Senior UX Designer. Design Writer. UX Researcher/Data Visualizer.
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…
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…
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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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…
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 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! 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…