Ticha Sethapakdi

PhD candidate @MIT_CSAIL · Previously @SCSatCMU and @CMU_CFA · Researching tools for extending creative expression 🎨🌈✨

[Ticha Sethapakdi @tichaesque]

“human-computer interaction” is great and all, but have you tried “human computer” interactions ??

[Ticha Sethapakdi @tichaesque]

And of course, I'll be talking about general painting/color mixing techniques that are applicable beyond thermochromic inks. Here are a few (non-thermochromic) paintings I've made!

[Ticha Sethapakdi @tichaesque]

Curious about painting? How about color-changing paintings?? I'm hosting this 3-week thermochromic painting workshop with the @MITMuseum! We provide the materials, no painting experience required 🎨 Make + take home a unique work of art!

tickets 👉 https://t.co/Y98TqvSJGd

[Ticha Sethapakdi @tichaesque]

This is the research that the workshop is based on: https://t.co/jcNQIuhNLD

[acm_scf @acm_scf]

Big news!! This year, ACM SIGCHI joins SIGGRAPH as an SCF co-sponsor. Thanks to SIGCHI co-sponsorship, for the first time ever, SCF will be using PCS for paper submissions.

We are so excited to see the SCF community grow with researchers from diverse fields 🌱

[acm_scf @acm_scf]

Mark your calendars! The 2026 ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF) will be taking place from December 6-8 at The University of Tokyo 🇯🇵🍡✨ Please check our website for more details on important dates: https://t.co/ZWG5oKyvWB
We look forward to your submissions!

[Ticha Sethapakdi @tichaesque]

ICYMI, my talk is up on the @BrownVisualComp YouTube channel! 📺https://t.co/VTixmfvD3b

Thank you again for giving me the opportunity to talk about my research and for the lovely conversations that followed! ☺️

[Ticha Sethapakdi @tichaesque]

also since I'm now hopping on the research talk circuit, I've decided to make a new professional (??) animated profile pic

(shout-out to my partner Brian for knowing exactly how to position the camera according to my specifications 😆)

[Ticha Sethapakdi @tichaesque]

happening on Friday!! I'll be talking about my research on building systems that can extend human creative skills -- thank you for inviting me 🥰🥰

[Brown Visual Computing @BrownVisualComp]

The BVC Seminar will host @tichaesque this Friday at 12pm Eastern! Tune in to Ticha's talk, "Engineering Expressive Technologies" live on the BVC YouTube channel

[Ticha Sethapakdi @tichaesque]

There's only so much that I can say in 280 characters, so come to our talks and visit our demo booths (and take home your own barrier-grid animation fidget toy 😉)! See you in Busan~ 🇰🇷

[Ticha Sethapakdi @tichaesque]

Packing my bags for #UIST2025 !! I'm very fortunate to have been a part of 3 exciting papers this year! Here's a sneak peek at each one.....

[Ticha Sethapakdi @tichaesque]

🎞️FabObscura: Computational Design and Fabrication for Interactive Barrier-Grid Animations
Authors: Ticha Sethapakdi, Maxine Perroni-Scharf, Mingming Li, Jiaji Li, @JustinMSolomon, @arvindsatya1, Stefanie Mueller

[ACM UIST @ACMUIST]

🚀 The #UIST2025 teaser video is live! Sneak a peek at this year’s amazing technical program 👉 https://t.co/rWva0XzF2N

[Ticha Sethapakdi @tichaesque]

Lots of exciting things happening at UIST this year!! I've had the pleasure of being Community Co-Chair with @formanfunction and will be moderating the Women's Lunch Panel on 9/29! ✨ We have a fabulous set of panelists across academia & industry. Join us! 👩🏻‍🔬👩🏾‍💻 (poster by Jack!)

[ACM UIST @ACMUIST]

⏰ Join us for the Community Lunches at UIST. We’ve extended the RSVP deadline to Sept 19!

[Ticha Sethapakdi @tichaesque]

I really should make a longer thread about FabObscura once I get around to it...until then, here's a GIF of a parallax-based animation that we made with the system! (s/o to Rufus Butler Seder for sharing the animation with me)

[Ticha Sethapakdi @tichaesque]

FabObscura made it to @TheOfficialACM TechNews, which is pretty neat! Thank you for promoting the work!!

[Ticha Sethapakdi @tichaesque]

+ huge thanks to Maxine, Mingming, and Jiaji for being wonderful coauthors!! 💕

[Ticha Sethapakdi @tichaesque]

Thank yous @MIT_CSAIL for the lovely article!! I had a lot of fun working on this paper and I’m so excited to present it at @ACMUIST this year :))

[MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL]

Barrier-grid animations are a clever way to create a moving picture that doesn’t actually move — w/o electronics.

MIT's "FabObscura" software helps you produce bolder designs for these displays, which can be attached to objects in homes, stores, & more: https://t.co/TTO2CCZFj7

[Ticha Sethapakdi @tichaesque]

+ special thanks to @arvindsatya1 and @JustinMSolomon for co-coadvising me on this project & expanding my brain in different directions, and ofc thanks to my advisor Stefanie for always supporting my weird ideas