About Me

As a senior PhD candidate at the University of Victoria, I'm interested in exploring the concepts of making, digital fabrication, wearables, and customization through a social lens.

As a researcher, I am interested in understanding how people can alter, recreate, or redesign their current devices and belongings to better suit their personal needs and better express themselves. In my future work, I plan to explore these ideas through a social lens -- what makes a device socially acceptable or unacceptable? What interactions are individuals comfortable engaging in around what audiences?  

Personal devices are innately telling of their owners, and therefore, there is great value in understanding how the alteration of such devices for increased self-expression can change the ways in which people interact with or use such devices, in various environments and around different audiences.

Through my work, I aim to intersect the disciplines of art and technology such that individuals are empowered to be creative while also designing and developing meaningful artifacts for personal use.