Human Factors/User Experience

Pfizer, Inc. Global Clinical Supply (GCS) Data Product Operating Model

This project will explore how a structured operating model can support the lifecycle of data products—from concepts and planning through implementation and continuous improvement.

Enhancing Early Literacy-Building Apps with Improved Audio Understanding

Light Box

APH has partnered with Olin College's SCOPE program to modernize one of its most widely used educational tools for students with blindness or who have low vision: the APH Mini-Lite Box.

Push Test- Continued Automation

As part of New Balance’s continual work to improve associates' work experience while maintaining high-quality standards, the SCOPE students built upon the 2025 SCOPE team's work to develop a highly-automated solution, creating tooling that reduces the manual tests and improves the consistency of the quality check.

Crosswalk Safety Automation

This team explored opportunities to automatically identify the presence of pedestrians and activate safety measures to improve pedestrian safety.

Redesign of the Child Care Search Tool for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

The SCOPE team worked with the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care through a user-oriented collaborative design process to improve on the current family user experience finding child care with a redesign of the Child Care Search tool, making it faster and easier for families to find the resources they need.

Data Illuminators: Scalable Data Collection for Nighttime Crosswalk Lighting

Our SCOPE team aimed to provide a streamlined, efficient data collection method and analysis process to inform decisions of street lighting and pedestrian-vehicle safety teams for 2-3 municipalities in Massachusetts and beyond.

Empower: A Consent Framework for Health Data

The 2024-2025 collaboration between Microsoft Research NERD's Project Resolve team and Olin College’s SCOPE team focused on creating a public-facing consent framework for the community served by flok Health. The project emphasizes secure, ethical data handling practices and seeks to build trust within health communities by prioritizing informed consent.

Creating Generative-AI Powered Learning Systems to Facilitate Equitable K-2 Literacy Education

The BU WISE SCOPE team worked with generative AI models to create a web-app that will act as a “literacy buddy" for students and a teaching assistant for teachers.

CNC Conformal Coating Machine

A semi-automatic robotic spray-coating machine for simplifying and accelerating Blue Origin’s current in-house PCB rework process.

SparkCharge Roadie V3 Environmental Hardening

A major obstacle to the widespread adoption of electric vehicles is the inability to refuel as efficiently as their internal combustion counterparts. SparkCharge, a leader in mobile EV charging solutions, currently serves markets across the United States, with services ranging from out-of-charge assistance to large-scale fleet charging. To ensure SparkCharge products are capable of providing consistent and reliable coverage at all times, the SparkCharge SCOPE team aimed to introduce retrofittable solutions to the Roadie V3 system that eliminate vulnerabilities during severe weather conditions.

VIEW 2.0: Direct Vision Assessment System

Our SCOPE team collaborated with the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, the Santos Foundation, and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) to reinvent VIEW, a blind-zone measurement tool for vehicles and a crowd-sourced database of blind-zones created by the 2017-2018 SCOPE team. VIEW 2.0 will be used to help design, select, and deploy safer vehicles, demonstrating the importance of direct vision for traffic safety involving vulnerable road users. 

Sustainable Investing: Developing a Novel ESG Tool for the Next Generation of Investors

Our SCOPE team developed OVBI (Olin Value Based Investing), an experimental accessible and user-friendly values-based investing tool that could serve as a comprehensive method for evaluating and grading different companies based on their genuine practices.

Blue Origin: PCB Rework Station

In this project, our team worked closely with Blue Origin’s research and development lab to understand the standards and difficulties of PCBA rework and designed a workstation to revolutionize this process. This station is self-contained and significantly reduces lead times, allowing Blue Origin to complete all rework in-house.

Dassault Systemes Customer Adoption Experience

The 2022-23 Dassault SCOPE team researched user journeys and created prototypes to reduce the complexity and provide a more seamless onboarding and discoverability experience for current and future customers of 3DEXPERIENCE Works. 

Digitizing Ford: Building a Future Community

The 2022-23 Ford SCOPE team focused on women in motorsports, with an emphasis on connecting with and building a future community among aspiring women in racing through digital channels.