Slopeframe
A ski-day companion that connects planning, local creators, photo matching, and the memories that remain after the lifts close.
Haoze Ni / Selected work 2025—26
Thinker. Maker. Shaper.
I study people, turn signals into ideas, and shape clearer experiences across marketing, design, and technology.
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A little about me00/ About
A little about me—
before the case studies.
I’m Alex Nee. My work moves between marketing and design—sometimes I’m reading the numbers, sometimes I’m shaping the experience, and usually I’m doing a bit of both.
- 01/ Education
- FH Technikum Wien Sichuan University Syracuse University Boston University
- 02/ Work
- Customer acquisition, SEO, digital analytics, visual design, and Human–AI interaction.
- 03/ Play
- Football, skiing, violin—and anything that rewards rhythm, attention, and practice.
01/ Projects
Basics aren’t
basic.
Each project begins with a person, a tension, or a question. Open any project note for the context, the thinking, and the small choices that gave the work its character.
01 / 03
Understanding the GBH Kids Audience
A study of how nostalgia, parasocial interaction, and familiar characters shape connection across the GBH Kids audience.
More project notes
01 / Mobile product · 2026
Slopeframe
A ski day is more than a set of stats.This concept connects preparation, people, photographs, and the feeling of returning home with a story.
- Role
- Product and interaction design
- Human need
- Keep a fragmented ski day connected
- Focus
- Planning, booking, photo matching, and memories
Designed around the whole day.
Slopeframe brings the practical and emotional parts of skiing into one calm flow: check the mountain, find a photographer, identify your photos, and collect each trip without losing the moment to admin.
02 / Audience research · GBH Kids
Understanding the GBH Kids Audience
What keeps a kids’ media audience connected over time?A GBH Kids audience study exploring nostalgia, parasocial connection, and how familiar media becomes part of personal and social memory.
- Role
- Research framing, theory, analysis, and recommendations
- Question
- How familiarity and attraction shape nostalgia and sharing
- Lens
- Parasocial Interaction Theory + media-induced nostalgia
Research with a memory inside it.
The work translated academic theory into an audience framework that could explain not only what viewers remembered, but why that relationship might still influence attention, affection, and willingness to share.
03 / Independent practice · Ongoing
Nehzova
Founder & Principal.An independent practice where market research, AI search, design, and digital operations can sit at the same table.
- My role
- Founder & Principal
- Built around
- Clearer systems and thoughtful growth
- Status
- Living company practice
04 / Product + data operations
Report Cockpit
Less time assembling reports. More time reading the business.A weekly performance workspace that turns fragmented commerce data into a repeatable path from update to decision.
- Role
- Product design, workflow integration, and analytical UX
- System
- Database extracts, batch CSV updates, and one reusable reporting layer
- Decision flow
- Filter → scan signals → compare periods → drill into the reason
One cockpit, several depths.
The interface supports quick weekly reading without flattening the analysis. Teams can filter by period, target-price band, buyer type, or product; update source data in batches; configure the KPI deck; notice anomalies; then move from a date-focused view into rolling comparisons and product-level detail.
05 / Game design + HCI
MyDreamland
What if a crowded city felt less anonymous?A game concept that uses a conversational companion and place-based interactions to lower the emotional cost of reaching outward.
- Human problem
- Urban loneliness and the high pressure of initiating connection
- Design lens
- CASA—people respond socially to computers that present social cues
- Role
- Game concept, narrative system, and interaction design
Connection starts small.
- 01A companion checks in without judging.
- 02Place-based micro-quests make the city feel discoverable.
- 03Opt-in shared moments create reasons to connect.
- 04Reflection turns isolated events into an ongoing story.
06 / Interactive web + motion
FC25 Teaser
A launch page should create a feeling before it explains everything.An unofficial teaser-site concept using cinematic pacing and progressive disclosure to warm up an audience before release.
- Role
- Concept, visual direction, interaction, and motion
- Experience
- Trailer-first entry, timed reveals, and restrained launch information
- Goal
- Turn a countdown into anticipation rather than noise
02/ Publications
Research for more
trustworthy systems.
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2026
Cross-Platform Epistemic Verification for Improving Factual Reliability in AI-Generated News Summarization
Abstract +A multi-source verification framework that checks generated news summaries against source documents, Wikipedia, and web evidence before making conservative corrections.
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2026
Research and Design of Blockchain-Based Propagation Algorithm for IP Tags Using Local Random Walk in Big Data Marketing
Abstract +A local-random-walk-enhanced label propagation method for discovering communities within cultural and creative IP marketing networks.
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2025
From Detection to Prediction: A Multimodal Deep Learning Framework for Proactive Fall Risk Monitoring in Smart Aging
Abstract +Combines multimodal sensing and temporal learning to move fall monitoring toward personalized, interpretable, and privacy-aware risk prediction.
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2025
A Lightweight Skeleton-Based Fall Detection Framework Using Multi-Dimensional Attention Mechanisms
Abstract +Uses skeleton sequences and multi-dimensional attention to support accurate fall detection in a lightweight architecture designed for real-time CPU deployment.
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2025
Artificial Intelligence-Driven Smart Homecare: A Review of Applications, Challenges, and Prospects
Abstract +Reviews AI-enabled home eldercare with attention to monitoring, usability, interoperability, privacy, ethics, and human-centered interaction.