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 enabling futures—it is now a medium for evoking critical interrogation, theories, and retrospection. We explore how technology materials can be used to challenge existing paradigms and provoke reflections on societal and cultural issues.

Evocative HCI – We design HCI artifacts that serve as a medium for studying the embodied and situated human-technology relationships. These artifacts help explore the entanglement between technology, humans, and nature, revealing emergent behaviors and tensions in these relationships.

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.

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