SANTIAGO ALFARO

I Studied Industrial Design in Colombia and followed with a Master in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. My thesis project was a set of educational toys for children with obesity to gain a better understanding of the nutritional value and caloric content of different foods (Balance). After graduation I moved to Boston and worked in an architecture firm where I was in charge of the CAD building and modeling for traditional architecture and also as one of the designers for a proposed lunar exploration vehicle that was presented to the NASA Institute of Advanced Concepts (Lunar Rover). I then pursued a second Master and a PhD in Design Technology from the Media Lab at MIT. As my Master Thesis, I developed Surround Vision which was the first system that used the sensors inside a tablet to be able to extend and explore the contents of live TV while watching. As my PhD thesis I researched the ability of the human brain to map new sensory inputs from wearable sensor in..