Research Assistant Resume
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SUMMARY
- Expertise in user research methods, including iterative usability testing, heuristic evaluation, baseline and comparative testing, contextual interviews and online surveys.
- Abundant experience with mobile and web app development and UI design using Python, Java, Visio and PowerPoint.
- Strong statistical analysis skills. Familiarity with parametric and non - parametric statistics and the SPSS and R statistical packages.
- Ability to interact and effectively communicate with people from diverse backgrounds, highlighting teamwork and problem solving.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Conducted group interviews and online surveys to identify the information needs of mobile users.
- Designed and conducted user studies in lab and in field to identify the tactile design, which can better resist the impact of contextual distractors (e.g., ambient sound and users’ movement).
- Developed and tested a mobile messenger app in Java using tactile icons to convey peripheral features of incoming messages in distracting contexts (e.g., while walking and driving).
- Applied statistical models (e.g., paired t-test, ANOVA, post-hoc analysis and Chi-Square test) in SPSS to test research questions and analyze research data.
- Developed a mobile exertion app in Python to detect users’ movement and embedded tactile and speech notifications to enable older adults monitor and adjust their exercise intensity eyes-freely.
- Conducted a longitudinal diary study to evaluate the mobile app and examined the change of users’ health behaviors over time.
- Developed a text entry mobile app for blind users in Objective C++ by sensing users' gesture input and displaying QWERTY keyboard in user-friendly mode using relative positioning metric.
- Explored the effects of cultural differences on web information seeking behavior between people in US and Hungary.
- Collected user performance data using psycho-physiological methods, including heart period variability, skin conductance, pupil size and eye-tracking data.