Ayah Bdeir, an alum of the Computing Culture group, has received the ACM Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI) Conference Lasting Impact Award for her 2009 paper “Electronics as material: littleBits.”

The award recognizes the paper’s enduring influence on the field of human-computer interaction and its role in inspiring a generation of designers, makers, and technologists to approach hardware as a creative medium.

The TEI Conference is an annual international gathering focused on tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction, bringing together researchers, artists, designers, engineers, and practitioners to explore the intersection of the physical and digital.