Carlye Laugh
PhD, Technology, Media & Society ‘18
Mechanical Engineering

Advisors: Mark Rentschler/ Daria Kotys-Schwartz

Carlye Lauff is a design researcher with expertise in engineering and product design, human-centered design, design ethnography, mixed-methods research, and design theory and methods. Her passion lies within the product development process, both understanding design practices and developing tools and methods for designers to use.

Lauff's dissertation research studies the role and impact of prototypes on design teams in industry. She enjoys working as a member of interdisciplinary teams, leveraging expertise from seemingly different fields to solve complex problems.

 

Publications

Abigale Stangl, Joanna Weidler-Lewis, Carlye Lauff, Emily Price, and Eric Fauble. 2017. The SEL Transition Wheel: Designing for Early Childhood Social Emotional Learning. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ‘17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 334-339. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3078072.3079746 (Stanford, California, June 27-30, 2017).