Karen Asmar

Hi, I'm Karen—an award-winning interaction designer, strategist, and architect, passionate about uncovering hidden opportunities at the intersection of design, technology, and strategy.
  

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  MFA Design & Technology 
@Parsons School of Design


  Product Development & Strategy 
@Cornell Tech


  Bachelor of Architecture 
@American University of Beirut

  Collaborated & Worked with 

@New York Times 
@Samsung
 @Intersection
 @Mixed Reality Collaboratory  
@Manuelle Gautrand Architecture

  Published in 

@SIGraDi 2020
 @CHI 2019 
@UA 2018

Based in

New York
& the Virtual World 🔮 👈🏽

Intersection / Smart Cities

CitizenLink

#Product Development #Design Strategy #UX/UI Design

Using LinkNYC as a tool for community building and citizen participation

New York Times Future of News

City News Archive

#AR News #UX #Spatial Computing

Reimagining the way we interact with and experience New York Times' News Archive

CrowdDoing / Health & Wellness

Nature
Counter

#Product Development #Design Strategy #UX/UI Design

Driving healthier habits through
positioning nature as a prescription

MIT Reality Virtually Hackathon / Health & Fitness

WeFlow

#Spatial Computing #Design Research #UX Design

Disrupting the narrative of aging
through immersive technologies

Mixed Reality Collaboratory @ Cornell Tech / Smart Spaces

Immersive Maker Lab

#Design Innovation #Mixed Reality #UX/UI Design

Space as Interface: Reimaging a maker's experience using Mixed Reality technologies

Research / Citizen Science

Bodies (as Sensors)
in Cities

#Design Research #Data Visualization #Sensors

Augmenting design research methods (Part I) & body responses to city infrastructure (Part II)

Samsung / Haptics

Paired Over Distance (POD)

#Human-Computer Interaction #Haptic Interfaces #Product Design

Maintaining interactions over long
distances using haptic interfaces

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CHI 2019 / Microbial Interfaces

Social Microbial Prosthesis

#Human-Computer Interaction #Microbial Interfaces #Speculative Design

Speculating on the hidden dangers and the rising opportunities of microbial interfaces

SIGraDi 2020 / MFA Thesis / Spatial Design Tools

Machinic Interpolations

#Machine Learning #Artificial Intelligence #Voxels

A GAN pipeline for integrating lateral thinking in computational tools of Architecture

Installation / Urban Experiences

Graffiti Interactions

#Installation #Experience Design #Creative Coding

Hacking urban spaces to encourage interactions between strangers in a community

Experimentation / Creative Coding

Computational Experiments

#Creative Coding #Experiments #Code Art

Sneak peek into my computational explorations using different softwares,
tools and concepts

Global Winner Award in UA 2018 / Thesis / Oil & Gas Industry

Beyond
Rigging

#Architecture #Extreme Environments #Resilient Design

Infrastructure as Architecture:
Disrupting the oil & gas industry

HumanxOuterSpace / Imaginative Futures

Life on the
Red Planet

#Architecture #Extreme Environments #Design for Outer Space Living

Extraterrestrial Interventions