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Spot

Instant access to help: Your emergency sidekick on the go. A two week project designing a nonemergency, cross functional safety application for everyday travel.

Unearth

Transform your online habits into eco-friendly wins with this browser extension. A quarter-long project aimed to educate and reduce e-waste with added incentives with each click.

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Digital Pareidolia

This project proposes a generative adversarial network (GAN) in machine learning to create an artificial intelligence capable of identifying Christian imagery in video footage, aiming to replicate and catalog instances of religious pareidolia while emphasizing the impact of human biases on emerging technologies.

Dear Visual Diary

This four-week group project focuses on modular design, creating a visual and structural diary called the Dear Visual Diary (DVD) that employs colors and icons to represent designated generalized feelings, allowing users to visually record and reflect on their emotions and make adjustments in their lives based on the unique meanings connected to each image.

Plantsy

This group project aimed to showcase robots as a neutral force for good in a dystopian future, featuring Plantsy, a hydrogen-powered android searching for scarce water to fulfill its mission of planting genetically modified seeds in a world ravaged by irreversible planetary damage, prompting reflections on the environment, technology's role, and humanity's impact.

Marija

An RPG about adolescence, puberty, religion, family violence, and substance abuse. Partial art installation exhibited at the Hammer Theatre in San Jose, CA.