2022 Fall Capstone Projects

 

Claiborne Beary


Professional Experience Project

Georgetown Public Library

with: Bethni King

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Re-Envisioning Georgetown Public Library’s Youth Collection

Georgetown Public Library (GPL) is seeking to re-envision their youth collection. This re-envisioning involves looking at both the materials and the layout of the childrens area. In collaboration with youth librarian Bethni King, I became familiar with the population that GPL serves, evaluating GPLs existing collection, and creating a plan to adjust GPLs collection to meet ideal collection size metrics and the needs of the community.
 

Moonjeog Choi


Professional Experience Project

Luxe Cabinet and Stone

with: Leon He

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Mini Program Development for Furniture Wholesale Company

Luxe Cabinet and Stone is a Chinese furniture wholesale company located in Seattle. The company has been putting efforts into promoting its products to its customers by making phone calls and sending emails, especially to Chinese customers. To help these Chinese customers more quickly access the companys product information, I decided to develop a mini program that runs on a famous social software called Wechat that Chinese people always use. This mini program specifically aims to help customers make appointments for store tours and view product galleries on their social software Wechat. The program is built within the Wechat Devtools where a lot of APIs are provided to realize the necessary features.
 

Stephanie Cyrill


Professional Experience Project

Fashion Mingle

with: Melissa Shea

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Stitched: Redesigning the User Experience for Young Professionals Entering the Fashion Industry

Fashion Mingle (FM) provides networking and educational opportunities to their members by connecting fashion professionals and students to the resources and services they need to grow their careers. Knowing the difficulty of breaking into the fashion industry as a young professional, FM aims to connect them to others in the industry by expanding their parent company into a student-focused platform, Student Mingle. Through the platform, students can connect with other students and professionals in the fashion industry, gain visibility in the fashion world, and boost their careers. To aid in the companys goals, in this project I will further build out Student Mingle and redesign the company's current UI to make it modern and engaging for users.
 

Yitong Feng


Professional Experience Project

Boehringer Ingelheim

with: Richard Delveccino

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Healthcare Spend Insight Data Analysis Project

My journey in the Master of Information Science program at UT-Austin is coming to an end, and I cherish the opportunity in iSchool to think critically, make connections, and utilize empathy to help shape the information and technology industry, and fit my future career path. Currently, I work for Boehringer Ingelheim and collaborate with the IT-EFP team to achieve business goals. I work with 2 business analysts and 1 data scientist on the HealthCare Spend Insight project, dealing with data sets of doctors budget and expense data, which involves Compliance Spend Data from Veeva Events, especially on Budget Management, Attendee Expenses, Events Attribution, etc, with looking for trends and anomalies among these topics and draw data-based insights for business partners to make scientific decisions. And I do hope from my perspective, I can answer the question: Can we leverage this spending data to deliver prescriptive and predictive insights to the Compliance function and help the company to control the cost?
 

Angie Fong


Professional Experience Project

NinjaOne

with: William He

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Explainable AI in SaaS industry: Churn Prediction

NinjaOne is a fast-growing IT management SaaS company. As the company expands, it's increasingly valuable to have a data-driven system to level up customer retention. The goal of this project is to build a churn rate prediction model which does not only help the sales team identify customers that are likely to end subscription, but also provides insights on top churn drivers which will help formulate better customer retention strategy. The key to success includes data engineering and MLOps effort, as well as business and statistics knowledge to explain insights from the model.
 

Shruti Hanchinal


Professional Experience Project

CBRE

with: Thorsten Baldus

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CBRE's Workflow Management System

CBRE is one of the largest commercial real estate companies that encompasses advisory, valuation, consultation, and other services. At CBRE, my task was to recommend improvements to CBREs Valuation and Advisory Services systems through user research. The project objective was user research support for the product, design, and engineering teams from discovery through delivery. The primary focus was on an internal work management product used by property appraisers and managers. This product has 3 features: Assignment Tracking, Capacity Management, and Route Optimization. Assignment Tracking helps users monitor current projects. Capacity Management helps users understand how much availability they have to take on new work. Route Optimization helps them plan how to conduct the next inspection. To achieve this, I conducted heuristic evaluations for the current systems, to identify inconsistencies in designs and user flows. The next portion was to integrate into the system, functions that benefit the users by offering a seamless end-to-end assignment tracking and route optimization flow. For this, I used generative qualitative interviews to identify workflows and nuances to be included in the designs.
 

