlier work building modular animation devices with LEGO, Arduino, sensors, and papercraft.
Undergraduate mentoring · PhD thesis
A small zoetrope built from LEGO bricks with swappable animation frames — an early exploration of modular physical cinema that later scaled up to my PhD work.
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PhD thesis · UIST 2022 demo
A bike-wheel zoetrope (the Audiotrope) with magnetic scene boxes, synced strobe lights, and light-reactive audio — the viewer's flashlight reveals both animation and sound.
Read with caution: linked pages contain strobing videos.
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Classroom study · SIGGRAPH Labs 2025 · IEEE FIE 2024 · ARIA 2024 · PhD thesis
An affordable papercraft animatronics kit for K–6 classrooms, tested with Grade 2 and Grade 6 students through hands-on workshops and cross-grade mentorship.
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