cindykao [attt] media.mit.edu
www.media.mit.edu/~cindykao
MIT Media Lab, Speech+Mobility / MS1

Expertise

★★★☆ Art
★☆☆☆ Architecture
★☆☆☆ Craft/Fabrication
★★★☆ Design
★★☆☆ DIY Electronics
★☆☆☆ Electrical Eng.
★☆☆☆ Mech. Eng.
★★★★ Programming/CS

Experience
Trained for 5+ years as a computer scientist, I have wide ranging skills in programming languages and research experience in Ubiquitous Computing and Wireless Sensor Networks. Stemming from my artistic interests, I’ve have training in sketch, watercolor and Chinese calligraphy since I was a child. These two interests have led me to participate in several interaction design projects, from where I gained experience in DIY electronics and design.

Why
I am interested in creating communication technologies with a good sense of humans, and the humanities. Tangibility is the way we learn and experience the world as children, and it still processes a certain magic and familiarity to us as we get older. I hope to expand the communication interface off the screen and onto the physical environment around us, and to explore novel communication opportunities. I hope to create objects for communication that leverage our five senses, and help us express the ambiguous and the poetic.