Hello, my name is
Isla Xi Han
I'm an Architecture (Computation and Energy Track) and Materials Science Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University researching multi-agent robotic construction and human-robot interaction 🤖👩💻 in the Leonard Lab and Lab for Creative Computation (CRCL) (formerly CREATE Lab). I'm passionate about using technology to create positive social impacts.
Robotics
My research interests lie at the intersection of multi-agent systems, human-robot collaboration, and stigmergic construction. Specifically, I explore how heterogeneous teams consisting of both humans and robots can design and build creative, high-performance structures by making local on-the-fly decisions.
Selected Projects
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LightVault
(Princeton University + SOM) 2021 R+D AWARD -
Improv-Structure
Ph.D. Course Project
ISIC 2022 Conference -
Rhythm Bots
Leonard Lab + CreativeX
ICRA 2022, Exhibition
NeurIPS 2024, Creative AI Track -
BLOCK PLAY with a Robotic Arm
"SHErobots: Tool, Toy, Companion" Exhibition and Panel Talk at The University of Sydney
Selected Publications
- Isla Xi Han and Stefana Parascho. "Spontaneous Tensegrity: Exploring Improvisational Design and Robotic Fabrication in Tensegrity Structures." In ROB|ARCH 2024 Proceedings [In Press and Presented]
- Isla Xi Han. "Ninja Locker: A Hand-Gesture-Enabled Knowledge-Based VR Authentication Interface." In 2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), (2023) pp. 943-944. IEEE.
- Isla Xi Han and Stefana Parascho. "Improv-Structure: Exploring Improvisation in Collective Human-Robot Construction." In Trends on Construction in the Digital Era: Proceedings of ISIC 2022, (2022) pp. 233-243. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
- Isla Xi Han, Forrest Meggers, and Stefana Parascho. "Bridging the collectives: A review of collective human–robot construction." International Journal of Architectural Computing 19, no. 4 (2021): 512-531.
- Stefana Parascho, Isla Xi Han, Alessandro Beghini, Masaaki Miki, Samantha Walker, Edvard PG Bruun, and Sigrid Adriaenssens. "LightVault: a design and robotic fabrication method for complex masonry structures." Advances in Architectural Geometry 25 (2021).
- Isla Xi Han, Edvard PG Bruun, Stuart Marsh, Matteo Tavano, Sigrid Adriaenssens, and Stefana Parascho. "From Concept to Construction-A Transferable Design and Robotic Fabrication Method for a Building-Scale Vault." In 40th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture: Distributed Proximities, ACADIA 2020, pp. 614-623. ACADIA, 2020.
- Stefana Parascho, Isla Xi Han, Samantha Walker, Alessandro Beghini, Edvard PG Bruun, and Sigrid Adriaenssens. "Robotic vault: A cooperative robotic assembly method for brick vault construction." Construction Robotics 4, no. 3 (2020): 117-126.
Design Portfolio
Entrepreneurship
- MoVA
Virtual interactive museum experience
eLab Accelerator and Incubator (2022/23)
NSF I-Corps Regional (2022)
2nd Place at 17th Princeton Innovation Forum
Contact
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