MAKEFASHION | Designer and Engineer 

ANT+ Symposium 2016 | Shenzhen Maker Fair 2016 | Makefashion Calgary Gala 2017  | Makefashion Calgary Gala 2018  | Makefashion Calgary Gala 2019

THE BRIGADE | iOS Developer

App Updates 2020 - 2021

THE BRIGADE | iOS Developer

App Updates 2016

JAYMAN MASTER BUILT | Student Software Developer 

May 2012 - August 2012

At Jayman my responsibilities are to assists the developers in various tasks. I updated crystal reports, wrote help documentation and I converted all of their forms to a digital format so that they can be accessed and completed on an iPad. 

Languages

D3

C#

JavaScript

HMTL

CSS

Objective-C

Java

Swift 2

Arduino

WPF

Applications

Visual Studio

Xcode

Eclipse

Arduino Editor

Sublime Text 2

Illustrator

Photoshop

InDesign

Microsoft Office 

Tableau

Evoking Empathy: A Framework for Describing Empathy Tools

Sydney Pratte, Anthony Tang, and Lora Oehlberg. 2021. Evoking Empathy: A Framework for Describing Empathy Tools. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 25, 1–15. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3430524.3440644

Exploring Notifications with Pepper’s Ghost Illusion

Sydney Pratte. 2018. Exploring Notifications with Pepper’s Ghost Illusion. Masters Thesis. University of Calgary, Alberta, CA. 

Society of Devices Toolkit and Projected Pixels

Sydney Pratte, Teddy Seyed, Alaa Azazi, Edwin Chan, Yuxi Wang, Frank Maurer 
In F. Maurer (Eds.) "Society of Devices Toolkit and Projected Pixels" in SURFNET / Designing Digital Surface Applications. Calgary, AB: NSERC SurfNet, 2016, pp. 229-240. 

Acquario: A Tangible Spatially-Aware Tool for Information Interaction and Visualization

Sydney Pratte, Teddy Seyed, and Frank Maurer. 2016. Acquario: A Tangible Spatially-Aware Tool for Information Interaction and Visualization. In Proceedings of the 2016 Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI '16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 217. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2983310.2989208 

Multi-Surface Systems for the Emergency Operations Centre of the Future

Edwin Chan, Dan Gonzalez, Mahshid Marbouti, Irene Mayor, Sydney Pratte, Teddy Seyed, Yuxi Wang, Jade White, Frank Maurer. 2016. Multi-Surface Systems for the Emergency Operations Centre of the Future. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Collaboration and Decision Making in Crisis Situations (CADMICS) in ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '16). San Francisco, USA.

Projected Pixels: Exploring Projection Feedback in Multi-Surface Environments

Sydney Pratte, Teddy Seyed, Frank Maurer. 2015. Projected Pixels: Exploring Projection Feedback in Multi-Surface Environments. In the Workshop on Collaboration meets Interactive Surfaces (CmIS), in the Tenth ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS '15), Madeira, Portugal. 

Utilizing Projected Pixels in a Retail Environment

Sydney Pratte. 2014. Utilizing Projected Pixels in a Retail Environment. BSc Honours Thesis. University of Calgary, Alberta, CA. 

Projected Pixels: Exploring Techniques for Feedback in Projection -Enhanced Multi-Surface Environments

Sydney Pratte, Teddy Seyed, Frank Maurer. 2015. Projected Pixels: Exploring Techniques for Feedback in Projection -Enhanced Multi-Surface Environments. In the Workshop on Supporting "Local Remote" Collaboration: Applying and Adapting Remote Group Awareness Techniques to Adapting Remote Group Awareness Techniques to Co-located Settings, in the Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW'15). Vancouver, Canada. 

Exploring Multi-Surface Interactions in Retail Environments

Sydney Pratte, Teddy Seyed, and Frank Maurer. 2014. Exploring Multi-Surface Interactions in Retail Environments. In Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS '14). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 393–398. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2669485.2669552. *Best Poster Award* 

Examining Customer Collaboration in Multi-Surface Retail Environments

Sydney Pratte, Teddy Seyed, Frank Maurer. 2014. Examining Customer Collaboration in Multi-Surface Retail Environments. In Proceedings of the 2nd Collaboration meets Interactive Surfaces Workshop (CmIS) in ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2014 (ITS 2014), Dresden, Germany, 2014. 

Agile Testing: A Systematic Mapping Across Three Conferences: Understanding Agile Testing in the XP/Agile Universe, Agile, and XP Conferences

Theodore D. Hellmann, Apoorve Chokshi, Zahra Shakeri Hossein Abad, Sydney Pratte, Frank Maurer: Agile Testing: A Systematic Mapping Across Three Conferences: Understanding Agile Testing in the XP/Agile Universe, Agile, and XP Conferences. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Agile Methods in Software Development (Agile 2013), Nashville, TN, 2013.