Eldy Lázaro is a Peruvian designer with anMFAin design from University of California Davis and a B. Arch. from San Pedro University in Peru.Prior to joining Ҵýƽ, 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 Ҵýƽ working across the Unstable Design Lab and Living Matter Lab.Eldy’s research interests include biodesign, Human-Computer Interactionand physical computing. She’s currently researching the use of compostable conductive materials for creating tangible interfaces and wearable technologies whileaddressing challenges in sustainability.
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Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez,Mirela Alistar,Laura Devendorf, andMichael L. Rivera. 2024.. In:Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), (Honolulu, HI, May 11–16, 2024).
Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez,Lily M Gabriel,Mikhaila Friske,Shanel Wu,Sasha De Koninck,Laura Devendorf, andMirela Alistar. 2023. "". 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, andMirela Alistar. 2023. "". 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 AlistarandLaura Devendorf.2022. Exploring Biofoam as a Material for Tangible Interaction. InDesigning Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’22), Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1525-1529.(June 13-17, 2022—Virtual Event, Australia).