Lining YaoAlumni
Lining Yao is a Chinese born designer and maker of novel materials and interfaces. Yao is currently a PhD Candidate at Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab, where she focuses on pushing Human Computer Interaction toward Human Material Interaction. Her research revolves around the intersection of novel materials, digital fabrication and interaction design. Rather than computing the virtual data, she is trying to compute the physical material. Programming the physical states of material's shape, color, stiffness, texture and density is the long term goal of her research. Before coming to the US, she had been deeply involved in Chinese local design and manufacturing industry as a design consultant and entrepreneur. She has won numerous industrial design awards including Red Dot Award and iF Design Award. BS, MFA, Art and Design, Zhejiang University, China. MS, Media Arts and Science, MIT.
Thesis Defense
Presentation at Aspen Ideas Festival 2013
Presentation at WIRED 2015
Presentation at Meet the Media Guru 2017
Presentation at K12LIVE! 2014
TPC TV & Business in China Television Network 2017
ACM SIGCHI 2016
Projects
Transformative Ap...
xPrint
Inflated Appetite
bioLogic
Sticky Actuator
Bio-actuators: bi...
bioLogic Media La...
bioPrint
optiElastic
jamSheets
Weight/Volume Cha...
PneUI
FocalSpace
RopeRevolution
Kinected Conferen...
Papers
Hygromorphic living materials
for shape changingRobotic Systems and Autonomous Platforms: Advances in Materials and Manufacturing 2018
Harnessing the hygroscopic and biofluorescent behaviors of genetically tractable microbial cells to design biohybrid wearablesScience Advances 2017
Transformative Appetite: Shape-Changing Food Transforms from 2D to 3D by Water Interaction through CookingCHI 2017 2017
bioPrint: A Liquid Deposition Printing System for Natural Actuators 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing 2015
Integrating Optical Waveguides for Display and Sensing
on Pneumatic Soft Shape Changing InterfacesUIST 2014