Hi there! I’m a CSE senior passionate about creating physical, interactive things to solve human problems. In the lab I am currently working on Interactiles, which improves the accessibility of mobile phones by introducing tangible, tactile interaction to touchscreens, and Don’t Touch My Belly, a maternity shirt that reacts when the wearer’s pregnant belly is touched without asking and aims to explore themes of consent and women’s bodies. My portfolio can be seen here: http://dropr.com/tracytran
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Jasper O’Leary
Jasper O’Leary
I am a PhD student in Human Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE). Previously, I earned my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. I study how digital fabrication technology can move beyond its focus on making trinket-scale objects for a universal “maker.” Instead, I imagine how we can leverage digital fabrication to build longer-lasting infrastructure such as urban installations and ad-hoc shelters. How can these tools could be useful in a diverse set of people and needs, rather than just appealing to one universal user? How can we build effectively at the body or building scale? What role do different materials play in this process? I approach these questions through a mix of research through design, ethnography, and system-building.
Website: jasperoleary.com
Nicole Riley
Nicole Riley
I am a computer science major from Bellevue, Washington. I am a post-baccalaureate student in CSE (I already have a degree in neurobiology and psychology from UW so I am happy to talk about brains as well as tech). In the Allen School I am the treasurer of ACM-W, a CSE Student Advisory Council at large representative, and a Society of Women Engineers Girls Who Code lead. I have tutored within the CSE department and TAed a variety of course (14x and 311). In the lab, I am working on the UW Experience project working on a dashboard that measures participant compliance.
Aleks Tapinsh
I am a Computer Science student at the University of Pittsburgh. I work on the backend of the EDIGS project, implemented in Flask and an SQL database under the mentorship of Jennifer Mankoff. I enjoy seeing how little details come together to form a working application.
Dimeji Onafuwa
Dimeji’s experience in design, research and consulting spans over a decade.
At CMU, his research in the field of social design focused on design’s impact on initializing maintaining and contributing to a commons by exploring how collaboration around tenancy as common property may amplify community strength in ways that contribute to societal transition to sustainable futures.
Gary Yang
Full-stack Developer, visualize data to help people solve problems.
Nidhi Vyas
I am presently in my Junior year at DA-IICT, India and I work as a remote intern on project ‘eDigs’, mentored by Dr. Jennifer Mankoff at HCI. I was a programmer for building an application on Android and iOS SDK, and we successfully deployed it on both systems. Currently, I am mentored by Dr. Mankoff and am working independently as a researcher on a project called ‘SunScore’. I have found a method to give a lightweight estimate of the internal light level a room gets, compared to the external light level, just by looking at the Satellite and Street View of it provided by Google Earth.
Vikram Kamath
Vikram Kamath as a Ph.D. candidate at the school of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. I specialize in Human-Computer Interaction for Development (HCI4D). Prof. Amy Ogan and Prof. Tim Brown are his advisors. He works on building and evaluating low-cost technology to support teachers in low-resource contexts.
Previously, he was a web developer working at the Dean’s office at CMU. In his spare time, he worked as a Research Assistant and contributed to EDigs and the Prosthetics study.
Duncan McIsaac
Duncan McIsaac: I’m a Senior studying Information Systems with a minor in HCI, graduating in the spring. I’m interested in full stack development, music, and coffee. My year-long honors thesis is to improve web accessibility. I’m researching how I can map web content to keys on a keyboard to communicate website structure to the visually impaired.
Hongbo Ni (Visitor)
I’m a visiting scholar to CMU, and from NPU China. My research interests including: Health sensing and assessment, IoT and Smart home, Assisting Technology. Currently, I’m working on several healthcare projects related to prosthetic usage and chronic disease recognition.