Eldy Lázaro

  • PhD Student
  • DIGITAL FABRICATION, PARAMETRIC DESIGN, WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY
  • ATLAS INSTITUTE

Eldy Lázaro is a Peruvian designer with an MFA  in design from University of California Davis and a B. Arch. from San Pedro University in Peru. Prior to joining CU Boulder, she was a resident at Autodesk Technology Center in San Francisco where she researched the use of mycelium bio-composites for applications in product design and wearable technology using digital fabrication techniques. She is currently a doctoral student at the ATLAS Institute in CU Boulder working across the Unstable Design Lab and Living Matter Lab. Eldy’s research interests include biodesign, Human-Computer Interaction and physical computing. She’s currently researching the use of compostable conductive materials for creating tangible interfaces and wearable technologies while addressing challenges in sustainability.

Projects

Publications

Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, Sepideh Mohammadi, Latifa Al Naimi, Shira David, Mirela Alistar. 2025. “Bio-e-Nails: a Sustainable Design Approach to Biobased Nail Interfaces”. In: TEI '25: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. (Bordeaux/Talence, France, March 4 - 7, 2025).

Mirela Alistar, Shira David, Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez. 2025. “Engaging with the making and the end-of-life of artificial interactive nails”. In: TEI '25: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. (Bordeaux/Talence, France, March 4 - 7, 2025).

Laura Devendorf, Deanna Gelosi, Steven Frost, Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, Etta W Sandry, Lily M Gabriel, Mikhaila Friske, Sasha de Koninck, Shanel Wu. 2025. “Experimental Weaving at the Unstable Design Lab”. In: CHI EA '25: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (Yokohama, Japan; April 26 - May 1, 2025).

Xin Wen, Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, and Michael L. Rivera. 2024. "Exploring a Software Tool for Biofibers Design". In: Adjunct Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST Adjunct '24). (Pittsburgh, PA, October 13-16, 2024).

Mirela Alistar, Latifa Al-Naimi, Sepideh Mohammadi, Shira David, Julia Tung and Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez. 2024. "Exploring the Affordances of Bio-Electronic Nails". In: Companion of the 2024 on ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp '24), (Melbourne, Australia, October 5-9, 2024).

Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, Mirela Alistar, Laura Devendorf, and Michael L. Rivera. 2024. Desktop Biofibers Spinning: An Open-Source Machine for Exploring Biobased Fibers and Their Application Towards Sustainable Smart Textile Design. In: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), (Honolulu, HI, May 11–16, 2024).

Fiona Bell, Shanel Wu, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, Mirela Alistar and Leah Buechley. 2024. "Making Biomaterials for Sustainable Tangible Interfaces". In: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '24), (Cork, Ireland, February 11-14, 2024).

Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, Lily M Gabriel, Mikhaila Friske, Shanel Wu, Sasha De Koninck, Laura Devendorf, and Mirela Alistar. 2023. "Designing Dissolving Wearables". In: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing & the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing (UbiComp/ISWC '23 Adjunct). (October 08, 2023).

Fiona Bell, Derrek Chow, Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, Laura Devendorf, and Mirela Alistar. 2023. "Designing Interactions with Kombucha SCOBY". In: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '23) (Warsaw, Poland, February 26 - March 1, 2023)​.  [Best Pictorial Award].

Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, Netta Ofer, Shanel Wu, Mary Etta West, Mirela Alistar and Laura Devendorf. 2022. Exploring Biofoam as a Material for Tangible Interaction. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’22), Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1525-1529. https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533494 (June 13-17, 2022—Virtual Event, Australia).