Dina El-Zanfaly • CoDeLab

Dina El Zanfaly

Assistant ProfessorCore Facultywww.dinazanfaly.com dinaz@cmu.edu

Dina El-Zanfaly's research investigates the intersection of embodied cognition, material making, and computational design. Her work explores how digital and physical processes co-constitute creative knowledge.

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Conference Paper 2026

Breathe, Focus, Perform: Examining AR-Haptic Breathing Guidance in Fine Motor Skill Development

Yumeng Zhuang, Dina El-Zanfaly, Daragh Byrne

Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Conference Paper 2024

Augmenting Embodied Learning in Welding Training: The Co-Design of an XR- and tinyML-Enabled Welding System for Creative Arts and Manufacturing Training

Zhenfang Chen, Yumeng Zhuang, Daragh Byrne, Dina El-Zanfaly

Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Conference Paper 2023

Augmenting Welding Training: An XR Platform to Foster Muscle Memory and Mindfulness for Skills Development

Zhenfang Chen, Yumeng Zhuang, Dina El-Zanfaly, Daragh Byrne

Companion Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces

Research 2026–2027

Diderot's Database

Vernelle A. A. Noel

Exploring the Encyclopédie as a historical precedent for computational knowledge systems in design. This project investigates how Enlightenment-era methods of classification, cros…

Situated Computation Lab (SitCodeLab) AI & Machine Learning Heritage & Documentation

Conference Paper 2024