Wallop
January 2007 - November 2007
participated in end-to-end feature design including gathering customer requirements for product features, creating product specifications (including wireframes) for feature development and usability testing product features

* Featured projects include: comments redesign, menus redesign, IM, movable media modules, Amazon widget, landing page redesign, get invited feature, and visual designs.

Identity Management in Online Communities
August 2006 - December 2006
(Masters Project, advised by Professor Amy Bruckman)
conducted a user study that examined how users create and manage identities across multiple online communities

* presented at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Social Software Symposium (December 8-9, 2006, Chapel Hill, NC)

Wearable RFID for Play
August 2006 - December 2006
(CS 7470 - Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing)
built a wearable, wireless RFID reader and developed a two-player game to be played with the system

* presented at the Tangible Play: Research and Design for Tangible and Tabletop Games Workshop at the 2007 Intelligent User Interfaces Conference (January 28-31, 2007, Honolulu, HI)

Shutter: Collaborative, Multimedia Scrapbooking
August 2006 - December 2006
(CS 8803 - HCI Professional Practicum)
prototyped and evaluated designs for an online collaborative, multimedia scrapbook tool

ibijibi: Web Site Aggregation
June 2006 - December 2006
studied how social networking, online collaboration, and identity management can apply to the design of an online service that aggregates information from various disparate web sites

Visualizing Time-Oriented Data
February 2006
(CS 7450 - Information Visualization)
developed a visual representation of my resume that highlights my academic and career experiences and how these have helped me to acquire and develop skills over time

VAST: A Tale of Alderwood
January 2006 - May 2006
(CS 7450 - Information Visualization)
designed and implemented a visualization that aids in understanding relationships within a varied data set

* first place winner (Student Category) in the 2006 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Contest

Technology in Meetings
January 2006 - May 2006
(CS 6455 - User Interface Design and Evaluation)
used qualitative methods and grounded theory to observe and analyze the interaction between people and technology in meetings to determine how a broad range of technologies are utilized in meetings and the implications that arise from how meeting participants interact with these technologies

SWIMM: SWimming In My Music
August 2005 - December 2005
(advised by Professor Jeff Pierce)
helped to design and implement UI improvements for a next-generation adaptive music player, introducing a cleaner look-and-feel while also providing users with the ability to rate songs and give the system feedback regarding song choices

Bus Tracking
August 2005 - December 2005
(CS 7450 - Human-Computer Interaction)
identified a problem with the reliability of campus buses, developed interface design alternatives to address this problem, implemented a portable ambient display solution to monitor campus bus activity, and evaluated the design

Fringe
March 2005 - June 2005
(CS 194 - Senior Project, in conjunction with IBM Almaden Research Center)
used feedback from user interviews to motivate the design and implementation of new UI ideas for a relationship-oriented computing web site

Pong
January 2005 - March 2005
(CS 247A - HCI Design Studio)
built a 2-D, fully networked and interactive Pong game from a variety of tools and technologies, allowing two opponents to drive their interaction with the electronic game through physical media