Today’s Interactive in-car systems have failed to provide the necessary comfort, safety, and experience expected of them. Part of the problem is the rapid addition of more advanced in-car components and flashy screens that lack the right user-centered approach and integration. We aim to bridge the divide through the next generation in-car experience for daily commuters. This will improve their interaction with in-car systems helping them accomplish secondary tasks while driving safely. To specify our design scope, we focus on the design of the instrument cluster, head up display and central console touchscreen for cars.

Sand Point Campus, run by Solid Ground, provides both permanent and transitional housing, and offers multiple services to its 500 residents. The campus library, located in Santos Place, provides daily programs for the children and teens. Using observation, query, and data analysis, we determined that the library is not utilized to its full potential. The data allowed us to create an Action Plan that provides a synthesis of our findings, offers various program proposals, and makes suggestions for improvement, which the staff may reference for future planning.

Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada (CCSN) is a nonprofit social services provider that serves individuals and families in need in the Las Vegas area, including over 3,000 refugees each year. Although information for refugees is freely available online, this information is not beneficial to individuals with limited English language proficiency or digital literacy. In partnership with CCSN, we created a physical informational resource guide for refugees located in Southern Nevada, which can be updated and translated by resettlement organizations across the country.

Arriving at the University of Washington can be an overwhelming experience for most first year and transfer students. The amount of information about resources available is simultaneously overwhelming and difficult to navigate. This website collects many of the available free resources at the University of Washington Libraries, Seattle Public Library, and King County Library to allow students to easily find all of the incredible products and services their libraries provide. Making these resources more visible and user friendly to first year and transfer students enables them to excel in life, specifically as students, and more generally as human beings.

Many academic libraries face similar marketing challenges related to institutional repositories (IRs): how to motivate faculty and students to participate in a service they did not know they needed and with which they are unfamiliar? To incentivize undergraduate Capstone submissions to the IR, Pacific University Libraries developed a faculty-nominated Senior Project Award program. After years of low faculty participation in the Award, I helped address this marketing challenge by investigating why the program was not successful, researching common practices at other universities, and developing a detailed plan to revise and promote an enhanced incentive program at Pacific University.

Test Innovators is a firm that helps young students prepare for standardized tests like ISEE and SSAT and is looking at ways to develop a recommendation system that can be leveraged to improve their performance in tests. This project will entail identifying an exhaustive series of areas where a test-taking student is not performing well and recommending resources that will lead to the student’s improvement. The focus will be on developing an algorithm, which caters to this business requirement. The project aims to help the students improve on their weaker domains and take their first step towards a bright future.

Too much work to appreciate your co-workers? Lose track of your team’s performance? Our project is for you! Hoppy is a Chrome extension on which you can endorse your colleague in a fun and easy way. With Hoppy, you also have access to real-time reports and ad-hoc dashboards of your choice. Be grateful and let’s connect!

The collection of Mormon Missionary Diaries at the L Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University is a very difficult collection to search and find materials as there are three different databases that each have different information. The Whittaker Bibliography, the Manuscript Collection, and the Digital Collection. Each have cause confusion and frustration for both staff and patron because of the many ineffective an inaccurate searches. My project was bringing these three different databases together and transferring the metadata into a one new database.

Cutting costs while improving the patient experience of care (including satisfaction and quality), can be a challenge. Instead of creating innovative programs, health organizations can utilize existing programs. Shifting patients use of facility to mail order programs may alleviate some of these withstanding issues and improve health outcomes overall. Research that I conducted showed that past endeavors did not include patient input or entire organizational involvement. Analyzing the past year’s data, I provided the organization with the number of facility orders that can be shifted to mail order (without any impact to patients) along with a predicted forecasted trend.

Before managers at North Central Regional Library create a new program program, they need to learn more about the information needs of their employees. What skills and information do librarians and other staff need to succeed in their work? Over several months, I sought an answer to this question, interviewing librarians and administering surveys to library staff. In the end, I came up with a written report that elucidated the information needs of the library’s employees. As a result, North Central Regional Library will be able to design better training programs in the future.