Projects

Research, accessible systems, interactive experiments, and websites currently being developed.

Websites and digital platforms

MICA Digital homepage hero: Canadian websites and digital experiences against a dark blue space backdrop

Canadian digital studio · Web design, UX, development

MICA Digital

MICA Digital is my studio for Canadian small businesses. I design and build mobile-first websites, redesign existing sites, and develop custom interactive features. The work includes UX, accessibility, e-commerce, content, and SEO.

Explore MICA Digital for service details, interface studies, and project examples.

  • Website design & redesign
  • UX & accessibility
  • E-commerce & SEO
  • Custom interactive development
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Animal care · Information architecture

Alien Arboreal

A living animal-care and natural-history platform covering husbandry, individual animals, family histories, pairings, observations, and evidence-based care guides.

  • Animal care
  • Structured content
  • Responsive web
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Small-business website

Whisked Away

A mobile-first home-bakery website with menus, vegan offerings, custom-order requests, availability guidance, galleries, policies, and an e-transfer payment flow.

  • Service design
  • Forms
  • Mobile-first
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Professional portfolio

SavannahSidle.com

This portfolio is also an active project: a custom GitHub Pages site for research, systems, applications, advocacy, and selected professional background.

  • Jekyll
  • GitHub Pages
  • Accessible design

Accessible systems

Current build · Dementia accessibility

EZ-TV

An accessible media system for people living with dementia. Resident and caregiver interfaces simplify television, music, family photographs, schedules, help requests, and remote support while reducing cognitive load.

  • Accessibility
  • Cognitive design
  • Voice interaction
  • Caregiver tools
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Games and applications

Current build · Browser game

Gecko Escape

A 2D browser game built with HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript. Playable animals use distinct movement systems while navigating domestic environments designed as platforming levels.

  • Game systems
  • Canvas
  • JavaScript
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Current build · Browser game

ToxicFox

A branching narrative game centred on a fox, with movement and animation modelled on natural animal locomotion.

Current build · Browser game

Creature Chaos

A character-driven browser game with transformations, custom controls, and roster-based play.

Current build · SwiftUI application

Ferbalicious Remote

A SwiftUI app that controls a Furby over Bluetooth, with voice triggers, speech, custom audio, and downloadable content.

Current build · Biology-based game

The Newt’s Journey

A survival game structured around the developmental stages, biology, movement, regeneration, and ecological pressures of Chinese fire-bellied newts.

  • Biological systems
  • Game design
  • Canvas
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Human–AI interaction and research

Master’s research · Human–AI interaction

User Trust of Adaptive Self-Aware Interfaces

A mixed-methods study of trust, comfort, and perceived safety when interfaces detect changing conditions and adapt autonomously. Scenarios examined unfamiliar networks, degraded connectivity, extended absence, and proactive system intervention.

  • Trust calibration
  • Adaptive systems
  • Mixed methods
  • Human factors

Research framework

Embodied Adaptive Interface Framework

A conceptual framework for interfaces that perceive relevant environmental conditions, adapt behaviour, and communicate context-sensitive responses. The framework connects HCI, embodied cognition, psychology, and adaptive systems.

  • Context awareness
  • Embodied cognition
  • Explainability

Usable security · Human–AI interaction

Behavioural Language, Privacy, and Trust

Experimental and interview research examining how descriptions of chatbot memory, monitoring, and persistence affect privacy expectations and trust.

  • Privacy
  • Conversational AI
  • Thematic analysis

Collaborative applied AI project

AI Sustainability and Indigenous Food Sovereignty

A group-developed prototype exploring food insecurity, climate adaptation, sustainability, and Indigenous Food Sovereignty through community-centred technology.

  • Responsible AI
  • Food sovereignty
  • Community context

Research · Assistive technology

Brain–Computer Interface Framework

A multidisciplinary analysis of EEG, fNIRS, usability, accessibility, privacy, and security, with a proposed five-stage framework for user-centred brain–computer interaction.

  • BCI
  • Accessibility
  • Biosensors