The Machine Poetics Group focuses on practice-based research that explores the expressiveness of technology as a design medium. Our work seeks to understand how technology can evolve beyond traditional roles, seamlessly integrating into products, systems, and environments to enhance human experience.

Critical Technology – Technology is becoming more than just a tool for embodying or exploring future possibilities—it is now a medium for evoking critical thoughts, theories, and retrospection. We explore how technology can be used to challenge existing paradigms and provoke deeper human-centered reflections on societal and cultural issues.

Human-Machine Symbiosis – We investigate interfaces where computational systems become extensions of the human self. Our research envisions personalized systems that augment cognitive, motor, and perceptual abilities while preserving human agency and ownership, where the system becomes a natural part of one's existence.

Poetic HCI – We design technological artifacts that serve as a medium for critical research-through-design investigation, to study the embodied relationship between users and poetically designed objects. These artifacts help uncover complex cognitive and socio-political factors, understanding how the technology we design impact us.

Please contact:
Sang Leigh – sang.leigh@cornell.edu
Personal portfolio – sangww.net