Rafael M. L. Silva is a PhD candidate in Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington. His research explores the design, use, and social contextualization of emerging technologies (i.e., IoT and Immersive Media). He is particularly interested in understanding how technology for civic engagement can be leveraged by people in their everyday lives in order to build more just futures.
Ana María Cárdenas Gasca is a PhD student of the Expressive Computation Lab at the University of California Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on developing, informing, and studying technologies for spatial storytelling in the context of memorialization and documentation of Human Rights violations. She has collaborated with the Museo de la Memoria in Colombia, exploring AR applications for presenting victims’ testimonials.
Joshua A. Fisher is an assistant professor in the Center for Emerging Media Design and Development at Ball State University. His research focuses on utilizing emerging media for and with communities for interactive storytelling and expression. He is the XR Chair on the board for the Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives.
Erica Principe Cruz is a PhD student of the Center for Transformational Play and Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research explores how counterspaces that center the joy, rest, and healing of marginalized people can be co-created across realities. She is synthesizing strategies for cultivating counterspaces as games and AR/VR/XR experiences.
Cinthya Jauregui is a masters student in Engineering Management and Leadership at Santa Clara University with an emphasis on Human Computer Interaction. She is the Project Lead for the Thámien Ohlone AR Tour, where she facilitates co-designing with Muwekma Ohlone tribal leaders, humanities scholars, and computer science researchers to tell the story of Muwekma Ohlone past, present, and future through emerging AR technologies.
Amy J Lueck is an associate professor of rhetoric and composition at Santa Clara University, where her research and teaching focus on histories of rhetorical instruction and practice, feminist historiography, cultural rhetorics, and rhetorical memory studies. Since 2018 she has been collaborating with Muwekma Ohlone and Ohlone tribal members on public-facing projects that use digital media to unsettle the patterns of Indigenous erasure that her research documents and to help sponsor the diverse cultural rhetorics practices of Ohlone youth.
Fannie Liu is a VP Applied Research Lead on the Global Tech Applied Research AR/VR team at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Her research involves the design of novel social experiences that leverage immersive technologies to promote communication and well-being. Previously, she was a Research Scientist at Snap, where she was the PI for research on the use of AR for activism.
Andrés Monroy-Hernández is an assistant professor in Princeton’s Department of Computer Science and an associated faculty in Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. His research focuses on social computing, leveraging technologies such as AR and others. Previously, he led a research team at Snap focused on social AR.
Kai Lukoff is an assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Santa Clara University. He is part of an interdisciplinary team of Muwekma Ohlone tribal leaders, humanities scholars, and computer science researchers who are creating an AR walking tour of the Native American history of Mission Santa Clara. He is developing a toolkit of AR resources that empower educators and storytellers around the world to develop ‘counter-tours’ that challenge hegemonic narratives of cultural heritage sites.
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