Aya Al Sabahi.
I build playable prototypes to find out what people actually need.
Master's student at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, with a B.S. in Computer Science from CMU. I get a version in front of users this week, then let what they do decide what gets built next.
My users are often ones products overlook: preschoolers, first-time VR players, students learning in a second language.
Engineering lead on an interdisciplinary team of six at the Center for Transformational Play, building a touchscreen, play-based research instrument that studies how children aged 3 to 6 categorize social groups.
I built the data capture system and two study structures spanning 18 scenes, turning a research question into something children can actually sit down and play.
More prototypes and experiments live in projects.