Anna Matsumoto /antech
Designing tangible connections between body, emotion, and perception.
Anna Matsumoto is a Creative Technologist and HCI researcher exploring how technology can sense and extend human intention through touch, movement, and multisensory feedback.
Her work bridges design, computation, and accessibility—developing expressive systems that translate emotion and perception into tangible, shared experiences.
Stanford University' 25 (B.S. in Design: Physical Design + Manufacturing)
Stanford SHAPE Lab → Morphing Matter Lab → Steve Jobs Archive Fellow 2025.
Research
How can digital fabrication translate information into forms that everyone can touch and understand?
Exploring tactile and programmable materials/shapes that extend human perception.
Interactive Multimedia
How can the body itself become an instrument for multisensory expression and communication?
Developing systems where gesture, rhythm, and physical interfaces create new forms of presence and collective experience.
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Motion
Audio-Reactive Haptic Spheres / 2025
Transforms audio signals & body movement into haptic transforms.
Bridges sound and touch to explore how multisensory feedback can expand shared perception.
Puppets / 2024
Visualizes invisible voices through brainwave and motion data.
Explores how technology can externalize inner presence and connect minds beyond language.
Audio-Visual Immersive Stories / 2025
Story begins from the darkness, with the curated setlist by DJ Kao. As it goes for higher BPM, story changes.
Knowledge is Power / 2025
Audiences trace the path of a wheelchair ramp—feeling the distance, hearing the stories. An immersive AR narrative built from real accessibility experiences.
Doppelgänger Instruments / 2024
A live performance with one’s past self — an invisible duet across time, where gestures become sound and memory takes form as harmony.
VOGA Compilation Vol.2 - Live / 2024
Eyes doesn't follow you—it follows the sound.
Real-Time solo VJ Performance. Audio-reactive 3D Animation.
Instinctive Beats / 2024
Converts body movement into reactive visuals and rhythm.
Invites audiences to perceive music through the act of dancing—where movement becomes listening.
Stanford Interactive AR Map / 2025
Audiences trace the path of a wheelchair ramp—feeling the distance, hearing the stories. An immersive AR narrative built from real accessibility experiences.
TreeHacks: Pose-detective Game & Installation / 2025
Do a "Tree Pose" and you will be the one. Detects face & hand location, map the animation on the face.
Sensory Maze for Children with All Abilities / 2025
Inclusive Play Equipment, prototyped in collaboration with Magical Bridge Foundation. Various texture and sensory features: high visual contrast, rotational motion, sound effect, etc.
Burning Away the Past / 2024
Eat your bitter melons, and our bitter past will be awakened.
Invites audiences to feel this lingering memory through 5 senses—transforming history’s absence into a tangible presence.
Crochella Official 3D-CG Animations / 2025
Each band's background animation for the Stanford's biggest on-campus music festival. Python scripting in Blender.
Gesture Based Motor Control / 2025
Basic structure of using MediaPipe for fine tuning the motor control.
Live-Coding Visual: CHydra / 2024
Not just a normal geometry.
3D Visualization
Blender / Maya / MAX / TouchDesigner
Audio-Reactive, Body-Reactive.
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