Interaction Designer MFA Candidate at Umeå Institute of Design
Exploring what human-AI interaction becomes as technology takes new shapes. Currently residing at Kagan Hotel in Kyoto, prototyping speculative ambient agents.
Defining Proxie’s personality and intent through multimodal interaction design. Coordinating eyes, body movement, sound, and LEDs to facilitate intuitive human-robot collaboration.
Telehealth nurses monitor dozens of patients at once, but their tools reduce each one to disconnected snapshots. This interface restores the missing dimension, a continuous timeline that lets nurses stop chasing alarms and start making decisions.
Drion explores a future in which intelligence becomes sentient, asking how a connection between a human and a sentient AI might take shape. Conceived as a racing companion, it communicates through pulses of vibration across a haptic headband, exploring how that relationship could develop through sensation.
Chime is a set of near-future artifacts that turn moments in nature into something you can hear, record, and keep.
Duration: 3 weeks
Awards: Student Runner-Up in Speculative Design, Core77
Team: Sharvin Sawant Sander Randoja Henning Birgersson Samuel Nagel
Connecting to Nature through Data Sonification
By touching soil, water, plants, and fungi with sensor-equipped fingers, environmental data is sensed and translated into sound through a recording device. The resulting sound can be recorded onto a disc, preserving a tangible memory of the interaction with nature.
Unfamiliar places make noticing easy. Before their details turn ordinary, this project catalogues the typographic identity of the Bay Area, an interactive gallery in the practice of noticing.
Interaction Designer MFA Candidate at Umeå Institute of Design
Exploring what human-AI interaction becomes as technology takes new shapes. Currently residing at Kagan Hotel in Kyoto, prototyping speculative ambient agents.
Defining Proxie’s personality and intent through multimodal interaction design. Coordinating eyes, body movement, sound, and LEDs to facilitate intuitive human-robot collaboration.
Timeline
2024
Healthcare Interface Design
Telehealth nurses monitor dozens of patients at once, but their tools reduce each one to disconnected snapshots. This interface restores the missing dimension, a continuous timeline that lets nurses stop chasing alarms and start making decisions.
Our research showed that telehealth nurses depend on four main event types for context:
Alarms
Alerts triggered by patient monitors signaling potential risks.
Comments
Notes from nurses and doctors that capture situational insights.
Visual records
Photos and short videos that show the patient’s movement and condition.
Medical events
Diagnoses, treatments, and changes in care plans.
Monitoring View for the Tele-Nurse
Two connected views let nurses scan every patient, then focus on one patient’s history and care.
All-patient overview
Compare vitals and recent events across the unit to see who needs attention.
Patient context
Follow four hours of vital signs, events, and care notes, alongside visual records and the patient’s care plan.
Predictive Vitals View
Legacy interfaces presented vitals and alerts as isolated snapshots. A temporal graph and predictive layer surface risks before they become critical.
Contextual Events View
Alerts link to the timeline, surfacing evidence rather than commands and preserving the clinician's authority over the AI.
Drion
2025
Haptic Interaction Design
Drion explores a future in which intelligence becomes sentient, asking how a connection between a human and a sentient AI might take shape. Conceived as a racing companion, it communicates through pulses of vibration across a haptic headband, exploring how that relationship could develop through sensation.
Info
Duration
7 weeks
Project Partner
Cupra
Chime
2025
Interaction Design
Sound Design
Chime is a set of near-future artifacts that turn moments in nature into something you can hear, record, and keep.
By touching soil, water, plants, and fungi with sensor-equipped fingers, environmental data is sensed and translated into sound through a recording device. The resulting sound can be recorded onto a disc, preserving a tangible memory of the interaction with nature.
Chime Interface
Soft Signals
2025
Interaction Design
Soft widgets for couples in long-distance relationships. Created for the Nothing Community OS Design Challenge.
Info
Duration
4 days
Team
Sander RandojaHenning Birgersson
Noticing the Bay, California
2026
Personal Project
Unfamiliar places make noticing easy. Before their details turn ordinary, this project catalogues the typographic identity of the Bay Area, an interactive gallery in the practice of noticing.
Gianera Street, Santa Clara, California8 March 2026, 19:23
Lakehaven DR, Sunnyvale, California14 February 2026, 09:36
