Solving Challenges for Chief Data Officers with A.I.
PI: Helen Armstrong. Fall 2020, seniors at NC State worked with a team at SAS Analytics for 9 weeks to design an experience within SAS Information Catalog that utilizes Machine Learning (ML)…
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What Role Might Machine Learning Ethically Play in Retail Spaces?
PI: Helen Armstrong Last spring, grad students in the Master's in Graphic Design Program at North Carolina State University partnered with an auto parts company to explore this question. The company was… -
How Can We Support Data Literacy in Middle Schoolers?
PI: Helen Armstrong As decisions become increasingly data-driven, the ability to interrogate data is emerging as a key skill for self-advocacy. Unfortunately, marginalized communities most heavy impacted by algorithmic decision making are… -
Whose Data Is It Anyway? Ever Had Trouble Accessing Your Own Medical Data?
How can the design of an intelligent interface empower patients to access secure personal data repositories, thus giving patients agency over their own medical data? Over the course of the semester our…
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Accessibility + IBM Watson?
What's machine learning and what can designers do with it? The NCSU 1st year Masters of Graphic Design Studio took on just this question over the course of the semester. We began… -
The Unboxing: A Project with Sealed Air
In my Special Topics Studio this semester, NC State graphic design seniors worked with Sealed Air to reimagine the secondary packaging unboxing experience. As part of their user-centered research process, the students… -
Making Astronomy Accessible
This week, Alexandra Grossi (NCSU MGD '17) and I travelled to Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin. There we met with a team of researchers and educators committed to making the study of astronomy… -
Exploring Conversational Interface with SAS Analytics
What is the role of Natural Language in SAS products? This year's NCSU graphic design seniors took on this question through an 8-week collaboration with SAS Analytics. Over the course of the… -
How might designers create data visualizations for low-vision users?
Undergraduate graphic design students at NC State University collaborated with SAS Analytics to answer this question as they explored how SAS products might be made accessible to a range of low vision… -
Designing Intelligent, Self-Learning Data Management Systems: A SAS Collaboration
NCSU graphic design seniors collaborated with SAS last semester on a 9-week project. The design challenge: design the user experience of a brand new intelligent and self-learning data management system that automatically:…