In collaboration with Helen Wu, MaCherie Edwards

At Wellesley College, The Davis Museum is a hub of artistic and cultural opportunity, granting community members firsthand access to world-class art. However, members of the staff and the student body had noticed an unusual trend: when not required or rewarded with food, museum attendance was quite low.

Because museum maps provide no indication of the Davis' ever-changing gallery arrangement, visitors were unsure of where to go to find the kinds of works they were interested in. Also, visitors rarely spent more than ten minutes in the museum unless accompanied by a social group or class, and were observed only walking in to look at a few works for an upcoming paper before leaving.

To encourage more immersive museum visits, the Davis Museum Experience uses new mobile, multi-touch and social interfaces to create richer connections between visitors and the museum. The goal of this project is to provide new social incentives for museum visits - even to solo visitors - while guiding them through a personal and physical exploration of the museum. Case Study Coming Soon

In collaboration with Andrew Grant, Marleigh Norton

As a student programmer at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab, I created two complementary Adobe AIR applications to help Marleigh Norton with her research into conversation in games. Interested in a style of game where the player participated in conversations only by pressing one button at a time of their choosing, Marleigh's goal was to release a tool for the creation and play of such games by any developer.

With this goal in mind, I created an AIR application in which the developer could traverse a visual hierarchy of conversational "nodes," adding children to each atomically. The developer could then determine where the dialogue would progress to based on how many words into a node the player chose to interact. Upon completing the game design, the developer could export an XML file to their computer, to be read in and used in a secondary gameplay application, on which I performed foundational development.

The MIT Mobility lab does fantastic work in the mobile aid community, and their recognition worldwide continues to grow. To meet the new demands of popularity and increased research, the lab required the design and development of a website from which they could showcase their projects, people, partners and press and encourage the creation of a larger community. After building a backend through Wordpress to streamline the submission of projects and the sharing of press updates, I designed and implemented a scalable website that is both easy to update and that truly showcases the lab's incredible ongoing work.

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In collaboration with Richard The

The ACM's 2010 conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interactions required a cohesive look to span their promotional materials, conference hall setup, registration items, and student volunteer shirts. Building on the idea of the tangible, we applied a motif of hands and implements as the cornerstone of the conference's brand, creating a bold yet minimalist look across all materials.

In collaboration with Rob Morris

Hypersensitivity to sound, often to the point of extreme pain or discomfort, is often reported by persons on the autism spectrum. Similarly to other conditions, treatment by exposure therapy has shown some promise, but customizing the exposure therapy to the particular needs of each person is often a challenging task. Rob Morris of the Affective Computing group is interested in applying the principles of exposure therapy to fun, engaging computer games, so that individuals can gradually become desensitized to sounds while comforted by familiar imagery and simple interactions.

To assist this research, I developed three such games in Flash with easily customizable visual and audial assets, so as to suit a specific player's needs. They all included a volume control with 30 gradations of volume, so as to be able to increase more imperceptibly over time. When the player solves a simple puzzle (as found in a memory game, finding game or slideshow game), they are rewarded with visual stimulus while the sound to which they are hypersensitive to plays at the set volume. As their sensitivity decreases over time, they may progressively increase the volume so as to lessen their sensitivity overall.

Ball and Buck is an up-and-coming clothing company founded by Mark Bollman, a Babson alum. Desiring a website and branding image that reflected their company's values of quality, organics, minimalism and versatility, I was asked to design, propose and implement an adaptable website for them to upkeep. While only some of those assets live on in their current version, samples live on below.

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A historic part of Wellesley College's social and academic life since 1889, Tau Zeta Epsilon endures as Wellesley's Arts and Music society on campus. To reflect the classic history of the society and showcase its activity, the society required a new design for its website, and an architecture that could be easily managed by its webmistresses in the years to come. As webmistress from 2008-2009, I designed and developed a new site that could be updated more frequently and best reflect TZE's artistic and historic nature. Coupled with increased alumnae outreach, the website stands as a touchstone for alums, current members and the greater Wellesley community alike.

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Keeping people informed about Hepatitis C since the 1990s, Hepatitis Central realized that it needed a redesign to deliver its information to 21st century visitors. As an intern at its parent site, I crafted a new identity for the site and a custom Wordpress template, assembling the new architecture and developing the front-end with clean, standards-compliant code. To demonstrate the potential for this new platform, I also helped to ease the company into transferring old content to the open, attractive new format.

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Starting a successful promotional campaign takes endless attention to detail in order to maximize return. With series of upcoming promotions while I was working as an intern, The Institute for Integrative Healthcare required both print and landing page methods of reaching out to their customers. I designed their print ads in a combination of Adobe Photoshop and InDesign, and their landing pages were developed with standards-compliant code and clean CSS.

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The Wellesley College Dancers needed an online reinvention to match the freshness of the company itself. However, they wanted to keep the site a simple portal for information about the company, upcoming company events, company members and some videos from past performances. As company webmistress, I rebuilt the site from the ground up to highlight both the talent of the company members and the basic information about ourselves and dance in Boston to best serve the greater Wellesley dance and arts community.

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Hillary Clinton supporter Nicolle Strand had a vision: a site where students supporting Hillary Clinton could gather, share ideas, and post political articles for peer review. I took this idea and made it into a fully functional reality, replete with a custom Wordpress template and forum.

After the successful beta launch of the unofficial Students for Hillary Clinton site, I and the Students for Hillary Clinton grassroots site were contacted by a Hillary Clinton 2008 Presidential Exploratory Committee member. As a second phase of this project, intended to serve the campaign directly, I was asked to provide a concept for the forthcoming official site geared towards students.

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