George Duan

George is a designer with the heart of an engineer and the spirit of a craftsman.

George’s foundation in industrial design began at The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). George loves to experiment with materials and technology. He dedicates himself to designing and making cool and unexpected objects. At the RCA, George has developed skills in the design and construction of machine learning models and explored the use of AI in the design process.

George has been featured on design websites many times and won some awards. He is always working on designing things that people care about, and finding ways to become rich. Please email me if you can help!

For his group project this year, George was part of a team that conducted an experiment-driven research project on the nature of human/AI relationships.

Their process culminated in the development of AIDEA.

Reshare is a website that allows educators to easily, also legally compose, and deliver educational videos using videos that already exist online. It allows educators to communicate their ideas more precisely. making youtube videos a more suitable and appropriate educational resource.

Using YouTube videos as an educational tool is not new and has been proven that it can add a lot of value to a course.  Tied with benefits, YouTube videos have many inherent problems when shared directly with students. 

From interviews, surveys, and online studies, we can conclude that the teacher’s main concern is the inconsistent quality or accuracy issue of YouTube videos. The biggest pain point of students is that they often receive many video links at once, and have trouble finding the explicit intention of the teacher sharing the video. 

Those two concerns can be solved by making derivative videos, editing the YouTube videos down to a concise version, but teachers can face multiple challenges in the process of editing YouTube videos. Video editing requires the teacher to invest a lot of time and can add an extra burden to the teacher. More importantly, The current pipeline of editing existing Youtube videos involves many illegal actions.