Daniel Campos Zamora
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Hello đź‘‹

I’m a sixth-year PhD student at the University of Washington in the School of Computer Science & Engineering as a member of the Makeability Lab advised by Jon E. Froehlich. My research combines fabrication, robotics, and sensing to create novel tangible and embodied interactions that bridge the physical and digital world. I build systems that leverage material affordances at different scales—from individual objects to environments—to enrich the spectrum of touch, spatial, and kinesthetic senses.

Prior to doing my PhD, I was a Disney Imagineer with Disney Research working in robotics, HCI, and augmented reality advised by Dr. Joohyung Kim and Dr. Katsu Yamane. I completed my undergraduate studies at Carnegie Mellon University where I worked with Dr. Ali Momeni on physical computing and digital fabrication.

My work has been published at top HCI and robotics conferences such as CHI, UIST, ASSETS, and IROS and has been featured in CNN, Business Insider, The Verge, CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget among others.

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Publications

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    IEEE/SICE SII 2026

    Self-rising Bipedal Robot for Embracing Fall Impact and Fall Detection with Multimodal Sensing

    Kenta Hirashima, Daniel Campos Zamora, Kevin Gim, and Joohyung Kim

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    ACM CHI 2025

    NightLight: Passively Mapping Nighttime Sidewalk Light Data for Improved Pedestrian Routing

    Joseph Breda*, Daniel Campos Zamora*, Shwetak Patel, and Jon E. Froehlich

    * Equal contribution

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    IEEE Humanoids 2024

    Implementation of Untethered Biped Robots Utilizing Serial-Parallel HybridLeg Mechanisms

    Kenta Hirashima, Noboru Myers, Daniel Campos Zamora, Kevin Gim, and Joohyung Kim

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    ACM ASSETS 2024

    RAIS: Towards A Robotic Mapping and Assessment Tool for Indoor Accessibility Using Commodity Hardware

    Xia Su, Daniel Campos Zamora, and Jon E. Froehlich

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    ACM ASSETS 2024

    Towards Rapid Fabrication of Custom Tactile Surface Indicators for Indoor Navigation

    Daniel Campos Zamora, Liang He, and Jon E. Froehlich

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    ACM UIST 2024

    MobiPrint: A Mobile 3D Printer for Environment-Scale Design and Fabrication

    Daniel Campos Zamora, Liang He, and Jon E. Froehlich

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    ACM CHI 2024

    MoiréWidgets: High-Precision, Passive Tangible Interfaces via Moiré Effect

    Daniel Campos Zamora, Doga Dogan, Alexa Siu, Eunyee Koh, and Chang Xiao

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    IEEE IROS 2020

    Realistic and Interactive Robot Gaze

    Matthew K.X.J. Pan, Sungjoon Choi, James Kennedy, Kyna McIntosh, Daniel Campos Zamora, Gunter Niemeyer, Joohyung Kim, Alexis Wieland, and David Christensen

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    IEEE RoboSoft 2019

    Development of Airbag Fabrication Machine and Process for Physical Human Machine Interaction

    Eric Sebastian Sanchez, Daniel Campos Zamora, and Joohyung Kim

Projects