Michael L Smith: HCI Professional

Portfolio

HCI Work

Projects, written work, and research:

  • Graduate Office

    The Graduate Course Proposal page was created for the Graduate Council. The Graduate Council is a committee comprised of elected representatives from Faculty Assembly charged with reviewing and approving graduate programs, course outlines, and policy and procedures dealing with all aspects of graduate education. The purpose of creating this web page was to modify graduate course proposal process from paper to electronic.

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  • VESID

    This project was done for the New York State VESID Office in Syracuse NY. It is a collection of all the counselors resources into a web portal.

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  • Fitness Express

    Fitness express was built from user requirements gathered, and modified according to user testing. This system was built in the first semester of my graduate studies as a group project. The goal of the project was to design, prototype and build a computer application that will assist people with meeting their exercise and dietary goals. It is hoped that this program will contribute to the good health of its users by assisting in tracking and recording data.

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  • A novel twist on RISK

    The Drunken Risk project was done for Graphical User Interface class, we took a typical game and attempted to design an unusual interface for this game. We additionally changes the basis for the game, from a world war, to a batttle between local bars.

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Graduate council Graduate Submission form

About this Project

The Graduate council submitted a request to have a system that was similar to the undergraduate council's system for submitting and updating courses, which was done on-line. Upon meeting initially with the designated members of the graduate council they reported that the undergraduate council's system worked very well and they would be happy with one just like that.

We began to interview the person who had put together that system and there were several reported problems the graduate council was unaware of. One of the issues the undergraduate council was unhappy with was formatting.

Testing done with several user showed that completing the online form was as easy as the paper form. One positive comment was the feedback regarding any missing information; this was an improvement over the paper document method. The office staff felt this would speed up the process. If this is any indication of success after the graduate council web site, and course submission form was completed the undergraduate council called and requested that their form be updated to include many of the same improvements. This was an interesting request as we started out with theirs as a prototype.

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This form was a combination of the paper forms used prior to electronic submission of courses and the undergraduate submission process. view page