Credits: Photo: Juliana Sohn Caption: Student Amadou Bah sprays a thin layer of conductive ink onto a mug to create an interactive temperature sensor in a project designed by Michael Wessely. Credits: Photo: Juliana Sohn
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When Professor Stefanie Mueller needed to adapt her laboratory class to the Covid-19 pandemic, she was initially overwhelmed by the amount of work that would need to be done. That’s because Mueller’s hands-on building and fabrication class, 6.810 (Engineering Interactive Technologies), is entirely about the ways that humans interact with technology in the physical world. As it turns out, however, technology held some surprises even for Mueller.