projects
ShiftBrowse - Web browser for enhancing user experience while multi-tasking, MS Project
- Usability studies, interaction design and development in Adobe Flex Builder for the AIR based web browser
- Pre-design user study of user's browsing behaviors
- Problems addressed - Tabs opened in unmanageable numbers and in a linear, visually unsegmented way resulting in loss of context while switching
- Alpha release of the AIR based browser - download
Openstudy - social network for collaborative learning
- Wire-frames, interaction design, interface design, visual design and branding for the application, teaser and landing website. Styling application and the interface elements in Adobe Flex
- Heading user experience design for the startup, with a team of two developers
- Openstudy is an evolving collaborative education platform where students, instructors and professors study and provide help in real time.
- Funded by NSF, NIH and GRA
Transportation Information System - redesigning the campus information system
- System requirements, user analysis, environment analysis, task analysis, functional flow, decision action diagrams, alternative analysis, workload analysis, interface usability analysis for existing and proposed systems
- A user centered design project to help commuters make informed decisions while leaving for transportation, while at the stops, and when inside the vehicle
- Team of six, for the course Engineering Psychology
Page Hunt - Human computation game for improving search engines
- Interface design, visual design, and XAML coding for a unique reverse search, non-collaborative single player human computation game developed with the Microsoft Silverlight technology
- Game helped with indexing, ranking and de-duplication of search results
- Selected as a two page poster for ACM SIGIR Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, 2009
- On the project as a research intern at Microsoft Research, Redmond
Casablanca Digital Edition - Collaborative film studying environment for students
- Interaction design, user interface design and front-end web interface development
- Collaborative film studying enabled by presenting associated artifacts(script, outtake, and annotation) alongside film scenes for analysis without losing context
- Funded by Warner Bros. and American Film Institute
Lab Prompt - Test Lab Management Application
- System requirements, user analysis, environment analysis, task analysis and wireframing for the application to enable efficient use of resources for testing application builds
- The application helped in finding an appropriate machine in a free time slot, reusing existing configurations and generating quick reports
- Deployed at Honeywell Technology Solutions' test labs
Elder Battery Management
- Usability testing, survey design and design specifications for battery management by elderly users
- Gathered data for how dexterity limitations associated with aging affect battery management
- Focus groups and usability tests were conducted to identify problems in locating and opening the battery compartment, removing batteries, figuring out the correct orientation and placement and in handling the batteries themselves before generating design specifications
Avatar creation system - Defining identity through life events on a timeline
- Based on MIT Simile Timeline, a DHTML AJAX widget for visualizing temporal information
- The application lets users represent themselves through character defining life events
- Sharing the timeline as an avatar lets the observers get a better understanding than representative images or models
Sphere - Global Warming News Creation System
- Information design and web development
- Prototype of a web platform geared to compare and annotate global warming related news artifacts and Many Eyes visualizations uploaded and rated by users democratically
- Each article or visualization uploaded can have a related (sometimes refuting) article residing in adjacency to the original, if voted up
- For the course Principles of Interactive Design
CAPM Information Visualization Installation - Pollution and it's adverse effect on fetuses
- Information design and development using ActionScript in Adobe Flash
- Current Ambient Particulate Matter (CAPM) data accessed from the database and each hour's count visualized as an ominous cloud in which the fetus sinks deeper
- The amplitude and frequency of motion of an hour cloud is greater if the value is higher than the city's air quality standard(AQS)
Interfaces at Home - Information visualization for home appliances
- Information design and interface design to visualize household appliance interfaces with their location, orientation, type of energy consumption, frequency of use, control positions and ease of learning
- For the course Visual Culture and Design
Scrabbled - Information design project to provide streamlined content to Scrabble players
- Information architecture and development on the Wordpress platform to provide help and resources for beginner, expert, recreational and professional Scrabble players
- Users can play Scrabble online, form a community through the embedded phpBB platform, learn rules, history and strategies, refer to wordlists, and add, view relevant multimedia items
- For the course Design, Technology and Representation
Surfdocs - a mashup to surf slideshows and videos simultaneously
- Developed using Google mashup editor's AJAX development framework
- Enabled exploring concepts through slideshare.net presentations and youtube videos at one time in one place
- Featured on the official Google Mashup Editor Blog
- For the course Principles of Interactive Design
Dreamcatcher - Adobe Flash based interactive narrative creator
- Interface design and development in Adobe Flash and coding in ActionScript
- Users choose from the dream segments available and stitch an unending dream
- Concepts of recurring dreams and lucid dreams where they become active participants in their dreams, make decision and influence the outcome without waking up are used
- The male and female dream anatomy is explored by changing dream segments based on sleeping person's gender
Applets in Processing 1.0 and Aliens - river crossing puzzle rendition in Java
- Projects in expressing ideas through coding in Processing 1.0
- Examples include simulating flock behavior, developing a literature engine and creating generative art
- For the course Computation as an expressive medium
Twigs - Portfolio of past work
- Unique one page portfolio design to enable fast viewing without extraneous interactions
- Projects in system design, website design and development, corporate identity and branding, multimedia(Adobe Flash), logo design, graphic design, 2D animation, sketching, game design and development and 3D modeling
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