Carnegie Mellon HCI Studies

DMD. A touchscreen interface for dentists, designed using a wide range of user-centered methods and shown to be several steps above software in use by dentists today.

Middle School Math. A semester group project to explore the feasibility of web-based tools for middle school after-school math tutoring.

EdgeWave 2. An accelerometer-based input device that lets you do input by waving character strokes in air. It has a custom circuit board design, is powered by batteries and transmits the input to computer using the ZigBee wireless protocol with a custom USB-powered receiver unit.

Peanut butter and jelly sandwich booklet. A communication design exercise involving creation of typographic style, illustrations and layout.

Visual Spider for Mac OS X. Auditing personal computers for Personally Identifiable Information (PII) such as Social Security Numbers, credit card numbers and other similar data.

Other Carnegie Mellon projects

EdgeWave 3
LiveAlbum
EdgeWave
SeeMoney
Caffeinator
Microwave control panel

Career

Skype community management. General oversight of blogs and forums, managing platforms, producing content.

skype.com. Managing a team that produced all aspects of Skype’s static and dynamic web and payment sites.

Skype for Linux. Launching the client application on a new platform, coordinating the work of the development team.

Skype group chat. Interaction design for an innovative global peer-to-peer text chat feature.

Tallinn ID-ticket. Managing the website of an advanced municipal electronic public transport ticketing system.

ID card and digital signature. Being part of the team that launched a nationwide advanced identification document and its electronic applications.

Software and hobby projects

Supertabs. A response to Mozilla’s invite for design proposals on how to evolve tab management in browsers.

Restroom status indicator. A way to wirelessly monitor restroom status and see the results in web or Mac OS X Dashboard.

Moodgeist. A personal client-server research experiment involving Skype mood message data.

Flickr Downloadr. An easy way to download photosets from Flickr.

Other software and hobby projects

dir2rss
Reposter
Four Skypes in one box
Incoming e-mail processor
ChangeMan