Recent Works

Remnants

Spring 2026 · Immersive Installation

A 270° curved-screen gardening experience exploring the emotional toll of caring for someone with dementia.

Democracy Disco

Summer 2025 · National Archives Museum

A gesture-tracked dance game where visitors recreate dance moves from the National Archives’ historical films.

ConSOLAE

2025 · Best Paper (2nd Place), ACM BCB CSBW

A contractive supervised autoencoder that more than doubled out-of-distribution protein fold recognition accuracy.

Lost In Translation

Spring 2024 · Physical Installation

A phone-booth installation where visitors help a lost AI “bot” through speech recognition, translation, and distorted audio.

Gesterial Control

Fall 2024 · Hand-Tracking Game

A game that uses MediaPipe hand tracking to let players interact with a particle system through gestures.

Obstacles To Feeding PacMan

p5.js · Educational Game

A Pac-Man-style game where players answer questions about feeding 9.5 billion people by eating the right objects.

Anodyne

Spring 2023 · VR Installation

A collaborative VR installation exploring storytelling and human emotion, built in Unity with Maya and Cinema4D.

Crimson Premonition

Fall 2023 · Multiplayer Game

A two-player mystery escape-room game: solve gesture-triggered puzzles to uncover a cult’s code word before you’re sacrificed.

Hi, my name is Riya Kanani

Entertainment Technology Graduate
Student at Carnegie Mellon University.

Welcome to my website! My name is Riya Kanani, I am an Entertainment Technology graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University. I am interested in extended reality, art, and software engineering! When I have some free time, I love to pick up new hobbies. Some of my recent hobbies are pottery, crocheting, sculpting, and web development!