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Transcribe to Survive

A tabletop escape room for Genome BC's Geneskool program that aids in teaching high school life sciences across classrooms in British Columbia. The Challenge How might we design a lightweight, portable, and interactive tabletop escape room that aids in educating a group …
2025
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4 min read
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Tales of Moments

This project shows the culmination of my Master’s research findings through a modular lithophane lamp comprised of everyday scenarios in two very different contexts. It showcases Filipino and Vancouver contexts through everyday interactions with people and objects, contextualizing the cultural …
2024
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3 min read
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Shifting Patterns

This project shows my Master’s thesis research’s conclusions on interactions with objects through an exploration of 3D printed zoetropes that puts emphasis to the varying factors affecting one’s perception. With the variation of form, pattern, rotation speed, camera shutter speed, …
2024
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2 min read
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Traces: Invisible Imprints

This project sought to investigate whether we are directed to handle objects in ways dictated by how they are structured through the use of hand dishwashing with invisible ink as an activity of research. The Challenge As someone who lived …
2023
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4 min read
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Strange Familiarity

This project aimed at comparing the perceptible affordance of everyday familiar objects most of us have been accustomed to and primed for a certain way of opening simply just by looking at it and the tactile interaction as well as …
2023
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5 min read
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Whitespace

This project is my bachelor’s thesis on investigating self-directed learning behaviours of university students in the Philippines during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown and the design of a tactile time visualization tool to help address issues of burnout. Read full Bachelor's …
2022
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10 min read

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