HCI & User Interface
Surge Harness
Strength you can feel. Control you can build.
Surge Harness is a wearable movement-resistance system designed to help climbers, athletes, and everyday users build strength and improve movement control safely. Instead of adding bulky external load, the system uses elastic resistance routed from the torso to the arms to gently slow motion, promote body awareness, and support mindful training and rehabilitation.
Surge Harness was created to explore a gap between athletic training gear and rehabilitation tools. Traditional options like weighted vests, static posture tools, or basic resistance bands can feel limiting, uncomfortable, or disconnected from real movement. Surge approaches that problem differently by adding dynamic resistance through a harness-based system that moves with the body.
The project is currently in the prototype phase and has been developed through research, community feedback, and iterative testing as part of Spring 2026 ATLAS capstone project.
Biodesign Challenge 2020
As part of CU Boulder’s founding team, we presented our project in June 2020 online internationally.
Our project investigated the use mycelium as an open source alternative to plastic made it to the semifinalist round out of hundreds of projects.
Electric Mending
Integrated flexible LEDs and sensors into modular patches using traditional weaving and darning techniques as well as microcontrollers to create a wearable responsive glowing garment that transforms from a bolero into a vest
RFID for Patients
with Chronic Illnesses
As part of Google's Explore CSR program, I created a system for patients with chronic illnesses to easily store health history and medication lists rather than memorizing that information.
Pirate Alt-Controller
Created an audio-based video game using binaural 3D audio built on unity as well as an alternate controller that steers with a wheel and shoots cannons with a custom slingshot potentiometer.
Vinyl Music Visualizer
Using Python, HTML, and Javascript I created a local host program that extracts pitch and volume from the microphone real-time to make geometric animations
to the music. This was made as an interactive projected light show for live bands or music events.
Crowded Cafe Design Intervention
As part of a group, we created a public installation designed as a subtle way of organizing the typically chaotic and crowded Laughing Goat Cafe at Norlin Library.