My Projects

WSU Arboretum Tour

The map shows the locations of trees on the WSU campus via tree icons.

Context

This was my Human-Computer Interaction class project. We were given a scenario in which the leadership at WSU gave us the task of creating a self-guided tour of the WSU arboretum which would give the user information about each tree on campus. The focus of the project was to create a user-friendly experience that demonstrates good human-computer interaction. I was part of a group of three for this project and my responsibility was to implement the map features, guided tour, route, directions, and functionality.

Fax Manager

There are two boxes; the left one can switch between new and orphan faxes, the other can switch between incomplete and complete faxes.

Context

The Radiology Data Management department at Mayo Clinic is responsible for linking outside imaging (such as X-rays, MRIs, CTs, etc.) to patients' Mayo Clinic medical records. Some facilities will fax us to let us know that they have sent us imaging. These faxes include the patient's name, date of birth, and the imaging that has been sent. We receive these faxes as pdf files via email.

Our current process is to put these pdfs into a shared network drive where we rename the pdf with the patient's name and medical record number as well as any notes regarding the status of the patient's outside imaging. We look at these pdfs and check if we have received the imaging listed in it. We then place the pdf into one of three folders depending on the status of the patient's imaging - "received", "not received", and "orphan" for pdfs that include patients who do not have a Mayo Clinic medical record.

This process has several issues; one of which is that multiple people may work on the same fax without knowing it, therefore creating more work than necessary. Another problem with this process is the inefficiency of putting notes in the pdf file names. This makes the folders less organized, the notes harder to read, and can only support a limited number of characters. Fax Manager is a proof-of-concept application that solves these issues.

Parking Site Extension

Hotel staff fills out and submits this form to activate the parking cards.

Context

At the Hilton Garden Inn, guests park at a city ramp near the hotel. Sometimes, we will have a group of convention-goers staying at the hotel who receive discounted parking rates. Instead of paying through the city ramp directly, we charge convention guests the discounted parking rate and give them a parking card to get in and out of the ramp. We activate these parking cards by filling out a small form on the parking company's website.

One field on the form is the parking card number, which is a ten-digit number encoded into the card itself. Some cards have an extra zero at the beginning of their number. If these cards are activated without removing the zero from the card number field of the form, the parking card will not work at the ramp.

My solution to this problem was to write a script that would automatically remove this zero. I also added a feature to track convention parking passes made each day. Since the website is owned by the parking company, I do not have access to make any modifications to the source code. So, I downloaded a browser extension which would automatically run my script on the front-end whenever the parking card site loads.

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