Emilie Zhang's Portfolio
Hi, I'm Emilie,
an HCI researcher, UI/UX designer, game designer, and writer--lighting up the world in an explosion of color. As Media Arts & Sciences and English double major, I love exploring the intersections between computer science, narratives, design, and artistry.
In my free time, I love reading, watching anime, and performing straight-sword at Wushu! (email me if you want to see some very cool straight sword action.)
Sample Projects
UI/UX
Game Design
HCI Research
Wellesley 2022 Designathon First Place: Aibly
We focused on the issue of inclusion and designed a fitness app for people with disabilities. We iterated over numerous designs in two days. Our design won 1st place. (Figma)
MIT CMS/W Trope Tank: Biblically Accurate Angel Dating Simulator
Playing as a sunflower with spotty memory, this is a game that raises questions about truth and reality, dreams and sacrifice (Ren'py, Python)
MIT Media Lab: Frisson
We built a device meant to trigger "aesthetic chills." Our paper was accepted to leading HCI conference: the 2022 ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI)
(Figma)
MIT Game Lab, Scheller Arcade: PSims
Tragedy of the Commons (ToC) is a game in the PSims series used by 1000+ educators worldwide. As the leading UI/UX designer, I redesigned both the teacher & student dashboard (Figma)
Wellesley Playable Media Lab: Voices in My Head
This is a 3D third-person PC game revolving around the "truth" that happened 400 years ago. As both game designer and narrative designer, we designed this to be one chapter of a whole (Unity, C#)
Wellesley HCI Lab x Credibility Lab: Credbot
As the software developer, I developed a chatbot in the form of a chrome extension using AI LLMs to check website credibility. Paper in progress (HTML, CSS, Javascript, Open AI API)