Research

Publications

Selected papers and research outputs.

2025
2025

WORLDING is a Verb: Co-Creating Climate Futures with 3D Game Environments and Community Wisdom

Leonardo

WORLDING is a research-creation project exploring how game engines and real-time 3D simulation tools can be used in participatory and community-led contexts to co-create speculative climate futures.

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2024
2024

From Mining to E-waste: The Environmental and Climate Justice Implications of the Electronics Hardware Life Cycle

MIT SERC Case Studies

This case study examines the global supply chains, manufacturing conditions, energy consumption, and electronic waste processing associated with computation hardware, exploring technical, social, and policy interventions from an environmental justice framework.

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2024

A Mystery For You: An LLM Powered Fact Checking Game with a Tangible Interface

ACM CHI

A Mystery For You is an LLM-powered fact-checking game that uses tangible interaction design to support physical, collaborative, and investigative gameplay while raising critical awareness about algorithmic bias and automated truth verification.

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2024

Re-Worldings at MIT of Beaver Terrapolis Terristories

ISEA

Exploring community-led spatial design, media arts, and speculative world-building systems deployed in institutional public spaces.

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2024

Navigating Ambiguity: Investigative gameplay with a Large Language Object in "A Mystery for You"

NeurIPS Creative AI Track

This workshop presentation explores the design of Large Language Objects — physical interfaces integrated with generative language models — to enable tangible, investigative game mechanics that prompt critical discussion around automated text generation.

2024

Approaches to Thoughtful Tangible Interfacing with LLMs for Educational Game Play

UChicago C&I Symposium

Exploring tangible physical computing interactions integrated with large language models to support cooperative learning and investigative educational game mechanics.