Academic Work
Lazar, J., Kannan, A., Tigwell, G., Jain, R., Jawili, MJ, Shiva Prasad, Y., Siu, A., and Treitman, R. (2025, in press). An Opportunity to Use AI to Support Content Creators in Creating Born-Accessible Documents. In Christo El Morr, El-Lahib Yahya, Rachel Gorman (Eds). Beyond Tech Fixes: Towards an AI Future Where Disability Justice Thrives. Springer: London.
Srinivasan, A., Kannan, A., Elmqvist, N. (2022). HotShots: Visualizing Stroke-by-Stroke Tennis Data. In IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS) Posters. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. [Poster | Summary PDFs]
Apps
HotShots 2.0
A web-based tool to visualize shot-by-shot strokeplay from tennis match data.
With Arvind Srinivasan and Dr. Niklas Elmqvist, this work was accepted to the IEEE VIS ’22 conference and presented as a poster.
Topics: Data Visualization, User Interviews, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Lit Review, Figma, JavaScript, Svelte, React, D3.js
HotShots
A dashboard to analyze tennis player performance, targeted at tennis analysts and fans.
With Arvind Srinivasan and Dr. Niklas Elmqvist, I’m presently continuing development on this app.
Topics: Data Visualization, User Interviews, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Lit Review, Figma, JavaScript, Svelte, D3.js
SUTE
A community-based app that helps members share tools among themselves.
Built using Figma, and developed individually as part of INST711: Interaction Design Studio at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Topics: Wireframing, User Personas, Figma, Storyboards, Information Architecture, Corporate Design Libraries
Product Management
A La Carte
An app providing users with dynamic location of nearby food trucks and carts — allowing for the curious to explore new cuisines at great prices.
Developed in a team of five, as part of IEOR186: Product Management at the University of California, Berkeley.
Pitch Deck | Prototype | Market Analysis | User Studies | Interview Transcripts
Evaluations in Usability & Accessibility
In the Fall of 2021, I evaluated the website of Pixar — an animated motion picture company — for its usability and accessibility. Being a huge fan of their work, which is known for its appeal to a universal audience, I felt it fitting to select their website and analyze it deeper!
The findings below are based on my learnings from INST 631 HCI Fundamentals, at the University of Maryland.
- Usability Evaluation: Pixar Studios
A usability analysis of Pixar’s website, based on a remote usability study with 5 participants. Also, a heuristic evaluation is performed using Shneiderman’s Golden Rules. - Accessibility Inspection: Pixar Studios’ Contact Us Page
Pixar’s Contact Us page is evaluated for accessibility based on the WCAG 2.1 standard. A manual inspection is performed with a screen reader (JAWS), while an automated one is performed using WAVE.
Robotics & Software Development
EnviroCopter
EnviroCopter is an autonomous tricopter created almost entirely from scratch, with parts fabricated at the Berkeley’s CITRIS Invention Lab. These were built primarily using 3D printing and laser cutting, and developed in collaboration with Chris Myers.
Conversational Agents (Public-Facing)
During my time at Avaamo — an Intel-backed conversational AI startup — I contributed to the development of several conversational agents for voice and web interfaces. A couple of these can be found on the following websites (located at the bottom-right of the web pages):
- Franklin Templeton India
A financial services assistant for Franklin’s Indian end-user market. Contributed between Jan 2020 – Oct 2020. - Wasl Properties, UAE
A property management conversational service for customers in the Dubai area. Contributed between Feb 2020 – Oct 2020.
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