Faculty

Orit Shaer | Department of Computer Science

Orit is an Assistant Professor at Wellesley College. She is teaching intro for majors, human-computer interaction, and tangible user interfaces. Her research interests include next-generation UIs, new interaction techniques and media, and computer science education.

Staff

	Consuelo Valdes \| Research Fellow Consuelo is currently a Research Fellow at the HCI lab. She is interested in design concepts, performance efficiency, and making technology more accessible to users. This semester she will be exploring game development and emerging interaction styles and techniques in HCI.
	Megan Strait \| Research Fellow Megan is a first-year CS PhD student at Tufts University's Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory. Her research interests are broadly focused in brain-computer interaction/adaptive user interfaces, and multi-touch and tangible interface/interaction design.

Students

	Heidi Wang \| Computer Science '12 Heidi is currently majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Economics. She is interested in the combination of art and design with technological innovation, how each enhances the other. This semester, she is exploring topics in Machine Organization and Languages and Automata while working at the Wellesley HCI Lab and at the MIT Media Lab.
	Taili Feng \| Computer Science '13 Taili is majoring in Computer Science. She is passionate about pursuing research in next-generation interfaces, as well as exploring and enhancing user experience through information visualization and interface design. This semester she is checking out topics in Machine Organization, Language and Automata, and Vision.
	Michelle Ferreirae \| Computer Science '13 Michelle loves helping people get over their fear of technology. She is exploring data structures this semester to help herself accomplish that goal in ever more complicated ways.
	Kelsey Tempel \| Computer Science '13 Kelsey is currently a cs major. At Wellesley College, Kelsey has studied programming, Algorithms, and HCI. The ever expanding role technology plays in society inspired Kelsey to investigate new and innovative ways people can interact with computers.
	Kathy Liu \| Biology '13 Kathy is interested in exploring the interactions between HCI and synthetic biology. This summer she will focus on BLAST visualization, streamlining the GnomeSurfer design, as well as contributing a biologist's mindset to software design.
	Casey Grote \| Computer Science and Physics '14 Casey is majoring in physics and computer science. She is excited about hardware design and changing user experiences through physical and digital design.

Alumnae

	Alex Pan \| Framingham High School '12 Alex is a rising senior at Framingham High School and is working as an intern at the HCI lab for the summer. She hopes to expand on her current knowledge of computer science and programming.
	Shamira Nambafu \| Framingham High School '12 Shamira is a rising senior at Framingham High School who is excited to learn about computers and biology during her internship this summer.
	Michael Lintz \| Electrical and Computer Engineering '11 Mikey graduated from Olin College. His background is in data modeling and object-oriented design. He is interested in the usability issues concerning emerging technologies on mobile platforms and the web.
	MaCherie Edwards \| Media Arts and Sciences '11 She is interested in the application of next generation technologies and tangible user interfaces to learning in the museum setting. Over the past few semesters, she has been working on the development of an iPhone application aiming to increase student engagement, visitorship, and reflection at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College.
	Sarah Elfenbein \| Biochemistry with Computer Science minor '10 Sarah is currently a Biology graduate student at Yale University. Her interests include studying algorithms underlying commonly used bioinformatics tools, including pairwise and multiple sequence alignment, and tree generation tools.
	Lia Napolitano \| Media Arts and Sciences '10 Lia is working in industry as a User Experience Architect at Apple, Inc. Continuing her focus on systems for engagement across emergent interaction platforms, she develops applications for business and consumer use. Her interests also include operating systems, tangible computing, game mechanics and design, and information ecology.
	Chloe Fan \| MAS and Psychology '09 Chloe is a second-year PhD student at Carnegie Mellon's Human Computer Interaction Institute. Her interests lie in public interfaces and tangible user interfaces, but also information visualization, social computing, creativity & play, and design & motivation.
	Catherine Grevet \| Computer Science '09 Catherine is a second-year CS PhD student at Georgia Tech with a focus in HCI, and is currently working in the Everyday Computing LAb. Her research interests include personal informatics related to sustainability, civic engagement, and health/wellness.

Collaborators

	Douglas Densmore \| Boston University
	Chia Shen and the SDR Lab \| Harvard University
	Kevin Gold \| Rochester Institute of Technology
	Guy Kol \| Babson College

	Heidi Wang \| Computer Science '12 Heidi is currently majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Economics. She is interested in the combination of art and design with technological innovation, how each enhances the other. This semester, she is exploring topics in Machine Organization and Languages and Automata while working at the Wellesley HCI Lab and at the MIT Media Lab.
	Taili Feng \| Computer Science '13 Taili is majoring in Computer Science. She is passionate about pursuing research in next-generation interfaces, as well as exploring and enhancing user experience through information visualization and interface design. This semester she is checking out topics in Machine Organization, Language and Automata, and Vision.
	Michelle Ferreirae \| Computer Science '13 Michelle loves helping people get over their fear of technology. She is exploring data structures this semester to help herself accomplish that goal in ever more complicated ways.
	Kelsey Tempel \| Computer Science '13 Kelsey is currently a cs major. At Wellesley College, Kelsey has studied programming, Algorithms, and HCI. The ever expanding role technology plays in society inspired Kelsey to investigate new and innovative ways people can interact with computers.
	Kathy Liu \| Biology '13 Kathy is interested in exploring the interactions between HCI and synthetic biology. This summer she will focus on BLAST visualization, streamlining the GnomeSurfer design, as well as contributing a biologist's mindset to software design.
	Casey Grote \| Computer Science and Physics '14 Casey is majoring in physics and computer science. She is excited about hardware design and changing user experiences through physical and digital design.

	Alex Pan \| Framingham High School '12 Alex is a rising senior at Framingham High School and is working as an intern at the HCI lab for the summer. She hopes to expand on her current knowledge of computer science and programming.
	Shamira Nambafu \| Framingham High School '12 Shamira is a rising senior at Framingham High School who is excited to learn about computers and biology during her internship this summer.
	Michael Lintz \| Electrical and Computer Engineering '11 Mikey graduated from Olin College. His background is in data modeling and object-oriented design. He is interested in the usability issues concerning emerging technologies on mobile platforms and the web.
	MaCherie Edwards \| Media Arts and Sciences '11 She is interested in the application of next generation technologies and tangible user interfaces to learning in the museum setting. Over the past few semesters, she has been working on the development of an iPhone application aiming to increase student engagement, visitorship, and reflection at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College.
	Sarah Elfenbein \| Biochemistry with Computer Science minor '10 Sarah is currently a Biology graduate student at Yale University. Her interests include studying algorithms underlying commonly used bioinformatics tools, including pairwise and multiple sequence alignment, and tree generation tools.
	Lia Napolitano \| Media Arts and Sciences '10 Lia is working in industry as a User Experience Architect at Apple, Inc. Continuing her focus on systems for engagement across emergent interaction platforms, she develops applications for business and consumer use. Her interests also include operating systems, tangible computing, game mechanics and design, and information ecology.
	Chloe Fan \| MAS and Psychology '09 Chloe is a second-year PhD student at Carnegie Mellon's Human Computer Interaction Institute. Her interests lie in public interfaces and tangible user interfaces, but also information visualization, social computing, creativity & play, and design & motivation.
	Catherine Grevet \| Computer Science '09 Catherine is a second-year CS PhD student at Georgia Tech with a focus in HCI, and is currently working in the Everyday Computing LAb. Her research interests include personal informatics related to sustainability, civic engagement, and health/wellness.

	Douglas Densmore \| Boston University
	Chia Shen and the SDR Lab \| Harvard University
	Kevin Gold \| Rochester Institute of Technology
	Guy Kol \| Babson College