Communications, UX, Speaking and More
Publications
Viva Sarah Press and Hadas Erel. 2022. Designing Non-Verbal Humorous Gestures for a Non-Humanoid Robot. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI EA '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 434, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519924
Oren Zuckerman, Viva Sarah Press, Ehud Barda, Benny Megidish, and Hadas Erel. 2022. Tangible Collaboration: A Human-Centered Approach for Sharing Control With an Actuated-Interface. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 507, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517449
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Helping you tell your story
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Training for effective speech/presentation
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Tips for non-English speakers to tell their story in English
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I coach people on how to tell their stories, how to present face-to-face and via Zoom
Presentation Tips
Journalism & Writing
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I am a veteran journalist and work in many content arenas. My work is published under my name and also as a ghostwriter. I work in these fields: Journalism. Content. Voiceover scripts & recording. Ghostwriting. Digital writing. Educational Textbooks.
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Write and edit text, ghostwrite
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Write text for education centers
Editing & Proofing
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Ensure content is free of typographical, spelling, punctuation, formatting and other errors
Researcher (HCI)
Researcher (media)
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Project Manager for a lab research project that tested the effect of "control" in human-computer interaction
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Observed how humans interact with an actuated interface and design technologies (miLab, Reichman University)
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Gleaned data-driven research insights to understand user experience
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Project Manager for a lab research project testing the effect of "humor" in HRI
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I have been a team member on assignments for television, podcasts, radio and online news productions. Projects with Apple TV, CNN, IBA News, The Baltimore Sun, Reuters, TLV1, among many others.
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Attention to details
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Pre-interviewer
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Eye for a story
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Source information
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Keep tab on and monitor trends