The #interioraction Design Studio Lab @QueensComputing

Joined December 2020
More about our other #design projects on #tangible tech, smart spaces, #interioraction, and #smarttextiles on our webpage: istudio.cs.queensu.ca/public… Check out our interactive interiors, furniture, and wearables that are touch-sensing and shape-changing @QueensComputing
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📢 The latest issue of @interactionsMag just published a visually-rich and awe-inspiring article about our ✨️iStudio✨️ at @QueensComputing (led by prof @SaraKhNabil). Read here: interactions.acm.org/archive… @queensu @QUASfacultynews #womeninscience #WomensDay #WomensDay2025
Our new issue is out and available @ interactions.acm.org. This issue focuses on the evolution of technology infrastructures and interactions with contributions from Meredith Rangel Morris, David Gray Widder and Tamara Kneese, Melissa Gregg, and many many more. #HCI4AGI
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Team iStudio is at Bordeaux, France presenting our latest #TEI2025 research on digital fabrication and *Smart Textiles* (mixing traditional craft with technology) at @tei_conf International Conference by postdoc, grad, and undergrad researchers funded by @NSERC_CRSNG @queensu
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Our second paper is about E-Serging: Exploring the Use of Overlockers (Sergers) in Creating E-Textile Seams and Interactive Yarns for Garment Making. Check it out here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36890…
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Our 3rd paper explores Unraveling and (de)fabrication of Machine-Knit Textile Tapestries. Check it out here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36890…
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We were invited today to the First Peoples Innovation Centre in Quebec, where Prof. @SaraKhNabil gave an e-textiles workshop at the #Feminin #FabLab program this week! @QUartsci @queensuResearch #HCI #e_textiles #interioraction
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Excited we have a new paper by Lee Jones and @SaraKhNabil on *Interactive Spaces* by Knitting Data of Local Community Members using Digital Fabrication. Presented yesterday at @sigchi @tei_conf #TEI2024 Open Access publ: doi.org/10.1145/3623509.3633… @QueensComputing @QUartsci
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We needed to invent new ways of data visualization #dataviz to help understand, contextualize, and analyze the data of our interactive space. A knitted bar chart?
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Now, the general public can reflect on their #data while #transparently being displayed on #exhibition at the @OttawaArtG Art Gallery in collaboration with researchers at @iStudio_Lab @QueensComputing @QUartsci Read paper PDF here: doi.org/10.1145/3623509.3633…
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iStudio Lab retweeted
Join our lab @BristolUni @BristolIG to work on @ERC_Research project #inclusiveXplay. We have two openings: on cross-sensory shape-changing interfaces jobs.ac.uk/job/DEF611/resear… and on cross-sensory cognition jobs.ac.uk/job/DEG317/resear… Deadline Dec 10. #CHI2024 #UIS2024 #IDC2024
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Our team would likely be hiring student researchers in Google DeepMind. Please fill the interest form if you would like to work with me. This role would start Jan / Feb 2024 and would be in-person in Montreal with 80-100% time at GDM. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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iStudio Lab retweeted
Time is running out: Apply for a summer 2024 Mosaic Research Internship before the November 6th deadline and work with leading edge mentors on bulding machines with commonsense intelligence. Visit this link to apply --> boards.greenhouse.io/thealle…
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Fantastic talk today by our lab Director Dr. Sara Nabil @SaraKhNabil, professor at @QueensComputing about our groundbreaking work on interactive #interior design, #digital fabrication innovation, & smart #e_textiles! queensu.ca/alumni/events/… #uidesign #uxdesign #uiuxdesign #HCI
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We were just visited by Dr. Shanel Wu who saved our weaving crisis on the way to the @CreativeIntLab after finishing the PhD at the #unstabledesignlab @CUBoulder. Many thanks S, and best wishes for your new position! #e_textiles #interioraction #HCI #weaving #digitalloom
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iStudio Lab retweeted
I have PhD positions @iStudio_Lab in Fall 24. Welcome to talk with me at #dis2023 if you are interested in the intersection of #fabrication, e_textiles, and/or physical #prototyping. Please RT, DM, or email: [email protected] @acmdis2023 @QueensComputing @sigchi #interioraction
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Team iStudio is at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at @CarnegieMellon representing @queensu this week at the @acmdis2023 conference on Designing Interactive Systems #DIS2023 presenting two of our lab's #interioraction research by our graduate, postdoc, and undergrad lab members 💪👏
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The 1st publ is a collab between @QueensECE Aiim's lab led by @Ali_Etemad1 & @QueensComputing iStudio led by @SaraKhNabil to make car sensors using #e_textiles embedded into the vehicle's fabric for eyefree media control safer than multi-touch screens: youtu.be/7oW2Lniycng
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The 2nd @acmdis2023 publication is an artistic collaboration with independent artist Greta Grip, Lee Jones, and @SaraKhNabil to make textile portraits of #biodata with digital #fabrication using #hacked machine #knitting for self-expression and reflection! youtu.be/4bFs-Waf6T8
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