Gabriela Vega

Electrical Engineering Student

Empathic Computing Lab

Biography

Hello 😊 It’s Gabriela Vega, an Electrical Engineering undergrad. I’m interested in the interseccion of technology + design in the research areas of Human-Computer Interaction, wearables, AR/VR, IoT and Computer Vision for human augmentation and well-being.

Currently, I’m an Intern at Emphatic Computing Lab — University of Auckland and I’m a former Visiting Undergrad Researcher at the Interactive Organisms Lab — UC Davis, advised by Katia Vega working on wearable computing and HCI.

I love to watch sci-fi movies and photography 📷. In my free time I like to learn new technologies. Feel free to reach me out for projects and collaborations.

Download my CV.

Interests

HCI
Wearables
Sensing
AR/VR
Well-being
IoT

Education

Exchange Student in Digital Entertainment Design Engineering, 2021

Pontifical Bolivarian University – Colombia
BEng in Electrical Engineering, 2022

Peruvian University of Applied Sciences – Peru

Featured Publications

Shuyi Sun, Gabriela Vega, Denis Marcellin-Little, Katia Vega

July 2021 In Eighth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction

[To Appear] WOOFlex: A Wearable Device to Aid Canine Flexibility Exercises

A wearable + web application to aid in canine flexibility activities. The system uses different feedback modalities to help the human user to perform the exercise correctly to aid the dog.

Experience

Research Intern

University of Auckland

Jan 2021 – Present Auckland

Project: Streamlined Physiological Analysis Unity Plugin for Virtual Reality Development, supervised by Kunal Gupta and Nastaran Saffaryazdi.

Undergraduate Visitor Researcher

University of California, Davis

Jan 2021 – Dec 2021 California

Interactive Organisms Lab. Advised by Prof. Katia Canepa Vega.
Developed and prototyped a canine joint angle measurement wearable using 9-DOF Inertial Measurement Units (IMU).
Developed a web application that allow wireless communication between a wearable device using the p5ble.js library and a BLE module.
Collaborated on a project to design a multi modal feedback wearable that allow users to perform canine exercises correctly.

Software Intern

Business Analytics SAC

Jan 2020 – Dec 2020 Lima, Peru

UI design and front-end web development of a web app for geocoding addresses using interactive maps, using Adobe XD and Angular 9.
Web scraping and data cleaning of Google Cloud Platform billing data using Python, Selenium and SQL.
Implementation of AI models for text recognition in PDFs using Microsoft AI Builder and Microsoft Power Apps.