For our service learning project in our design-studio course, my team is working with the City of Bloomington to help formulate some ideas and long-term solutions to increase the activity in the downtown area. A few weeks ago we interviewed the Executive Director of the Bloomington Area Arts Council ...  Continue Reading »

What are the visual rules that stimulate attention? This is one question behind View Finder Heatmap, a project inspired by the last 25 years of research in artificial vision and neurological studies on perception and cognition. The tool was built by Feng-GUI Lab, a group of artificial vision scientists and ...  Continue Reading »

After watching this concept video, it gave me some ideas on how to convey an experience. Instantly, I thought of Jeff Bardzell's quote from my Experience Design course - “Rather than starting from an interface to create a product, start from creating a good user experience.”   Continue Reading »

Congratulations to my colleagues on being accepted as CHI finalists. Below are the teams and designs that are advancing to the next round and heading to Florence, Italy. aSister Homeless women need special care and attention especially during pregnancy or while trying to overcome substance abuse. We present a solution to help ...  Continue Reading »

I got my ticket for Bloomington Startup Weekend. The first time I heard about Startup weekend was last year in an article published by Business Week. This year the event will be hosted in Bloomington, Indiana. If you want the opportunity to network with the local community and collaborate on a project/business ...  Continue Reading »