Heather Cole is a senior at Virginia Tech, majoring in Computer Science. She is graduating in December and is looking forward to this course bringing together two of her favorite pastimes (creativity/art and coding/technology).
She is passionate about education, equal rights, and the environment. A few possibilities of a project she would like to be a part of would be one that evokes emotion, educates the user, or creates an experience for the user that allows them to empathize with something they may not have before.
Heather is experienced in full-stack web development, graphic design, photography, and UI/UX design. She has also taken classes in mobile software development (iOS), GUI programming, and human-computer interaction. Most of her work can be found in her portfolio at hlcole.com/portfolio.
Hi, Heather. Glad that this course has a good combination for you. Looking forward to your project to involve the things that you are passionate about. “Empathize with something” is very intriguing. My research agenda about computer-mediated empathy was influenced by this book and I have a feeling that you will love this book (or at least see the author’s talk) http://realizingempathy.com/