Tele.i is a haptic telepresence project that enables people to 'teleport'. The device enables people who are seperated by distance to ‘stay together’ and maintain the sense of physical presence through multimodal telecommunication, including haptic interaction.
Tele.i is designed for everyday usage with safety and usability consideration, especially for elderly.
Hello! is a mobile app to empower refugee women who are illiterate and cannot speak host country language to live their maximum potential. The app provides them ways to connect with labour market and society, pursue education, learn things that are needed in daily life and get help when they face challenges or abuse.
In this project, an iterative Design Thinking combined with User Centered Design has been done, as well as a deep dive research on the users and society. This was to ensure that the solutions address the real problems that the users are actually facing, and the app was designed according to the users' mental model to communicate the message effectively.
ECO56 is an online marketplace for sustainable products with the aim to bring citizens, local businesses, local farmers and government together to support society and planet in a fun way. The app enables users to scan product and interact with eco information through Augmented Reality.
"The team has created a solution that addresses 4 out of 5 of the biggest carbon emission polluters in a fun and engaging way through app based service that uses AR and data from SCB, Konsumentverket and others sources. We believe this will have the possibility to make citizens take more conscious purchase decisions." - Hack for Sweden
ARwalk is a time and location based Augmented Reality app that functions as an information, marketing, payment and crowdfunding platform. It brings people, businesses, social organizations and local government together to support the society in a fun and engaging way. ARwalk provides a win-win solution for all stakeholders, which makes our business model sustainable.
Surgeon Academy is an interactive installation in Universeum for kids to practice surgical operations with a fun experience. The goal of this project is to grow their interest in medicine and inspire them to pursue career in medical related area.
BELL. is a set of mobile app and smart ring that help women to stay safe from sexual assault and bring perpetrators to justice. It can be used in grey area, and when women can’t decide when to fight or what action to take. It only requires women to do a micro-movement to activate the functions, hence even during the ‘freeze up' state, women can activate easily.
"I have had the great pleasure of knowing Helen for several years. She joined Octagon Studio in April 2016 and worked with the product development of our Virtual Reality headset. Helen improved the design to maximize the usability and user experience, while reducing the production costs and complexity. Helen was the primary contact with manufacturers and suppliers in China and was responsible with all commercial negotiations with them."
"Helen was a great team player and I would have no hesitation to recommend her to any potential employer or business partner."
"Helen and I worked together, as teammates, in a hackathon "Hack for Sweden" in April 2019. She was proactive and takes the role of a leader and decision-maker when our team needed it."
"She's an effective project manager as she makes sure that tasks were done when it needed to be. She was also an effective designer. I believe she will be an asset and a force to any team she will be joining."
"I worked together with Helen for 3 months. She is a passionate designer, a hard working teammate and always try to give her best for the company. She doesn't mind staying late in the office to finish deadlines. She also helped the company with communications with vendors and worked with people with different expertises."
"It is fun to hang around her and exchanging ideas!"
"I met Helen at a hackathon several years ago and kept working together since then on multiple projects. She is very talented with great mind full of creativity."
"She is very social and easy to work with, don't mind to go 110% for the project to see it done!"
"Helen and I worked together as teammates in Hack for Sweden hackathon, in April 2019.
She displayed zeal, eagerness and high professionalism."
"She is an honest person with whom I could work again."