Hello, I'm Elena

Research, design,
and develop
human-centred technology

Exploring how technology can sense, adapt, and respond to people. Drawn to understanding human behaviour, building emotion-aware systems, and designing interactions that make a difference.

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Selected Work

Projects & Research

A few highlights from my work in human-computer interaction.

MSc Dissertation Project

The Perfect Tapping

Modelling interpersonal touch dynamics to implement human-like tapping in a robotic system. Using pressure sensors and motion tracking to extract touch features, reproducing those patterns in a robot, and validating through a behavioural Turing-style test.

Robot ControlMotion TrackingExperiment DesignPython

Affective Computing

Emotion Recognition for Adaptive Gaming

Building a multimodal emotion recognition system using physiological sensing and facial expression analysis during gameplay. Designing the data collection and labelling protocol, extracting signal features, and using ML fusion approaches to classify player affective states.

PythonMachine LearningSignal ProcessingMultimodal FusionData CollectionPhysiological Sensing

Human-AI Interaction

Security and Privacy Risks of AI Agents

A qualitative interview study investigating how cybersecurity experts perceive and navigate security, privacy, and trust risks in agentic AI systems.

Qualitative ResearchInterviewsThematic Analysis

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About

The person behind
the projects

I'm currently an MSc Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) student at University College London (UCL), with a background in Computer Science . My interests sit at the intersection of design, research, and computing.

I experiment across disciplines - from physiological sensing to emotion-aware systems and robot interaction - because I'm constantly learning, always questioning, and pushing into new challenges. I bring that curiosity to every project I work on.

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What I'm studying

Affective ComputingFuture InterfacesHuman-Robot InteractionHuman-AI InteractionData VisualisationInteraction DesignInteraction Science

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Let's work together

I'm always open to new ideas, collaborations, and opportunities. Feel free to reach out.

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Research, design,and develop human-centred technology