Angela Chang

Angela Chang is a researcher at the MIT Trope Tank.  Previously she completed a Postdoc and PhD at the Personal Robots group at the MIT Media Lab. She is a practicing artist and designer researching the relationship between human communication through embodied senses. Her current focus is designing novel story environments that respond to touch interaction. She creates textiles, devices and systems that engage people's sense of touch to improve communication, education, and artistic expression. Before attending the Media Lab, Angela received an SB in Mechanical Engineering at MIT and helped design haptic technology at Motorola. She is an inventor on several tactile interface patents and is researching sensorial interaction between humans and robots. She is particularly interested in applying interdiciplinary engineering techniques to enhance sociocultural communication(Source: Author).