Nicole Inskeep


Professional Experience Project

LBJ Presidential Library

with: Jennifer Cuddeback

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UNCLASSIFIED: Preserving Westmoreland’s Vietnam

This project aims to assist the LBJ Presidential library with the preservation needs of a legacy collection, The Capital Legal Foundation Papers, in preparing the collection for long-term housing and public use by the research community. The collection consists of the litigation material generated from a 1984 libel suit brought by General William C. Westmoreland against four CBS employees associated with a Vietnam documentary titled The Uncounted Enemy A Vietnam Deception. This project addresses preservation needs for paper-based materials, removes classified language, and updates the finding aid to incorporate over 50 boxes of newly processed materials.
 

Ashrai Jha


Professional Experience Project

Moody College of Communication

with: Craig Watkins

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Data-supported telehealth app for mental health application

I am working on a mental health application called, a project created by UT Austin, Professor S. Craig Watkins. This mental health mobile application helps users track their mood insights and activities in order to better manage their mental health. During this project, I have been working as a Visual Designer and Animator, and the goal is to iterate and redesign various application modules and flows using the existing design system. I have suggested new elements and components to refine the design and user experience. In addition, I have animated these flows and prototyped them. The animations will help demonstrate some of the key functions of the application while also illustrating the transitions to developers. At the end of the project, I will have multiple screens, sets of redesigns, prototypes, and animation on Figma.
 

Pei-Syuan Jhang


Professional Experience Project

Athena Advisory

with: Brian Cosmono

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A Usability Study on Athena Advisory's Financial Advisory Service

Athena Advisory is a startup financial advisory firm that aims to provide automated approaches that help optimize customers' financial life. To improve the user experience of its recently published service platform and gauge if the current design and content are understandable and straightforward for users, this study uses unmoderated usability testing to uncover user pain points that need to be addressed, which will be shared through a detailed test report and user personas. Overall, the results found the profile-setting process needs to be shortened and streamlined; the dashboard should show more customized content and provide more explanations for infographics.
 

Hyojeong Kim


Professional Experience Project

The University of Texas at Austin

with: Dr. Ying Ding

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Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Dashboard using SHAP for ICU Length of Stay Prediction

In this research, we create an XAI dashboard that predicts patients' length of stay in the ICU and provides key features that have a significant impact on LoS for specific patient cohorts and individual patients. Our results suggest that providing critical features in order to make clinical decisions can build the trust between doctors, patients, and AI. Our approach, based on a novel connection of clinical dashboard with explainable AI methods, discovers insight for helping clinicians that addresses emergent health conditions more effectively and reduces unnecessary procedures. Further, the logical user interfaces will be designed to facilitate the clinical decision support system.
 

Jia-Jen Lee


Professional Experience Project

University of Texas at Austin, Texas Career Engagement

with: Troy Autin

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Career Resources Dashboards Design

Texas Career Engagement (TCE) is reimagining the way students, alumni, employers, faculty, and staff prepare for the future of work togetherby engaging around careers in a way that is equitable and inclusive. Hence, My contribution to the capstone project are design & development of the dashboards collecting the career related information and existing career resources of each school/college for prospective students to make the decision and explore the resources. It also provides an efficient and easy-to-use way for faculties to maintain their career resources. The resulting Tableau dashboards allow users to filter, search the keyword, or click on the infographic to see more information. By interacting with the interface, users will be able to see all the career resources for each major and the different aspects of career statistical data.
 

Yu Hsuan Liu


Professional Experience Project

RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service, UT Austin

with: Sydney Padilla Wilburn

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RGK Center website evaluation and redesign

This project aims to help RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service increase the connections among students and nonprofit organizations and promote what they have done in research to society. We conducted the stakeholders interview and heuristic evaluation to gather business goals and pain points. Based on those insights from the research, we then reorganized the information architecture and ideated the design hypothesis via wireframe. Before building out the website by using the UT Drupal Kit, which is a website solution tailored to the Texas brand, we evaluated the wireframe with stakeholders to double-check the design did match their goals and user needs. So, the project outcomes includes: Research insight, Ideation Process, Redesign.
 

Maureen Maclean


Professional Experience Project

Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin

with: Paloma Graciani-Picardo

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WikiWARP: Wikibase Data Model for the Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry Collection

With my field supervisor, I developed a data model for the description of creators represented in the Harry Ransom Centers Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry Collection using the HRC's Wikibase test instance. As a proof of concept, this model is intended to link creators, places, languages, conflicts, occupations, and works on the library catalog. Currently, the library catalog does not allow users to search the collection by demographic information of the authors. The eventual goal is to allow for such querying by connecting the Wikibase instance to the library catalog, thus allowing for richer and more powerful querying for researchers.
 

