Design Computer Science

Viraj Sapre Georgia Tech MS HCI

GPA: *.*

*****@******.*** 919-***-**** http://lcc.gatech.edu/~vsapre3

Objective:

A full time position that gives me exposure to challenging problems in the areas of user experience

and interaction design.

Skills:

User Research & testing: Contextual Inquiry, Structured & Unstructured Interviews, Card

Sorting, Usability testing (on site & lab based), Think Aloud

Analysis and Design: Personas, Affinity Building, Wire framing, Heuristic Evaluation,

Cognitive walkthroughs, RITE

Tools: Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, Inkscape, Axure, Omnigraffle

Prototyping/Dev: Processing, HTML, CSS, Javascript (jQuery, jQueryMobile)

Experience:

Georgia Institute of Technology (Spring 2010/2011)

Teaching Assistant: User Interface Design.

Ericsson (June 2010 August 2010)

Research intern.

Indian Institute of Technology (June 2008 May 2009)

Research intern.

Education:

M.S Human Computer Interaction (Aug 2009 May 2011)

Georgia Institute of Technology. GPA - 3.6

Master of Computer Applications (June 2006 June 2009)

University of Mumbai. Graduated in First Class.

BSc. in Computer Science (June 2003 June 2006)

University of Pune. Graduated in First Class.

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Projects:

LiquidText (Aug 10 May 11) http://www.liquidtext.net

Refined the UI, gestures and functionality, and designed the help functionality for gestures.

Also designed and created the help videos in Flash

Designed the interface and interactions for small screen devices (iPad ad Galaxy tablet).

Designing experiments and conducting lab based usability tests for LiquidText.

TrackDown (Oct 10)

Designed a mobile based game that is to be played in a physical environment.

Created interface mock ups using Illustrator and Inskcape.

Design and implementation of the user interface for mobile and tablet based devices at

Ericsson research (May 10 Aug 10)

Designed and prototyped a tool to manage content privacy settings across social networks.

Designed and prototyped a social network software that revolved around events.

Augmented reality based heads up display for firefighters (Aug 09 Dec 09)

Conducted unstructured interviews of firefighters from the Atlanta fire department.

Designed, prototyped and tested a mockup of an augmented reality heads up display that

can potentially provide better visibility to firefighters inside burning buildings.

Applications for mobile phones for developing economies (June 08 May 09)

Conducted Contextual Inquiry in 7 rural locations across three states in India, analyzed data

and suggested design changes to existing mobile interfaces.

Designed and prototyped a mobile based accounting and information aggregation system

for financial self help groups.

Publications:

Welankar, Kanitkar, Sapre, Madame, Sorathia and Sali, Customizing Contextual Inquiry for

Multicultural and Multilingual Rural India In Human-Centered Computing in International

Development workshop at CHI2009.

Kim, Sapre, Do, CogStim Game to Prevent Aging-related Cognitive Impairment Bridging

Practices, Theories, and Technologies to Support Reminiscence workshop at CHI2011.

Kim, Sapre, Do, Games for Health: Design Cognition-focused Interventions to Enhance Mental

Activity, HCII 2011.

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