Jamin Hegeman

Tag: cmu

  • Southwest Airlines Spirit Mag Mentions MetaMe

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    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 fittingly, Zimmerman does not look like your average Carnegie Mellon professor. Unlike most of the paunchy, bearded, and semi-distracted…

  • mTID Gets Panties in a Twist

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    I’m not sure Carnegie Mellon’s master of tangible interaction design is news to me. I sort of recall hearing something about it last spring. But today was the first time I saw a curriculum for the program. Like several of my former peers, I am intrigued by this program. And as a master of interaction…

  • The Thinking Behind Design

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    Over the course of the school year, my thesis paper went through quite a metamorphosis as I explored many text and wrestled with what I wanted to say about design. In the end, I titled my paper “The Thinking Behind Design.” Here is the abstract I submitted with my final paper. What designers do—the thinking…

  • eReader and Gestural Interaction Projects

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    Just want to share the results of the eReader and gestural interaction project I had my Basic Interaction class (undergraduate HCI double majors) do for their final project. This was a six-week project with the following focus: Synthesize needs and opportunities from both potential product users and other sources. Discover the intersection between the needs…

  • Done with Grad School! (the short post)

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    At 10am this morning, I turned in my signed thesis paper and thesis project, making me officially done with grad school. It’s been pretty quiet on this site the past couple weeks as I tried to get everything complete. This short post is meant to break that silence. But as I have spent many sleepless…