HCI MS Capstone

Industry-Sponsored Capstone Project

Offered every year, the HCI MS Industry-Sponsored Capstone Project is where student teams of three or four work with one of our corporate or community partners to bring the culmination of their HCI MS experience and the materials learned across all courses within their degree to a real-world partner-defined UX product, service, experience design, or research challenge.

To learn more about the HCI MS Industry-Sponsored Capstones and how to partner with us, please contact us at hci@ucsc.edu. If you already have a rough proposal in mind, please click on the button below, and we will get in touch with you shortly!

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HCI MS Industry & Community Partners

Below are our industry and community partners who collaborated with and mentored our HCI MS capstone teams.

2024

Keysight Technologies logo
Microsoft logo
Capstone
accenture logo
hci
HCI
NASA
IBM logo
Nvidia logo

2023

Keysight Technologies logo
Microsoft logo
Nvidia logo
accenture logo
IBM logo
dco.ai tagstream logo
MasterCard logo

2022

MasterCard logo
Mozilla logo
Truist logo
dco.ai tagstream logo
The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals logo

Featured Capstone Projects

Below is a sample of our fantastic alumni’s HCI capstone projects (spanning two quarters in HCI 271 and HCI 272).

2023

Generative AI for Assistive Decision Making in Healthcare
Poster
Team: Hardika Gawde, Tina Shih, Maya Stack, Matthew Tung 
Sponsor: Accenture Labs

Training Foundation Model AI Research
Poster
Team: Franky Dominguez, Naomi Du, Pei Jiun Lin, Siddharth Subramanian
Sponsor: IBM

Pathwave Measurement Analytics
Poster
Team: Rebeka Asryan, Tom Dai
Shivanshi Gupta, Kimia Mostadam
Sponsor: Keysight Technologies

The Data Journey to Precision Medicine
Poster
Team
: Kristina Lapira, Mandi Martin, Dulce Zayas
Sponsor: Microsoft

Trustworthy LLM Chatbot
Poster
Team: Shivani Birajdar, Tam Cao, Jurine Gong, Yi Qing Khoo (Haru)
Sponsor: Nvidia

Master Search
Poster
Team: Emmanuel Ezenwa Jr., Jay Iyer, Sakshi Shah
Sponsor: MasterCard

Designing AI Tools for Humans
Team: Emmanuel Ezenwa Jr., Jay Iyer, Sakshi Shah
Sponsor: DCO.ai TagStream

2022

Sentence Collector User Experience
Team: Justin Grant
Sponsor: Mozilla Common Voice

Mapping User Journeys on DCO.ai TagStreamTM for Education
Team: Marina Castellanos, Andrea Estrada, Selin Ovali
Sponsor: DCO.ai TagStream

Navigator – Closing the (Enterprise Knowledge) Gap & Connecting One Another
Team: Mireya Leon, Victor Li, Julian Davis
Sponsor: Mastercard

Redesigning the ISSIP Digital Membership Experience
Team: Derusha Baskaran, Dylan Hardma
Sponsor: International Society of Service Innovation Professionals

Mapping User Journeys on DCO.ai TagStreamTM for Media
Team: Pariya Samandi, Nathan Stern
Sponsor: DCO.ai TagStream

Truist x Digital Navigators UX Research
Team: Mireya Leon, Victor Li, Julian Davis
Sponsor: Truist Financials

Last modified: May 09, 2024