DESIGN TECHNOLOGIST
In Spring 2020, a team of researchers at New York University partnered with a client in the accessible gaming community to develop an Xbox video game controller. The team consisted of Nick Grant, Zane Sicadsicad, Saki Asakawa, and Jose Hernandez. In my role, I served as the lead designer and fabricator. Together, we developed the
Problem Statement People like visually impaired users have difficulty with basic Pokémon GO functionality, such as utilizing the visual map, capturing Pokémon, and reading information. This can be resolved by adding text-to-speech functionality, lists of locations with distances, greater audio cues, and a voice command system. We know we’re right when the American Foundation for
In Spring 2020, a team of researchers at New York University partnered with Microsoft to improve the Live Share feature in Visual Studio Code. The team consisted of me, Amy Hu, Ellen Shiu, and Muhan Guo. Microsoft Live Share helps users to quickly collaborate on the same codebase without the need to synchronize code or
For my final for Reading and Writing Electronic Text, I created a poem from my journal entries. I transcribed my journal entries around my birthday for the following ages: 15, 16, 17, 19, 21, 22, and 23. I first experimented with my journal entries for another assignment. In that assignment, I created a Markov chain
I reworked one of my existing poems, which is a villanelle about a person losing a winning lottery ticket. A Losing Lottery Game Losing my ticket’s worse than the mark of Cain, Being struck by lightning is more realistic. Tap water cannot compare to champagne. My drawers are torn apart in my hurricane, The odds
For this week in Reading and Writing Electronic Text, I generated text with a Markov chain. The text is written by me. Since I was very little, I’ve written in a journal. I’m on my fourth one now. For me to process events in my life, I need to write them down on paper. In
Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zJjaZrn7tJg4xFA1OUakOWx1IpupizEsco1rq4TReXU/edit?usp=sharing I am excited for thesis! Reviewing my past work in my presentation helped me see parallels. I studied political science, English, and journalism in undergrad. I often blend my past experiences through the use of educational applications, a connection I am only now realizing. The other day, I thought about one of my
For this week in Reading and Writing Electronic Text, I created a digital cut-up from scratch. I incorporated outside information based on syntax and semantics. I replaced parts of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot with parts of Hamlet. I utilized only the lines spoken by Hamlet, which I found in
For the next assignment in Reading and Writing Electronic Text, I created a fairy tale generator. The generator is based on tutorials from tracery and natural language processing. Fairy tales share common themes, such as religion, justice, humility, and cleverness. I sought to explore how generative text may shift the terms of an agreement. In
For my second assignment in Reading and Writing Electronic Text, I repurposed my poem Local News and American Democracy. When I studied poetry, I specialized in imitations. My piece is originally based on By Chance the Cycladic People by Anne Carson. The assignment of numeric values without order is a very unique tool. Similar to
