Presenter

Hannah Twigg-Smith builds playful software for digital/physical creativity. She recently completed her PhD at the University of Washington, where her research focused on the development of software for digital fabrication processes ranging from machine-controlled watercolor painting to machine knitting. Her tools incorporate visualization and physical simulations into a computational design environment. Currently, Hannah is exploring this approach through the development of software for traditional crafts, including weaving, embroidery, crochet, and hand-knitting, as well as in her role as a software engineer at a startup building new technologies for automatic knitting.