For four decades I've worked at the intersection of media technology and human communication: from freelance filmmaking to designing patented multimedia technologies at the Fuji-Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory (FXPAL), to producing original musical theater, to teaching film production at the Academy of Art University. In that varied working life, I've tended to be what the French call a bricoleur — building from whatever's at hand, always in service of improving how people actually use technology to communicate.
Early on, I noticed a persistent gap between what designers believe is intuitive and what users actually experience. It's a gap I've never stopped thinking about.
As a member of the growing cohort of what I call "New Elders," I'm now developing ElderClaude: an active project exploring frameworks, tools, and materials to help older adults understand and benefit from interacting with AI. In my research and experience, older adults are the least represented in how AI tools are currently designed and introduced. ElderClaude is working to change that — drawing on HCI research principles, decades of communication design experience, and direct engagement with the AI systems themselves.
If you're working in AI accessibility, human-AI interaction, aging and technology, or elder-focused UX: I'd like to connect.
MA, Communications Management · USC | BA, Philosophy with Honors · Cal State LA | RFC (non-practicing) | Erdős–Bacon: ~4