I can’t believe that it’s already my last week interning with Rice 360°! This week, I’m compiling all of my final documentation so that people can access my work in the future. I also started working on the temperature display code! Previously, the incubator displayed...
After fine-tuning my usability test materials, I sent a request to the Rice interns in Malawi to conduct an informal usability test at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Malawi. However, I had no idea about how strict administration in Malawi actually is. It looks...
For the IncuBaby user interface, even though I conducted an informal usability test, I followed the recommended steps to conduct a proper usability study. Coming in with no prior usability study experience, I found it fascinating and insightful to work through the...
It was great to have a fresh look at the UI after a nice, relaxing three-day weekend. I’d come to a standstill last week, having sketched up several UI layout possibilities after playing with my what-turns-out-to-be rather high fidelity Velcro/felt prototype. At the...
I can hardly believe that it’s already been a whole month with Rice 360°! I would have never guessed that designing a UI would take so much thought and time! I started out, last week and the beginning of this week, sketching out different layouts for the IncuBaby UI...
I can’t emphasize enough how much real world experience helps to put years of learning and coursework from classes into perspective. Last week, I found and ordered switches that I would need to construct the mode selection part of the Incubaby UI. This week, I...
I got to try out a little bit of everything, again, this week. I had been trying to tweak an equation in the Arduino code for the temperature sensor since the middle of last week and finally got it to work – I think that’s pretty amazing considering the fact...
Hello everyone! I am Sonali Mahendran, a rising junior studying bioengineering at Rice University. This summer, I’m working as an intern with Rice 360°, getting a feel for developing global health technologies. More specifically, I’ll be working on IncuBaby, an...