Fall 2024

Potential Projects

Syllabus

Meetings are every Friday from 11am until 1pm. Students can join in person or via zoom.

Graduate Students

Ayushi Shah: A south-asian female with dark brown hair and gold earrings.
 Ayushi Shah (She/Her)

  • Ayushi’s blog
  • Major: Integrated Design & Media, Class of 2025
  • Academic Interests: HealthTech, Experience Design, Accessibility, Sustainability
  • Personal Interests: Yoga, Movies & TV shows, exploring the city
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments: Created a usability study for the Luv Michael Granola AR training tool
Cathy Li's photo, Asian female with golden glasses and black long hair Cathy Li ( She/ her/ hers)

  • Cathy’s weekly blog
  • Major: ITP class of 2025
  • Interests:
    • Academic Interests: User Experience Design, User Experience Research, Web/ Digital Accessibility, Visual Design, AR/VR, Creative programming.
    • Personal Interests: Board Games, Biking, exploring in the city, visiting museums and galleries.

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 Iti Saanchie Goswamy (She/Her/Hers)

  • Iti’s Blog
  • Major: IDM (Integrated Design and Media)
  • Academic Interests: UI/UX, Branding, AR/VR, Museum Technology, Curatorial Studies, Exhibition Design, Cultural heritage Management
  • Personal Interests: Adventure Sports, Point and Shoot Photography, Foreign Films and Modern Art Museums
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments: 
A South Asian woman with medium-length black hair, standing in a blue dress and smiling. Tej Mehta (She/Her)

  • Tej’s Blog
  • Major: Rehabilitation Sciences
  •  Academic Interests:  Balance assessment and Rehabilitation,  Neural signal processing and analysis AR, VR
  • Personal Interests: Biking, Indian classical music
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments: Developed user testing protocol for our AR application.
Southeast asian woman with straight black hair wearing a black top standing in Prospect Park during cherry blossom season. Thao Chi Vu (she/her)

  • Chi’s Weekly Blog
  • Major: Integrated Design & Media
  • Interests: yarn crafts, paper engineering, product design
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments: 
    • Wrote thesis research paper proposal on the topic of using behavior change frameworks to inform UX/UI design of alt text authoring features on social media.
    • Learned about the history of the disability rights movement in the US, and the creation of ADA.
    • Familiarized myself with the first part of the body of knowledge in the CPACC exam.
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Samantha Rodgers (she/her)

  • my blog
  • IDM grad student
  • academic interests: the intersection of engineering, neuroscience, & design empowerment
  • interests: collecting more hobbies that come with tshirts 🙂
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishment: volunteered with Tech Kids Unlimited (TKU) and begin the IRB process for my future thesis research. 
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Undergraduate Students

Tan Asian girl with brown hair head rested on right elbow, wearing purple pants and looking at the camera Angelique Regondola (they/them)

  • My Blog
  • Major: IDM
  • Interests: music, guitar, reading, reviewing chai lattes
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments: Learned about 370 lighting system, created sound collection for sensory stress ball event
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Kianna Eddy (she/her)

  • My blog
  • Major: Integrated Design and Media 
  • Minors: Disability Studies, Management 
  • Interests: UX Experience Design/Research, Project Management, Legos, and Marvel
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments: Created tactile interpretations of The Intrepid Museums Navy patches. Learned how to use the new embroidery machine and experimented with creating larger designs. 
This is Dariana's headshot. She's sitting down in a diagonal way in front of a purple background. She's wearing a brown jumpsuit. Dariana is a latina woman, she has light skin, straight hair, and brown eyes Dariana Gonzalez (she/her)

  • My Blog
  • Major: Computer Science
  • Interests: film photography, crocheting, UX design, full stack development
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments:  Learning about heuristic evaluations on websites and working with Team Peri alongside Spandita! 
East Asian boy wearing a white shirt and a light blue flannel, while smiling at the camera and standing in front of a bus stop. Joseph Kang (he/him)

  • My blog
  • Major: Integrated Design and Media
  • Interests: cooking, going on walks, trying out mom-and-pop food spots
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments: 
    • I organized and hosted a low-sensory, destress event– where participants got to make their own stress balls!
    • I joined Level the Curve as their UX Designer/Engineer and am working towards improvements on their current site and ideating towards a new website 
White male with brown, curly hair. Wearing glasses and a green t-shirt. Christopher Haddad (he/him)

  • My Blog
  • Major: Computer Engineering
  • Interests: Basketball, soccer, watching movies/shows, and playing video games.
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments: Successfully 3D printed many more fidget toys, some of them being my favorite since I’ve started, like the fidget fish and star.
Athena holding her dog in front of a city skyline.
 Athena Luo (She/Her/They)

  • My Blog
  • Major: Interactive Media Arts
  • Interests: Film, Music, Games, Dogs, Travel, Environment, Biology and Neuroscience related topics
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments: learned about accessibility and electronics
A brown female wearing a pink sweater and black jeans that is sitting on a rock in central park
 Jenna Nandlall (she/her)

  • My Blog
  • Major: Computer Engineering
  • Interests: Web development, 3D Printing, Playing video games, Basketball 
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments: Successfully helped in the process of 3D printing various fidget toys and learned more about designing/creating fidget toys from scratch.
A brown male wearing all black with his head turned back as he's walking away from the camera. Farhan Kobir (he/him)

