It has unfortunately been a while since I have last blogged so this will have to be a recap of a lot of the work I have been doing during that time. I want to first start out with our assignment for HCI:We were tasked to think about our multidisciplinary backgrounds and find a research question that encompasses three areas of study. I study economics and computer science at school, and I am trilingual, meaning I have to love language. I will therefore add linguistics to my background as I done a bit of linguistics in the past. These disciplines, especially linguistics, seem difficult to combine but I can try. My research question that combines all these disciplines:How do language … Continue reading →

This weekend was our first big break since we have been here. The interns and I took full advantage of that fact. Because it has been four days, I will have a bullet point for each day.

This post will be extremely short as I did not do much except work between yesterday and today.

First off, I cannot believe it has already been 16 days of this wonderful program. I have been enjoying most of my time here (other than the brief periods of weekend homework) and the people have been wonderful. It was just a bit surprising typing that we were on day 16 when it does not feel like 16 days have passed even though I feel like I know the other interns well.

There are many products in the world that we enjoy using and some that we may have a distaste for. Below are two products that fit somewhere in the middle for me. I enjoy using these products, yet they have a major room for improvement in their user interface department. Netflix is a wonderful streaming service yet there is one noticeable flaw on its platform. This flaw is the autoplay feature. If you are browsing for a new show, it is better to skim over the short description to gauge interest. Instead, Netflix’s idea was to have a trailer play along with the description whenever the user hovers the mouse over a title for more than a fraction of a … Continue reading →