Trace was created to be a networking site which combines user and project profiles, holistically tying together networking information with project information side by side. The primary target audience are those who specialize in design and implementation, where simply a resume does not suffice in representing a users breadth of work. This project was initially done for an HCI course with group members Dean Putney, Brendan Kiu, and Jason Yore. After acquiring some more interface design experience, I tried out my hand at redesigning our initial interface. My main goal in the redesign was to give a "face" to user projects instead of supplying a one-dimensional description.

As part of a sponsored project by General Motors, I investigated the possibilities of near-future vehicles with a team partner. David Yen and I holistically broke down the typical driving experience and proposed a wholly redesigned experience. Under the impression that near-future cars will have more semi-autonomous features, we created an interface-driven experience which hinges on the ease of usability. While cars take over more of the physical driving aspect, "drivers" become "users" to an increasingly rich interface experience.

Snackbot was created by the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute as a research platform for both robotics and psychology students. Paul Shen, Amritha Prasad, Rohit Kabra, Adam Borochoff, and I composed an HCI group that focused on redesigning the preexisting interface to cater to the user experience of pyschology researchers. Snackbot's currentinterface was designed by developers for developers. Navigating, surveying, and input tools that were relevant to psychology researchers are buried in a complicated slew of developer tools. What you see below is a new take on our proposed interface. I took a stab at redesigning our final interface to reflect the ideal user experience we had in mind without the horrendous limitations of the platform Snackbot was using at the time of this project. This dashboard view provides an all up view of video feed from three different cameras housed in snackbot, navigation tools, a dialog tree and expressions widget. There's more to come illustrating my solution to this issue...

Along with studying Human-Computer Interaction, I immersed myself in the industrial design discipline. I think there is a lot to be learned in interface design through physical affordances. Humans are naturally inclined to interact with the physical world, and the ability to smooth the creases between physical and digital only strengthens an overall design. Below are product design studies in their simplest form.

Narrativescape is an information visualization based off of information about my life in 5 years. I was intrigued with embedding personal and meaningful data into a abstract and sculptural piece, sharing a portion of my life and experiences with viewers. A city grows out of a dynamic and tumultous terrain.