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We welcome you to the showcase of student works from DEA 6400: AI, Embodiment, and Design!  These works result from a design exploration of what AI may look like when it leaves the screen—by translating LLMs into tangible objects. You will have a chance to interact with this collection of imaginative, useful, or explorative artifacts. Schedule of these demos are as follows:

Open between Feb 10 - 20 at the Jill Stuart Gallery, Human

Armin Mostafavi is a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University’s Design and Augmented Intelligence Lab (DAIL) in the Department of Human-Centered Design. His interdisciplinary research merges architecture, environmental psychology, and neuroscience, focusing on how built environments influence human behavior and cognition. Through innovative biofeedback and behavioral frameworks, Dr. Mostafavi aims to enhance architectural design by understanding and leveraging human responses.

Since 2019, he has worked on NIH-, NSF-, and NIDILRR-funded research projects led

Snow Day
A guide for how to play in the snow

Snow Day is a public space for practicing winter.

Cold weather is not an obstacle, but a condition. Snow is not an absence of activity, it is a material. A surface. This installation acts as a guide for how to enter it.

Wood frames hold flexible bands of color suspended like thresholds, like weather made visible. They mark a temporary territory within the landscape

Elliott G. Smith, Ph.D., is a developmental psychologist with methodological expertise in experimental psychology and statistical analysis and content specialization in child maltreatment and child welfare. He is a Research Associate within the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research where he serves as the statistician for the Residential Child Care Project. In his research, Smith is focused on evaluation of program effectiveness and the science of practice improvement. Specific interests include feedback through data visualization