Southwest Airlines Spirit Mag Mentions MetaMe

The October issue of Southwest Airlines Spirit magazine features innovative work at Carnegie Mellon University. The key ingredient: human understanding. The article mentions work involving Jodi Forlizzi and has this excellent description of John Zimmerman: Perhaps...

MetaMe — Masters Thesis Project

Abstract When people switch jobs, move to a new city, start school, or have a child, aspects of their identity change. For designers, this presents an opportunity to help people invent and discover who they would like to be in their new roles. But there is little...

Starting to Think About Theses

Monday we had a meeting regarding choosing a thesis project and paper for the upcoming year. Over the course of the next month, it was suggested we start talking to faculty to see where there is a synergy in interests. Currently, I have no clear thoughts about what I...

GoCoffee Presentation

The GoCoffee team (Kip, Rachel, and I) presented our mobile interface this morning with great success, despite a snafu where the Flash demonstration did not play correctly in the middle of me speaking. But we rolled with it. Kip, the other grad on the team, stepped up...

Learning to Frame the Problem

I got my control redesign grade: 88. It’s a decent grade, though I’m not that concerned about the grade. Since giving my presentation, John’s question, “Who wants gas without flame?” has bubbled to the surface of my brain now and again....