Ella McQuaid
Undergraduate Student • DLA AWARD, BIOPLASTICS
Mechanical Engineering
ella.mcquaid@colorado.edu

Ella McQuaid听is an undergraduate student in mechanical engineering. She听was awarded a听Discovery Learning Apprenticeship (DLA) grant to work in the Living Matter Lab on bioplastics.

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Publications

  • Fiona Bell,听Netta Ofer,听Hyelin Choi,听Ella McQuaid,听Ethan Frier, and听Mirela Alistar.听2022. Biomaterial Playground: Engaging with Bio-based Materiality. In听Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 鈥�22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1鈥�4. DOI:听听(New Orleans, LA鈥擜pril 29-May 5, 2022).
  • Fiona Bell,听Ella McQuaid, and听Mirela Alistar.听2022. Alganyl: Cooking Sustainable Clothing. Dise帽a 20: Design and Somatic Sensibilities. Article 4. DOI:听
  • Fiona Bell,听Latifa Al-Naimi,听Ella McQuaid, and听Mirela Alistar. 2022. Designing with Alganyl. In听Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction听(TEI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 2, 1-14. DOI:听听(Daejeon, Republic of Korea (virtual) Feb. 13-16, 2022).

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In the news

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ATLAS@CHI2022

April 28, 2022

ATLAS researchers will present six published works and two workshops at the 2022 ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), the world鈥檚 preeminent forum for the field of human-computer interaction. The conference, commonly referred to as 鈥淐HI,鈥� will be held hybrid-onsite April 30-May 6, 2022 in New Orleans.

乐播传媒 working with biochips during the workshop organized by the Living Matter Lab at ATLAS Institute.
Engaging Underrepresented 乐播传媒 (funded by Google exploreCSR)
This project aims to engage under-represented undergraduate students in the Living Matter Lab's research through a series of online workshops and hands-on sessions, as well as guides participants through finding good graduate programs and the application process.