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				While I was an undergraduate at Georgia Tech, I did research under <a href="https://www.cc.gatech.edu/home/thad/">Thad Starner</a>, working on developing <a href="https://gvu.gatech.edu/research/projects/passive-haptic-learning">Passive Haptic Learning (PHL)</a> as a solution for introducing users to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenotype">computer stenography</a>.
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				With guidance from <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZRnEqnkAAAAJ">Caitlyn Seim</a>, I designed user studies, then built hardware, firmware, and software to power these studies. I ran tests, analyzed the results, iterated (a lot), and finally developed a working system. This work was the subject of my <a href="https://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/61370">undergraduate thesis</a> as well as a conference publication:
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							T. J. Aveni, C. Seim and T. Starner, “A preliminary apparatus and teaching structure for passive tactile training of stenography,” <em>2019 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC)</em>, Tokyo, Japan, 2019, pp. 383-388.
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				Below is a video of a presentation I gave on the topic at the Georgia Tech UROP Symposium in Spring 2018. This is from an earlier version of the work, before we had finalized and perfected the system.
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				I also assisted with the development of another paper by developing some of the core Android code used in its user studies:
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							C. Seim, R. Pontes, S. Kadiveti, Z. Adamjee, A. Cochran, T. Aveni, P. Presti, T. Starner. “Towards Haptic Learning on a Smartwatch,” <em>ISWC ’18</em>. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2018
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