I am a second-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University. I am also a School of Engineering Dean's Fellow, and president and publicity chair of WiCS, Tufts' local ACM student chapter for women in computing. Prior to Tufts, I studied at Wellesley College where I received my BA in Computer Science May 2010. My research involves designing, developing, and deploying novel interaction techniques and input technologies. Day-to-day, I play with robots, brains, tabletops, and twitter. I also frequent facebook and am currently trying tumblr for distributed conversations on feminism and technology. My work is advised by Matthias Scheutz, Robert Jacob, Chia Shen, and Orit Shaer. For more information, please email: mstrait [at] cs [dot] tufts [dot] edu or find me on facebook, google+, last.fm, linkedin, tumblr, twitter, and/or youtube.