Contact
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tate-johnson/
https://www.morphingmatter.cs.cmu.edu/people/tate-johnson
Experience
Morphing Matter Lab
Human-Computer Interaction Institute, CMU
Research Assistant
Spring 2021-
Carnegie Mellon Racing Formula SAE Electric
Monocoque Chassis and Special Projects Captain
Fall 2022 -
Steering Wheel and Seat System Lead
Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
Avient Corporation
Industrial Design Intern
Summer 2022
Teaching Experiences
SCS HCII Special Topics: Inclusive Tangible and Material Interfaces
Adjunct Instructor
Instructor - Lining Yao
Spring 2022
Design Studio I - Survey of Design
Teaching Assistant
Instructors - Stephen Stadelmeier, Stacie Rohrbach
Fall 2022
School of Design 3D Lab
Machine Shop Monitor
Spring 2022
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
BDes in Industrial Design
Minor in Physical Computing
Fall 2019 - Spring 2023
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
High School Dual Enrollment
Fall 2017 - Spring 2019
Publications
Humphrey Yang, Tate Johnson, Ke Zhong, Dinesh Patel, Gina Olson, Carmel Majidi, Mohammad Islam, and Lining Yao. 2022. ReCompFig: Designing Dynamically Reconfigurable Kinematic Devices Using Compliant Mechanisms and Tensioning Cables. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 170, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3502065
Tate Johnson, Humphrey Yang, Lining Yao. 2022. Automated Morphing Food Production for Deep Space Travel. SpaceCHI 2.0 Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction for Space Exploration. 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). https://spacechi.media.mit.edu/