Capstone Showcase
The University of Washington's Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering presents:
HCDE Capstone Showcase
Featuring projects from graduating master's and bachelor's students
The 2021 HCDE Capstone Showcase was held over June 7 & 8, and welcomed guests and industry judges to view the projects and meet with the student teams in Zoom rooms. Find project boards and videos for all 2021 projects below.
Project Categories
Travel and Leisure + Transport Health Tech Support and Productivity Gaming and Gamification Volunteering, Advocacy, Education & Inclusion
Project Information
Travel and Leisure + Transport
Inspiring people to find travel
Project sponsor: Alaska Airlines
Team: Visudha Sathurappan, Sarah Karmali, Rachel Lee, Mrunmayee Patil (HCDE master's students)
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Mobility as a Service
2021 Capstone Award Recipient: Graduate award for excellence in technology
Project sponsor: Building H
Team: Ryan Alli, Nora Carr, Rajiv Pennathur, Max Edelmann (HCDE master's students)
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Reimagining the next best version of the Alaska Airlines mobile application
Project sponsor: Alaska Airlines
Team: Chris Horng, Xueyan Chen (Sue), Alice Oh, Kelly Lin (HCDE master's students)
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Using Uber for COVID-19 Drive-Thru Testing
Project sponsor: Uber
Team: Jacob Laxton, April Ye, Ben Olson, Colleen Park (HCDE undergraduate students)
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Let’s Roll: Mobilizing a Return to Transit
2021 Capstone Award Recipient: Undergraduate award for excellence in communication
Project sponsor: Mobility Innovation Center
Team: Lexi Rohrer, Lena Tran, Theresa Tran, Kari Bergstedt (HCDE undergraduate students)
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3D Printed Footwear Component Perception
Project sponsor: Adidas
Team: *Interdisciplinary Capstone project with Mechanical Engineering. Rylie Sweem (HCDE), Nigel Fernandes (HCDE), Jessi Lelas (ME), Jarrett Siler (ME), Andrew Ba (ME)
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BroodMinder: Beehive Monitoring for All
Team: Julia Robison, Crystina McShay, Kathleen Parsons, Natalie Goetz (HCDE master's students)
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Mosaic
2021 Capstone Award Recipient: Undergraduate award for excellence in engineering
Teaching young creatives to sew on their own with made to measure custom clothing
Project sponsor: Novoloom
Team: Sabreen Mohammed, Grace Barar, Nadir Tareen, Kevin Kuo (HCDE undergraduate students)
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Numi by Expedia: Supporting safe, spontaneous post-pandemic travel
2021 Capstone Award Recipient: Undergraduate award for excellence in design
It's time to explore again
Project sponsor: Expedia
Team: Cameron Wood, Kathy Nguyen, Sara Behbakht, Sara Gustafson (HCDE undergraduate students)
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KC Metro Customer Experience: Transit Information, Discovery, & Feedback
Moving Forward Together
Project sponsor: King County Metro
Team: Colleen McDevitt, Daniel Tafoya, Diana Tan (HCDE master's students)
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Health
Promoting Self-Care for Dementia Care Partners
Enabling caregivers to create meaningful self-care practices
Project sponsor: UW School of Nursing
Team: Lauren E. Ambielli, Marina Makarechian, Yexing Sha, Saturnia Bocast, David K Mondello (HCDE master's students)
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Speculating the future of mirror-based technology for those with body dysmorphia
Team: Al Jose, Finn Kuipers, Jingyue (Kelly) Cao, Evan Schmitz (HCDE master's students)
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Making Virtual Meetings Real: Building a Better Video Communication Tool for Friends and Families
Team: Huiqin Gao, Shiyao Chen, Vera Liao, Kayla Park (HCDE master's students)
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Designing an Adaptable Home
A home that adapts to progressive changes in function due to disabilities and aging with a focus on artfully crafted and highly functional interior design
Team: Megan Woodruff, Sara Clayton, Azima Mansuri, Devri McNeal (HCDE master's students)
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Let's Chat: Designing for Caregiver Wellness
2021 Capstone Award Recipient: Graduate award for excellence in communication
Caring for those who care the most.
