About me

Methods

Discovery

  • Comparative analysis and market research

  • Personas and journey maps 

  • Task analysis & user flows

  • Service design blueprint

Testing

  • Heuristic evaluation & cognitive walkthroughs

  • User testing, A/B testing, & think aloud

  • Interviews & focus groups

  • Observation research & contextual inquiry

  • Survey design

  • Design thinking

  • Data analysis (qualitative & quantitative)

Prototyping & Mapping

  • Affinity maps & mood boards

  • Documentation

  • Sitemaps, card sorts, & info architecture 

  • Wireframes

  • Sample prototypes

  • Content writing, article writing, & blog writing

  • Creative writing

Overview of projects I worked on

  • User research of government website offering career and training services

  • User research for data uploading and observation portal of immunization, case, and other healthcare data

  • User research of APIs and sites that distribute of healthcare claims data

  • Developing a user research playbook

  • Creating a food service app

  • Research and design of mentoring support tools for underrepresented minority computing undergrads

  • Improving an academic resource listserv

  • Design thinking for a history education app

  • Identity research on Black computing students and professionals

  • Investigating hip-hop culture within academia

  • Grant and contract proposal writing

  • Course evaluation

Me outside of work

  • Black and LGBTQIA+ social equity

  • UX and service design in the workplace

  • Horror, dark fantasy, true crimes, comedy,

  • Theme parks, roller coasters, and traveling

  • Hip hop, r&b, and pop music and culture

  • Sociology, psychology, behaviorism, 

  • Social media, modeling photography

Who I’ve worked with

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My articles

  1. Cummings, R. T. Huff, E. Mack, N. A., Womack, K., Reid, A., Ghoram, B., Gilbert, J. E., & Gosha, K. (2020). An exploration of Black students interacting with computing college and career readiness vlog commentary social media influencers. IEEE Journal of Computing in Science and Engineering. DOI: 10.1109/MCSE.2020.3005635

  2. Mack, N. A., Mackroy, K., Cook, C., Cummings, R. T., Pittman, T., & Gosha, K. (2020). Evaluating a cybersecurity training program for non-computing major undergraduate ROTC students. Proceedings of RESPECT’20: the 2020 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology conference, Portland, OR.

  3. Simley, T., Mack, N. A., Pittman, T., Cook, C., Cummings, R. T., Moon, D., & Gosha, K. (2020). Assessing the efficacy of integrating computer science, math, and science in a middle school sphero robotics summer program. Poster session proceedings of RESPECT’20: the 2020 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology conference, Portland, OR. (Accepted)

  4. Cummings, R. T., Lowens, B. M., Nelson, W., & Gosha, K. (2019). Computing resilient identity development and maintenance of Black Americans who earned a Ph.D. in computing. Proceedings of FIE’19: Frontiers in Education Conference, Cincinnati, OH.

  5. Nelson, W., Cummings, R. T., & Gosha, K. (2019). A Qualitative Investigation on the Effectiveness of a Computing Identity Development Emailing List for African American Computer Scientists. 2019 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). doi:10.1109/fie43999.2019.9028570

  6. Mack, N.A., Cummings, R.T., & Moon, D., & Gilbert, J.E. (2019). Co-Designing an Intelligent Conversational History Tutor with Children. Proceedings of IDC '19: 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children. Boise, ID: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3311927.3325336.

  7. Cummings, R. T. (2019). Black struggle film production: Meta-synthesis of Black struggle film production and critique since the millennium. The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) Journal of Media, Communication & Film, 6 (1), 65-84.

  8. Huff, E. W., Nias, J., Cummings, R. T., Mack, N. A., & Gosha, K. (2019). Atlanta Code Warriors: A CS engagement pilot initiative. Proceedings of HCII’19: the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Orlando, FL: Springer. (poster).

  9. Mack, N. A., Huff, E. W., Cummings, R. T., & Gosha, K. (2019). Exploring the needs and preferences of underrepresented minority students for an intelligent virtual mentoring system. . Proceedings of HCII’19: the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Orlando, FL: Springer. (poster).

  10. Huff, E. W., Mack, N. A., Cummings, R. T., Womack, K., Gosha, K., & Gilbert, J. E. (2019). Evaluating the usability of pervasive conversational user interfaces for virtual mentoring. . Proceedings of HCII’19: the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Orlando, FL: Springer.

  11. Hampton, L., Cummings, R. T., & Gosha, K. (2019). Improving computer science instruction and computer use for African American secondary school students: A focus group exploration of computer science identities of African American teachers. Proceedings of ACM SIGMIS’19: ACM Special Interest Group Management and Information Systems Conference. Nashville, TN: ACM.

  12. Cummings, R. T., Chambers, B., Reid, A., & Gosha, K. (2019). STEM hip-hop pedagogy: A meta-synthesis on hip-hop pedagogy STEM interventions tools for underrepresented minorities in K-12 education. Proceedings of ACM SE’19: ACM Southeast Conference. Kennesaw, GA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3299815.3314431

  13. Cummings, R. T. Huff, E. Mack, N. A., Womack, K., Reid, A., Ghoram, B., Gilbert, J. E., & Gosha, K. (2019). Vlog commentary YouTube influencers as effective advisors in college and career readiness for minorities in computing: An exploratory study corpus for a conversational agent designed to prepare interested Black undergraduates for the professoriate in STEM. Proceedings of RESPECT’19: the 2019 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology conference, Minneapolis, MN: Curran Associates, Inc.

  14. Cummings, R. T. Dennis, S., Mack, N. A., Nias, J., & Gosha, K. (2019). Developing a question corpus for a conversational agent designed to prepare interested Black undergraduates for the professoriate in STEM. Proceedings of RESPECT’19: the 2019 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology conference, Minneapolis, MN: Curran Associates, Inc.

  15. Mack, N., Womack, K., Huff, E., Cummings, R. T., Dowling, N., & Gosha, K. (2019). From midshipmen to cyber pros: Training minority Naval Reserve Officer Training Corp students for cybersecurity. Proceedings of the SIGCSE’19: Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education 2019 Conference. Minneapolis, MN: Sheridan Communications.