Nina Shih: Tactile UX

Due to the undisclosed nature of a labs environment, contact me at nashihni at yahoo dot com about my work at Microsoft Office Labs.

MEDIA

Mobile, Tablet, Wearable, Touch surfaces, Mobile, Kinect/NUI (Natural User Interface), Desktop client apps, Web apps, & misc.

WORKS IN HIGHLIGHT

e-Tiles. Architectural Interactive Digital Tiles. 2006.

What happens to the use of spaces when we are immersed with interactive, movable, tangible tiles within an environment.
Cornell University Architecture Thesis.

Reverse Alarm Clock. 2006.

Helping parents be better parents. Empowering young children independence.
John Zimmerman, Kursat Ozenc, Jeong Bong Keum, James Brommer, Nina Shih, Karen Au
Carnegie Mellon University Research.

Terpsichore. 2008.
A 1-week social musical instrument surface experiment. Encouraging strangers to jam together.
Microsoft Surface. WPF. Expression Blend.
Brian Hargus, Chad Waldman, George Perantantos, Nelle Steele, Nina Shih

MISCELLANEOUS

Office Labs Explorer Awards. 2008.

Office Lab's version of the 'Ship-It' awards as labees concept test and do not ship products

Office Labs, Microsoft.

Cooper IxD Generation Design Challenge. Jan 2011.
Design challenge instructions. ~5 hour exercise.
Part 1: Redesign Microsoft Word's Insert/Format Table ribbon feature. Part 2; Design a LocalGuide for "tourists".
Part 2 was a purposefully unrealistic but personally intriguing form factor to design for and hence the design path.