Grad-school

This was a project created by Julia Pavone, Lauren Meoli, Klare Frank, and Jian Li Zheng surrounding research and assessing the market for a new human-centered venture for the graduate-level class HCDE 538: Designing a Human Centered Venture.

Remote work, or working from locations other than an organization or company’s main location is becoming increasingly common in the workplace today. The rapid development of communication and information technologies have only escalated the pervasiveness of remote work practices. Much about the experience of remote work from remote workers’ perspective, however, has yet to be understood especially when workers collaborate with one another.

Last Fall I got to delve into the world of physical computing via Arduino for one of my grad school classes at the University of Washington. For this class, everyone got to choose their own project to work on (with most all of these being individual projects).

The last major release of WCAG was in December 2008, probably around the time many of us were getting our first smartphones if you were really on top of new technology. (I didn't even get an iPhone until 2011). Jump to now, and most people, including my grandparents, have a smartphone and maybe an iPad.