About Our Team
We are a team of 4 HCI students at the University of Michigan School of Information. Our team is comprised of:
Mike Harmala
Mike is a second-year HCI student and went to UM for his undergraduate degree as well, in Economics and Classical Civilization. He likes design, usability, and all things HCI. But he also likes to talk to and learn from new people all the time. He values intelligence and public servitude as the heart of a great politician, but having cool websites and marketing helps too…
Debra Lauterbach
Debra is a second-year HCI student originally from Iowa, where she completed Bachelors degrees in Computer Science and Psychology from Iowa State. She is interested in a career in user experience research, though she really likes playing with and visualizing data and networks too. Debra’s biggest loves are coffee, technology, and Barack Obama, though not necessarily in that order, and her biggest goal with this project is to have Obama see their visualizations.
Noah Liebman
Noah is a first-year HCI student hailing from glorious South-East Michigan. His grand scheme is to use this project to visually expose ways he can exploit and manipulate the government to act in his favor. Barring that, he’ll have to rely on more traditional forms of fraud, like shelling out large sums of money to a certain corrupt governor of another Midwestern state in order to secure a seat in the US Senate. While not occupied with trying to take over the world, Noah can be found franticly pressing Reload on Apple’s website waiting for a 32 GB iPhone to appear.
Mark Goetz
Mark is a second-year HCI student originally from the wondertastic (and underrated!) state of New Jersey. He holds a Computer Science degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (which is not in Rochester). He loves user experience research, visualization, data analysis, hockey and sustainability, and dislikes bad interfaces, driving, and talking about himself in the third person. Wait a minute…
