Design & Development
  • Collaborative Information System Design
  • Designed a web-based system that utilizes crowd-sourcing to channel information to case managers working with the homeless. This project was accepted and presented in the CHI2008 and presented in April.

  • Emergency Response System (Interaction Design)
  • Utilized user-centered design methods and designed the user interfaces for the Ann Arbor Police, Fire fighters, and ambulance drivers.

  • Website Architecture
  • Researched, designed, and developed a community website for supercomputer users in US.

  • Web-based Content Management System
  • GOLES! is a content management system for a non-profit organization that servers over 150 tenant association. My team and I migrated all static content from the previous website and created a content management system that serve as both a complaint and a tenant relationship management system.

  • Commercial Website
  • Retensa.com is an corperate official website, which provides the company description, service, and knowledge base for employee turnover.

  • Recommender System Design
  • Proposed the conceptual structure and mechanism of a recommender system, which provides a ranked search results based on the relevancy and quality of the content to users' query. Besides, the system also served as an expert finder and channel questions to appropriate domain experts.

    Usability Evaluation
  • Mobile Gaming User and Usability Study
  • Discovered the cause-effect relationship between a) distance and competitive level of the game and b) user performance and level of fun, while playing Nintendo DS. Evaluated UIs of Nintendo DS games and recommended improvements to the level of fun.

  • Health Information System usability evaluation
  • Evaluated CareWeb and OTIS, the health information systems of U of Michigan, and provided recommendations to improve the usability of both systems.

  • Human Factor Research
  • Evaluated the course registration system of University of Michigan and proposed design solutions to the usability problems.

    Research & Analysis
  • Rapid Ethnography and Contextual Design
  • Conducted ethnographic study and analyzed and recommended improvements to ForeSee Result's client information management process.

  • Social Network Research & Analysis
  • Performed network analysis and discovered the network structure and characteristics of a Q&A network. Analyzed the user participation behavior and provided interpretations.

  • Data Manipulation and Analysis
  • A series of small projects that involve in data collection and transformations among various source (text, spreadsheet, websites and APIs) and formats. Created visualizations using IBM's Many Eyes.

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