Netta Ofer

  • PhD Student
  • MS, CTD—Research Masters '22
  • HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION, WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION
  • ATLAS INSTITUTE

Netta is a PhD candidate at The ATLAS Institute at University of Colorado Boulder, co-advised by Joel Swanson and Laura Devendorf. Her research explores design with living organisms from more-than-human perspectives. By making use of autobiographic design methods, bodily and movement practices, microscopy, digital fabrication, and digital art; she studies how design can expose human-centered assumptions and entangled relations with nonhumans and fabulate and enact different ones. Netta’s background is in media studies, human-computer interaction (HCI), and interaction design from the Media Innovation Lab (milab) at Reichman University. She has published and demoed her work at ACM CHI, ACM DIS, and ACM IDC, and has exhibited work at The Museum of Boulder and The Arvada Center in Colorado.

Projects

Publications

Netta Ofer and Mirela Alistar. 2024. "Tracing as a Strategy for Orienting to Nonhuman Perspectives". In: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24), (Copenhagen, Denmark, July 1-5, 2024).

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