Hi! I'm Hannah Johnston,
Canadian UX designer at Google NYC

I've been at Google for the past six and a half years. I'm currently a design lead for Cloud Storage, including Bigtable.

I previously worked on variety of rich answers for the Google Search results page, including: finance, movie showtimes, dictionary definitions, sports scores & standings, and nutrition info.

My background is in Information Technology and Information Systems Science.
As a student, I worked with physical input systems and made active video games.

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Projects

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Publications

• H. Johnston and A. Whitehead, “Pose Presentation for a Dance-Based Massively Multiplayer Online Exergame“, Entertainment Computing, Volume 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 89-96.
• A. Whitehead, H. Johnston, K. Fox, N. Crampton, and J. Tuen, “Homogeneous Accelerometer-Based Sensor Networks for Game Interaction”, ACM Computers in Entertainment, 2010.
• A. Whitehead, H. Johnston, N. Nixon, and J. Welch, “Exergame Effectiveness: What the Numbers Can Tell Us”, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Video Games. Los Angeles, USA, 2010.
• H. Johnston and A. Whitehead. “Distinguishing Games, Serious Games, and Training Simulators on the Basis of Intent”. ACM Futureplay at GDC Canada. Vancouver, Canada, 2009.
• R. Khaled, P. Barr, H. Johnston, and R. Biddle (2009). “Let's Clean Up This Mess: Exploring Multi-Touch Collaborative Play”. ACM SIGCHI Work-in-Progress. Boston, USA, 2009.
• A. Whitehead, N. Crampton, K. Fox, and H. Johnston. “Sensor Networks as Video Game Input Devices”. ACM FuturePlay. Toronto, Canada, 2007.
• A. Whitehead, N. Crampton, K. Fox, and H. Johnston. “Dance, Dance Evolution: Accelerometer Sensor Networks as Input to Video Games” in HAVE - IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Audio Visual Environments and their Applications Ottawa, Canada, 2007.

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Contact

Contact me: hannahj@gmail.com

I'm also on Twitter: hannahjdotca

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Last updated: Nov 2016