...Media Collections
...Computer-Mediated Communication
...Art, Performance, and Other
Educational Technologies
Mischief (MightyMice, Mouse on
Each
Desk) (ACM CHI, 2006-2008)
All students in a classroom interact on a single shared display,
each using their own mice from their respective desks, affording.
new learning activities opportunities.
Details and Video
(Download paper)
PathFound.com (Stanford University, 2008-2009)
PathFound.com helps young people find their career path of interest through introspection and social feedback.
Details coming soon...
Comicboarding (ACM CHI, Spring 2007)
A participatory design method for use with children, especially those from developing countries.
Check out the user's guide: parts one and two.
Details
Games addressing 'Mute English' (HCI International, Spring 2007)
Addressing 'Mute English' in Chinese children via games that encourage spoken interaction.
Details
and UMich
student site
Working in a team of 5, we went through the entire user-centered design process to redesign Texas Instrument's line of graphing calculators.
Details
Integrating 'Review Sheet' functionality into used by electronic textbooks.
Details
Teaching CS via HCI at CMU's summer program top minority high school students.
Details
Media Collections
Picpax (Picpax LLC, 2007-2009)
A novel service that offers hand-editing of media collections. You'll be hooked after one try.
Try it free!
Mobile Media Conversations (MSR Asia, 2005)
Affordances to use the 'quoting' metaphor to enable
contextualized mobile
media conversations.
Details
and Video
Internet Video Perusal (MSR Asia, 2005 - 2006)
Interaction design for passive persual of Internet video on a TV interface.
Details and Video1 and
Video2
Informedia Client Design and Evaluation (ACM IR, Etc., 2002 - 2004)
Multimedia information retrieval and visualization techniques.
Details
Computer-Mediated Communication
Peripheral IM Device (ACM CHI, Spring 2007)
An information appliance interface to IM, designed for urban Chinese parents.
Details and Video
"Apeer",
Social Communication Tool (ACM CHI, Spring 2004)
A peripheral social visualization of brief topical discussion among small
groups.
Details
We designed and built a working prototype of a contextually-aware mobile phone.
Details
RSS
Aggregators (MSR Technical Report, Spring 2007)
A public survey on research.microsoft.com to understand how experts use RSS aggregators.
Results were made public.
Survey
Results, Tech Report
BodyNote is a haptic device aimed to supporting casual emotional communication between partners seperated over distances during a typical workday.
Details
Videomail for Migrant Workers (ACM DUX, Fall 2005)
A design exercise to design a communication device for Chinese migrant workers.
Details
A presentation I gave concerning the proflieration of "Smart Mobs".
· What are Smart Mobs? (WMV, 7.5min, 8mb)
· Social Implications of Mobile Communications (WMV, 20min, 12mb) & PPT deck.
· dWave: Enabling Smartmobs (WMV, 23min, 10mb)
Featured on SmartMobs.com.
Art, Performance, and Other
Improvisational Acting
(Beijing, 2006-2007)
I am a co-founder of Beijing Improv. I began with the Beijing Actor's Workshop and have worked in serious, experimental, musical, and comedic
styles. All as a complete amateur.
Direct Pointer
(CHI, 2006)
Use a cameraphone and network connection to control a pointer on
a large display: enabling a future of shared interactive displays in
public spaces (e.g. billboards, advertisements).
A set of three devices our team created to solve the problem of remembering to water houseplants.
Details (Flash presentation & movie)
My group won the CMU's HCI Institute's annual T-shirt design contest.
My group's team won the annual CHI Interactionary Design Contest in front of a live audience of HCI academics and professionals.
A music video using irony to subvert MTV-influenced pop culture.
Crazy Game of Poker (WMV, 8mb, 5min)
DISCLAIMER: All events are theatrical reenactments. All characters are actors and all places and timelines are the script of a fictional event.
A CMU University Lecture Series presentation I gave about my backpacking trip across 13 countries during 1999-2000.
A Spiritual Journey (PPT + WMA, 60min, 18mb).
Unzip the two files into a folder and open the presentation. Press F5 and the show will start (along with the sound) and transition automatically from one slide to the next. There is no video, it's a slideshow + sound.
An art project that allows users to experience remote locations through an actor.
IBU: We Hardly Knew You (WMV, 7.5min, 8 mb)
IBU (read "I Be You") is an immersive experience where the user steps into a booth and essentially experiences the world from the point of view of another person; i.e. the user steps into the head of the actor. This is accomplished using real-time audio, video, and biometric data in a 2-way communication between the actor and the user.
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