Alan Qiu Senior Product Designer

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DCNR Dashboard Design

May 2016

The goal of this project is to design an animated dashboard for the foresters of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources(DCNR) (http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us). This is an individual project which takes into consideration of real data about environmental factors and pests provided by Dr. John Rawlins, Curator of the Section of Invertebrate Zoology of Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

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Unity Chan Saves The Day (Game Development)

Dec 2015

This is a semester long project which involves the ideation, programming, and development of a complete video game for the course SCS15466 at CMU. This project was done in a team of 3 and involved the implementation of technical concepts such as A● path finding, dynamic movement, AI decision making, and AI learning using the Unity3D game engine. Within the team, I was a major contributor to the coding, character animations, and overall design of the game.

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VirtuaSpace - Interactive Mobile Virtual Reality Music Visualization (HTC)

Jun 2015

Team VirtuaPlush came together in February 2015. This undergraduate capstone project formed around the opportunity presented by HTC in the form of their mobile virtual reality (VR). Our team decided to focus on creating a music visualizer with the addition of novel interaction methods on Google Cardboard, a mobile VR platform. Two interaction methods that the team researched and implemented using Unity were “Glance” and “Click”. After performing research in the field, including discussions with different luminaries in the VR field, we focused on the limited interaction modes that mobile VR provides. Mobile VR has the ability to reach billions of people, thanks to its low-hardware requirements, but most of the attention has been on heavier

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Factors Influencing Obesity - Information Visualization Dashboard

Mar 2015

Using information provided from the Center for Disease Control, my team and I worked to create a visualization dashboard to display statistics about obesity in America. Through this process we implemented user research, prototyping, and produced our final dashboard using Tableau software. The project URL above is a link to our dashboard hosted on Tableau Public.

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Gaia UX Project

Mar 2015

Team Gaia wanted to design a product to increase peoples’ engagement with nature. Users would be able to create a collection of things seen in nature, such as trees and vegetation, and also be able to identify it simply through a picture. The application would then be able to tell the user factual information about the object. Furthermore, we wanted to incorporate a social aspect so that it could be similar to a scavenger hunt game where the user would compete with his friends or others in the area.

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Usability Study on CrimeReports.com

Dec 2014

The purpose of this project is to run a usability test on the Crime Reports application. Students want to be aware of what’s happening on and around their campus, be informed of any danger, and have a better way of reporting incidents. Students could use this tool to locate information that can help them in their everyday lives. The overarching goals of the application are to help the user increase community engagement and interact with local law enforcement while minimizing violence and providing critical intervention when needed. With this usability test, our team analyzed the effectiveness of the current web based platform for retrieving crime data, identified potential design problems within the application, and determined the level of

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Seattle AV Source Web Redesign

May 2014

This is a complete redesign of the existing SeattleAVSource company website SeattleAVSource.com. This is a partnered project and I collaborated with Mark Stamnes, a fellow student in the HCDE department, in the development. SeattleAVSource is an off shoot of a long time Seattle Audio Visual company called AVPro, and the user audience are customers who are interested in professional sales, leasing, rentals and service of professional audio, visual and lighting equipment in the greater Seattle area. Along the way we will also be considering re-branding of the Seattle AV Source company logo and related graphics.

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Jan 2008 - Dec 2008 (1 year)

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