HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN & ENGINEERING
CAPSTONE SHOWCASE
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HCDE undergraduate and graduate students complete a Capstone Project as a culminating experience that synthesizes materials learned across all courses within their degree program.
HCDE Capstone Projects provide the opportunity for students and industry partners to work together to address real-world issues using human-centered design and engineering. Capstone projects are student-run, large-scale projects that encompass two quarters of student work.
2026 HCDE Capstone Projects
2026 HCDE Capstone Projects
Air & Space, Travel
Air & Space, Travel
ForeFlight: Enabling Connection Among Pilots (Table: 1)
ForeFlight: Enabling Connection Among Pilots (Table: 1)
Sponsor: Jeppesen ForeFlight
HCDE Bachelor's Team
Students: Natalie Enman, Emma Robins, Sophie Messer, Siya Mistry
Blue Origin: Improving Digital Postcards Experience (Table 2)
Blue Origin: Improving Digital Postcards Experience (Table 2)
Sponsor: Blue Origin
HCDE Bachelor's Team
Students: Chaelynn Lim, Christian Chung, Lorelai Harris, Naomi Huang
Aviation Professional Networking: Integrating In-Person Event Discovery into Digital Workflows (Table 3)
Aviation Professional Networking: Integrating In-Person Event Discovery into Digital Workflows (Table 3)
Sponsor: Jeppesen ForeFlight
HCDE Bachelor's Team
Students: Hannah Huang, Sophia Mai, Erika Ni, Elle Yamamoto
Uber: Re-imagine rider‘s pickup experience at large events (Table 4)
Uber: Re-imagine rider‘s pickup experience at large events (Table 4)
Sponsor: Uber
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Yiyang Li, Jessica Hsu, Nayoung Lee, Bingchan Zhao
Uber: Conversational AI for Real-Time Driver Communication (Table 53)
Uber: Conversational AI for Real-Time Driver Communication (Table 53)
Table 53
Sponsor: Uber
HCDE Masters's Team
Students: Lester Dery, Sanchita Shetty, Yasmin Salih, Damini Sheth
Computing, Data, & Digital Technologies
Computing, Data, & Digital Technologies
Pacific Northwest National laboratory: Improving the Accessibility Towards High-Performance Computing Systems and Resources through Open OnDemand (Table 26)
Pacific Northwest National laboratory: Improving the Accessibility Towards High-Performance Computing Systems and Resources through Open OnDemand (Table 26)
Sponsor: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
HCDE Bachelor's Team
Students: Jessica Cao, Logan Tuttle, Pimnipa Thawai, Tegan Holt
Racket Records: The Volley Mobile App Assessment Redesign (Table 27)
Racket Records: The Volley Mobile App Assessment Redesign (Table 27)
Sponsor: Volley
HCDE Bachelor's Team
Students:Devon Castillo, Kai Atalig, Madeline Clinton, Samuel Chen
Corresi Mobile Experience: Improving Access to Class Action Settlements (Table 28)
Corresi Mobile Experience: Improving Access to Class Action Settlements (Table 28)
Sponsor: Corresi
HCDE Bachelor's Team
Students: Jade Tran, Gwyneth Balite, May Sy, Seungyeon Noh
Corresi: Connecting Class Action Lawyers to Clients (Table 29)
Corresi: Connecting Class Action Lawyers to Clients (Table 29)
Sponsor: Corresi
HCDE Bachelor's Team
Students: Sushma Shankar, Deveshi Modi, Madison McLean, Athena Ortega
Auburn Adventist Academy: Connecting Community through Digital Interactions (Table 30)
Auburn Adventist Academy: Connecting Community through Digital Interactions (Table 30)
Sponsor: Auburn Adventist Academy
HCDE Bachelor's Team
Students: Ayesha Khan, Brianna Smith, Simone Chadha, Zahra Hassan
From Access to Adoption: Rethinking Enterprise Tool Sharing and Discovery (Table 31)
From Access to Adoption: Rethinking Enterprise Tool Sharing and Discovery (Table 31)
Sponsor: Amazon
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Amy La, Trushaa Ramanan, Zainab Tanveer, Seamus McPeake, Bri Tran
Empowering Non-technical Users with the Power of AI & Automation through Intelligent Workflow Elicitation (Table 32)
Empowering Non-technical Users with the Power of AI & Automation through Intelligent Workflow Elicitation (Table 32)
Sponsor: Latch (fka Super Labs)
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Manya Singh, Reshma Lokanathan, Sarika Oberoi
Palace: Personal memory infrastructure for living and working with AI agents (Table 33)
