Cultural, Critical, Meaningful
Cultural, Critical, Meaningful
Research Through Design
Critical AI Literacy
Designing participatory experiences with communities to explore, question, and reimagine emerging technologies through making, storytelling, and creative expression.
Interaction Design
Designing tangible interfaces, multisensory experiences, and research-driven prototyping in HCI
Other Work
Publications
Peer Reviewed
Resisting "Cheesy" AI: Hybrid and Situated Critical AI Literacy With Youth-Envisioned Futures (2026)
Supratim Pait In Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC '26).Community Futures: Hybrid and Situated Critical AI Literacy (2026)
Supratim Pait, Sylvia Janicki, Yuhan Hou, Michael Nitsche, and Noura Howell. 2026. In Artificial Intelligence in Education: 27th International Conference, AIED 2026, Seoul, South Korea, June 29 – July 3, 2026, Proceedings. Springer Nature Switzerland. (16.7% Acceptance)Into the Makerverse: Tangible Making and Place-Based Futuring as Communal AI Practice (2026)
Supratim Pait,Sylvia Janicki,Yuhan Hou, Crystal Byrd Farmer, Lorraine LaGasse Kowalski Jeremiah Long, Thais Alvarenga, Xingyu Li, Vyshnavi Namani, Lefton Lew, Michael Nitsche, and Noura Howell In Proceedings of the International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’26). (20% Acceptance)Designing for Defamiliarization with Thermal Painting: Exploring Experiences of Dynamic Warmth in Painters’ Creative Processes
Supratim Pait, Sosuke Ichihashi,Xingyu Li,Haiqing Xu, and Noura Howell. In Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’26) Work in ProgressEntangled Histories Radio: Exploring Ecological Justice and Civil Rights Through Tangible Interaction
Supratim Pait, Michael Nitsche, Heidi Biggs In Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’26) Work in ProgressPlayFutures: Imagining Civic Futures with AI and Puppets (2026)
Supratim Pait, Sumita Sharma, Ashley Frith, Michael Nitsche, and Noura Howell.In Proceedings of the 57th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V.2 (SIGCSE TS 2026)Perceptions of Interaction Dynamics in Co-Creative AI: A Comparative Study of Interaction Modalities in Drawcto (2024) Manoj Deshpande, Jisu Park, Supratim Pait, and Brian Magerko. In Creativity & Cognition (C&C ‘24)
Promoting Criticality with Design Futuring with Young Children (2024) Sumita Sharma, Noura Howell, Leena Ventä-Olkkonen, Netta Iivari, Grace Eden, Heidi Hartikainen, Marianne Kinnula, Eva Durall, Michael Nitsche, Jussi Okkonen, Supratim Pait, Elisa Rubegni, Wouter Sluis-Thiescheffer, Lonneke van der Velden, and Uttishta Sreerama Varanasi. In Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI ‘24)
Peer Reviewed
Resisting "Cheesy" AI: Hybrid and Situated Critical AI Literacy With Youth-Envisioned Futures (2026)
Supratim Pait In Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC '26).Community Futures: Hybrid and Situated Critical AI Literacy (2026)
Supratim Pait, Sylvia Janicki, Yuhan Hou, Michael Nitsche, and Noura Howell. 2026. In Artificial Intelligence in Education: 27th International Conference, AIED 2026, Seoul, South Korea, June 29 – July 3, 2026, Proceedings. Springer Nature Switzerland. (16.7% Acceptance)Into the Makerverse: Tangible Making and Place-Based Futuring as Communal AI Practice (2026)
Supratim Pait,Sylvia Janicki,Yuhan Hou, Crystal Byrd Farmer, Lorraine LaGasse Kowalski Jeremiah Long, Thais Alvarenga, Xingyu Li, Vyshnavi Namani, Lefton Lew, Michael Nitsche, and Noura Howell In Proceedings of the International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’26). (20% Acceptance)Designing for Defamiliarization with Thermal Painting: Exploring Experiences of Dynamic Warmth in Painters’ Creative Processes
Supratim Pait, Sosuke Ichihashi,Xingyu Li,Haiqing Xu, and Noura Howell. In Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’26) Work in ProgressEntangled Histories Radio: Exploring Ecological Justice and Civil Rights Through Tangible Interaction
Supratim Pait, Michael Nitsche, Heidi Biggs In Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’26) Work in ProgressPlayFutures: Imagining Civic Futures with AI and Puppets (2026)
Supratim Pait, Sumita Sharma, Ashley Frith, Michael Nitsche, and Noura Howell.In Proceedings of the 57th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V.2 (SIGCSE TS 2026)Perceptions of Interaction Dynamics in Co-Creative AI: A Comparative Study of Interaction Modalities in Drawcto (2024) Manoj Deshpande, Jisu Park, Supratim Pait, and Brian Magerko. In Creativity & Cognition (C&C ‘24)
Promoting Criticality with Design Futuring with Young Children (2024) Sumita Sharma, Noura Howell, Leena Ventä-Olkkonen, Netta Iivari, Grace Eden, Heidi Hartikainen, Marianne Kinnula, Eva Durall, Michael Nitsche, Jussi Okkonen, Supratim Pait, Elisa Rubegni, Wouter Sluis-Thiescheffer, Lonneke van der Velden, and Uttishta Sreerama Varanasi. In Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI ‘24)
About Me
I'm Supratim, a Design Researcher & Artist.
I'm a PhD candidate @ Georgia Institute of Technology advised by Dr. Noura Howell at the Future Feelings Lab (Previously) & Dr. Michael Nitsche at the Digital World & Image Group.
My research involves understanding how hybrid methods of making, performance and futures thinking methods rooted in the community or culture can facilitate critical AI experiences (Critical AI Literacy).
As a practitioner, I design embodied, tangible critical and creative experiences for learning and expression.
Previous @IBM, Mercedes Benz Research & Winuall.