- Postdoctoral Fellow
Samantha Chan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fluid Interfaces group, MIT Media Lab. She is interested in exploring and creating technologies that enhance human memory and cognition and, ultimately, advance human potential. Her research field is in Human-Computer Interactions (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence, where she has developed mobile and wearable systems, physiological sensing and brain-computer interfaces, and extended reality (XR) interfaces.
Dr. Chan's work on memory augmentation interfaces have been published in HCI journals and conference such as CHI, IMWUT/Ubicomp, CSCW, and ISMAR. Her works have received several awards and recognitions including Fast Company World Changing Ideas and "Gold Pin" NZ Best Design Awards (best in category). They have been showcased in Prototypes for Humanity.
Samantha holds a Bachelors Degree in Engineering (Product Development, Electrical Engineering) from Singapore University of Technology and Design and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She was formerly from the Augmented Human Lab, was a … View full description
Samantha Chan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fluid Interfaces group, MIT Media Lab. She is interested in exploring and creating technologies that enhance human memory and cognition and, ultimately, advance human potential. Her research field is in Human-Computer Interactions (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence, where she has developed mobile and wearable systems, physiological sensing and brain-computer interfaces, and extended reality (XR) interfaces.
Dr. Chan's work on memory augmentation interfaces have been published in HCI journals and conference such as CHI, IMWUT/Ubicomp, CSCW, and ISMAR. Her works have received several awards and recognitions including Fast Company World Changing Ideas and "Gold Pin" NZ Best Design Awards (best in category). They have been showcased in Prototypes for Humanity.
Samantha holds a Bachelors Degree in Engineering (Product Development, Electrical Engineering) from Singapore University of Technology and Design and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She was formerly from the Augmented Human Lab, was a Visiting Researcher at NUS-HCI Lab and Junior Researcher at Mercari R4D. She holds a concurrent position as an International Postdoctoral Scholar in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University Singapore. Samantha hopes to give a TED talk and start her own research group one day (possibly called "Seamless Augmented Memories" Lab). Her research experience includes robotics, participatory action research and personal fabrication. In her free time, she enjoys playing ukulele and travelling.