ABOUT
Lia Napolitano is a user experience engineer who works within the intersection of the physical, the digital, and the personal. Her work is multidisciplinary, incorporating human-computer interaction, visual art, game design and psychology. She navigates this space as a designer, developer and a student of human experience.
Lia holds a BA in Media Arts and Sciences from Wellesley College, where she is also a researcher at the HCI Lab, developing novel technologies for reflection and socialization in art museums. She has also assisted research at MIT Media Lab and the Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab. Although moving to Cupertino, CA in October, Lia is currently based in Wellesley, MA as she completes her research role at Wellesley.
Coming from a background in both design and programming, Lia has also created websites and design materials for a wide range of clients, including MIT Mobility Lab and ACM's international conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. As an intern at Apple, Inc., she created and applied design standards across myriad reporting tools.
Lia has given numerous presentations on usability, emergent user interfaces and encouraging behavioral change through technology, at venues such as Ruhlman Conference and the CS Senior Seminar Series. At Wellesley, she also tutored a course on Human-Computer Interaction and iPhone programming. She is currently completing and testing an iPhone application that applies a unique approach to museum visitation, to be deployed at the Davis Museum in the fall of 2010.
FRIENDS
Catherine GrevetHelen Wu
Jamie Zigelbaum
Linda Dong
Marcelo Coelho
Mark Bauer
Matt Valluzzi
Megan Strait
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