Academic Projects

My research interests are primarily in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. I am interested in leveraging my background in psychology and human factors to solve problems in interface design and usability.

In my final year at McGill, I served as the teaching assistant for the graduate level course, Human-Computer Interaction (ECE 424). I coached, guided, and evaluated 6 groups on large scale user-centered design projects. You can view the project specifications here, and my feedback for each groups' individual project components (and their web notebooks) here.

In my final year at McGill, I also worked on a research project in the Shared Reality Lab under Jeremy Cooperstock. We explored new interface paradigms for interaction in 3D, and it was really exciting stuff. Ever see Minority Report (picture link) or Iron Man (video link)?

In the summer of 2007, I was awarded a summer research grant from the National Science Foundation. I spent 10 weeks in College Station, Texas conducting research at the CSDL Lab in Texas A&M's Department of Computer Science. Through this program I was matched with Dr. Frank Shipman and Dr. J. Michael Moore. My research there dealt with the creation and use of user-interest models for a heuristic suggestion manager in the context of an analysis tool of large data sets.