Ai-Lun HuangDesigner × Researcher, both are real.
I put a screenwriting career in Europe on hold to care full-time for my parents, both treated for cancer at the same time. What I learned between hospitals became the question I now build toward: why do people abandon systems meant to support their health, and what would it take to design technology that holds onto them?
I do not come to this as a technologist. I come to it as someone who has stayed close enough, long enough, to watch.
HCI · Spatial Design · Care
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
"Accessibility is not a standard a space meets. It is a condition a person can live inside."
Three facets
Research
Research
Why do people disengage from care systems? Two years of ethnographic accompaniment across medical, administrative, and transport settings, staying long enough that people tell you in the third hour what they would never say in the first.
Work
Work
From screenwriting to caregiving to interaction design. A non-linear path that trained one consistent skill: reading what a situation is actually about, rather than what it appears to be.
LAGUNA COMPANION SERVICE
Care
A care-communication platform I built from scratch: PHP/MySQL backend, ESP32 hardware integration, AI-assisted consultation prep, five languages, offline-first. Live in pilot since July 2026.
Personal statement
I focus on dignity in space, image, and care. From research to companion appointments, it is the same act: helping a person remain themselves.
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