Maker Faire Coney Island 2023
HugMatch
Home: New Jersey, United States
HugMatch is an award-winning (Core77, Adobe Design, Maker Faire) play studio that creates iconic characters, innovative apps, and fun toys for kids.
http://hugmatch.net/
Makers
Chloe Koo
Chloe Koo is an Interaction Designer who is based in New York. As a designer, she desires to design things that are emotionally rich and grounded in meaning. She loves to devise new designs that involve both new technologies and innovations.
Hyunwoo Kim
Hyeonwoo Kim is a Unity programmer who likes to play and make games. He hopes games will bring more people together regardless of race, color, or gender. So, he uses the latest technologies to create an even more cool and meaningful HugMatch app.
Olivia Kim
Olivia is a current graduate student at Teachers College studying art education. As an aspiring educator and an education specialist at HugMatch, she hopes to learn how visual language can share all kinds of stories and serve as an alternative tool to overcome challenges in language processing, understanding meaning, and emotions.
Gabriel Lee
Gabriel’s role at HugMatch is to build investor relations and manage all external communications as the head of Public Affairs. His greatest desire is to see HugMatch touch the lives of children world
Deborah Yun
Hanah Choi
Yuna Oh
What Inspired You to Make This?
I (Chloe) grew up around an uncle who has a disability and have also volunteered to help disabled people throughout my life. My interactions with my uncle and others who I met while volunteering inspired me to create a project that could benefit them. When it came time to work on my thesis at the Parsons School of Design, I knew that I wanted to create an interactive product with both a hardware and software component that improved the lives of individuals living with disabilities.
