MS Thesis 2026
Vibe-Blender: A Blender-Native Agent Framework for Iterative 3D Design
Yizhuo Di
MSCD
Advised by Daragh Byrne, Joshua Bard
Daragh Byrne teaches and researches at the intersection of physical computing, IoT, and architectural technology.
Work
MS Thesis 2026
What Drawings Say That Drawers Don’t: Surfacing Implicit Visual Patterns from Personal Drawing Archives Through Vision-Language Models
Yantong Xie
MSCD
Advised by Daniel Cardoso Llach, Daragh Byrne
MS Thesis 2026
Designing with Latent Space: A Semantic Canvas and Agent to Broaden Exploration and Clarify Intent in Early Stage Footwear Design
Tianle Chen
MSCD
Advised by Daragh Byrne, Daniel Cardoso Llach
MS Thesis 2025
Personalized Deformable Masks: A Workflow for AI-Based Landmark Filtering and Morphing Material Integration in Health Monitoring
Ziying Qi
MSCD
Advised by Daragh Byrne
Conference Paper 2018
Design for Collaborative Survival: An Inquiry into Human-Fungi Relationships
Jen Liu, Daragh Byrne
Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Conference Paper 2015
Identifying community resources using data mining, crowdsourcing, and networked co-curation
Daragh Byrne, Aisling Kelliher
Proceedings of ISEAS2015: 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art
Conference Paper 2014
An Introduction to Arts and Digital Culture Inside Multimedia
Daragh Byrne
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Multimedia
Conference Paper 2013
Scatter!: a mobile non-parallel multiplayer exertion game
Daragh Byrne
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
MS Thesis 2026
From Instructional Judgment to Learner Understanding: The Role of 3D Movement Reconstruction in Remote Tai Chi Teaching and Learning
Yiqi Cheng
MSCD
Advised by Vernelle A. A. Noel, Daragh Byrne
MS Thesis 2026
Groveling Alone Together: Readings of CAPTCHA Across Scales
Leslie Liu
MSCD
Advised by Daragh Byrne, Daniel Cardoso Llach, Golan Levin
MS Thesis 2026
Think-Aloud Grammar: Constructing Design Thinking as an Artifact
Bilge Kosem
MSCD
Advised by Vernelle A. A. Noel, Daragh Byrne, Daniel Cardoso Llach
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REWORLDING eWASTE Counterfactual Speculations on Discarded Futures
Serena Sun
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Material Intelligence
Journal Article 2018
SENTIENT CONCRETE
Dana Cupkova, Daragh Byrne
Proc. of CAADRIA 2018
Journal Article 2015
Design futures in action: Documenting experiential futures for participatory audiences
Aisling Kelliher, Daragh Byrne
Futures
Book Chapter 2013
Toward Social Media Based Writing
Daragh Byrne
Design, User Experience, and Usability. Health, Learning, Playing, Cultural, and Cross-Cultural User Experience
MS Thesis 2026
Breathing Intelligence: Morphological Computation in Inflatable Swarm Systems
Sheen Cao
MSCD
Advised by Daragh Byrne, Paul Pangaro
MS Thesis 2026
Designing an Explainable agent for Generative Design Workflows with Physics based Reasoning
Karthick Raja Bangaru Giridharan
MSCD
Advised by Daragh Byrne, Daniel Cardoso Llach, Michael Hasey
MS Thesis 2026
Playful computation: Encounters with ephemeral surfaces.
Carla Flores Trávez
MSCD
Advised by Joshua Bard, Daragh Byrne, Golan Levin
Course Undergraduate Fall 2025
Introduction to Computational Design
Daragh Byrne
Conference Paper 2015
Mining Memories: Designing a Platform to Support Social Media Based Writing
Daragh Byrne
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Conference Paper 2014
36 Walk: a case study of reciprocity in movement and computation
Daragh Byrne
Proceedings of the 2014 International Workshop on Movement and Computing
Conference Paper 2013
Taskville: visualizing tasks and raising awareness in the workplace
Daragh Byrne, Aisling Kelliher
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems