3D Printed Birdhouse
When: 2015. What: 3D printed miniature birdhouse as the centerpiece for a pixie garden. Where: Envisiture Consulting How: Principal. Worked primarily alone to create this art piece to donate to … Continue reading
Virtual Gallery
When: 2015. What: Set of virtual gallery spaces for high school students to customize and populate with their own content. Where: Envisiture Consulting How: Principal. Worked with the technology director … Continue reading
Customize My Workout
When: 2013. What: Prototype website design created for Stanford online course on Technology Entrepreneurship. How: To get a deeper understanding of the current generation of massive online courses (MOOCs), I … Continue reading
Open Wonderland
When: 2007 – 2014. What: Virtual world toolkit to create 3D experiences for education, training, and collaboration. Where: Wonderland group, Sun Microsystems Laboratories and WonderBuilders, Inc. How: Principal Investigator (Sun … Continue reading
Porta-Person
When: 2007. What: Portable telepresence device and remote control app intended to provide remote meeting participants a better way to participate in distributed meetings. Where: Collaborative Environments Group, Sun Microsystems … Continue reading
Meeting Suite
When: 2006. What: Set of audio conferencing and collaboration tools for use in distributed meetings. Where: Collaborative Environments Group, Sun Microsystems Laboratories. How: Principal Investigator. Tasks included user research, brainstorming, … Continue reading
Office Central
When: 2005. What: Kiosk designed to promote collaboration between people attending a live event and remote event participants. Where: Collaborative Environments Group, Sun Microsystems Laboratories. How: Principal Investigator. Tasks included … Continue reading
Awarenex
When: 2001 – 2003. What: Integrated messaging system for desktops and mobile devices. Where: Network Communities Group, Sun Microsystems Laboratories. How: Principal Investigator. Tasks included project/people management, user research, interviews, … Continue reading
WebWork
When: 2000. What: Vision for web-based collaboration with shared documents. Where: Sun Microsystems How: Team Leader. Tasks included project management, focus groups, interviews, brainstorming, design sketches, and report writing. About … Continue reading
SharedShell
When: 1998 – 2000. What: Collaborative terminal application supporting secure remote access, shared telepointers, annotations, and web-based transcripts. Where: Network Communities Group, Sun Microsystems Laboratories. How: Principal Investigator. Tasks included … Continue reading
Hands-Free Manual
When: 1997. What: Multi-modal manual for learning how to install internet cabling. Users could physically practice terminating cable while listening to step-by-step instructions. They advanced to the next step and … Continue reading
Office Monitor
When: 1995. What: Automated office assistant based on speech interaction designed to leave messages for office visitors as as well take messages from them. Where: Speech Application Group, Sun Microsystems … Continue reading
SpeechActs
When: 1993-1997. What: SpeechActs was an early conversational speech application framework that incorporated natural language processing. The system included multiple telephone-based speech applications including email, calendar, reminders, weather, stock quotes, … Continue reading
Starfire
When: 1992 – 1994. What: Vision video illustrating next-generation user interaction and communication. Where: Sun Microsystems. How: Visionary contributor. Tasks included participating in brainstorming sessions, idea creation, animated mock-ups, and … Continue reading