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Guardian Angel

Guardian Angel was the second major usability project that I worked on during my time at RETRO laboratories. It is a serious game for recovering alcoholics, in which they learned to resist temptations both by themselves and with friends. This was my first project  where I was the lead usability specialist, running usability tests at […]

Walk in my Shoes

Much of my experience over the past year has been working on several serious games projects through RETRO Laboratories.  The first project that I worked on through the lab was Novonics’ Walk in my Shoes. Walk in my Shoes is a simulation developed to inform soldiers about possible problems they may face in pre- and […]

Breaking Falls

Breaking falls is a project I developed to introduce a martial arts training regimen for elderly populations, in order to reduce the risk of injury from falling. Several other studies had been done through medical schools such as Yale for the martial art of Tai Chi, but I wished to utilize the art of Aikido […]

Lift-Off!

Lift-Off! is a mobile game designed by RETRO laboratories which aims to help clinicians treat children with selective mutism. This game recently won an award at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare 2013. I was brought on board this project to not only run direct participant observation, but also create a usability report on […]

Teaching Assistantship

I have been funded through UMBC through a Teaching Assistantship, and have had the pleasure to act as the TA for IS 303. The course was titled Interaction Design, and I was in charge of teaching Undergraduates through the use of projects.  In addition to providing me valuable teaching experience,  I have had a chance […]

Implementing UX into Hackathons

Goal for this project: Understand problems faced by two different organizations and work together with other academics to tackle real world problems. Time frame:  1 day. One of the cool things about my past conference experiences has definitely been what is known as #CHI4Good. In this experience, people from around the world come together at […]

Creating my first infographic: Compiling data into a poster.

Secondary Social Studies Infographic One of the recent projects that I had the pleasure of working on was with the education department at UMBC. One of the things this allowed me to do was to go through all of the steps of creating an infographic based on the data, which was largely due to a […]

CHI 2017 Student Volunteer Experience

Working as a Student Volunteer at CHI was quite an eye-opening experience. I had attended CHI previously as an attendee, which allowed me the opportunity to attend a number of sessions and talk with a number of visionaries in our field. However, this year I had the pleasure to work behind the scenes, and have […]

ASPIRE

ASPIRE is a serious game meant for military personnel who are undergoing the Operation Stress Control and Readiness Training (OSCAR) program. This serious game is meant to help train those personnel to deal with a number of problems that soldiers may encounter within the field. This game not only presents a number of complex scenarios […]