Netta Ofer
PhD Student • MS, CTD鈥擱esearch Masters '22 • HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION, WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION
ATLAS Institute
netta.ofer@colorado.edu

Netta is a PhD candidate at The ATLAS Institute at 葫芦娃视频, co-advised by Joel Swanson and Laura Devendorf. Her research explores design with living organisms from more-than-human perspectives. By making use of autobiographic design methods, bodily and movement practices, microscopy, digital fabrication, and digital art; she studies how design can expose human-centered assumptions and entangled relations with nonhumans and fabulate and enact different ones. Netta鈥檚 background is in media studies, human-computer interaction (HCI), and interaction design from the Media Innovation Lab (milab) at Reichman University. She has published and demoed her work at ACM CHI, ACM DIS, and ACM IDC, and has exhibited work at The Museum of 葫芦娃视频 and The Arvada Center in Colorado.

Projects

Publications

Torin Hopkins, Emily Doherty,听Netta Ofer,听Suibi Che-Chuan Weng,听Peter Gyory,听Chad Tobin, Leanne Hirschfield, and听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. 鈥溾��. In:听Proceedings of听Audio Mostly 2023. (August 30 - September 1, 2023)

Netta Ofer听补苍诲听Mirela Alistar. 2023.听"". In:听Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems听(Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).

Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez,听Netta Ofer,听Shanel Wu,听Mary Etta West,听Mirela Alistar听and听Laura Devendorf.听2022. Exploring Biofoam as a Material for Tangible Interaction. In听Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 鈥�22), Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1525-1529.听听(June 13-17, 2022鈥擵irtual Event, Australia).听

Fiona Bell,听Netta Ofer,听Hyelin Choi,听Ella McQuaid,听Ethan Frier, and听Mirela Alistar.听2022. Biomaterial Playground: Engaging with Bio-based Materiality. In听Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 鈥�22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1鈥�4. DOI:听听(New Orleans, LA鈥擜pril 29-May 5, 2022).

Fiona Bell,听Netta Ofer, and听Mirela Alistar. 2022. ReClaym our Compost: Biodegradable Clay for Intimate Making. In听Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems听(CHI 鈥�22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1鈥�14. DOI:听听(New Orleans, LA, USA鈥擜pril 29-May 5, 2022).听[Best Paper Honorable Mention Award]

Netta Ofer,听Fiona Bell听补苍诲听Mirela Alistar. 2021. Designing Direct Interactions with Bioluminescent Algae. In听Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021听(DIS 鈥�21), June 28-July 2, 2021, Virtual Event, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 23 pages.听

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In the news

The four projects presented by ATLAS at DIS'22
ATLAS research front and center at DIS鈥�22

June 29, 2022

Researchers from ATLAS Institute's Unstable Design, THING, Living Matter and Superhuman Computing labs presented four papers, including three that received 鈥淗onorable Mention鈥� awards, at the ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '22).

Biofoam
DIS'22: Living Matter and Unstable Design labs introduce biofoam

June 21, 2022

Exploring biofoam as a Material for Tangible Interaction, authored by Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, Netta Ofer, Shanel Wu, Mary Etta West, Mirela Alistar and Laura Devendorf introduced the DIS audience to biofoam, a water soluble and biodegradable material that can be made conductive.

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ATLAS@CHI2022

April 28, 2022

ATLAS researchers will present six published works and two workshops at the 2022 ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), the world鈥檚 preeminent forum for the field of human-computer interaction. The conference, commonly referred to as 鈥淐HI,鈥� will be held hybrid-onsite April 30-May 6, 2022 in New Orleans.

Museum visitors interact with Gallagher's Ghost exhibit
ATLAS community鈥檚 work featured in Museum of 葫芦娃视频 exhibit

Nov. 1, 2021

A group of 14 artists and technologists connected to ATLAS contributed to the Museum of 葫芦娃视频鈥檚 newest exhibit, 鈥淐onvivial Machines,鈥� which opened Oct. 30. It's the first museum installation for 葫芦娃视频 Experiments in Art and Technology (B.E.A.T), founded by Jiffer Harriman (ATLS PhD '16).