Sabrina Osmany, Core Researcher

Sabrina is a PhD student in architectural technology at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Her research explores how agency is mediated by digital interfaces. Her interdisciplinary work is divided between the development of tools to study decision-making in interactive systems as well as the development of experimental frameworks to study choice behavior. During her time at Harvard, Sabrina is particularly excited to explore machine learning and multi-agent simulation as tools to study human dynamics in the forthcoming age of consumer virtual reality, which promises real-time human avatars aplenty. She is a recent graduate of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (MPS) where she prototyped interfaces for tangible and social computing. Her work includes the development of a programming language in Urdu, a mobile application that uses computer vision to identify and connect with network devices, and a one-hundred-and-twenty-foot video installation at InterActiveCorp headquarters in New York City.