Michael泭Rivera

  • Assistant Professor
  • HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
  • DIGITAL FABRICATION
  • ATLAS INSTITUTE
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE
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Address

ATLS 207C

Michael Rivera is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the ATLAS Institute. He directs the a highly interdisciplinary group that invents and investigates digital manufacturing technology by combining materials science, computational fabrication, and sustainable design practices.泭Michael has published award-winning articles on digital fabrication processes and interactive systems at premier human-computer interaction venues, including ACM CHI, UIST, DIS, and IMWUT. His research has been featured in popular national news venues such as , , and . He is a former NSF/CRA Computing Innovation Fellow. He earned his Ph.D. at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, where he engineered additive manufacturing materials and processes for soft and sustainably-designed interactive objects.

Michael Rivera is the director of the Utility Research Lab at the ATLAS Institute.

Projects

Publications

Krithik Ranjan, Peter Gyory, Seneca Howell, Therese Stewart, Michael L. Rivera, Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2025. . In: TEI '25: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. (Bordeaux/Talence, France, March 4 - 7, 2025).
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Xin Wen, S. Sandra Bae, Michael L. Rivera. 2025. . In: CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (Yokohama, Japan; April 26 - May 1, 2025).

S. Sandra Bae, Takanori Fujiwara, Anders Ynnerman,泭Ellen Yi-Luen Do,泭Michael L. Rivera,泭Danielle Albers Szafir. 2024. "". In:泭IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics泭(January 2024).

Xin Wen, Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, and Michael L. Rivera. 2024. "". In: Adjunct Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST Adjunct '24). (Pittsburgh, PA, October 13-16, 2024).

Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez,泭Mirela Alistar,泭Laura Devendorf, and泭Michael L. Rivera. 2024.泭. In:泭Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 24), (Honolulu, HI, May 1116, 2024).

S. Sandra Bae, Takanori Fujiwara, Anders Ynnerman,泭Ellen Yi-Luen Do,泭Michael L. Rivera,泭Danielle Albers Szafir. 2023. "". In:泭IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics泭(October泭2023).

Michael L. Rivera,泭S. Sandra Bae, Scott E. Hudson. 2023. . In:泭Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 23)泭(Pittsburgh, PA, July 1014, 2023).

Krithik Ranjan,泭Peter Gyory,泭Michael L. Rivera,泭Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. . In:泭Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC '23)泭(Chicago, IL, June 19-23, 2023).