Sophia Mosbe


Professional Experience Project

Texas State University Libraries

with: Stephanie Towery

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Open Pedagogy and Copyright at Texas State University: Preparing students for open assignments

As Texas State University continues to expand and develop its academic landscape, faculty are increasingly wanting to incorporate Open Pedagogy practices into their curriculum. To accommodate this, the University Libraries have begun to set-up the necessary infrastructure for such practices to be a success. The purpose of this project was to define and educate students regarding their rights when creating open assignments. This resulted in creating the Texas State University Open Pedagogy FERPA and Copyright License, along with a comprehensive Canvas module to duly educate students regarding these rights: both the control they are relinquishing and retaining.
 

Itohan Osagie


Professional Experience Project

Carnegie Mellon University's The Robotics Project

with: Kathleen Donahoe

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Visualizing Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Archive

CMUs The Robotics Project has devoted the past few years to capturing the history of the universitys robotics research, working toward the launch of their Robot Archive, which serves as a digital collection available to a wider audience. Given this, my role is to create a visualization tool based on the metadata to engage members of the community with or without interest or experience in robotics. This visualization project serves as an initial step to represent the interconnected relationships between projects, people and real-life applications by employing data wrangling and data storytelling techniques.
 

Hsuan Ouyang


Professional Experience Project

3CUS IMPACT

with: Dr. Esther Nnorom

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Consumer Insights Research for 3CUS IMPACT Social Impact Management (SIM) Services

The purpose of the SIM consumer insights research is to better understand the customer of SIM services and build a concrete structure of the provided consulting services. The project determines the current and potential consumer target market, service needs, marketing strategies, engagement opportunities, techniques, and processes for SIM services. Specifically, I designed and planned the project including clarifying the project objective, identifying consumer groups, developing interview guides, and drafting related emails. Next, I conducted key informant interviews to collect research data. After summarizing and analyzing the collected data, I gave the team actionable recommendations.
 

Haley Petersen


Professional Experience Project

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

with: Margaret Schlankey

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A Survey of Surveying: Digitizing the Map Collection of 19th Century Empresario and Land Surveyor Stephen F. Austin

Since 1901, the University of Texasand by extent, the Dolph Briscoe Center for American Historyhas had in their possession a collection of maps that previously belonged to Stephen F. Austin, often hailed as the Father of Texas. Many of these unique hand-drawn maps and land surveys were completed by Austin himself in the course of his work settling Texas in the 1820s and 1830s. The goal of this project is to shine a light on this historic collection through digitization and online availability, including the creation of web-based content that will hopefully increase researchers interest in the materials. Using a state-of-the-art overhead camera setup capable of photographing the largest and smallest maps in the Briscoe Centers archives, I created high-quality digital images of all 119 maps and land surveys, which included several pamphlets of Austins field notes that give insight into his land surveying process. Each image will be embedded with detailed metadata, which I prepared according to the standards in use at the Briscoe Center. The end result is a collection of digitized maps that will help minimize the handling of the fragile originals and expand their reach to all those interested in learning more about this significant era in Texas history.
 

Miriam Rought


Professional Experience Project

St. Stephen's Episcopal School

with: Cynthia Bartek

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Accessioning and Archival Work with St. Stephen's Episcopal School

St. Stephen's Episcopal School has worked tirelessly towards equal opportunity education since its founding in 1950 as the first integrated boarding school in the southern U.S. This year, they are celebrating their 20th anniversary with their partner school, St. Etienne's, in Haiti. To commemorate this anniversary, I was tasked with accessioning a digital collection of photos and videos from school faculty involved with the Haiti project and creating a searchable repository of this collection. Additionally, I am proposing next steps for the digitization of the rest of the schools physical archives and integrate them into the schools current information system.
 

Ishita Roy


Professional Experience Project

Keysight

with: Mike Sun

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Metadata Generation and Correlation from Network Traffic

I have worked on Keysight's network visibility product solution AppStack, which performs packet monitoring that can scale with a combination of hardware (packet brokers) and software (VNF) to improve network traffic visibility. I was tasked with understanding the customer and product requirements including network architecture, network components, interfaces & communications between the network components, developing test plans in the form of test cases, and developing and validating automated test scripts so that the test cases can be executed successfully. Metadata correlation is done using the big data analytics tool Pulsar and the test cases are written and automated using Python.
 

Nidhi Shah


Professional Experience Project

The University of Texas at Austin

with: Dr. Ying Ding

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Research and design for XAI for a dashboard that helps understand the predicted length of stay in an ICU.

