I have extensive experience of conducting design research and usability tests. With my background in human factors, I can integrate data analytics with qualitative observations to develop deep understanding of user behaviors.

Research projects

Assessing the user experience of e-books

This is a comprehensive assessment of e-book user experience (search and information seeking) from transaction logs, e-book usage data, and user tests.

Active Learning Center user research

As part of an interdisciplinary team, I conducted a series of studies to gain insights of the range of student activities, study practices and preferences that the new Active Learning Center at Purdue University must support.

Discovery tool log analysis

I worked with Dr. Xi Niu at University of North Carolina at Charlotte to integrate qualitative user studies with log analysis and to uncover the contextual information of search tasks.