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BJ Fogg: Behavior Design for Better Health application CS377T

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This document provides information about Rio Akasaka, a 2nd year MSCS student focusing on HCI. It outlines their relevant experience, including being head TA for CS147 for two years and internships at Google and IDEO. It also lists skills such as founding two startups and developing projects involving Twitter data and an iPhone app. Rio discusses their interest in behavior change and product management and provides examples of work coordinating experiment design. The document promotes Rio as a candidate for CS377T and provides additional personal details.

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CS377T Application Rio Akasaka @rioakasaka
In a few words, Rio is... a 2nd year MSCS student focusing on HCI, head TA for CS147 for the past two years. previously a Google APM intern, IDEO Knowledge Sharing intern On Twitter at @rioakasaka and online at rioakasaka.com and blogging at rioleo.org since 2003 Looking to go into industry with a product management role
Skills and Knowledge
Skills and Knowledge Founder of two startups: pinolio.com and justnearme, the latter of which was used in MS&E 237, Andreas Weigend's Social Data Revolution class.
Skills and Knowledge Developed and presented my TwitterDots project, a semi- realtime tweet geolocator for specific keywords to an audience at LinkedIn.
Skills and Knowledge Presented an iPhone app called AudioNorm hacked during the 24-hour TechCrunch Disrupt 2010 with two friends.
ASK ME ABOUT THIS WALLPAPER SOMETIME Why I want to be in 377T As someone who wants to be in product management, understanding users is paramount, and understanding behavior design is critical in designing good, useful and adoptable products.
Behavior Change Published an extended abstract at CHI '11 with Neema and yourself: The role of commitment devices and self-shaping in persuasive technology Coordinated experiment design on processing social cues in decision- making and how designers can correct for biases with Abhay Sukumaran in COMM 268
Ultimate Target Behavior Goal: an alumnus donates to Stanford Green path: We want them to adopt a new behavior and keep doing it.
Sequence Notify (trigger) alumni who are financially able to donate money (ability) by mailing a letter from a current student in the alumnus's major. Actions: 1. Determine an alumnus's major and/or participated societies and current employ using LinkedIn. 2. Select from a database or ask a sample of students to write letters to alumni describing their current activities at school. 3. Provide incentives or rewards to students for writing, and additional incentives to hand-sign. 4. Notify or mail letters to alumni. 5. Encourage alumni to stay in touch with student.
The Fun Things I play the banjo, clawhammer style, but still learning! I once traveled all the subway stations in Paris for a Guinness World Record attempt (but they said no). Single child, swimming and avid cyclist and former firefighter.
Extra Credit Neema Moraveji was in the July 20, 2012 New York Times article "Students at Stanford Work on Apps that Alleviate Stress"
Thank you for reading! More? rioakasaka.com

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BJ Fogg: Behavior Design for Better Health application CS377T

  • 1. CS377T Application Rio Akasaka @rioakasaka
  • 2. In a few words, Rio is... a 2nd year MSCS student focusing on HCI, head TA for CS147 for the past two years. previously a Google APM intern, IDEO Knowledge Sharing intern On Twitter at @rioakasaka and online at rioakasaka.com and blogging at rioleo.org since 2003 Looking to go into industry with a product management role
  • 4. Skills and Knowledge Founder of two startups: pinolio.com and justnearme, the latter of which was used in MS&E 237, Andreas Weigend's Social Data Revolution class.
  • 5. Skills and Knowledge Developed and presented my TwitterDots project, a semi- realtime tweet geolocator for specific keywords to an audience at LinkedIn.
  • 6. Skills and Knowledge Presented an iPhone app called AudioNorm hacked during the 24-hour TechCrunch Disrupt 2010 with two friends.
  • 7. ASK ME ABOUT THIS WALLPAPER SOMETIME Why I want to be in 377T As someone who wants to be in product management, understanding users is paramount, and understanding behavior design is critical in designing good, useful and adoptable products.
  • 8. Behavior Change Published an extended abstract at CHI '11 with Neema and yourself: The role of commitment devices and self-shaping in persuasive technology Coordinated experiment design on processing social cues in decision- making and how designers can correct for biases with Abhay Sukumaran in COMM 268
  • 9. Ultimate Target Behavior Goal: an alumnus donates to Stanford Green path: We want them to adopt a new behavior and keep doing it.
  • 10. Sequence Notify (trigger) alumni who are financially able to donate money (ability) by mailing a letter from a current student in the alumnus's major. Actions: 1. Determine an alumnus's major and/or participated societies and current employ using LinkedIn. 2. Select from a database or ask a sample of students to write letters to alumni describing their current activities at school. 3. Provide incentives or rewards to students for writing, and additional incentives to hand-sign. 4. Notify or mail letters to alumni. 5. Encourage alumni to stay in touch with student.
  • 11. The Fun Things I play the banjo, clawhammer style, but still learning! I once traveled all the subway stations in Paris for a Guinness World Record attempt (but they said no). Single child, swimming and avid cyclist and former firefighter.
  • 12. Extra Credit Neema Moraveji was in the July 20, 2012 New York Times article "Students at Stanford Work on Apps that Alleviate Stress"
  • 13. Thank you for reading! More? rioakasaka.com