Palace: Personal memory infrastructure for living and working with AI agents (Table 33)
Sponsor: Student-led
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Asim Sayed
Teams Up: Smarter Meetings, Safer Decisions (Table 34)
Teams Up: Smarter Meetings, Safer Decisions (Table 34)
Sponsor: Microsoft
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Chonnipa Kanapornchai, Han Khuong, Ayumi Oishi, Tsai-Ping Kuo
Reimagining the Google Cloud Documentation Experience for the AI Era: From Static Content to Agent-Driven Task Execution (Table 35)
Reimagining the Google Cloud Documentation Experience for the AI Era: From Static Content to Agent-Driven Task Execution (Table 35)
Sponsor: Google Cloud
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Viridiana De La O, Earl Kim, Jimin Kim, Yechan Choi
Witness: A Context-Aware, Traceable Platform for Procurement and 3-Way Matching (Table 36)
Witness: A Context-Aware, Traceable Platform for Procurement and 3-Way Matching (Table 36)
Sponsor: Amazon Business
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Apoorva Goyal, Lori Cai, Shreya Saxena, Xiaokun Lu
UW Research Budgeting Simplification (Table 37)
UW Research Budgeting Simplification (Table 37)
Sponsor: UW Office of Research Information Services
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Jiyae Choi, Shivangi, Nirmal Nayade, Oey Chang
Recruit Smarter: Search Like You Think, Hire Who Fits (Table 38)
Recruit Smarter: Search Like You Think, Hire Who Fits (Table 38)
Sponsor: Lumeir Jobs
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Amanda Ong, Ariel Yu, Ruoqing Cheng, Ting Cheng
Smart Researcher Hub: Helping Researchers Discover and Be Discovered (Table 39)
Smart Researcher Hub: Helping Researchers Discover and Be Discovered (Table 39)
Sponsor: UW Office of Research Information Services
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Yit Chung, Gloria Guo, Ko Motonaga, Shay Duan
ORIS Research Hub: Connecting UW Research to the World (Table 40)
ORIS Research Hub: Connecting UW Research to the World (Table 40)
Sponsor: UW Office of Research Information Services
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Inika Gupta, Sharayu Kute, Kayda Norman, Rupal Patel
Smart Triage: AI-Assisted Routing for University Research Agreement Administration (Table 41)
Smart Triage: AI-Assisted Routing for University Research Agreement Administration (Table 41)
Sponsor: CoMotion at the University of Washington
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Jieqiong Ding, Xinyu Guo, Yuchen Yao, Zhuoyi Zhang
Liner: New collaborative AI deep research (Table 42)
Liner: New collaborative AI deep research (Table 42)
Sponsor: Liner AI
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Jen Chenyu Zhang, Jenn Koh, Yuan Fang, Monica Zhang
Designing Adaptive Mobile Experiences for Fragmented Learning (Table 43)
Designing Adaptive Mobile Experiences for Fragmented Learning (Table 43)
Sponsor: Study.com
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Apoorva Hurakadli, Dina Chawla, and Heru Wang, Cathy Ma
PactPath - Unifying UW Research Agreement Triage (Table 44)
PactPath - Unifying UW Research Agreement Triage (Table 44)
Sponsor: CoMotion at the University of Washington
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Tingwei Shen, Ruiqi Chen, Will Yuan
Akkadian: AI-Powered Course Design for Higher Education Instructors (Table 45)
Akkadian: AI-Powered Course Design for Higher Education Instructors (Table 45)
Sponsor: Akkadian
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Minji Han, Avleen Kaur, Jacqueline Yan, Sweta. B
Show, Don't Tell: Redesigning the Hiring Process for Culture Fit (Table 46)
Show, Don't Tell: Redesigning the Hiring Process for Culture Fit (Table 46)
Sponsor: Lumeir Jobs
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Anoushka Halder, Christie Lee, Maggie Zhang, Ria Vijay, Yehyun Kim
An interpretable voice cloning system that helps creators understand and control how their voice is built (Table 47)
An interpretable voice cloning system that helps creators understand and control how their voice is built (Table 47)
Sponsor: Salesforce AI Research
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Alex Chung, Gahui Yun, Soyun Moon, Mingjin Zhang
Entertainment
Entertainment
