Currently looking for an internship for summer 2015 in product management, UX or software engineering.

Background

I'm an undergraduate studying in the US, majoring in computer science but with a strong interest in cognitive science. I want to learn more about human-computer interaction, UX design, visual design, and UX research, or related roles (basically anything where I get to design and/or study people).

I am a member of the Yale Social Robotics Lab and have previously been a research assistant at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, Germany.

Things I think are cool academically

• physical embodiment as it relates to computing/robotics
• tactile/haptic/multisensory interfaces
• the effect of computing/robotic contexts on social behavior, social cognition and mental health
• investigating therapeutic uses of HCI/HRI in enhancing well-being and the treatment of disorders; also its uses in motivation and education and that sort of thing
• raising awareness of the impact of culture and context in behavior and cognition.
• basically, add 'and computers' to any item from the list below

Interests, more broadly

• art (drawing, painting, illustration)
• calligraphy
• culture
• design (all kinds)
• singing
• music, including classical
• writing
• 'science' (ha)
• languages
• video games: I play LOTR Online the most regularly
• fantasy and a small amount of scifi
• gender and (a)sexuality
• egalitarianism (equal to or a superset of feminism)
• wellbeing/health/humanist spirituality
• martial arts (aikido)
• the webcomic 'The Order of the Stick'