Jen Fernquist

Projects

Oh Snap

Sketch-Sketch Revolution

We created an engaging, interative tutorial system for guided sketching and application learning.

Oh Snap

"Oh Snap" - A New Snapping Technique for Touch Interfaces

We developed a new snapping technique, Oh Snap, designed specifically for users of direct touch interfaces. Oh Snap allows users to easily align digital objects with lines or other objects using 1-D or 2-D translation or rotation.

Planning Support System

Collaborative Planning Support System for a Multi-Touch Tabletop

My main M.Sc. research focused on building and evaluating a multi-touch tabletop application to assist Landscape Architects in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at UBC in their sustainable urban planning process.

Laser Light Challenge screenshot

Laser Light Challenge: An Educational Multi-touch Tabletop Game

The winning entry for the Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2009 conference competition. The submissions were educational games for kids that run on a SMART multi-touch table. Laser Light Challenge teaches kids about the properties of light and how it interacts with various types of surfaces. It was also featured by SMART at the 2010 British Education and Training Technology conference.

Haptic icons, Nokia 770T

Exploring Melodic Variance in Rhythmic Haptic Stimulus Design

We introduced melody into the design of rhythmic stimuli to expand the design space. We also designed groups of haptic icons and evaluated their perceived similarity in a user study.

Radiology image slice

Evaluating Interaction Techniques for Radiologists

We evaluated the efficiency and accuracy of 3 interaction techniques, including one novel technique, for radiologists scrolling through stacks of MRI images.

Astrometry, picture of Orion

Amateur Astrometry

This project utilized computer vision techniques to attempt to recognize and label constellations and other stellar bodies in photographs taken with off-the-shelf digital cameras.

Voronoi Art example output

Voronoi Art

Images were processed and decomposed into Voronoi diagrams as a non-photorealistic rendering technique.

Content based image retrieval system output

Content-Based Image Retrieval System

Content aware image searching performed via keywords and a query image that utilized representative shape contexts to measure image similarity.

AI website screenshot

Website Design for AI Textbook

I designed the website for the online version of David Poole and Alan Mackworth's textbook "Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents". (Amazon link )