ReCite is an application designed to deliver media content based on the users’ location- it provides the user with pleasant surprises as they go about their day.
From the Press Release:
“The application will showcase the work of prominent local cultural producers including Emily Carr University faculty and students, providing an opportunity for them to connect to a locally engaged public. ReCite will be a celebration of Vancouver, and other future cities’, arts and...
The 60 Degree home is a 160 square foot design which makes use of a new building technique that utilizes Cross Laminated Timber. The targeted user groups were students and recent immigrants- groups with lower income who had recently arrived in the community. We designed an affordable home in the context of a multiple-home arrangement which encourages community engagement and pride in one’s self and home.
The design process was comprised of iterative physical modeling with some...
Through its window mode, text mode, and speech mode, it allows the user to have a better understanding of the world around them. Highly intuitive, modeled on early-learning concepts of language development, relating closely with the highly popular Rosetta Stone application.
In Window Mode you look through the screen out onto the world, identifying objects which are then relayed to the user. A Wiki of information is available as provided by people living in the areas the...
Canguide was developed while on Exchange at the HfG Scwäbisch Gmünd, with input from a number of Cancer survivors. It has a variety of features which allow patients to track information and manage tasks that are essential to their health, but are not directly part of their medical care. This includes tracking of pain severity and length, times and kinds of medication taken, tracking emotional state through a diary feature and managing the preparation of appropriate meals through the recipe...
Zoop Toy Co-op is an alternative product system developed for the False Creek Community in Vancouver, BC. The development took place over an extensive process of co-design with the students at False Creek Elementary. We also developed a framework for assessing our potential environmental impact using the Okala guide.
Codesign and user centered research methods
I designed a simple vessel for a flower, which doubled as a creative presentation dish for gourmet hors d’oeuvres and drinks. It was essential that the project be flat-pack and inexpensive, to meet the needs of the Pan Pacific Hotel. Their secondary intent for the design was as a takeaway gift for patrons, or as a souvenir in the gift shop. The wood co-op also wanted a flat-pack item, for sale to Granville Island tourists.
Masi was a word I came across around the same time as this...
