Baltimore Electric Vehicle Initiative

Last summer, I had the privilege to work and contribute back to the city of Baltimore in a meaningful way.  I worked as a web designer for the Baltimore Ev Background: I joined the Baltimore Electric Vehicle Initiative as a Web Designer. My main responsibilities were to produce infographics, branding, and re-design the website to […]

Usability evaluation and redesign of two websites

One of the ongoing projects that I have been a part of at NCI has been the revision of two websites, seer.cancer.gov and surveillance.cancer.gov, for two different purposes. For the seer.cancer.gov, the purpose has been to make sure the user is able to find relevant information about our branch as well as identifying current and […]

Annual Report to the Nation

One of the tasks that I took up during my usability fellowship with NCI was to work closely with the health communications team in our annual report to the nation. This is a report we release to the general public through both our existing website as well as social media such as Twitter. As this […]

Icon set

One of the projects that I worked on with the Surveillance Research Program (SRP) required me to go through the process of creating an icon set. While I had created icon sets as part of a class, this was the first time working with a client. As a result, there were a number of key […]

Hierarchical Task Analysis

One of the steps that was necessary in order to work through the telestration project was the creation of a Hierarchical Task Analysis. This was necessary after understanding the types of communication breakdowns that occurred within laparoscopic surgery. After watching recorded video of laparoscopic surgery, I then created a number of tasks based on the […]

Telestration in surgical settings

Goal for this project: Develop a telestration system for use within laparoscopic cholecystectomies. This would be an innovative method of communication as a means to assist attending surgeons in instruction and help residents with laparoscopic surgical training. Challenges for this project: Address accuracy issues with a touchless interface. Understand range of motion and fatigue that […]

Wearable technologies and older adults

With coordination with the Bodies in Motion lab, I conducted a study which examined the use of commercial activity trackers with walking speeds similar to older adults. This was my first solo research study done at UMBC, with an expected first-author journal paper coming out of it. I conducted the research study from beginning to […]

ALE Experiences at UMBC

This project was done with UMBC in regards towards learning about qualities of leadership among undergraduate students. Most of my work in regards to this project was to help quantify aspects of leadership and other noncognitive behaviors and see how coursework might influence them. A lot of my work involved conducting data analysis within SPSS […]

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