Gaming is a historically toxic environment for women, people of color, disabled and LGBTQ+ folks. But on Twitch, minority streamers and their allies are creating safe spaces for their communities and keeping the trolls at bay.

Inspired by their achievements, this in-depth study was launched in 2018 to learn more about the inclusive streamers behind this growing movement.

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As an unbiased and kid-friendly way to reveal the nutritious values of any food, this visualization uses colors to represent the six macronutrients that make up everything we eat. The rainbows simplify the USDA guidelines and allow for at-a-glance comparison of day-to-day dietary choices.

Initiated in 2016 as a response to the current health crisis, this ongoing project is focused on building a grassroots movement to promote nutritional literacy using The Food Rainbow as a common framework. Several tools, including an app to translate nutrition labels, have already been released.

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Taking an experimental approach to creating meaningful marketing content for a growing sustainability tech startup, this project involved filming a series of ethnographic interviews on location and in high definition.

Creating a collection of short videos accompanied by in-depth journalistic articles ensured that the authentic insights captured on camera would be enlightening for employees and potential customers alike.

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As the most extensive study of WBUR's audience to date, this research project was especially notable because of its large-scale participatory nature. Designed and analyzed by a team of 36 members from the station's newsroom in 2017, the Let's Talk Audience Survey received responses from nearly 1% of listeners.

Results were published internally as a 160-page Opportunity Report book whose purpose was to give all members of the NPR station's staff a shared, actionable understanding of their audience's identities, opinions and values.

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The development of a customizable internal analytics dashboard was the culmination of a participatory design effort to identify, share and compare key organizational metrics at WBUR.

This multi-user KPI dashboard capable of tracking virtually any type of metric was designed following an ethnographic study of organizational data gathering practices. After coaching senior managers to incorporate measurement and feedback cycles into weekly meetings, this cloud-based software was developed to share this practice across public media.

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Designed as an enhancement for home automation ecosystems, Rhomby is a toolkit for keeping tabs on the locations of mobile devices. With a pocket-sized server, a single Bluetooth iBeacon for each room and a lightweight mobile app, Rhomby enables programmers to create responsive, context-aware controls based on where people are in the house.

Developers can deploy this real-time indoor location tracking and geofencing system in less than an hour, allowing them to quickly create seamless, hands-free experiences for people as they move between rooms or leave home. Unlike other smart devices, Rhomby is completely self-contained and private. No data ever leaves the home or gets transmitted online.

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Launched in Rome in 2010, frestyl was once the most comprehensive web service for concert discovery in Italy. After relocating to Berlin in 2012, frestyl relaunched as a B2B2C service that directly connected live music event organizers with fans to increase attendance at shows.

frestyl's mobile application was featured by Apple as Best New App in Germany thanks to a custom recommendation algorithm providing weekly personalized concert suggestions, as well as a unique built-in music player allowing users to stream playlists for upcoming gigs nearby.

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My PhD thesis reframed mobility for ubiquitous computing by examining the aesthetic aspects of urban movement. By conducting a series of studies on public transportation in Portland (OR), London & Paris, I developed both new ethnographic techniques, like object shadowing, as well as a set of design principles for urban mobility.

This Intel-funded research led to the creation of undersound, a conceptual mobile music sharing system integrated into the London Underground, and SeeShell, a prototype RFID ticket card holder with an permanent ink display that emerged over time based on a rider's journeys.

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The world's first hybrid tangible interface and an ambient display, Nimio was a set of interactive office toys designed for the core administrators of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).

These hand-held, translucent silicone toys were given out as individual playthings, but wirelessly networked via RF to act as input-output devices for a collective visualization of distributed activity. With embedded sensors and internal LEDs, action around one Nimio caused the others to glow in distinctive patterns and colors that became uniquely identifiable by the group using them.

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CP2K, often referred to as the Swiss Army knife of molecular simulation, is a program used to generate models of solid state, liquid, molecular and biological systems.

As a research assistant at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), I aided in the implementation of a modernized Python and C-based interface to this historic Fortran framework.

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While pursuing my Master's degree I implemented a real-time 4D tumor tracking and modeling system which used fluoroscopic imaging for advanced computer-assisted radiation therapy.

As a research assistant for the Massachusetts General Hospital's Integrated Radiotherapy Imaging System (IRIS) Project, my work helped improve the efficacy of beam-guided and respiratory-gated radiation therapy.

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