Netta Ofer is a PhD student in the Living Matter Lab at the ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder. Her background is in media studies, human-computer interaction (HCI), and interaction design from the Media Innovation Lab (milab). Her design research makes use of interaction design, visual art, and dance and movement practices to investigate our relationships with living organisms through a more-than-human lens and explore how we might de-center the human in design research. She produces methods, interactions, artifacts, and artwork probing the points of connection and tension between human and nonhuman bodies. She has published and demoed her research at ACM CHI, ACM DIS, and ACM IDC.
Publications
Torin Hopkins, Emily Doherty, Netta Ofer, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Peter Gyory, Chad Tobin, Leanne Hirschfield, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. “Stringesthesia: Dynamically Shifting Musical Agency Between Audience and Performer Based on Trust in an Interactive and Improvised Performance”. In: Proceedings of Audio Mostly 2023. (August 30 - September 1, 2023)
Netta Ofer and Mirela Alistar. 2023. "Felt Experiences with Kombucha Scoby: Exploring First-person Perspectives with Living Matter". In: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).
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).
Fiona Bell, Netta Ofer, Hyelin Choi, Ella McQuaid, Ethan Frier, and Mirela Alistar. 2022. Biomaterial Playground: Engaging with Bio-based Materiality. In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519875 (New Orleans, LA—April 29-May 5, 2022).
Fiona Bell, Netta Ofer, and Mirela Alistar. 2022. ReClaym our Compost: Biodegradable Clay for Intimate Making. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517711 (New Orleans, LA, USA—April 29-May 5, 2022). [Best Paper Honorable Mention Award]
Netta Ofer, Fiona Bell and Mirela Alistar. 2021. Designing Direct Interactions with Bioluminescent Algae. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021 (DIS ’21), June 28-July 2, 2021, Virtual Event, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 23 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3461778.3462090
