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Education

University of Michigan, School of Information, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Master of Science in Information, expected graduation : April 2011
Specialization in Human Computer Interaction

 

National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
B.S in Bio-industrial Mechatronics Engineering: June 2009

 

San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
Art : Aug 2006 - Aug 2007
Selective Courses: Multimedia, Composition
Study Abroad


Professional Experience
 

Thomson Reuters | May 2010 - September 2010
Interaction/ Visual Design Intern, New York City, USA

  • Brainstormed and wireframed desktop financial software interface design
  • Defined visual design standard for the new Investment & Advisory core product
  • Communicated with development team and documented design standard and elements
 

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund | March 2010
Alternative Spring Break, Washington DC, USA

  • Designed interactive narrative for the health insurance claims report
  • Wireframmed interface and designed graphics in Illustrator
  • Implemented interactive narrative in Flash

Projects
 

Travel Pets | Sep 2010
OZCHI 24 Design Challenge

  • Brainstormed, sketched and developed ideas in 24 hours
  • Generated concept graphics for our design
  • Conducted in person interviews
 

Meetin'Bytes | Sep 2009 - Dec 2009
Client: TechSmith, MI, USA, Course Project: Interface and Interaction Design

  • Designed Meeting software for group of 5 - 12 people
  • Conducted contextual inquiry and survey to gather user data and define product concept
  • Leaded the team build up lo-fi prototype
  • Built hi-fi prototype with Axure RP
 

Archive 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

  • Gathered information and understanding problems by using contextual inquiry
  • Built communication, artifact, and many other models to analyzing SRO'S information flow and work culture
  • Generated recommendations and strategies to improve archiving practices
 

FuturTech Conference 2009 | Oct 2009 - Dec 2009
Web Designer

  • Designed conference logo, advertising graphics, and official website and updated website information with new content
 

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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