Ticha Sethapakdi

“human-computer interaction” is great and all, but have you tried “human computer” interactions ??

Mark your calendars! The 2026 ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF) will be taking place from December 6-8 at The University of Tokyo 🇯🇵🍡✨ Please check our website for more details on important dates: scf.acm.org We look forward to your submissions!

ICYMI, my talk is up on the @BrownVisualComp YouTube channel! 📺youtube.com/live/qwfENXmZE… Thank you again for giving me the opportunity to talk about my research and for the lovely conversations that followed! ☺️

also since I'm now hopping on the research talk circuit, I've decided to make a new professional (??) animated profile pic (shout-out to my partner Brian for knowing exactly how to position the camera according to my specifications 😆)

happening on Friday!! I'll be talking about my research on building systems that can extend human creative skills -- thank you for inviting me 🥰🥰

There's only so much that I can say in 280 characters, so come to our talks and visit our demo booths (and take home your own barrier-grid animation fidget toy 😉)! See you in Busan~ 🇰🇷

🎞️FabObscura: Computational Design and Fabrication for Interactive Barrier-Grid Animations Authors: Ticha Sethapakdi, Maxine Perroni-Scharf, Mingming Li, Jiaji Li, @JustinMSolomon, @arvindsatya1, Stefanie Mueller

Packing my bags for #UIST2025 !! I'm very fortunate to have been a part of 3 exciting papers this year! Here's a sneak peek at each one.....

🚀 The #UIST2025 teaser video is live! Sneak a peek at this year’s amazing technical program 👉 youtu.be/Pob8DcPog_c

Lots of exciting things happening at UIST this year!! I've had the pleasure of being Community Co-Chair with @formanfunction and will be moderating the Women's Lunch Panel on 9/29! ✨ We have a fabulous set of panelists across academia & industry. Join us! 👩🏻‍🔬👩🏾‍💻 (poster by Jack!)

I really should make a longer thread about FabObscura once I get around to it...until then, here's a GIF of a parallax-based animation that we made with the system! (s/o to Rufus Butler Seder for sharing the animation with me)

FabObscura made it to @TheOfficialACM TechNews, which is pretty neat! Thank you for promoting the work!!

+ huge thanks to Maxine, Mingming, and Jiaji for being wonderful coauthors!! 💕

+ special thanks to @arvindsatya1 and @JustinMSolomon for co-coadvising me on this project & expanding my brain in different directions, and ofc thanks to my advisor Stefanie for always supporting my weird ideas

Thank yous @MIT_CSAIL for the lovely article!! I had a lot of fun working on this paper and I’m so excited to present it at @ACMUIST this year :))

@vhshen Omg congrats Vivian!!!!! So well deserved!!! 👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉

As of today, I am an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Entertainment Technology Center, an oddball department here at CMU! I can’t really find the words to express my excitement and gratitude. I'm so happy to have found this non-traditional academic role that fits me so well :)

@yuwen_lu_ it’s just ~vibes~

my best ideas come with least theories involved

@CedHon Hah, I wish! According to the Waymo team, the robot driver is in control at all times (waymo.com/blog/2024/05/f…) ...And I guess even if we could, neither my friend nor I know how to drive, which really did not help us in that situation 😅

@tichaesque Would it have been possible to take the control of the car? (Is there a way for humans to drive them?) ...as with the robot taxi in the "total recall" movie: youtube.com/watch?v=yueCu8…

So I had a slightly terrifying experience in a @Waymo last night that felt like an episode from Black Mirror. Here's what happened 🧵

@yuwen_lu_ thanks, yuwen! this was such a San Francisco moment haha 🥲🥲

@tichaesque @Waymo wow crazy story! sorry to hear that ticha but glad you made it out safe. :,(