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CodeGaze
2026Open-source IntelliJ plugin + OpenXR viewer that streams your editor into VR and records which code token your eye or head ray hits.
CreatorPythonUnity
(designer / developer / researcher)
HEIDI
ALBARAZI
30+ hackathons
● open to work
Designer, developer and researcher at the intersection of humans and technology — HCI, eye tracking, XR and medtech.
(what i do)
Categories
- 01:software[09]Research tools, IDE plugins, robotics and medtech prototypes, from paper to shipped code.
- 02:hackathons[12]30+ weekends of building fast with strangers, often with a prize at the end.
- 03:ui/ux[04]Interfaces, product design and branding, researched and tested with real people.
- 04:career[19]Research labs, startups and industry roles, plus two MSc programmes at TU Munich.
(pickup works)
Featured work
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fig.no mediaGESS Shanghai 2026 – Global Entrepreneurship Summer School
One of 40 participants worldwide at the Global Entrepreneurship Summer School Shanghai 2026: a week of building a social business model with an international team, coached and pitched to a jury.
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Nexstep
2026iPhone-on-a-cane app that learns which cue (AR lines, vibration, sound) breaks a Parkinson's patient's freezing of gait — and fires it pre-emptively.
Swift / iOS
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GAZEAIDE
2026JetBrains IDE plugin that uses implicit eye-tracking gaze patterns to trigger AI code explanations during code review.
Research Engineering InternPythonKotlinUnityClaude
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Bachelor's thesis (grade 1.0): a smart-mirror IoT hub with a voice, vision and gesture AI avatar that helps older adults live independently.
Bachelor's thesis authorPython
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Chrome extension that uses a custom-trained AI model to detect and explain sexist content.
Python
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2nd place in the City of Munich challenge at hackaTUM 2022: an iOS app that turns the city into a map of pinned stories, with ML genre tagging, upvotes and badges.
Swift / iOS
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fig.no mediaSignCall – Hack-Nation Global AI Hackathon
2nd place in the ElevenLabs track at Hack-Nation 2026: an AI agent that turns sign-language video into real phone calls, so Deaf and non-speaking people can book appointments on their own.
AI / MLHCI
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fig.no mediaMusic & AI Hackathon – Austrian Alps
24 hours at 2,315 m: a team of engineers and artists built Synesthesia, a picture-to-music tool that lets blind and visually impaired people hear paintings.
AI / MLHCI
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fig.no mediaSynesthesia – The Art of Hearing Pictures
Lets blind and visually impaired people explore paintings through sound instead of spoken description.
AI / MLHCI
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fig.no mediaManage & More Scholarship – UnternehmerTUM
One of ~20 scholars per intake in UnternehmerTUM's 18-month entrepreneurial excellence program.
LeadershipResearch
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fig.no mediaHackathon track record
30+ hackathons: 1st at QHack, TEG, Cassini Hack and TUM.ai Makeathon; 2nd at Hack-Nation (ElevenLabs track) and hackaTUM; Audience Award at START Public Makers Lab.
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fig.no mediaCyber-Human Lab – University of Cambridge
Accepted to Cambridge's Cyber-Human Lab to work on digital twins or medtech.
ResearchHCI
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