Does the spacelet you remainyourself?
I study how designed environments and interactive technologies shape access, dignity, and selfhood, especially for people whose bodies, languages, or cognitive conditions were not anticipated by the system.
HCI / Spatial Design Researcher · PhD Applicant
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Dignity Barriers
Research · Urban Space · HCI
A research direction on formal access, informal exclusion, and the social and bodily cost of moving through systems that did not anticipate you.
Selected Work & Methods
Methods · Spatial Practice · Observation
A low-key archive of practices that shaped the research: reading space, observing movement, documenting care, and prototyping around dignity.
Before Five Minutes
Case Study · Care Communication · Prototype
A browser-based research prototype for preparing, stating, and preserving what matters before attention, memory, or time pressure collapses a clinical conversation.
Field Notes
Editorial Archive · Observation · Systems
An emerging archive for essays, field observations, and photo-based notes on space, care, movement, waiting, accessibility, and everyday interfaces.
“The question of whether a space can be entered is not the same as the question of whether, once entered, it allows a person to remain who they are.”
Ai-Lun Huang · Research Portfolio · HCI / Inclusive Urban Mobility · 2026
Background
Multiple fields,
one question.
HCI & Human-Building Interaction
How spaces, interfaces, and interactive systems communicate who is expected to use them.
Inclusive Urban Mobility
Formal and informal barriers, dignity in movement, and the social cost of not being anticipated by a city.
Participatory & Ethnographic Methods
Accompaniment, situated observation, video documentation, and co-reflection as ways to study barriers people may not name.
Spatial Practice
Reading thresholds, waiting, circulation, and visibility as design assumptions about bodies and belonging.
IoT & UI/UX
Prototyping, sensor-based interaction, and care-oriented interface design.
Editorial Field Notes
Turning small human moments into research questions about everyday designed systems.