Stanford CS147 - Design Thinking for User Experience Design, Prototyping &
Evaluation

CS147 Projects: Teams of students in CS147 participate in a quarter-long
project to design and build a prototype around a set of needs. Each team is
comprised of an interdisciplinary group of students with complementing
strengths in design and development. The teams are tasked with deliverables
throughout the quarter to move them towards a functional proof-of-concept
that is presented in slides, posters, and demos at the Industry Project Fair.

Inclusive Design Studio: This studio focuses on gaining insights from
communities and individuals that might be overlooked by the general
population. This includes those that are under-represented when developing
technology such as women and people of color. We already have contacts and
mentors established in a variety of communities. From this starting point,
studio members can explore any number of areas that interest them, from
music, wearables, and autonomous cars to anything else you can think of! What
can we learn when we design specifically for a single person, perhaps a
dyslexic first-grader or a wheelchair-bound relative, instead of for the
"average" person? Hopefully, we can improve not only their lives but the
lives of everyone around them.

Inclusive Design Projects

crowdSourced - Tracking crowd levels for accessibility (with video 1:59)
Those with anxiety and various other physical or invisible disabilities often
have trouble navigating crowd scenarios-- we enable location-based crowd
density tracking for users to anticipate and potentially avoid crowds while
traveling.
http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs147/projects/InclusiveDesign/crowdSourced

Vibrato - Feel the beat (with video 0:57)
Our aim is to enable musicians with haptic cues to sync with their music
beyond visual aid.
http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs147/projects/InclusiveDesign/Vibrato

Sign Along - Bring meaning to every moment
The deaf community is generally not the intended audience for live events,
making it difficult for them to enjoy and share live experiences with their
loved ones. Exacerbating this issue is the shortage of interpreters; there is
little incentive to become a certified ASL interpreter because of the high
technical barrier to entry.

Our product, Sign Along, addresses both these issues by giving interpreters
the opportunity to engage in passion projects (interpreting for music
concerts) that do not require certification, and by giving deaf users the
agency to vote for their favorite interpreter to come onstage and sign for
their favorite artists.
http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs147/projects/InclusiveDesign/SignAlong

Annote - Join the conversation (with video 1:58)
Students enter the college classroom with unique backgrounds and varying
personality types. For students coming from under-represented backgrounds,
the classroom environment can feel intimidating or even unwelcoming. Annote
makes every reading assignment into an online collaborative environment where
these students can share and learn others' perspectives and insights in an
intuitive and more comfortable way.
http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs147/projects/InclusiveDesign/Annote

Art and Culture Project

Mosaic - Art at your fingertips (with video 1:37)
Mosaic provides a tactile and captivating way for users to view and interact
with artwork in museums through piecing together parts of the painting, in
order to gain better appreciation for and knowledge about the piece in front
of them.
http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs147/projects/ArtandCulture/Mosaic

Merging the Real and Digital World: Mixed Reality Project

Polytone - Displaying emotion through text (with video 1:31)
Current captions and text does not express the emotions of the speaker, which
might cause a problem for people who use text as their main way to get
content. We are introducing Polytone, an app that helps people viusalize
their emotions in a profound way. We believe that it will change the way
people send messages to each other, and that it will add a new dimension to
text messaging.
http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs147/projects/MixedReality/Polytone

Health

HighFive for Health - Eat like you're alive (with video 1:52)
Young diabetics often struggle with incorporating health limitations into
their identity, which is brought to a head around food because eating out is
often a significant portion of social time and personal expression. Accurate
sugar and carbohydrate data is often unavailable, which forces diabetics to
choose between prioritizing their health and "having a life," which means
both sharing and documenting their experiences.

Feast resolves this conflict by giving diabetics fast access to information
of the carbohydrate profiles of different foods, facilitating tracking of
blood sugar data and carbohydrate intake over time, and enabling users to
share their culinary adventures.
http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs147/projects/Health/HigHFiveforHealtH