Maker Faire Long Island 2024
HugMatch Dream
Home: New Jersey, United States
Hugmatch is an EduTech project dedicated to creating inclusive educational content, particularly apps, VR games, and merchandise, to support the development of all children, including those with disabilities.
https://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.
Gabriel Lee
Gabriel’s role at HugMatch is to build investor relations and manage all external communications as the head of PA & PM. His greatest desire is to see HugMatch touch the lives of children worldwide and change perceptions on the words ‘disability’ and ‘handicap.’ To him, these words mean brilliant, special, and unique.
Doyeon Lee
Doyeon is a game developer who likes to experience and make various games. She believes that a good game experience can be an opportunity to expand one's world. To enable every child to have their own special experiences, she hopes the HugMatch app meets the world.
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.
