Question 3: You should also discuss how your personal experiences prepare you to work successfully in diverse and interdisciplinary teams, and toward a more human-centered world. How will your identities, perspectives, and life experiences help you contribute to the HCDE community and the field?
understand ____ differences as an international student
bring to group | work in group in the past
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Besides psychology, I actively work with multi-background people and navigate a diverse academic cultural experiences as an international student. Through my Anthropolinguistics independent research of rich point words, I combined my interest in east-Asian fandom culture and applied Ethnographic and participation investigation methods to research the Chinese word Taitai in which now language and thinking can be mutually influenced. In sociology, I collaborated on a COVID-19 disparities project, examining the disproportionate impact on different social groups/minorities. These experiences prepared me to succeed in the HCDE’s interdisciplinary learning environment and integrate the social science component into human-centered design**.**
Beyond the confidence built in my interdisciplinary studies, I owned solid collaboration skills. In last quarter’s design method course, I worked with several info students who focused on CS than UX and had a disengaged design discussion. To ensure project success, I actively pointed out things we could improve and scheduled group meetings with TA to ensure we have a feasible structured timeline. Finally, I led our team stayed on track.
(something to sum up with in the last paragraph)
what I want to do with it? how those help me to build a more HC world…
multi-background
worked with design people, info, anth, soc, psych
diverse interdisciplinary
international students
different background - differences
personalities
work in group in the past
my info design Methods group course
In which at first the whole group was not very productive as most of them are more emphasized in CS and less value design
In Design Methods course, I faced a major team collaboration challenge: some of my teammates were more interested in CS than UX, leading to disengagement in design discussions.
I actively pointed out things we could improve in group chat scheduled group meetings with TA to ensure we have a feasible plan.
By establishing a timeline and breaking tasks into manageable parts, I ensured that our team stayed on track.