Megan CackettCornell University | CU · Department of Design and Environmental Analysis
Megan Cackett
M.S. Human-Environment Relations
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This research evaluates the user experience of an audio feature called “Quick Commands” that is used to control a virtual Assistant with natural invocation phrases. The feature is an application of NLP (Natural Language Processing) that removes hotwords such as “Hey Google”, “Hey Siri”, and “Alexa”, allowing for natural voice interactions. The prim...
When putting a new wearable device into the hands of thousands of people who have never seen, touched or heard it before, there will be new, untested use cases. As researchers and designers for hardware products, the question we seek to answer is if there is a ‘right’ interaction path - that promotes intuitive, usable, and accessible interaction -...
We build on the increasing availability of Virtual Reality (VR) devices and Web technologies to conduct behavioral experiments in VR using crowdsourcing techniques. A new recruiting and validation method allows us to create a panel of eligible experiment participants recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk. Using this panel, we ran three different cr...
This study evaluated the effects of active versus static standing on short-duration computer task performance, postural risks and perceived pain, comfort and fatigue. A repeated measures, within-subjects study was conducted in which 16 participants performed 40 trials of a computer-based homing task in two active standing versus a static standing c...
This study evaluated the effects of active and static sitting chairs on short-duration computer task performance, postural risks and perceived pain, comfort and fatigue. A repeated-measures, within-subjects study was conducted, in which 16 participants performed 40 trials of a computer-based homing task in four seating conditions. Computer task per...