Project sponsor: Care for Caregivers Online (COCO)
Team: Ajita Shukla, Elisabeth Dunn, Miaoxin Wang, Teresa Cummings (HCDE master's students)
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Improving wfh work-life balance
Team: Taylor Honda, Devin Ajimine, Derrick Lee (HCDE master's students)
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Proactively designing equitable products
A toolkit and case study for planning and assessing user interactions through a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens
Project sponsor: Carina
Team: Megan Peaslee, Meghna Nayak, Rachel Feltes, Sara Koeck (HCDE master's students)
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Reimagining Public Health Data Seeking Process for Medical Professionals
2021 Capstone Award Recipient: Graduate award for excellence in design
Project sponsor: IHME - Institute for health metrics and evaluation
Team: Heba Dwikat, Esme Xu, Xingzhou (Flora) Wang, Linda Wu HCDE master's students)
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Making Public Health Data More Accessible
Project sponsor: IHME - Institute for health metrics and evaluation
Team: Maya Sioson, Linda Lai, Jesse Du, Isabel Klein (HCDE undergraduate students)
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Cook for Your Life: Empowering Those Touched by Cancer
2021 Capstone Award Recipient: Graduate award for excellence in research
Design that Nourishes
Project sponsor: Fred Hutch
Team: Anya Hee, Xuan Song, Chris Zheng, Phyllis Liu (HCDE master's students)
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Helping Cancer Survivors Improve Nutrition
Empowering Cancer Survivors Through Meal-Planning
Project sponsor: Fred Hutch
Team: Kara Cox, Sarah Le, Jeremy Lin, Saraphina Wang (HCDE undergraduate students)
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Understanding Mental Health Among Youths
Project sponsor: Headspace
Team: Derick Yap, Victoria Teng, Jung Eun Choi, Stephanie Wong (HCDE undergraduate students)
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Healthy Eating for Elderly Patients with Dementia
A mobile app + cookbook system for building Mediterranean diet habits
Project sponsor: UW School of Nursing
Team: Evelyn Kalafus-Mastenbrook, Mojin Yu, Susan Zheng, Mofe Osanyintolu (HCDE master's students)
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Tech Support and Productivity
Leveraging HoloLens to Support Service Technicians
Project sponsor: Microsoft Mixed Reality Labs
Team: Ana M. Villalpando, Valerie Ijai, Anqi Cao, Cindy Xu (HCDE master's students)
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Dashboard Redesign in TraxSolutions
Project sponsor: nFocus Solutions
Team: Hannah Wu, Stephen Swisher, Yigao(Brian) Yang, Yanyu(Joanna) Chen, Gobind Sethi (HCDE master's students)
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Meet U There
Facilitating remote intergenerational gameplay
Team: Bridgett Zayas, Robin Marsh, Saralyn Santos, Molly Dalton (HCDE master's students)
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Improving Microsoft's Online Support Services
2021 Capstone Award Recipient: Undergraduate award for excellence in technology
Project sponsor: Microsoft
Team: Brian Do, Niamh Froelich, Travis Neils, Siddhant Jain (HCDE undergraduate students)
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Reimagining PNNL's New Hire Onboarding
Project sponsor: Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL)
Team: Kay Waller, Lia Johansen, Tiffany Truong, Jordan Yoon-Buck (HCDE undergraduate students)
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Streamlining the Microsoft Support Experience
Aiding users in their self-solving process
Project sponsor: Microsoft SMC
Team: Caleb Tan, Michelle Lee, Freda Hu, Sofia Rodriguez (HCDE master's students)
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Designing Mobile Mixed Reality Solutions for Field Service Technicians
Empowering the Future of Field Service
Project sponsor: Microsoft Dynamics 365
Team: Vishaka Nirmal, Kailey Terracciano, Alli Hishikawa, Avery Wolf (HCDE undergraduate students)
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Streamlining Personal File Organization on Mobile
2021 Capstone Award Recipient: Undergraduate award for excellence in research
O-Space, organizing on the fly!
Project sponsor: Dropbox, Inc
Team: Ziva Xu, Jennifer Lukban, Sharon Wong, Mahlet Tiruneh (HCDE undergraduate students)
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Gaming and Gamification
Connecting Social Gamers
Project sponsor: Microsoft Xbox
Team: Emily Readey, Alex Argyle, Taylor Toman, Hannah Mei (HCDE undergraduate students)
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Accessing intuition through somatic inhabitation
Your body knows things your conscious mind can’t tell you, and movement is the language of the body
Team: Cate McGehee, Sudipti Singh (HCDE master's students)
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Gamifying physical activity and rehabilitation for older users
Customized gaming that helps you live life to the fullest
Team: Stephanie Blucker, Candice Cai, Yanrong Chen, Rachel Birnbaum (HCDE master's students)
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The Connective Power of Gaming
Let’s make work fun
Project sponsor: Microsoft Xbox
Team: Ivan Khrulenko, Linda Martinez, Aryan Porwal, Anton Sirotin (HCDE master's students)
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Volunteering, Advocacy, Education & Inclusion
A recipe for volunteer success
Baking sustainability into the Community Loaves volunteer experience.
Team: Ben Chickadel, Holly Howson Watt, Lauren Meoli, Erin Reed, Yi Clara Wang (HCDE master's students)
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Integrating Usability into Access to Justice
Team: Peyton Westman, Ellen Reed, Lukas Sexton, Jane Winn (HCDE master's students)
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ParentPod
Make parents' lives easier and children's lives more dynamic
Team: Patriya Wiesmann, Honson Ling, Yuwen Li, Ethel Xu, Jay (Ji-Yeon) Hong (HCDE master's students)
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Hello Quantum World
2021 Capstone Award Recipient: Graduate award for excellence in engineering
Untangling the entangled, one qubit at a time
Project sponsor: Google
Team: Ana Liu, Charles Lorell, Della Sigrest, Jazz Ang (HCDE master's students)
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Designing digital experience for inclusion
Inclusion in the outdoors for all
Project sponsor: REI Co-op
Team: Gwen Zhang, Evie Cheng, Sherry Chen, Shimiao Wang (HCDE master's students)
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SoundOff
Amplifying constituent voices in the legislative conversation
Project sponsor: Washington State Senator Manka Dhingra
Team: Shireen Saini, Rachel Dyer, Kaeli Hall, Meredith Fife (HCDE master's students)
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Where's Petunia?
Visualizing Serendipity in Collaboration
Project sponsor: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Pacific Marine Energy Center
Team: Antonio Eggermont, Kevin Philbin, Shelby Zink, Soumya Jindal (HCDE master's students)
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Web Consolidation for Inclusive Home Loans
Project sponsor: Credit Human Federal Credit Union
Team: Sandra Li, Yilin (Catherine) Zeng, Malik Haythorne, Miguel Wong (HCDE undergraduate students)
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Modulo-3000
Better communities through better tools
Team: Marlo Straub, Sean Horita, Victor Allen (HCDE master's students)
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HCDE thanks the following project sponsors for their generous contributions.
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