Eve Schade

A customizable multimodal conversational tour guide for autonomous vehicle passengers, supporting location-aware engagement and spatial learning.

• Designed and implemented a multimodal conversational user interface combining voice input, touch, and real-time map synchronization.
• Architected event-driven pipeline: continuous speech transcription → multi-layered LLM intent detection and data extraction → response generation → text-to-speech
• Evaluated in a 270° lab simulator (n=12): UEQ-S 1.10, NASA-TLX 32.4%, 67% would choose AI over human driver, 3.3 landmarks recalled per route.

Published as a single-author, open-access paper in the Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (2026). Code archived on Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.15699734.

Gamified exploration app using fog-of-war mechanics and social leaderboards to motivate real-world discovery.

• Scaled from CHI 2023 research prototype to production app with 10,000+ downloads and 3,000+ active users.
• Designed core gamification and engagement systems driving retention and daily usage.
• Architected full-stack infrastructure: Flutter client, backend services, cloud hosting, CI/CD.
• Managed privacy-preserving data architecture with geospatial processing largely on-device, and global production operations.

An end-to-end multilingual RAG system for studying algorithmic influence on political information-seeking.

• Built the full RAG pipeline: ingestion, embedding, vector storage, retrieval, and LLM generation.
• Designed a dual-interface study (chatbot and mock search) with document classification (pro, neutral, against) and weighted ranking across three languages.

A spirit level mobile application that uses sonification to provide detailed real-time auditory feedback on spatial orientation. Designed for accessibility, allowing visually impaired users and those working overhead to level surfaces entirely by ear.

• Led cross-platform Flutter development for iOS and Android, UI/UX design, and project website.
• Integrated PureData to synthesize real-time auditory feedback mapping phone tilt angles to sound.
• Co-authored the academic research paper (ICAD 2021).