About Me
My name is Sebastian Law and I am a recent graduate from Seattle University where I earned by B.S. in Computer Science. While at Seattle University, I was a Division 1 student-athelete on the Track and Field team. I want to apply my degree to the interdisciplinary research of Computer Science and Biomedical devices, specifically working with the development of prosthetics and/or BCIs. I plan to pursue a PhD in this area of research.
Email: slaw@seattleu.edu
About My Mentor
Name: Megan Hofmann, PhD
School: Northeastern University
Department: Khoury College of Computer Science
Area of Research: Human-Computer Interactions, Personal Health Informatics, Accesibility, and Digital Fabrication
Website: https://www.megan-hofmann.com/
About My Project
This summer, I will be continuing and finishing my work on the research project from last summer called Knit Stim which we weren’t able to complete due to the knitting machine at MIT that we were using being broken. Now with access to our own knitting machine in the ACT Lab, I will be researching ways that advanced automatic knitting machines can be used to create products that help with stimming, something that people who identify as neurodivergent are commonly affected by. I will be using the updated version of KnitScript to write code that will create fabrics samples of different knitting patterns on the knitting machine that will be used in the stimming device prototypes that I will create. We will then conduct a user study to determine the effectiveness of these prototypes.
I will also be working on another project, as a co-author, with one of Dr. Hofmann’s PhD students in her lab. The project focuses on creating a system that will allow swatches of different patterns to be combined both vertically and horizontally. My main contribution to this project will be designing the benchmarks and demos to demonstrate the functionality and applications of the system.
My Final Report for Swatch Merge Project
My Final Report for Knit Stim Project