Aneeqa Ishaq
MAJOR PROJECTS
Below is the list of a few selected projects on which I worked during my Masters in Learning, Design and Technology at Stanford University.
​Handily | A gesture-based instruction and assessment tool for technicians
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Handily is a hands-on application using Kinect to teach vocational training to technicians. The current Handily prototype delves into tasks that a solar panel installer needs to learn.

​Handily is grounded in research on virtual simulation environments and instruction of manual tasks, and incorporates human computer interaction and instructional design principles. We conducted several user tests and learner studies to measure usability and learning both quantitatively and qualitatively.
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Partner: Vipul S Redey
​3 Doors |Teaching Bayesian Probability and Monte Carlo Simulations using Netlogo and a physical model
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In 3 Doors, we took a new look at the infamous Monty Hall problem as an approach to teach Bayesian probability theory to introductory statistics students in high school and college. We developed a combination of physical and virtual models, including a monte carlo simulation, to help give students intuition to better understand Bayes Theory. We used Fab Lab equipment to design physical model and wrote the program in netlogo for the virtual model.

Partner: Greg Bybee
Diffusionator| Bifocal model for heat diffusion through solids
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Diffusionator is a bifocal model i.e a physical toolkit and computer model connected in real time to compare actual and ideal data . It explains how heat spreads at a different rate through different solid materials and how different materials take different time to reach solid state equilibrium.
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We created a physical toolkit connected with temperature sensors and programmed the computer model in Netlogo.

Partner: Mo Akade
Final Project for EDUC 236X: Designing Educational Tools
Project for EDUC 236x: Designing Educational Tools
Spring 2012
Spring 2012
Summer-Spring 2012
MASTER'S PROJECT
Final Project for
CS 377I:
Prototyping Interactive Systems
Winter 2012
StoryLeaf| Video Prototype for an interactive and collaborative storytelling system
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Through observations in classrooms and interviews with teachers, we identified the need for more collaborative tasks for students in a creative context. We came up with the idea of a collaborative storytelling ipad application. StoryLeaf is grounded in socio-technical principles such as distributed cognition and situated action. We developed a video prototype to demonstrate the concept, our proposed system and user interactions.

Partners: Coulton Bunney, Greg Naifeh, Nick Porfilio and Qian Wang
Internship
Final Project for
CS 147:
Human Computer Interaction Design
Fall 2011
Time It| A time tracking and visualization mobile web application

Our group identified the need that users need to know how they are actually spending their time. We designed Time It, a mobile web application, which lets users track their time and shows them graphs to visualize where they are spending more or less time.
​We used Javascript, Jquerry Mobile, CSS, AJAX, PHP, MySQL and object oriented programming for the implementation and design of the application.​

Partners: Elie Noune and Heidi Williamson
Summer 2012
​Hewlett-Packard Labs | Mobile and Immersive Experiences Group

-Explored effective methods to manipulate unstructured data on large wall displays to aid collaborative decision making
-Developed Use scenarios and user profiles
-Designed algorithms and implemented in C++ on a large multi-collaborator project to render different visualizations of data based on user gestures
-Explored a new gesturing device, understood its SDK and implemented code to interface it with image/ data rendering code

Projects from my Bachelors in Electrical Engineering
2008-2009
Senior Project
Beamforming on A Digital Signal Processor| A signal processing technique​

Beamforming is a signal processing technique used in sensor arrays and mobile communications for directional transmission or reception of signal. My group mates and I conducted thorough study and simulations in MATLAB on beamformer and various windowing techniques and also developed null steering algorithm. We successfully implemented a reception beamforming system on a Digital Signal Processor which enhanced the desired spatial signal and significantly suppressed noise and interference.
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We were awarded A grade for the project and also earned nomination for the award of best design project in Electrical Department in 2009.

Partners: Kiran Ali and Marya Sharf
2007-2009
Other Selected Projects
- Simulation of Pulse Doppler radar in Simulink, MATLAB(2009)
- Low pass analog filter using switched capacitors (2008)
- LCD Based Video Game using 8051 micro-controllers (2007)