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About Me
Hi, I’m a graduate student at The University of Michigan School of Information, specializing in Human Computer Interaction(HCI) and Incentive-Centered Design(ICD). This is my first year in the master’s program, focusing on interaction design, visual design, and user experience research. Currently I'm working on three projects: one is Information System Evaluation for U-M SRO (Survey Research Operations) and one is design a meeting software for group of 5-12 people with TechSmith, a Michigan based tech company, and the last one is building website for FuturTech conference 2009. I have a Bachelor's Degree in Mechatronics Engineering from National Taiwan University, so it’s a pleasure to combine my engineering background with social science. During my free time, I like to do freelance art and design. To know more about my projects and other works, jusk keep scrolling down or check out my resume.

All Projects: Meetin'Bytes, FuturTech Conference 2009, Information System Evaluation, Application of Gesture Recognition, Nightmarket.web

Projects

Meetin'Bytes

Date: Sep 2009 - Dec 2009

Course: Interface and Interaction Design

Teammates: Kamaria Campbell, Fei-fei Wang, Peggy Wong

My Role: Leading Lo-Fi design phase and designing team logo, doing collaborative work during other design phases

Technology used: Axture RP

 

 

Description: We are working with TechSmith to develop meeting software to support groups of 5-12 people. This project is a part of the courses: Interface and Interaction Design. Our project cycle includes: project focus, contextual inquiry, meeting pattern survey, personas & scenarios, Lo-Fi prototyping, Hi-Fi prototyping, final presentation

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FuturTech Conference 2009

Date: Oct 2009 - Dec 2009

Hosted By: Ross Business School, School of Information, School of Engineering, University of Michigan

My Role: Webmaster. I design and implement official website and conference logo. After the website is up, I maintain and update website information.

Technology Used: Dreamweaver, CSS, HTML

 

 

Description: FuturTech is the University of Michigan’s premier business and technology conference, bringing together representatives from the Ross School of Business, the College of Engineering, the School of Information, and major corporations from around the world. The conference topic for 2009 is " Beyond Web 2.0 "

Design Sketches:

 

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Information System Evaluation

Date: Sep 2009 - Dec 2009

Course: Information in Social System: Collections, Flows and Processing

Teammates: Abigail Van Bremen, Ana Rosas, Andrew McBride, Tze-Hsiang Lin

My Role: Interviewing key people from SRO, building affinity wall and providing recommendation for future and long term use to SRO with team

Description: U-M SRO provides a wide range of survey design, data collection and data processing service. Our work will assist U-M ICPSR in developing recommendations for SRO to improve their record-keeping practices so electronics files will be accessible and usable

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Gesture Recognition

Date: Sep 2008 - June 2009

My Role: This is an independent work for my undergraduate thesis. I designed the interface and built the system with openCV library. I also conducted usability testing with 36 different users to test my system.

Technology used: Processing, OpenCV library, C++, Photoshop, Illustrator

 

 

Description: Mouse and keyboard are the dominant input hardware between human and machine at this time. Under this condition, our movement of control is not natural and many limitations occur during the operating process. Sometimes, our body even suffers chronic illness due to the constant operation. Therefore, this project aimed at developing a system which allows users to control with their hands by analyzing the input image information from a web cam.

 

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Nightmarket.web

Date: Aug 2008

Teammates: Chunhao Weng, Chen-Yu Yang , Hsiao-Mei Hung, Tao-Sheng Ou

My Role: Concep designed our interface, interviewed people in nightmarket and edit most of our team paper

Technology used: Processing, Photoshop, Illustrator

 

 

Description: The goal for this workshop was to engage visitors in the oldest street market (it has a rich political and historical context)in Tainan City, Taiwan. My team came up with two Projects to present nightmarket experience to those who never been to nightmarket before.

