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Headshot: A Windows Phone App That Helps You Take Pictures of Yourself

Headshot is an application that helps people take pictures of themselves by telling people how to move their phones so that their heads are where they want it to be in the picture. The app uses a face detection library that I wrote (you can see it here) to find faces and guide users. I wrote a prototype of the app over the summer for an internal contest, and have just recently found time to polish it up. I will be releasing the application on the Windows Phone Marketplace shortly. For a video of the app in action, see the application page .

Window Manipulation Using the Microsoft Touch Mouse

In October of 2011 David and I won the Most Useful category in the UIST Student Innovation Competition. Our app used the Microsoft Touch Mouse, a mouse with a touch surface that allows for multitouch and gesture input. The app allows you to move windows around and resize windows more easily and quickly than before. You can see a demo of the app here . Code is open source, and http://windowtouch.codeplex.com

Windows Phone Games and Apps

David and I have developed many apps and games for windows phone since we started in December 2010. David has a great writeup of many of the apps we've made on his website, see the writeup here. You can also see a list of all of our apps here . Developing these games is a lot of fun and we are looking forward to developing more games in the future.

Pressure-Sensitive Ski boots

For the final project of my Gadgets in HCI class this Spring 2010, I augmented my ski boots with pressure sensors to record my weight distribution as I skied. I even got to test it when skiing in Whistler and it worked! Here's a demo video of the device, and a writeup of my work.

The Inhabited Web

We infer a great deal of information from the people around us, yet this 'crowd wisdom' is absent on the internet. When we visit a webpage, we don't know how many people are visiting with us, where they came from, or where they're going. My friends, Chris, Bryan, and I aimed to solve this by augmenting the scrollbar with a small visualization showing the scroll position of others who are currently visiting the same page as you. We won best hack at the Yahoo Hack Day event in 2008 at Carnegie Mellon for our creation.

Magnetic Keyboard

As part of the UIST 2009 Student Innovation Competition, our team built a demo which allowed users to control multiple cursors by waving magnets above the keyboard. Our demo won first place in the "most creative division". For a full explanation of our device, see our project description.

GearBum.net

Sites such as steepandcheap.com, brociety.com, whiskeymilitia.com, and tramdock.com all sell one item at a time for a steep discount. Unfortunately, if you're looking for one particular item, you need to monitor the site constantly. I created a website which not only allows you to monitor all these deals at once (and see the price history of items), but also which will send you email alerts any time an item you want (at the price you want) shows up on one of these sites.