The Avatar Lab
Build a credible AI avatar that looks, moves, and sounds like it belongs — without a studio, crew, or design background.
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A practice at the intersection of human behavior, immersive technology, and AI systems.
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View CollectionMSc Interaction Design · Universidade de Lisboa
EIMAD 2026 · BoREAL: VR for stress mitigation
@kabutolab · Unity · Meta Quest · VR tutorials
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Custom experience design from research to deployment. VR training that changes behavior. AR simulations that compress learning. Mobile experiences that drive real transformation.
Full Experience Design
Create experiences that captivate and engage your audience with cutting-edge design principles.
Strategic Design Consultation
Research-driven guidance for your existing immersive project. Architecture review + roadmap.
Research & Validation
Prove your experience works. Experimental design, data collection, impact measurement.
Transmissions
Research notes, build logs, and releases
High State: Designing Activation
A filter house album engineered for morning activation. How neuroscience research, 18Hz beta binaural beats, and systematic audio production became a 10-track experiment in cognitive state design.
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Designing Wellbeing by Evidence: Stress Mitigation in Virtual Reality
The research project that changed everything. After 12 years of building systems and designing experiences, BoREAL became the question: does any of this actually work, and how do we know? An MSc thesis in Interaction Design using Research through Design to validate VR as a tool for stress mitigation.
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Infrastructure Is Design: Authoring Tool for SCORM E-Learning
Seven years, 120 courses, 25,000 trained users. The Content Manager was never a product — it was infrastructure for a practice. What it taught about systems, documentation, and designing for teams you can't see is still the backbone of how KabutoLab works.
Read Article →Kabuto Lab is the practice of Christian Ramírez Toro — interaction designer, HCI researcher, and builder based in Lisbon. 15 years working at the edges of design, behavior, and technology. Currently building Avatar Lab, researching immersive environments for human wellbeing, and finishing a new Galea record. The work moves across fields because the problems do too.