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Braille EBook
Refreshable Tactile Display
Research on building a full page refreshable braille display
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Hacker
Technical Projects & Innovations
A curated archive of engineering research, hackathon winners, IoT hardware, and interactive software.
1st PlaceHackathonFeatured
Parkabler
Accessible Parking App
An app to help persons with disabilities find parking
1st PlaceHackathonFeatured
EVA
EHR Virtual Assistant
Voice based Virtual Assistant that can query and input into EHR systems
Most ViableHackathonFeatured
FeelSeal
Emotional Enabled UX
An emotionally intelligent remote user testing application
1st PlaceHackathonFeatured
EnergyBee
Gamify Energy Saving
An app that gamifies energy saving
Speaker
Ideas, shared out loud.
Christina has delivered 50+ talks on emerging technology, software architecture, innovation, and the craft of turning ambitious ideas into working experiences.
Conference talk
Democratizing Augmented Reality
JSConf US · Carlsbad, California
A tour of the tools making augmented reality accessible to web developers, and the opportunities they create for more immersive experiences.
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Managing State in Your Single Page Application
QCon New York · New York, New York
An introduction to predictable application state with Redux, grounded in lessons from running the library in production at Vistaprint.
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Angular Mobile Toolkit — Progressive Web Apps
ÜberConf · Denver, Colorado
Building offline-first web experiences with Angular's mobile tooling and the foundational capabilities of progressive web applications.
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Introduction to HoloLens
Boston AR · Boston, Massachusetts
A hands-on introduction to mixed reality development using spatial mapping and spatial sound to build an application for the real world.
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Idea to Innovation
No Fluff Just Stuff
A practical look at turning an early idea into a meaningful innovation through experimentation, rapid learning, and deliberate execution.
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Patents & Inventions
A showcase of patented innovations by Christina Kayastha spanning dynamic design automation, real-time collaborative editing, interactive 3D lighting simulation, platform-agnostic layout engines, and assistive tactile hardware.
Artist
Technology, made tangible.
Public installations and playful objects that invite people to shape light, sound, and each other’s experience.
Lumière: The Art of Light Trillium Park · Toronto
Bloom Promenade
An interactive avenue of light and sound celebrating spring renewal. As visitors approach its illuminated columns, the landscape responds with shifting colour and a soundscape of birds, animals, and music—making each person’s effect on the surrounding ecology visible.
With Binam Kayastha, Bitbrainz
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Lumière: The Art of Light Trillium Park · Toronto
Virtual Visage
A two-sided interactive portrait about authenticity in a filtered digital world. One face reflects physical reality; the other reveals a digitally modified self, inviting visitors to question how technology changes the identities we show one another.
With Bitbrainz
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Lumière: The Art of Light Trillium Park · Toronto
Möbius Ensemble
A participatory light-and-sound composition inspired by the one-sided geometry of a Möbius strip. Visitors manipulate a composition panel, transforming rhythm over time while the illuminated form turns the evolving music into a shared public performance.
With Krishna Kayastha, Binam Kayastha, Bitbrainz
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Rochester exhibitions Rochester · New York
Laser Harp
A frameless musical instrument whose strings are beams of light. Reaching through a beam triggers a note, turning an Arduino, optical sensing, and MIDI synthesis into an immediate performance anyone can play.
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Leader
Build the community, not just the product.
Leadership grounded in creating room for people to learn, contribute, and turn shared intent into practical momentum.
- Bringing technical and creative communities together around useful, ambitious work.
- Mentoring people through the uncertain middle between an early idea and a working outcome.
- Leading with curiosity, clarity, and a bias toward making progress together.
Adventurer
Go far enough to see differently.
Travel is a practice in attention: meeting unfamiliar places on their own terms and returning with a wider sense of what is possible.
- Seeking the stories, landscapes, and everyday rituals that give a place its character.
- Making space for serendipity, long routes, and the perspective that arrives off schedule.
- Carrying new questions home and letting them reshape the next project.