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revealing the invisible in the home

fall 2007 - present

Ever wonder why your home internet connection is slowing down? Or if your neighbors are 'borrowing' your wireless connection? I've studied homes in Atlanta, Seattle and Cambridge, UK and found that people have a hard time understanding what's going on on their home networks. Currently, I'm implementing a visual home networking tool to see how this affects how people manage their home networking resources and how this increased visibility affects household dynamics.

threads for africa

fall 2006 - spring 2007

As part of a GVU Seed grant with Rebecca Grinter, Michael Best and Mark Guzdial, I explored whether Threads would be appropriate for an African context. As part of the groundwork for this study, we surveyed various Computer Science (CS) educators across Sub-Saharan Africa to find out more about current CS curricula offerings.

fotofit

fall 2005

In this project, we wanted to create a lightweight diet and exercise monitoring system for college students. We designed and evaluated an interface using an iterative design process that allows students to get a quick overview of their health habits visually.

hci4d

2003 - 2005

In my masters project in rural South Africa, I designed and test a software prototype that enabled communication between a rural clinic and a hospital. I also commented on how legislation affects the type of technologies you can use in rural areas, specifically looking at Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Wireless Fidelity (WiFi). Read more about it in my thesis document.

voip before the hype

2002

In my undergraduate degree, I worked in a team of four to create Chattabox - a Voice over Internet Protocol Chat Client when VoIP was fairly new. I designed and implemented the the client side of the system based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and helped create the user interface.