Meichun Liu

Meichun Liu is a scholar, international award-winning designer, and entrepreneur. Her work explores the boundaries between mass production and handcraft, tangible and digital, individual and systemic. Some of her work targeted smart crafts, integrating craft materials and processes with digital technologies with the aim to enhance sensory experiences and interactions. She also worked with biomedical engineers to develop biomedical products and wearable devices such as EEG helmets and smart contact lenses. Her current research investigates how technological artifacts mediate human experience of and interaction with the world at different scales. Design research at the individual level includes the persuasive effects of digitally enhanced artifacts on human behavior and decision-making. At the system level, she uses techniques such as agent-based modeling and simulation to study the emergent properties driven by design interventions in complex adaptive systems.