  • Farhan’s Blog
  • Major: Computer Engineering
  • Interests: History, Reading, Sleeping, Eating
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments: Created a braille trainer, attended accessibility talks and learned about digital accessibility.
Female-presenting person with pink glasses facing the camera wearing woven turtleneck with a white, maltese dog to her right Stefanie Cohen (she/her)

  • Stefanie’s blog
  • Major: Communicative Sciences and Disorders
  • Interests: dog training, journaling, sustainable and urban agriculture, crafting
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments: completed MakerSpace training; created functional communication earring; learned hardware skills such as soldering, creating functional circuits, working with LEDs, took Dis Tech Media and wrote a first draft of a paper on the role of tech on communication for PWD (will continue working on it next semester to publish it)
Photo of Jaif posing in front of a window Jaif Howladar (he/him)

  • Jaif’s Blog
  • Major: Computer Engineering
  • Interests: Food, Video games, Watching Youtube, Music
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments: Created a Braille trainer and learned about digital accessibility through a11NYC’s videos.
East Asian woman with short, straight black hair, wearing gray glasses, a coat, scarf, and a mask. Anna Chen (she/her)

  • Anna’s blog
  • Major: Childhood education and special education
  • Interests: Dogs, birds, baking, reading 
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments: I’ve learned more about digital accessibility, particularly design accessibility, and explored different types of fidget toys. I’ve also learned strategies to accommodate students better.  
I'm a Hispanic woman with curly brown hair and tan skin. In this picture, I'm posing next to a tree. I'm wearing a greyish-green tank top and two gold necklaces. Jasley De Jesus (she/her)

  • Jasley’s Blog
  • Major: Education Studies
  • Interests: Food, dogs, tennis
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments: 
    • I’ve learned more about the components needed for curriculums to help better help people with Autism from the LUV Michael project
    • I’ve also learned more about how disabilities are depicted in the media and how it can be both harmful if not done correctly, but can also be beneficial if they are centering the voices of people with disabilities.
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 Derek Kim (he/him)

  • Derek’s blog
  • Major: Computer Science
  • Interests: Pizza, Golf, Soccer
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments: Learned how to create a website that is digital accessible friendly. 
Photo of Malinda. She's wearing a winter coat and is surrounded by trees. Malinda Qian (she/her)

  • Malinda’s blog
  • Major: Biomolecular Science
  • Interests: art, video games, genetics
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments: 3D printed braille trainers for Maker’s Making Change. Became more familiar with the process of making accessible tech and all the details and troubleshooting that comes with it.
A photo of Kareem wearing a blue shirt and glasses with his arms crossed
 Kareem Morsy (he/him)

  • Kareem’s Blog
  • Major: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  • Interests: Basketball, Chess, Medicine 
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments: Submitted an IRB Form!
Rebekah sitting facing the sun, with her medium length black hair a bit messy from the wind. She's half-sitting on a New York City street bollard and smiling. She's wearing a white blouse and jean shorts.
  

Rebekah Lee (she/her)

  • Rebekah’s Blog
  • Major: Integrated Design and Media
  • Minor: Disability Studies
  • Interests: K-pop, Bullet Journaling/Stickers, Boba, Cats
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments: Hosted Sensory Room Event, Created a form to report accessibility issues

 
A South Asian woman wearing a black hijab and glasses standing outdoors on a bridge in an urban area, surrounded by tall buildings. She is dressed in a light-colored long-sleeved shirt layered under a gray jumpsuit and has a denim crossbody bag. The background shows a clear blue sky with scattered clouds. Fabiha Chowdhury (she/her)

  • Fabiha’s Blog 
  • Major: Biomolecular Science 
  • Interests: Traveling, Journaling, Poetry, Bollywood, Healthcare Accessibility
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments: Hosted Sensory Room Event, Led the Reopening of the The Ability Project Collaboration with the Oral Health Center for People with Disabilities at NYU Dentistry 
Runqi wearing a pink dress and holding a black graduation cap standing beside a table with a gold lamp on it. Runqi is a Asian woman with black long hair.
 Runqi Zou (she/her/hers)

  • Runqi’s Blog
  • Major: Interactive Telecommunications
  • Interests: Film, Music, Games
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments: 
    • Got more knowledge of the sensory experience
    • Created a stress reduction sensory experience
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 Vlera Mehani (she/her/hers)

  • Vlera’s blog
  • Major: Interactive media
  • Interests: Assistive Tech, Human-Computer Interaction, traveling, cats
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments:
     – Participated in the Luv Michael project as part of the user testing team, working with the IRB protocol for user testing sessions. – Learned a lot about digital accessibility,      specifically in UX design, and also how it impacts the usability and inclusivity of technology for people with disabilities.
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Angie Mohamed (she/her/hers)

  • Angie’s Blog
  • Major: Mechanical Engineering
  • Interests: Design Thinking & Innovation, Assistive Technology, Disability Justice 
  • Fall 2024 Accomplishments:
    • Assisted in the ideation and prototyping of telescopic cane and presented at NYU Tandon Makerspace Prototyping Fund Showcase
    • Printed braille trainers for Makers for Change
    • Learned more about the different opportunities in which I can get involved and took advantage of the ones presented to me
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