Michelle B. Xu

About

Projects

Teaching

Pubs/Pres

Film/TV

City Scent

Motion Capture, AI, Live performanceThe audiences’ real-time emotions decide the scene and the dancer's body visual effects.

Dan-Sco ,

Wearable, Soft Fabrication, Performance Dancers create music in real-time through body movements using soft-sensor costumes.

Fluid Threshold - Bioresponsive
Environment

EEG,| Augmented Reality,|Daily Performance,|UnrealWhen you're anxious, nature grows in through the walls.

OPLAY
Playful Media Design for Intergenerational Families

E-Textile Fabrication,|PCB DesignA series of music-playing interfaces woven with e-textile, blending traditional loom techniques and modern circuits. It bridges generational gaps, fostering playful, multisensory experiences that encourage seniors to embrace technology and strengthen bonds with East Asian grandchildren.

Magic Trip -XR Exergame

Motion Capture,|Optitrack Camera System,|Unity

Multiplayer immersive XR game designed to explore new possibilities in family entertainment.

Being an NYC Oyster
Multisensory VR

Multisensory VR,| Physical Computing,| Immersive A first-person experience as an oyster in New York Harbor

Wearable Tic Tac Toe

E-Textile Fabrication,|Circuit Pattern Design

The conductive fabric is cut into a circuit pattern that lights up the LEDs on the chess pieces, allowing you to play tic-tac-toe on your clothes anytime, anywhere.

IWind-Paragliding Experience

Multisensory VR,| Physical Computing,| ImmersiveA multisensory paragliding experience featuring Arduino and VR integrations

Monet's Museum

Virtual Reality, | 3D Spatial Audio,| XR AccessAn inclusive XR experience that transforms the visual museum experience for low-vision individuals into a multisensory experience with spatial audio and tactile.

AR 100 Days

Peking Opera Vest

3D Printing,| Augmented Body,| Music Interface A vest crafted from conductive 3D-printed material that enables the body to perform Peking Opera.

XR Theater- The Bird

Augmented Reality, Projection Mapping, Live performanceThe three-act immersive XR play, adapted from Aristophanes' ancient Greek comedy Birds, was performed on the beach in Aranya

TouchDesigner

Michelle B. Xu

The BirdXR Theater

The Bird
XR Theater