The Utility Research Lab, directed by Michael Rivera, invents and investigates digital fabrication technology, toolsand techniques that empower people to create things. We develop hardware, software and materials with a purpose—to advance science and engineering while positively impacting people, societyand the environment. More information about the lab can be found on the lab website linked below. For inquiries, please email utilityresearchlab@gmail.com.
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Publications
Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez,Mirela Alistar,Laura Devendorf, andMichael L. Rivera. 2024.. In:Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), (Honolulu, HI, May 11–16, 2024).
S. Sandra Bae, Takanori Fujiwara, Anders Ynnerman, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Michael L. Rivera, Danielle Albers Szafir. 2023. "". In:IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (October2023).
Michael L. Rivera,S. Sandra Bae, Scott E. Hudson. 2023. “”. In:Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’23)(Pittsburgh, PA, July 10–14, 2023).
Krithik Ranjan,Peter Gyory,Michael L. Rivera,Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. “”. In:Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC '23)(Chicago, IL, June 19-23, 2023).