U.S. Office of Naval Research Project

This project involves the development of Natural-language based muti-modal interfaces for wearable maintenance documentation systems. It is an eight months long project. I work in an interdisciplinary team to produce a working prototype that serves as a proof of concept and requirements document.

The user research phase begins with us conducting contextual inquiries, etc. Then in the innovation phase we will produce product ideas situated to meet the identified needs. Finally, we engage in a prototyping and user-testing phase where we produce prototypes with increasing fidelity and iteratively test them with users to improve the design.

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AT&T Privacy Bird - Contextual Design and Usability Analysis

This is a project for my Human-Computer Interaction Methods course. Our team of four is doing contextual design and usability analysis of AT&T Privacy Bird software with Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor, chair of the P3P Spec. working group. This includes activities like Affinity Diagram developemnt, Contextual Design, Keystroke-Level Model (KLM), Heuristic Evaluation, Cognitive Walkthroug, Think-Aloud and a final presentation.

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Interface and Interaction Design

Here you can find some of my interface / interaction design work

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Typographic Design and Desktop Publishing

This is a project for my Communication Design course. In this course I learned about the principles of visual, typographic and information design. Using Adobe InDesign and Illustrator, I have designed a cover as well as the grid system for the pure text content of a booklet.

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Redesign of Palm Pilot operating system

My project group has carried out a thorough investigation on the usability of Palm Pilot system. A report was produced to outline the redesign ideas.

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Mobile and Pervasive Technologies

I have written a paper about smart classroom in the Gates Center building, which is expected to be compeleted in 2008.

::Smart Classroom for the Gates Center

Service Redesign Project - Parking Pleasure Over Pain

We have introduced a service redesign of CMU parking. We went through stages like discovery, synthesis, construct (service innovations), refine (progressive resolution), experience prototyping (enactments) and release.

:: Presentation slides (webpage format)

Home 2020 Studio X

The Home 2020 Studio X proposes a vision for digital life in the near future. We create a prototype to illustrate this vision. We operate as a design/build studio: our full-scale building will demonstrate the ideas we develop.

::My portfolio

Design of Portable Digital Photo Album

In my Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Course, we designed a portable, touchscreen digital photo album which could be used for photo storage, browsing and organization. Based on the success of dedicated multimedia devices like the Apple iPod and the increasing use of digital camera, we believed there is a market for the device we proposed.

::Project Proposal

::Paper Prototype

::Heuristic Analysis on another team's design

::Heuristic Evaluation, Cognitive Walkthrough and Design Recommendations

::Design Strategy Report

::Final Report

Macromedia Flash (tm) Interactive Campus Map of UBC

As a mini-project I have produced some interactive campus maps for my undergraduate university.

::Version 1 (better)
::Version 2

Design of UBC IEEE Website (2003-04)

During my post as the Software Co-chair in UBC IEEE student branch, I participated in the construction of the UBC IEEE website.

::UBC IEEE website