​Design and development of The JOs game

​​During this 3-year project, I led the design and development of a production-quality web-based digital literacy game (The JOs) for preteens, in collaboration with MediaSmarts (Canadian non-profit organization). The game has been deployed in over 300 Canadian elementary schools; an additional 35 school districts are currently previewing it for use within their respective schools.

Understanding teachers' digital literacy practices

I designed and conducted a qualitative research study to understand the risks teachers witness children facing on digital media, their mitigation strategies, and how prepared they are to help children.

Redesign of an online government system

​​I worked in a multidisciplinary team at Service Canada consisting of UX designers, researchers, developers, and business analysts to design a new online system to allow Canadians to apply for various benefits and services, such as Employment Insurance and the Canada Pension Plan.

​Design and development of Bend Passwords

In my Masters research, I used a user-centred design process to design, develop, and implement Bend Passwords, a novel authentication scheme for flexible displays. The scheme leverages the bend input modality of flexible displays, to create passwords consisting of a sequence of bend gestures performed on the flexible display.​

​Design of cybersecurity mini-games

During my post-doctoral work, I co-supervised undergraduate students in employing a user-centred design approach to create a suite of cybersecurity game for 10-12 year olds. Topics addressed by the games included misinformation, data privacy, and IOT

Design of an interactive comic

We designed an interactive comic to teach 11-13 year old children various cybersecurity topics. The comic was designed using the narrative, graphics, and scripts from The JOs. In the future, we plan on running a user study to compare the comic with The JOs in terms of their effectiveness as a learning tool for security and privacy education.

Development of an interactive data visualization

I developed an exploratory interactive visualization to display amazon review data. The goal was to educate users about a mined dataset by allowing them to manipulate and explore various aspects of the dataset. The visualization displays information from a large mined dataset of Amazon product reviews (5.8 million reviews of 6.7 million products). It was created using established HCI and InfoVis principles, such as Glyphs, Gestalt, and Pre-attentive features. 

Exploring different aspects of game design

As part of a 12-week game design workshop, I designed and developed several mini-games in Processing, with each game exploring a different aspect of game design. Games were designed within a short time frame, and thus involved rapid prototyping and ideation.