Deepening GenZ's engagement at Seattle Art Museum (Table 18)
Deepening GenZ's engagement at Seattle Art Museum (Table 18)
Sponsor: Seattle Art Museum
HCDE Master's Team
Students: TingYin Kuo, Celia Tsao, Pooja Narain, Kinjal Vora
Sony: Reimagining At-Home Sports Viewing with AI (Table 19)
Sony: Reimagining At-Home Sports Viewing with AI (Table 19)
Sponsor: Sony
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Luciana Cheung, Zack Wang, Wei Hu, Maggie Lu
Sony Tailgate: Your Gameday, Amplified (Table 20)
Sony Tailgate: Your Gameday, Amplified (Table 20)
Sponsor: Sony
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Courtney Mills, Sal Abdm, Vinh Trinh, Leah Chen
PatentQuest: An Interactive Game for Learning Patent Filing Process (Table 21)
PatentQuest: An Interactive Game for Learning Patent Filing Process (Table 21)
Sponsor: CoMotion
HCDE Bachelor's Team
Students: Peter Yang, Siheng Li, Varun Hariharan, Oliver Chen
Behind the Edmonds Historical Museum: Preserving Stories from Temporary Exhibits (Table 22)
Behind the Edmonds Historical Museum: Preserving Stories from Temporary Exhibits (Table 22)
Sponsor: Edmonds Historical Society and Museum
HCDE Master's Team
Students: George Zhang, Brendan Sallee, Conor Miles, Sonali Arbune
EA Games: Enhancing Gameplay Through Second-Screen Experiences (Table 23)
EA Games: Enhancing Gameplay Through Second-Screen Experiences (Table 23)
Sponsor: EA Games
HCDE Bachelor's Team
Students: Yuri Yang, Sue Jo, Sam Lopez, Annie Chang
Beyond the Gallery: Optimizing the SFMOMA Online Shopping Experience (Table 24)
Beyond the Gallery: Optimizing the SFMOMA Online Shopping Experience (Table 24)
Sponsor: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
HCDE Bachelor's Team
Students: Maya Gillaspy, Stephen Lines, Jessica Forcucci, Meredith Winiarski
Fandango at Home: The Integrated Streaming Experience (Table 25)
Fandango at Home: The Integrated Streaming Experience (Table 25)
Sponsor: Versant Media
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Savannah Buchanan, Saatvik Agrawal, Shanna King, Ishita Kohli
Environment, Sustainability & Energy
Environment, Sustainability & Energy
Bellevue Botanical Garden: Redesigning the Digital Garden Experience (Table 5)
Bellevue Botanical Garden: Redesigning the Digital Garden Experience (Table 5)
Sponsor: Bellevue Botanical Garden
HCDE Bachelor's Team
Students: You Wu, Irene Huang, Heidi Wang, Kristian Mingoy
From Interest to Impact: Improving Engagement for Acting Globally (Table 6)
From Interest to Impact: Improving Engagement for Acting Globally (Table 6)
Sponsor: Acting Globally
HCDE Bachelor's Team
Students: Cara Huynh, Kristine Cho, Joey Choi, Katherine Kang
Safe Streets, Shared Spaces: Reimagining School Streets for Community (Table 7)
Safe Streets, Shared Spaces: Reimagining School Streets for Community (Table 7)
Sponsor: Seattle Streets Alliance (formerly known as Seattle Neighborhood Greenways)
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Anita Nwude-Chenge, Ben, Zheng, Itzel Alonzo, Sara, Alvarado
Designing for 2035–2040: Shaping Healthier Transportation Choices in Our Cities (Table 8)
Designing for 2035–2040: Shaping Healthier Transportation Choices in Our Cities (Table 8)
Sponsor: Building H
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Inhauck Choi, Ruthvik Panchakshari, Jesse Yu, Ambika Ramesh Menon
The Shape of Circularity: Reimagining the Shoreline Tool Library as a Reuse Commons (Table 9)
The Shape of Circularity: Reimagining the Shoreline Tool Library as a Reuse Commons (Table 9)
Sponsor: Seattle REconomy
HCDE Bachelor's Team
Students: Jane Pietsch, Olivia Stovall, Jack Strickland, Theo Tzankov
Health (Mental and Physical) & Medicine
Health (Mental and Physical) & Medicine
Insight Lab redesigns LMS dashboards for Tmind AI (Table 10)
Insight Lab redesigns LMS dashboards for Tmind AI (Table 10)
Sponsor: Tmind AI
HCDE Bachelor's Team
Students: Valentina Filizola, Jordyn Vo, Anita Daniel, Khamesh Mittal
MindBridge: AI-Guided Matching for Effective Therapy Supervision (Table 11)
MindBridge: AI-Guided Matching for Effective Therapy Supervision (Table 11)
Sponsor: Tmind AI
HCDE Bachelor's Team
Students: Kristi Kim, Richard Zhang, Erzhen Wei, Aniyah Chau
iCUP: A Better Cup to Pee In (Table 12)
