Twitter: @zhihuadong

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Emma Zhihua Dong B abplrn@r.postjobfree.com

www.zhihuadong.wordpress.com

Pro le

Master student in Computer Graphics Technology, Purdue University. Expected graduation: May 2014.

Specialized in Human-Computer Interaction, and User Experience Design.

Expertized in:

- Conducting user-centered research/design to enhance user experience, including user research, interaction

design, and usability evaluation.

- Designing and conducting lab-based user study to understand users behavioral and cognitive process

while interacting with di erent software interfaces.

- Designing, conducting and analyzing interviews and focus group studies and generating user-requirement

report for stakeholders.

- Analyzing large scale quantitative data using SAS.

Education

Purdue University - West Lafayette, IN, USA

2012 - present M.S. in Computer Graphic Technology, College of Technology.

2011 - 2012 M.S. in Industrial Engineering, School of Industrial Engineering, GPA: 3.87/4.00.

Tsinghua University - Beijing, China

2005 - 2009 B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, GPA: 3.50/4.00.

Skills

User Research Information Architecture, Interview, Focus Groups, Heuristic Evaluation, Usability Testing,

Wireframe, Prototyping.

Programming JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Ruby on Rails, SAS, R, C++.

Computer Photoshop, Illustrator, Omnigra e, Axure, MySQL, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft

O ce.

Language Chinese, uent in English.

Research/Work Experience

2012 - present Graduate Research Assistant, Computer Graphic Technology, Purdue University.

- Conducted and Analyzed 25 sets of interview data, created and reported user personas and design

requirements to technical team.

- Worked closely with developer team to design and develop system design.

- Presented research ndings in the annual evaluation meeting to stakeholders.

- Led an undergraduates research team as the mentor.

2012 - present Interaction Designer, EPICS Program, Purdue University.

- Led the website-design team for VOSS project in EPICS program.

- Researched and designed the Information Architecture.

- Prototyped the Website based on the Information Architecture.

Emma Zhihua Dong 1 October 15, 2012

2011 - 2012 Graduate Research Assistant, Industrial Engineering, Purdue University.

- Designed and conducted eye-tracking experiments to examine users cognitive processes when they

interacted with lab-designed visualization tool SimulSort.

- Designed and conducted surveys and interviews to understand users understanding towards the

interfaces.

- Analyzed eye-tracking data using SAS, resulted in a paper publication.

- Designed and conducted focus group study to better understand patients perception towards a

lab-designed website Food For the Heart.

- Analyzed users log data and focus group data, and provided design improvements for the Website.

2011 Usability Research Project, NanoHUB.

- Led and conducted a heuristic evaluation for NanoHUB, resulting in 36 design improvements.

- Conducted a user study to observe users behavior while using the interface with certain tasks,

leading to 24 design improvements.

- Performed card sorting study to redesign the information architecture of NanoHUB. Succeeding

usability testing demonstrated the e ciency of the improved information architecture.

2008 Intern, Research & Development Department, GN Resound China Ltd..

- Interviewed selected user groups to understand usability issues for certain product models.

- Reported product design requirements in the group meeting.

Publications

2012 Food for the heart: Lessons learned while designing a visual decision support system

for patients with coronary heart disease, B. Kwon, Z. Dong, K. Yehle, K. Plake, L. Yahiro,

S. Kranz, and J. Yi, AHFE International .

2012 The In uence of Visualizations on Multi-Attribute Decision-Making Strategies: An

Eye-Tracker Study, S.H. Kim, Z. Dong, H. Xian, B. Upatising, J. Yi, Accepted to InfoVis,

March 2012.

Leadership

2011 - 2012 Departmental Ambassador, Graduate Women s Gathering (GWG), Purdue University.

- Organized monthly social events to encourage networking among female students within the

Industrial Engineering Department.

- Connected with Women in Engineering Graduate Mentoring Program to seek resource assistance.

2007 - 2009 Vise President, Student Association of Educational Poverty Alleviation (SAEPA),

Tsinghua University.

- Organized campus talks for publicizing Service Learning Program (SLP), resulting in over 1000

signing-up.

- Took charge of team-leader screening for SLP teams.

- Organized training programs for SLP teams.

2007 - 2008 Team Leader, Service Learning Program (SLP), Tsinghua University.

- Screened and recruited team members.

- Contacted targeting schools to discuss and con rm event agenda.

- Hosted weekly team meetings and assigned responsibilities.

- Won the outstanding teaching performance prize (ranked 1/36 among all teams).

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