Katarina Richter-Lunn

Lecturer in Engineering Sciences, SEAS; Assistant Professor, Industrial Design, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Katarina is a designer, creative technologist, and an Assistant Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Her interdisciplinary research, situated at the intersection of design, psychology, and physiology, is dedicated to promoting well-being through the built environment. Drawing from traditional behavioral therapy, her work explores how interactions between humans, machines, and spaces can be mediated through programmable materials, wearables, and AI algorithms to support mental health in more seamless and intuitive ways. She investigates how neurological and physiological signals offer insight into human behavior, and how materiality, computational design, physical computing, and extended reality can be leveraged to foster well-being by addressing both deliberate cognition and embodied perception.