My projects include a variety of research endeavors, in my undergraduate career at the University of California Irvine, through the CRA-W DMP at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and for my PhD (in progress) and the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
Mobiles in the Wild: A Cross-Cultural Study
This project is a collaboration between the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow and HP Labs in Bangalore. The purpose of this project is to design and evaluate multimodal interaction techniques for mobile devices that not only take into account existing technology practices but the variety of social and cultural settings and the contraints those settings pose on using multimodal interactions in public places.
Web Site: Project Web SiteGestures in the Wild 08/09
This study involved 11 participants attending three one hour sessions of gesture usage each over the span of 3 weeks. Each participant was asked to perform 8 gestures during each session in a indoor setting and an outdoor setting and interviewed about their experiences after each session.
The Gesture Survey ~ 03/09
This survey begins to examine the social acceptability of gesture based interfaces for mobile phones. This survey focuses on gestures with respect to the location in which the gesture is used and who the gestures is used in front of. The survey includes a collection of videos which portray a wide variety of gestures being performed. This survey is part of research towards my PhD at the University of Glasgow.
Web Site: The Gesture Surveymopix ~ 09/07 - 08/08
The mopix project involved a mobile phone photo application and a set of public displays. Participants in this research were able to take geo-tagged photos using the mopix application as well as add their own title, descriptions, and tags. These photos where then displayed on a set of touch screen displays for anyone to view and add comments to. This application ran and the Nokia N95 phones and N800 internet tablets.
I worked on this project as part of my final year of undergraduate study with researchers Judy Chen and Silvia Lindtner. My main responsibilities included interaction design, interface and application development, and qualitative analysis of results.
rhythIMs ~ 09/06 - 06/07
This project creates visualizations based on the temporal patterns of AIM usage. These visualizations can be viewed in a variety of visualizations with different AIM groups and buddies. The visualizations use online activity and status information to create images which portray user presence.
I worked on this project as a developer for Judy Chen at the University of California, Irvine. This work formed a large part of my participation in the Information and Computer Science Honors Program at UCI.
Distributed Mentor Program ~ 8/06-9/06
The Distributed Mentor Program (DMP) is a program through the CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) which seeks to pair undergraduate computer science students with professors at other universities in order to give the student a unique research and mentoring experience. During the summer, DMP participants will get involved in research with a mentor at the mentor's university and have the opportunity to develop and good relationship with their mentor, and gain a good role model. A special aim of this program is for women to find a strong role model of a woman academic in computer science.
This research investigates visualization techniques of software engineering diagrams using a semi-immersive environment. Tracking of the users locations incorporates proximity in the diagram visualizations.
Web site: Julie's DMP Experience