Allie Teixeira Riggs
Allie Teixeira Riggs
Alexandra (Allie) Teixeira Riggs (they/she) is a design researcher and digital artist, working at the intersection of critical archives, queer theory, human-computer interaction, and tangible embodied interaction design. Their work focuses on queering technology design through attention to historicism and affective, embodied experiences. Spanning a variety of disciplines, Riggs works on projects that range from physical wearable interactions to historical escape games, interactive digital narratives, biomaterial installations, and participatory workshops. Their work has been published in Feminist Media Studies, the Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS), the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), the Tangible Embodied and Embedded Interaction Conference (TEI), and the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS). They have exhibited work internationally at the Computer Art Congress, the Different Games Arcade, the Electronic Literature Organization, the Foundations of Digital Games Showcase, and the Public Art Futures Lab. They hold a PhD in Digital Media from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MFA from UC Santa Cruz in Digital Arts and New Media.