The project explores the existing research on various user experience designs for explainable AI in the healthcare domain. Followed by the exploration, we experiment with possible designs for the dashboards providing explanations for the AI predicting the length of stay in an intensive care unit. These designs then underwent multiple modifications, post which we carried out concept testing with a doctor from Dell medical school to understand the effectiveness of our ideas. The project was carried out under the guidance of Prof. Ying Ding at the University of Texas at Austin.
 

Yogita Sharma


Professional Experience Project

Alexander Architectural Archives and UT Libraries - Architecture & Planning Library

with: Dr. Katie Pierce Meyer, Stephanie Tiedeken

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Creating hybrid descriptions of digital and analog materials within finding aids at the Alexander Architectural Archives

Project goals: 1) To create a hybrid description for analog and digital photographic materials, while preserving original order in both, for the Buildings of Texas collection and 2) To test the University of Texas Libraries Born-Digital Archival Description Guidelines. Project outcomes: 1) Created an EAD inventory for a pre-selected set of digital images, mapped to their analog counterparts, 2) Ingested digital images into UT DAMS to generate a link for the finding aid, 3) Wrote hybrid descriptions for series and subseries abstracts and edited relevant sections of the EAD finding aid, and 4) Provided written feedback on UT Libraries guidelines.
 

Kendall Shaw


Professional Experience Project

Briscoe Center for American History

with: Amy Bowman

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Postcards from the Past: Continued Digitization of the Robert Runyon Photograph Collection

The Briscoe Center for American History is the archival home of the Robert Runyon photograph collection. Runyon took many photographs of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and Mexico, which were sold as postcards in the early 20th century. Over the course of the semester, I took responsibility for the processing and digitizing of two collections of these postcards that had recently been donated to the Briscoe Center. This included categorizing, writing item-level metadata, and digitally capturing the postcards to increase accessibility. Finally, I created a guide detailing my process, to assist with future integration of donations to existing collections.
 

Joanne Tsao


Professional Experience Project

GivePulse

with: James McGirr

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Redesigning GivePulse's Project, Pledge, and Resources Pages

GivePulse is a nonprofit community engagement platform that is looking to update the current look of the existing website and improve their interface visually and functionally. I am assisting the company with redesigning the screens for three different features on their website: Projects, Pledge, and Resources. The pages of the GivePulse website will be updated to reflect their current visual style style and provide a more intuitive experience for users. These new designs will be sent to the engineering team to be coded into live pages that will be implemented into the site in the upcoming months.
 

Ruyue Wang


Professional Experience Project

Premera Blue Cross

with: Macauley Cameron

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Identifying knowledge gaps and simplifying user experience of Find Care

Premera is a health insurance organization offering Find Care tools to help members find doctors who meet their requirements. As a core touchpoint and task for customers in the healthcare journey, finding care is also an experience where Premera consistently gets negative customer feedback. The company is focusing on Find Care as one of highest customer experience priorities. My work aims to help inform the business what we know about the Find Care experience and to identify ways to simplify the member experience and satisfy their needs.
 

Huani Zeng


Professional Experience Project

PayPal

with: Garrett Galayda

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Redesign To Improve PayPal QR Code In-store Payment Experience

There has been a great interest in contactless payments in light of the growing pandemic. Customers are searching for a simple, safe, secure payment option. In order to assist customers in achieving these objectives, PayPal is undertaking initiatives like QR code in-store payment. The feature has been launched, yet the experience is not frictionless to offer a simple and delightful payment experience. This project utilized interview and usability testing methods to learn about target users and uncover the pain points of existing design. The final deliverables are design solutions that aim to solve these pain points.
 

Jiaxin Zhang


Professional Experience Project

SXSW Interactive 2023

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Information Management for SXSW Interactive Business & Tech Event

My industrial capstone project focuses on researching global startups and potential speakers for SXSW Interactive 2023 (business & technology events) at Austin, TX. As planned, I was responsible for startup information research, screening, recording, analyzing and evaluating to create a large scale startup dataset for South by Southwest business and technology events in Spring 2023. To make sure the startup data is completely accurate, adequate and high-quality for SXSW, I have to fulfill three main criteria: First, each startup should be founded after March 2021, for SXSW aims to find startups in the seed or pre-seed stage all over the world; Second, the current funding status of each startup cannot exceed 8 million dollars; Third, each startup should belong to any one of these eight categories: (1) Artificial Intelligence, Voice and Robotics; (2) Enterprise and Smart Data; (3) Entertainment, Media and Content; (4) Food, Nutrition and Health; (5) Future of Work; (6) Innovative World Technologies; (7) Metaverse and Web3; (8) Smart Cities, Transportation and Sustainability for technology diversity and inclusion. I have accomplished this startup information research project in the past month using several platforms such as Crunchbase, PitchBook, social media and tech news websites.