UX METHODS - Card Sorting - Competitive Analysis - Contextual Inquiry - Diary Studies - Ethnography - Experiment Design - Eye Tracking - Focus Group - Heuristic Evaluation - Interviewing - Participatory Design - Persona - Surveying - Usability Testing DATA ANALYSIS - Data Mining - Excel - Matlab - R - SPSS - Statistical Analysis - SQL - Tableau PROGRAMMING - C/C++ - CSS - HTML - Javascript - Python LANGUAGE - Chinese - English TEACHING EXPERIENCE - SI 110 Introduction to Information Science - SI 429 E-Communities - SI 500 Information in Social Systems - SI 588 Fundamental of HCI
SERVICE - Reviewer for ACM CSCW 2015 – 2017 - Reviewer for ACM CHI 2015 –2017
RESEARCH INTERESTS My research interests lie in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer-Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) and Social Computing. I am especially interested in how information technologies support collaborations in online and offline communities. EDUCATION University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI Ph.D. in Information Science 2012 – 2017 Michigan State University East Lansing, MI M.A. in Psychology | Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience June 2012 Peking University Beijing, China B.S. in Psychology June 2009 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Research Assistant | University of Michigan, School of Information 2012 – present • Conducted ethnographic research, interviews and surveys to understand the design and
collaboration process of civic hacking and civic hackathon. • Planned survey, content analysis, and interviews to understand nonprofit organizations social
media use and provided design suggestions to the Great Lakes Clean Communities portal. • Conducted survey and content analysis to understand Facebook users’ privacy and
information seeking behaviors. Research Fellow | Shanzhai City, San Francisco, CA Aug – Dec 2016 • Planned and conducted mobile surveys and interviews to investigate the social impact of
Beijing Design Week on local communities. • Synthesized and compiled findings to inform the design of GIS visualization portal and social
impact data analytic dashboard. UX Research Intern, Events | Facebook, Menlo Park, CA June – Aug 2015 • Conducted competitor analysis to explore the best practices of competitor events apps. • Lead user interviews and large-scale surveys to understand users event discovery behaviors
to improve Facebook events discovery dashboard and events recommendations algorithms. • Planned and conducted prototype testing on early stage Facebook events product concepts. UX Research Intern, Ads Research | Facebook, Menlo Park, CA June – Aug 2014 • Planned and conducted card sorting and large-scale surveys on 1000+ SMB advertisers ads
creation experience and contributed to the redesign of Facebook ads creation product. • Conducted interviews to investigate SMB advertisers' user experience of Facebook Ads Preferences to inform the design of Facebook Ads Preferences and ads targeting products.
• Conducted exploratory data analysis on large-scale user photos data to understand Facebook users photo sharing behaviors and inform the design of Facebook Moment app.
Research Assistant | Michigan State University, Department of Psychology 2009 – 2012 • Planned and conducted lab experiment, eye-tracking and fMRI studies to investigate the
neutral mechanism of visual perception and attention. • Performed multivariate analysis, classification analysis and clustering analysis on large-scale
neuroimaging data to investigate high-dimensional neural patterns. Market Research Intern | Millward Brown, Beijing, China Aug – Sep 2008 • Analyzed 3000+ consumer survey data and created market research reports for 10+ social
media products of Tencent, Chinese largest information technology company.
Youyang Hou PhD Candidate in HCI with strong quantitative and qualitative research background and seeks UX Research position
http://youyangh.people.si.umich.edu [email protected]
210 Calderon Ave Apt 6, Mountain View, CA, 94041 (517) 643-4937
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