I’m an XRtist, producer, researcher and consultant focusing on extended reality and AI ethics.

Creative approaches

I am an experience designer, a researcher and media artist whose practice bridges embedded design, human-computer interaction, embodied technology and AI ethics. With a background in film, theatre and performance studies and a PhD focusing on affective computing, virtual, augmented and mixed reality and physiological interfaces, my work investigates the entanglement of bodies and systems — emotional, technical, political. I create participatory environments that challenge the boundaries between users and their environments, performer and audience, exploring how biometric sensing and algorithmic processes can generate new forms of agency, intimacy, and collective resonance.

Embodiment and Biometrics in XR

My background in theatre and performance studies has significantly influenced my approach to embodiment, spatialization, and interaction design. My doctoral research on affect recognition exemplifies this commitment. By exploring the implications of affective AI and physiological computing, I critically examine how affective technologies shape user experience, agency, and ethical considerations in HCI. The integration of sensors and interactive technologies fundamentally reconfigures agency, perception, and interaction and thus it has potential to affect health. Through this process, shared affect and emotional states emerge among participants, forming new modes of connection and engagement.

Collaboration, co-creation, participatory design

I advocate for a co-creative and participatory approach to creation, research and teaching. My experience in research-creation methodologies has shown me the value of collaborative work in fostering empathy, embracing diverse perspectives, and reducing ego-driven approaches to problem-solving. By involving different stakeholders in ideation, prototyping, hands-on design and research processes, I encourage critical thinking, creativity, and interdisciplinary learning. I view co-creation as an emancipatory approach that challenges the constraints imposed by dominant media, language, and creative paradigms. This principle extends across my creative practice teaching and research, ensuring that the individuals who engage with technology also have a hand in shaping it.

Value Embedded Design

Rather than treating ethics as an external constraint imposed post-development, I conceptualize its implementation as an embedded design practice—one that ensures value alignment from the outset. This includes practices such as AI life cycle approaches, documentation practices, and the implementation of ethical labeling systems for AI technologies.

By integrating ethical frameworks within both systemic processes and user interactions, embedded design fosters transparency, explainability, and user accessibility. It transforms abstract ethical concerns into tangible, interactive experiences, enabling users to engage with the underlying mechanics of AI decision-making. This approach ensures that ethics is not relegated to policy documentation or external oversight but is instead woven into the lived experience of technology use.