Mary Etta West is an electrical design engineer crafting experimental technologies听for applications in computing education, wearables and robotics. She听is from Las Vegas, Nevada,听where she earned a Bachelor听of Science in electrical engineering, and then went on to design products and tools, and to create听resources for the world's largest solar plant: Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System as well as for听SparkFun Electronics and Boulder Engineering Studio.听 Mary's current research explores equality, equity听and identity expression in tech and maker culture. She is a first-year computer science听PhD student working with the VisuaLab, the Laboratory for Playful Computation听and the Human Interaction and Robotics (HIRO) Group. Mary is advised by听Danielle Szafir,听Joel Swanson听and听Ben Shapiro.听
Opaletta is a line of electronic and programmable jewelry currently in development with her design company Oublietta听Electronics. She believes electronics could be听more听wearable and fashionable and extend the possibilities for self-exploration and identity expression. She is driven to accomplish this not only with jewelry but with MR/AR, connected and programmable clothing, closet management, garment selection听and fabric manipulation.听 When Mary isn't printing PCBs or experimenting with new materials, she can be found in Stardew Valley.听
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Publications
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Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez,听Netta Ofer,听Shanel Wu,听Mary Etta West,听Mirela Alistar听and听Laura Devendorf.听2022. Exploring Biofoam as a Material for Tangible Interaction. In听Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 鈥�22), Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1525-1529.听听(June 13-17, 2022鈥擵irtual Event, Australia).听
- S. Sandra Bae,听Clement Zheng,听Mary Etta West,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do,听Samuel Huron,听Danielle Albers Szafir听(2022). "Making Data Tangible: A Cross-disciplinary Design Space for Data Physicalization." Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. (April 30 - May 5, 2022鈥擭ew Orleans, USA.)听听, see video听, and short presentation听.
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W. Payne, Y. Bergner,听M. West,听C. Charp, R. B. Shapiro,听D. Albers Szafir, E. Taylor, & K. DesPortes. 2021. danceON: Culturally Responsive Creative Computing for Data Literacy. (to appear) In听Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021)/听Yokohama, Japan鈥揗ay 8-13, 2021)听[Best Paper Honorable Mention]. DOI:.
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Annie Kelly,听Christine Chang,听Chris听Hill, Mary West, Mary Yoder, Joseph Polman, Shaun Kane, Michael Eisenberg, and R. Benjamin Shapiro. 2020. 鈥淥ur Dog Probably Thinks听Christmas Is Really Boring鈥�: Re-mediating Science Education for Feminist-inspired Inquiry.听ICLS 2020: 听Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences.10.22318/icls2020.935 (Nashville, Tennessee (virtual)鈥揓une 19-23 2020).
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S. Sandra Bae and Mary Etta West. 2021. Cyborg Crafts: Second SKIN (Soft Keen INteraction). In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 87, 1鈥�3. DOI: (Salzburg, Austria (virtual) Feb. 14-19, 2021).
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