Emotion Map: As seen in the picture, each individual visiting An Ping is allowed to discover their very own emotional space. One might find along the way an alley which produces the feeling of simplicity and tranquility, an owner of a toy shop displaying amazing selling abilities, or the rush of happiness after a simple snack of shrimp rolls. After our team’s observation of the connection of experiences in An Ping with the emotions generated, we designed the Emotion Map allowing visitors in An Ping the ability to display their emotions through color of different spaces that left great impression. As a result, the more input of emotions creates an interesting map which tells stories of the public space we observe.

emotion map

Back Track Map: In this project, we use consumer choices to create this map. In Tainan Wusheng night market, we started with choosing a stall as our starting point, asking consumers what is their favorite consuming experience before this stall, and then we proceeded to the next stall according to the information consumers provided. When we arrived at the next stop, we asked the same question and moved to the next one. When information reached a certain amount, we went back to our starting point and created another route by using the same method. After many routes were created, this map revealed many consuming patterns in the night market.

 

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Resume

Education
Programming Language
- C++

Spoken Language
- English (fluent)
- Mandarine (native speaker)

Software
- Processing
- Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, Flash, Dreamweaver
- Axure RP
- SPSS

Design Methods
- Contextual Inquiry
- Personas
- Scenarios
- Survey
- Prototyping
- Wireframing

Usability Research Methods
- Cognitive walk thorough
- Usability testing

Selective Course
- Interface and Interaction Design
- Contextual Inquiry
- Game Theory
- Microeconomics for Information Professionals
- Digital Media
- Communication Recreation & Attraction Management

Award
- Taiwan Merit Scholarships
- Presidential Award, Top 5% academic performance, three times winner

Affiliation
- Student Organization for Computer Human Interaction (SOCHI)

 

University of Michigan, School of Information, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Master of Science in Information, expected graduation : Spring 2011
Specialization in Human Computer Interaction, incentive-Centered Design
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
B.S in Bio-industrial Mechatronics Engineering: June 2009
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
Hospitality and Tourism Management, Art: Aug 2006 - Aug 2007
Stusy Abroad
Professional Experience
Walt Disney College Program | Feb 2007- Aug 2007
Internship, Entertainment Costuming, Disneyland, California, USA
  • Worked in Character Head Room, parade “Block Party Bash,” show “Aladdin The Musical”, and maintained customs, controlled customs handling and quick change performers during a show
  • Capable of multitasking and working under fast-paced, high pressure environment
    Working as a media host for print media in Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage Opening in Disneyland
  • Working as a media host for print media in Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage Opening in Disneyland
  • Projects
    Meetin’Bytes | Sep 2009 - Dec 2009
    Client: TechSmith, MI, USA, Course Project: Interface and Interaction Design
  • Designing Meeting software for group of 5 - 12 people
  • Conducting contextual inquiry and survey to gather user data and define product concept
  • Leading the team build up lo-fi prototype
  • Building hi-fi prototype with Axure RP
  • Information System Evaluation | Sep 2009 - Dec 2009
    Client: U-M Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and U-M Survey Research Operations (SRO), Course Project: Contextual Inquiry and Project Management
  • Gathering information and understanding problems by using contextual inquiry
  • Building communication, artifact, and many other models to analyzing SRO’S information flow and work culture
  • Providing recommendation for future and long term use
  • FuturTech Conference 2009 | Oct 2009 - Dec 2009
    Webmaster
  • Designing conference logo, official website
  • Updating and publish website information
  • Application of Gesture Recognition | Sep 2008 - Jun 2009
    Undergrad Thesis, Sponsored by National Science Council
  • Built system and analyzed incoming graphic information from webcam with OpenCV library on Processing
  • Evaluated system and ran user experience testing
  • Designed user interface for the system
  • Nightmarket.web | Aug 2008
    Nightmarket Workshop 2008, Hosted by National Cheng Kung University, Center for Technology of Ubiquitous Computing and Humanity, MIT Media Lab
  • Designed interface and interaction of Emotion Map, and Back Track Map to present Taiwan nightmarket experience to those who never had one before
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    avalonhu [at] umich [dot] edu