XR Designer

Mole Messenger

Project | Mole Messenger is a pair of connected whack-a-moles that function as a communicative device. They facilitate physical communication between children who are physically apart, such as siblings who live in different continents.

Collaborative Student Project for MIT Media Lab Tangible Interfaces Course

Team | Harvard GSD: Maggie George, Agatha Park, MIT: Xiaoyan Shen, Stephan Hernandez, ​Yang Liu

Contributions | Product idea, interaction design, concept video script & editing, Arduino coding support


concept video


Interaction design

mm_interaction_sketch.jpg

Prototyping Process

Yang Liu(left) gets feedback from Arthur Liu(right), who has a younger brother in Shanghai.

Yang Liu(left) gets feedback from Arthur Liu(right), who has a younger brother in Shanghai.

Arduino prototyping process with step motor, force sensor, and XBee Bluetooth communicators.

Arduino prototyping process with step motor, force sensor, and XBee Bluetooth communicators.