Senior UX Designer. Design Writer. UX Researcher/Data Visualizer.
I recently created a icon set to go along with the course I was developing, which was about communicating as a designer or researcher. When I was initially coming up with the course, I realized that I would need to have graphics for the amount of information that I was hoping to convey within the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
