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CitySift
CitySift is an under-development event recommendation engine aimed at young adults looking for entertainment. The service will give users location-based event listings in real time, using machine learning techniques to tailor suggestions to a user's interests. Over time the service will learn users' preferences, creating a highly personalized experience.
Olin-Draper AGV
The Olin-Drapor AGV ("the Gator") was an Olin College SCOPE project to design and build an offroad robotics research platform for Draper Laboratory. Stage one of the project (Fall 2009-Spring 2010) was to complete the base hardware platform and develop proof of concept autonomous behaviors. The final goal was to autonomously follow GPS waypoints with half meter accuracy while preventing collision with obstacles using LIDAR. Video of final demo.
Gatehopper
Gatehopper is a lightweight mobile web application that connects and entertains travelers flying between destinations. A user can "check-in" to their flight using the application to view other individuals on the flight and their discussions on the flight wall. Through participation users can earn badges and levels demonstrating how much they have traveled.
Modlet
The Modlet is a smart outlet device aimed at helping users save money and energy. The emphasis of this project was on identifying user groups within a general consumer audience and characterizing the needs, wants, and values of key users. The end goal was to synthesize enough information to specify requirements for the online Modlet control interface.
Home Entertainment
This home entertainment system redesign was done for Olin College's Human Factors and Interface Design course in the Spring of 2009. The focus of the project was on simplifying experience of using a home entertainment system, driving strongly towards a goal-centric interface instead of the current task-centric interaction.
Flight Instructors
This project, completed for Olin College's User Oriented Collaborative Design course in the Spring of 2008, focused on designing a product or service for private flight instructors. The project began with user studies and synthesis of personas, user values, and areas of opportunity. The project ended with ideation and refinement of concepts into a single product proposal, with a set of clearly defined requirements.
One Velociraptor Per Child
Most of the nearly two billion children in the developing world have inadequate access to dinosaurs. Some receive no paleontology training at all. One in three has never even seen a dinosaur in person. The One Velociraptor Per Child project set out to fix this dire situation.