Ulfa Octaviani

BBC R&D needed to know whether a richer, more visual podcast interface actually improved the listening experience before investing further. I led an end-to-end remote study — recruitment through analysis — that directly shaped the team's next design decisions.

Contributing researcher on a team investigating how people with aphasia and developmental language disorder engage with data visualisation. My focus: co-design sessions and qualitative synthesis to surface accessibility barriers other methods miss.

A self-directed prototype exploring whether an AI agent could ease the biggest bottleneck I'd observed in aphasia research: the time cost of manually annotating gesture and speech. Includes a persona and a full validation study plan.