She teaches courses on interface aesthetics and theory and practice of tangible user interfaces at UC Berkeley. Ryokai’s work on tangible user interfaces to support creative learning and storytelling has been presented at CHI, SIGGRAPH, CSCL, IUI (winning 4 best paper awards), as well as exhibited at international venues such as Ars Electronica Linz Austria, Children’s Museum Kyoto, Japan, AIGA, and IDSA (Gold Award). She has also conducted a number of human-centered design research projects at the internationally renowned design firm IDEO as an interaction design and human factors specialist. Ryokai received a B.A. in Linguistics and Psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1997), M.S. degree (1999) and Ph.D. (2005) in Media Arts and Sciences from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.