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SCROLL DOWN TO SEE SOME OF MY PROJECTS.

FIREFLY JACKET​

Responding to the issue of safety on campus, Firefly Jacket is designed to protect a woman when she walks alone in the dark. The moment in which she feels vulnerable, she turns on the LEDs, light-emitting diodes, embedded in the abdomen and wings of the garment and is transformed into a firefly. Her luminescent glow guides the way to her destination. Her brightness is so brilliant that she becomes too radiant to be seen. She is independent. She is powerful. She becomes part of a swarm of women who also shine their lights. 

This protective jacket is unlike many available self-defense products. The garment does not require any intensive training and cannot be used against the user. Flipping a switch intuitively illuminates the LEDs. The collar on the jacket shields the user from being blinded by her brightness. Instead of being concealed in a feminine and innocent container, such as pepper spray being concealed in a lipstick container, the woman stands out to be avoided. The light creates a shield impeding passersby from getting anywhere close to the woman wearing the blinding jacket.

UNTAPPED WAVES​

In order to accommodate for university students who are harding of hearing or deaf in academic settings, I designed a system that uses the discrete object of a water bottle to translate a lecture or conversation from speech to text that is available to read and mark up in real time. For this project I worked in a group with two other Mechanical Engineers to create a prototype and Business Plan. I am currently developing an optimal microphone array to best filter background noise.

MOOD PLAYER​

Using the mood player's user interface, users can create playlists that features moods composed of visual imagery, sounds, and fragrances. These senses can be uploaded by users or can be chosen by users using those in libraries. Visual imagery is displayed in the room environment using projection mapping and 3D sound is used. 

 

Using the mood player, you can create a mood playlist on a record to share with friends. 

ELESHADOW.com​

With the technological developments including drones, GPS, tracking, how can we use this technology to aid the world around us, specifically elephant extinction? These technological milestones could aid in a solution to eliminating elephant extinction, but the solution must consider how this technology fit within the local context and the relationship between elephants and drones.

 

This project explores a possible solution to using drone technology to prevent extinction. 

PATHLETE

For this project, I worked as a team leader on a multidisciplinary team with students studying Computer Science, Industrial and Operations Engineering, Cognitive Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Design. We started with the problem that there is a lack of motivation to exercise due to a lack of reward. To solve this, we designed reward system through an app that gives runners coupons, motivating them to exercise through reward.  

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patient app for

u of m hospital

For this app, I worked with U of M hospital to design activities for patients and their families. They already had a coloring book available, but for people that are more creative or have been in the hospital for a long period of time, I wanted to give them an option to mix it up. I designed app screenshots so that patients and their families can draw freehand or use pre-existing shapes to drawing on a part of a circle that then reflects like a snow-flake to create a design to color. 

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HEARTBREAKER CHAIR

This project was my first quest in furniture design and CNC machining. I first 3D modeled the chair in Rhino, of which file I used to cut the legs, seat and back using a CNC machine. The parts were connected using dowels and tabs.

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WATERCOLOR - SKETCHING

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