Selected Projects

Professional

Blog Launch: HopeLab's Sticky Notes

Pitched concept and positioning for HopeLab's blog Sticky Notes, to senior team and staff, defined content focus and development plan. Interviewed, hired and managed design vendor; managed design and launch.

Redesign: HopeLab.org

Led and managed overhaul of outdated site to reflect new branding, enhance communication about program work and improve the process to publish (using WordPress). Identified, hired and managed vendors. Collaborated on IA and user experience.
Before Redesign | After Redesign

Application: Prevention.com

Defined user experience and product requirements for new, partner sponsored user-generated content application for Breast Cancer Awareness month. First ugc flash-based application for the brand. Managed design, development and budget throughout.

Academic

Headsphere

Headspere was a proof of concept project for my Master's thesis at NYU. It's a music instrument for children with limited physical mobility, that uses a 3-axis accelerometer and Max/MSP to translate head movement into chords. This was solo project and was accepted in the poster division at ubicomp in 2004. View research paper

Intellivision

Intellivision was a collaboration between an Occupational Therapist and 2 other students at NYU. It's designed to entertain children who engage in repetitive or self-injurious behavior while confined in hospital beds. It consists of a video camera tracking a child's gestures and translates them into changes on a large plasma display using Max/MSP/Jitter. My role was focused on user testing and content generation. This project was also selected for ubicomp in 2004. View research paper

SqueezeMe

SqueezeMe was a collaboration with 2 other NYU students and was designed for stress reduction in children who are receiving dialysis treatments. It's a starfish made out of a silicon based rubber with microprocessor and sensors embedded. As children squeeze the starfish, force sensing resistors measure the pressure and generate light patters via embedded LEDs. A thermistor was also built in to provide additional input about the user's stress levels. SqueezeMe was selected to demo at ubicomp in 2003. View research paper