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

Netta Ofer is a researcher with a background in media studies, human-computer interaction (HCI) and design from the Media Innovation Lab (milab) at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. Netta's work has focused on how coding can create creative and personally-meaningful opportunities for children, specifically by bridging the digital and physical worlds. At ATLAS, Netta hopes to create design research at the intersection of design, technology and art to spark debate, generate reflection and raise awareness.

For more information about Netta, view her LinkedIn page. Alumni pages are not always updated after graduation.​

 

Publications

  • Eldy S. Lazaro VasquezNetta Ofer, Shanel Wu, Mary Etta WestMirela 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 BellNetta OferHyelin 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 OferFiona 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