Angela Chang
CEO and Founder at TinkerStories
- Role
- CEO and Founder at Tinkerstories
- Location
- Cambridge, MA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Angela Chang
I am interested in changing the world by developing storytelling technology that encourages people to be more collaborative and creative. I am currently working on 1) TinkerStories (apps for parents to explore literacy with their young children through shared storytelling), 2) teaching young people to use technologies for creative exploration, and 3) wearable textiles. My primary research areas are haptics, storytelling, and education. My three product domains are apps, haptic prototypes, and wearables.TinkerStories are gesturally-controlled narratives that allow readers to change the words in a narrative. TinkerStories are designed to help parents teach reading in a fun and personal way. The technology encourages kids to play with words in order to learn how words function. The app encourages parents and children to make up stories together and discuss language concepts in depth. The technology has been tested, and results seem to show that anyone can enjoy using a tinkerstory to learn to read. It\'s effective, fun, and engaging. Based on my Ph.D. research at the MIT Media Lab, I believe TinkerStories is a new way children to learn to read.I teach research and creative production in atelier-style learning environments. I have three MIT degrees and contributed to 15 years of student culture at MIT. As a live-in tutor for six years on the East Side of MIT\'s Campus, I mentored hundreds of undergraduates in the art of living curiously. I like to tinker, and I want to pass on the skills of passion-driven learning to the next generation. I\'ve thought a lot about how to design systems that help people who are not \"hackers\" to get started with tinkering. I want everyone to be a maker, a thinker, and scholar capable of changing the world. TinkerStories is my first foray into designing something for the world that can help people become the future leaders of tomorrow.I am interested in building useful and pretty things and sharing the adventure with the people I care about. I am a hacker, inventor, artist, engineer, programmer, gamer, builder, daughter, sister, and mother.
Experience
CEO and Founder
Jul 2012 — Present · Boston, MA, US
Founded TinkerStories, making apps for parents to share reading with their child using tinkerability. TinkerStories develops technology to make reading fun and educational by helping parents engage in reading more fully with their children. Consulting on literacy and educational approaches in user experience design.
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SB, Mechanical Engineering
Miami Springs
High School
1989 — 1993
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SM, Media Arts and Sciences
2000 — 2002
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD, Media Arts and Sciences
2005 — 2011
Skills
- Computer Science
- Product Design Engineering
- Mathematical Modeling
- Textile Design
- Ethnography
- Human Computer Interaction
- Distributed Systems
- User-Centered Design
- Prototype
- Simulations
- Image Processing
- Computer Vision
- C
- Programming
- Robotics
- Natural Language Processing
- Toys
- Engineering
- Toy Design
- Software Engineering
- Mechanical Design
- Artificial Intelligence
- Rapid Prototyping
- C++
- Mechanical Engineering
- Prototyping
- Product Design
- Modeling
- Design Engineering
- Matlab
- R&D
- User Experience
- Data Mining
- Invention
- Signal Processing
- Pattern Recognition
- Python
- Latex
- Algorithms
- Management
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