Saralin Zassman

Hi, I'm Saralin! *:ﾟ✧

I'm a software developer with a passion for all things computer science and visual art! Currently, I work as a creative technologist at Antimodular Research, the Montreal-based studio of media artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. My role involves both the creation of new interactive artworks and the preservation of existing ones.

Projects

Mindful Scroll (2023)

A mobile application for mindfulness that encourages a slow and deliberate approach to colouring.

Master's thesis, accepted at ACM CHI 2024.

Note: CHI (ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems), is regarded as the top conference in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), ranking #1 on Google Scholar, with an average acceptance rate of 23%. Conference proceedings are the preferred avenue for publication in the field of HCI.

JavaScript 97.9%, CSS 1.4%, HTML: 0.6%

Repo

Speech to Text (2023)

Full-stack react app that converts speech to text using the Web Speech API, and then uses the text to generate a rhyme, poem, haiku and song using the OpenAI API.

JavaScript 83.6%, CSS 10.9%, HTML: 5.5%

Repo

Simple, rule-based chatbot (2021)

Uses Google's DialogFlow for response generation.

Created for a course project (CS 886 - Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence), to study the impact of user interface design on the human-chatbot interaction.

JavaScript 61.1%, CSS 26.1%, HTML 12.7%

Repo

DOM Data (2020)

Uses the Document Object Model of 100 webpages to generate structural priors to improve the vision-based segmentation of web pages.

Completed during my research internship with Dr. Michael Cormier at Mount Allison University.

Python 100%

Repo

Haiku Generator (2020)

Uses Markov chains to generate a large number of sentences from a collection of pre-existing poems. The resulting text undergoes rigorous testing to identify the optimal sequence of words that will be used in the final haiku.

Completed for a course project on computational creativity at the University of Kent.

Java 100%

Repo

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