As part of my PhD research, I make animated artefacts with soft and bio-inspired robotics materials, which has organic appearance and whose behavior is mechatronically programmable. I sometimes program the kinetic behaviors of these artefacts responsive to human affect cues (through affect sensing). By presenting […]
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Programmable material and soft robotics
Workshop on movements generated from programmable materials in Metabody Forum, Brunel University, 7th April and presentation at the V&A Museum during Stitch Bitch Make/Perform group meetings (part of V&A digital learning programs) on 16th April 2016

Digital Impressionism
This project embodied how different human emotional sounds affects the shape/surface of an object, using digital design process utilising real-time data in 3D modeling and 3D printing. The Kinect sensor capture the shape of a balloon into a point cloud. Through coding, the points reacts […]

Tangible Emotions Work-in-Progress Show I
The MoodLab Mood management is important for empowering ourselves in the pursuit of a happier life and mental health. Self-help books are popular but people often fail in following the text-based practices. There are many emotion tracking Apps, however they are often very general in […]

Emoti @Art Hackathon London
Art Hackathon London, weekend of 16-17 May 2015 – 2nd place of “People’s Choice Award” The pieces tries to represent the the current emotional status of twitter with 5 different coloured light as well as music outputs to represent the following emotions: – Happy (green), Sad(purple), […]

MA_15 Degree Show at Victoria House London, 18-22 Feb 2015
MA_15 Degree Show at Victoria House London, 18-22 Feb 2015 Some of my work have been selected to show at the London College of Fashion MA_15 Exhibition at Victoria House, London, alongside the London Fashion Week. The project has also been selected to be featured […]

MoodLab
Brief Mood management is important for empowering ourselves in the pursuit of mental health and a happier life. Self-help books are popular but people often fail in following the text-based practices. There are many emotion tracking Apps however they are often found very general and […]

Silhouette of Anxiety, Patterns of Emotion (MA Project)
The project uses self-tracked data to inform fashion design process. It questions individual identity under the social norm on well-being, promotes self-empowerment by self-tracking and suggests design to be a creative communicator. My data from Gross National Happiness(GNH) survey result has been manifested into a dummy […]

Wearable Data – Human Brain Till 2025
A journal on this project can be found here. As part of the Fashion & Gardens programme of the Garden Museum London, we, the fashion and environment course student at LCF have the opportunity to create garments practicing sustainable approaches. Kassim Textile Mills kindly supported us […]

Workshop “Bottom-up” @ Design Museum
Design from bottom up Art and design are working more and more in cross-disciplinary context, and often come across elements that we as designers are not familiar with. As part of the Industry Insight Higher Education Student event 2014 at the Design Museum, I developed […]

Smart Fashion Workshop
A series workshop on DIY smart fashion run at the art-for-mental health charity CoolTan Art started on International Women’s Day event on 4 Mar. The series aim at bring technology and fashion accessible to people and use creative expression to empower individual. Hopefully in later stage of […]