Meet the Group Members
Xiyue Hu
Ruhan Hou
Hello, my name is Xiyue (Katherine) Hu. I majored in industrial design at Pratt Institute in New York for my bachelor's degree. Other than designing, I am interested in exploring topics about well-being, social relationships, and user experiences, which lead me here to study at Georgetown University’s communication, culture, and technology (CCT) program. For more information, please visit https://xhux52.wixsite.com/xiyue
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Contact: xh188@georgetown.edu
I am Ruhan Hou, an international student from China. I studied communication at the University of Washington and I am currently a graduate student in the Communication, Culture, and Technology program at Georgetown University. I am interested in working with human beings. I enjoy talking to people and taking in their perspectives. As a result, I have developed my interest in qualitative research and might pursue a career in this field.
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Contact: rh1158@georgetown.edu
Andrew Peacock
As a graduate student in the Communication, Culture, and Technology Masters Program at Georgetown University, I research how truths are conveyed through the media we consume, and how information is crafted into knowledge. I enjoy telling stories than inspire environmental change and cosmic insight. I hold a B.A. in English from The College of Wooster.
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Contact: anp82@georgetown.edu
Megan Hearst
My name is Megan Hearst and I am currently a graduate student enrolled in the Communication, Culture, and Technology Program at Georgetown. I received my undergraduate degree from Whitman College, where I double-majored in English and Film and Media. After my undergraduate studies I worked in the documentary film field as an associate producer and editor. My background has fed my interest in novel forms of communication and how these developments in media have impacted our information ecosystem.
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Contact: meh352@georgetown.edu
Design justification
Our research statement is predictive emoji as a socio-technical system for computing human emotions. Therefore, including features of emoji is a major part of our website theme. We want the overall theme of the website to be playful and colorful, and that is why we chose bright and saturated colors in our color scheme. To make the visuals comfortable and neutral, we chose purple as the main color, which is the complementary color of the emoji orange color. The main fonts we use are: popping semi bold, open sans, and Futura, which are sans-serif fonts that aim to connect with both circular and smooth shapes of emoji faces. Since there are many texts and graphics on the pages already, we decided to put the menu bar on the right top to show the architecture and contents of our website clearly so the viewer can easily go through the website.
Authored by Xiyue Hu
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*All graphics, images, and fonts on this website are from Wix