https://www.savinahawkins.com/work-2 daily 0.75 2021-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5525f5bbe4b096c5844026c6/1517897402548-T773IBSEQLUBE226J1S6/1.png Project Archive 2016-2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5525f5bbe4b096c5844026c6/1517897588048-3N4WHOEU870VDS1HH6K9/Cleo.png Project Archive 2016-2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5525f5bbe4b096c5844026c6/1517899472125-VAXSH0O1X1MMVH03PYDG/Group+5.png Project Archive 2016-2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5525f5bbe4b096c5844026c6/1517936666822-KPY3NODOU48CILQ45BJ8/Group+2.png Project Archive 2016-2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5525f5bbe4b096c5844026c6/1517893737498-HDPT0FSEFMI25HKSG5ZQ/Ideadate2.png Project Archive 2016-2018 - Idea-Date: Making Online Dating a More Inclusive Enviornment HMW: increase matches on dating apps for categorically under-matched users? Solution: IdeaDate is an intervention for existing dating apps that primes users with images of interracial and non-heteronormative couples. Studies show that certain ethnic groups experience many fewer matches than other ethnic groups.This is bad for the users *and* the company; more matches means more engagement and more happy users. We quantitatively tested our prototype and found that the intervention created 24% more matches for the most under-matched racial groups.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5525f5bbe4b096c5844026c6/1517893868307-E4Y8UQ06CDL8F2DWCU43/trala.jpg Project Archive 2016-2018 - Trala: Making the web accessible to the visually impaired HMW: Utilize AI to improve the internet browsing experience for visually imaired and hands-free users? Solution: Trala is a web browser optimized for voice-based browsing. For visually impaired or hands-free web users, it is an entirely new way to surf the web. Trala's machine learning algorithms analyze the visual structure of websites and convert them into a conversational user interface for the Google Home. Trala's engine tags all visual elements of a website including images, text, layout, and aesthetics, and translates them into their intuitive verbal equivalents. After tagging these elements, Trala restructures the information in a format that allows users to have a conversation with the website through their Google Home. When web surfers converse with Trala, they experience an audio equivalent of the full sensory experience of a site. Trala also optimizes the browsing experience by tracking how users access the information through conversation and learning the most popular actions. Trala automatically optimizes and personalizes the conversational UI to provide efficient access that intuits the user's needs. Trala is designed with built-in developer tools so that web developers can easily create robust and beautiful sites that are natively compatible with conversational browsing. In turn, Trala tracks the conversational design choices made by developers to improve its machine learning models and offer a better consumer-side experience for every website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5525f5bbe4b096c5844026c6/1517893790309-OBM4XILAS7TN2YUVQKML/Jubilee.png Project Archive 2016-2018 - Jubilee: Using big data and Beacons to improve the festival experience HMW: Increase spending at festivals while improving the general concert experience for the user? Solution: Jubilee is a live-updating concert map that allows users to stay safe and connected to their friends. Beacon technology allows businesses to ping nearby users with discounts to increase spending during lulls. For festival attendees who desire real-time logistical information and reliable communication methods, our product is a new smartphone app that provides festival goers with a simple way to communicate with friends; share locations and schedules; and navigate the festival’s many entrances, shops and stages.Unlike current, festival-specific apps, our product will be a seamless, standardized platform that automatically uses the user’s location to personalize festival maps and information displayed—there is no longer any need to download festival-specific applications! The app works even when wifi and cell-service are unavailable, so users will never have to worry about losing their friends, getting lost, or missing a performance ever again. The app will improve safety and crowd-control at concerts, as well as providing the consumer with an effortless, safe, and connected festival experience—Something that has never successfully been achieved.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5525f5bbe4b096c5844026c6/1517893948776-AN7UE2O98CYAB3NDR1J0/Makeathon.png Project Archive 2016-2018 - Aias: Fighting Systemic Bias in Artificial Intelligence Models HMW: Give developers the tools to reduce the perpetuation of systemic biases (racial, etc) while developing Artificial Intelligence products? Solution: Aias uses Natural Langauge processing to check for at-risk columns in datasets. Using standard cross-validation procedures, Aias isolates at-risk data and determines the level of bias in the predictions made by the artificial intelligence model. These results are published online so that coders must take responsibility for biased code and create a culture of transparency and awareness for coders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5525f5bbe4b096c5844026c6/1517894653134-5S1UB4R1IX6XZWKIRZCR/IMG_0631+%281%29.JPG Project Archive 2016-2018 - The Death of the Origin Story: Projection Art Visual projection on paper material "The philosopher’s experience of the eternal, which to Plato was arrheton (“unspeakable”), and to Aristotle aneu logon (“without word”), and which later was conceptualized in the paradoxical nunc stans (“the standing now”), can occur only outside the realm of human affairs and outside the plurality of men, as we know from the Cave parable in Plato’s Republic, where the philosopher, having liberated himself from the fetters that bound him to his fellow men, leaves the cave in perfect “singularity,” as it were, neither accompanied nor followed by others. Politically speaking, if to die is the same as “to cease to be among men,” experience of the eternal is a kind of death, and the only thing that separates it from real death is that it is not final because no living creature can endure it for any length of time. And this is precisely what separates the vita contemplativa from the vita activa in medieval thought. Yet it is decisive that the experience of the eternal, in contradistinction to that of the immortal, has no correspondence with and cannot be transformed into any activity whatsoever, since even the activity of thought, which goes on within one’s self by means of words, is obviously not only inadequate to render it but would interrupt and ruin the experience itself.” -Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition   Projected material is sourced en masse via webscraper from tumblrs containing images shot from sattelites/telescopes, microscopes, or google cars. The content is randomly displayed; no sequence is intended. Images projected onto page 20 of Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5525f5bbe4b096c5844026c6/1517893596982-MSTL837F8712WK70L2XS/statsoup.png Project Archive 2016-2018 - StatSoup: Artificial Intelligence for the Music Industry HMW: Use next-gen technology to prevent bad decision-making for music event planners? Solution: StatSoup uses artificial intelligence to accurately forecast the demand for concerts before they are planned to prevent concert companies from throwing shows that lose them money while recommending concerts that maximize their revenue. Learn more here. https://www.savinahawkins.com/contact daily 0.75 2018-02-06 https://www.savinahawkins.com/about daily 1.0 2023-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5525f5bbe4b096c5844026c6/1517937756277-8R6NNPK89CH7DKCPX2YG/IMG_7095.jpg Welcome! - StatSoup Graduating from the Nasdaq Accelerator in 2017.