Hi, I am Anup.

I'm a PhD student at the University of Chicago working with Dr. Ken Nakagaki. I'm currently exploring my interests in slow technology and critical making. My research is fueled by my rage towards the current state of the attention economy.

I've thoroughly excused myself from social media (explanation above) so please feel free to reach out to me at anups [at] uchicago [dot] edu.

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Selected Work

CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Attention Receipts: Utilizing the Materiality of Receipts to Improve Screen-time Reflection on YouTube
Anup Sathya, Ken Nakagaki

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UIST '22: Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Fibercuit: Prototyping High-Resolution Flexible and Kirigami Circuits with a Fiber Laser Engraver
Zeyu Yan*, Anup Sathya*, Sahra Yusuf, Jyh-Ming Lien, Huaishu Peng [*equal contribution]

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Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Volume 6, Issue 3
Calico: Relocatable On-cloth Wearables with Fast, Reliable, and Precise Locomotion
Anup Sathya, Jiasheng Li, Tauhidur Rahman, Ge Gao, Huaishu Peng

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In Proceedings of CHI EA 2021
Towards On-the-wall Tangible Interaction: Using Walls as Interactive, Dynamic, and Responsive User Interface
Zeyu Yan, Anup Sathya, Pedro Carvalho, Yongqao Hu, Annan Li, Huaishu Peng

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In Proceedings of IEEE ICACCI 2018
Realtime On-chip Wireless Waveform Monitoring
Anup Sathya, Sowmiya Balaji, Amishi Gupta, Suresh Padmanabhan

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In Proceedings of IEEE TENCON 2017
Visual Positioning System for Automated Indoor/Outdoor Navigation
Anup Sathya, Abhinav Goel, Suresh Padmanabhan

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Fun Stuff

Building a racing sim

by salvaging as many parts as possible

Learning the Piano

albeit slowly and horribly

Space Cleanup

an arcade typing game

FUI - Fantastical User Interfaces

attempting to design a furturistic interface

Visualizing Stand-up Comedy

using arc diagrams and histograms

UX Research

Baltimore Museum of Art

Improving the in-museum guide

iQ Solutions

User Research for Contextual Design