iCUP: A Better Cup to Pee In (Table 12)
Sponsor: UW Department of Urology
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Shiori Pathak, Jessica Wysor, Jessica Applegate, Rachel Griffing
Fred Hutch: Redesigning Digital Mental Health Support for Collaborative Cancer Care (Table 13)
Fred Hutch: Redesigning Digital Mental Health Support for Collaborative Cancer Care (Table 13)
Sponsor: Fred Hutch Cancer Center
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Michelle Northfield, Kalei Munsell, Lin Huang, Alice Lee
Miliki (Table 14)
Miliki (Table 14)
Sponsor: Shades of Divinity
HCDE Master's Team
Students: M'Nya Preston
Brave Steps: Empowering Culturally Isolated Families to Self-Advocate at Pediatric Hospitals (Table 15)
Brave Steps: Empowering Culturally Isolated Families to Self-Advocate at Pediatric Hospitals (Table 15)
Sponsor: Student-led Speculative Project
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Katherine Hess, Jackie Greisen, Samantha Uppalapati, Julie Wang
Bloodworks: The New Generation (Table 16)
Bloodworks: The New Generation (Table 16)
Sponsor: Bloodworks Northwest
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Chang Zeng, Janet Chen, Gily Yu, Yuri Kawada
Find your Type: Transforming Blood Donation into a GenZ Social Meet-Up (Table 17)
Find your Type: Transforming Blood Donation into a GenZ Social Meet-Up (Table 17)
Sponsor: Bloodworks Northwest
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Jeff Hendrickson, Anna Choi, William King, Sam Xiao
Infrastructure, Society & Community
Infrastructure, Society & Community
Sound Transit Information Architecture (Table 48)
Sound Transit Information Architecture (Table 48)
Sponsor: Sound Transit
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Aashika Ashok, Jane Guo, Catherine Pan, Amy Lee
Spilt Milk Nannies: Reimagining the Caregiver Experience (Table 49)
Spilt Milk Nannies: Reimagining the Caregiver Experience (Table 49)
Sponsor: Spilt Milk Nannies
HCDE Bachelor's Team
Students: Sophia Tang, Zoe Martin, Anushka Sharma, Spriha Sahni
Covalence: Pioneering Outreach Strategies for the Rainier Valley Food Bank (Table 50)
Covalence: Pioneering Outreach Strategies for the Rainier Valley Food Bank (Table 50)
Sponsor: Rainer Valley Food Bank
HCDE Bachelor's Team
Students: Michelle Nguyen, Wenyi Tsai, Justis Peppin, Angel Torres
Complex Human-Computer Interaction (CHCI) (Table 51)
Complex Human-Computer Interaction (CHCI) (Table 51)
Sponsor: Student-led
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Saumik Shashwat, Xiaoyi Xue
Reimagining Accessibility for King County Park Planning (Table 52)
Reimagining Accessibility for King County Park Planning (Table 52)
Sponsor: King County Parks
HCDE Bachelor's Team
Students: Alisha Bose, Nupur Gorkar, Lena Trieu, Kiefer Law
Engineering Equity: Co-Creating an Inclusive Makerspace with the Kitsap Community (Table 54)
Engineering Equity: Co-Creating an Inclusive Makerspace with the Kitsap Community (Table 54)
Sponsor: Kitsap Create
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Haneen El-haj, Sarah Moon, Maza Hailu, Tobias Brown
Sieg MakeLab: Redesigning for Community Building and Inclusive STEM Education (Table 55)
Sieg MakeLab: Redesigning for Community Building and Inclusive STEM Education (Table 55)
Sponsor: UW HCDE
HCDE Bachelor's Team
Students: Darby Moore, Sehrish Daud, Jordyn Padzensky, Rhiannon Hayes-McQueen
ACES: Accessibility, Community and Education of Corresi's Class Action Mobile App (Table 56)
ACES: Accessibility, Community and Education of Corresi's Class Action Mobile App (Table 56)
Sponsor: Corresi
HCDE Bachelor's Team
Students: Ally Dang, Carson Nakagawara, Emi Nakata, Sofia Walton
Climate in Common: Redesigning Internal Communication at 350 Seattle (Table 57)
Climate in Common: Redesigning Internal Communication at 350 Seattle (Table 57)
Sponsor: 350 Seattle
HCDE Bachelor's Team
Students: Olivia Cowan, Cody Trinkaus, Ruby Steiner, Tucker Swarens
Huddl: Designing the Intangible - A Team Chemistry Tool for Collegiate Sport (Table 58)
Huddl: Designing the Intangible - A Team Chemistry Tool for Collegiate Sport (Table 58)
Sponsor: Team Chemistry Design
HCDE Master's Team
Students: Siddharth Hardikar, Sahini Komandla, Ralph Chang, Signe Slater
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