Students Ghada Abdelmoumin Graduate Student, Computer Science Department Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: (540) 200-1075 gabdelmo@vt.edu Second year PhD student in Computer Science. MY Research areas include but not limited to Computer Science Education(CSE), Object-Oriented Programming, Object-Orietned Software Engineering. Tony Atkins Graduate Research Assistant, Macroergonomics and Group Decision Systems Laboratory Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: anthony.atkins@vt.edu Studying social presence and mixed-mode communications, such as when one user in a teleconference communicates using an audio/video feed, and another communicates using only a chat window or an audio feed. Jian Chen Graduate Research Assistant, 3DI Group Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: 3050 Torgersen Hall 540-231-2641 540-231-6075 jichen8@vt.edu http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~jichen8 I entered Computer Science Department, VT in Fall 2002 as a Ph.D. student. Research areas include virtual reality, data visualization, human-computer interaction, and computer vision. Dissertation work is in domain-specific interaction techniques (NSF project) See also 3DI group home page. Chandresh Chhatpar Ph. D Candidate, Department of Computer Science Graduate Assistant, Conservation Management Institute Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: 565 McBryde Hall 540-250-1965 cchhatpa@vt.edu None Second year PhD student in Computer Science. Research areas include but not limited to Multiplatform interfaces, Information Visualization, Web applications and architectures. Glenn Fink Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Human-Computer Interaction Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: 102 McBryde Hall 540-961-0159 540-231-6075 finkga@vt.edu http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~finkga PhD student in Computer Science since Fall 2002. Research areas include Computer Security and Information Visualization. Dissertation work concerns defining an intersection for these two. See also My Home Page for more info. Ji-Sun Kim Graduate Student, Center for Human-Computer Interaction Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: hideaway@vt.edu http://people.cs.vt.edu/~hideaway/ My interests are in 3D user interfaces that augment both the real world and the virtual world. Seonho Kim Graduate Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: 2030 Torgersen Hall 540-231-3615 http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~haebang/ Fourth year Ph.D student in Computer Science. Anticipated graduation: Fall 2007. Academic advisor: Dr. Edward A. Fox. Research areas include Information Retrieval, Digital Library, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Visualization, NLP, and Machine Translation. See also Digital Library Research Laboratory web site. Sujatha Krishnamoorthy Graduate Teaching Assistant for the multidisciplinary Cyberarts course Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: 102 McBryde Hall 540-231-2756 not available sukrish2@vt.edu http://java.cs.vt.edu/public/users/sukrish2/ Master's student in Computer Science. Interests include Information Visualization, Usability Engineering, Psychology, post secondary education and HCI. Master's thesis is in Information Visualization: making information visualization tools learnable for novice users. Young Seok Lee Graduate Research Assistant, Assessment and Cognitive Ergonomics Laboratory at Human Factors options. Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: 519J Whittemore Hall 540-231-9237 youngLee@vt.edu Third year PhD student in Human Factors in Industrial and Systems Engineering. Research advisor: Tonya L. Smith-Jackson I have been working on cellular phone user interface design and usability Testing for years. My work experience includes 1) running focus groups, 2) running usability testing, 3) qualitative data analyses such as conversation analysis and action observation, 4) quantitative data analyses using SAS, and 5) developing prototypes. Research interests include user interface design for mobile computing, usability engineering, ubiquitous computing, digitizing education, and information visualiztion. Qing Li Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Human-Computer Interaction Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: 102 McBryde Hall 540-231-2756 qili2@vt.edu http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~qili2 PhD student in Computer Science. Research areas include information visualization (InfoVis) and usability study on InfoVis tools. See also Laboratory for Infomation Visualization. Cyril Montabert Graduate Student, Center for Human-Computer Interaction Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: 104 McBryde Hall (540) 231-7409 Cyril.Montabert AT vt.edu http://people.cs.vt.edu/~cmontabe I am a masters student in Computer Science working under the supervision of Dr. Scott McCrickard on notification system design. My research interests include software and knowledge reuse, requirements engineering processes, and usability engineering. My thesis work involves adapting task modeling strategies to dual-task environments for relating scenario-based design to critical parameters in order to foster requirements quality and introduce a reuse mechanism at the requirements analysis phase. Enid Nicole Headen Montague Laboratory for User-Centric Innovations in Design (LUCID) Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: 559 Whittemore Hall enid.nicole at vt.edu none I am a doctoral student in Industrial and Systems Engineering: Human Factors researching human factors interventions for women's healthcare systems. Ali Ndiwalana Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: 104c McBryde Hall 540-231-7409 ally @ vt.edu PhD student in Computer Science, started in Fall '01, works under Scott McCrickard. Research interests include ubiquitous computing, usability engineering, notification systems, HCI education. Andrew Perez-Lopez 540-232-5392 aperezlo@vt.edu http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~aperezlo/ Second year MS student in Computer Science. None Con Rodi Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Human-Computer Interaction Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: 3160a Torgersen Hall 540-231-7542 540-231-6075 conrodiATvt.edu http://java.cs.vt.edu/public/users/crodi/ I am a doctoral student in Computer Science researching HCI design methods and theory to the domain of community design, in particular when the object of design is used by a large and diverse audience. We are researching a design methodology based on scenario-based design and implemented as on line collaborative story writing, prioritization, and claims analyses. By leveraging on line technologies a more democratic and extensive user participation seems probable. As a research and test case, this project supports the Provost's office $8M effort to redesign teaching and learning spaces (classrooms) at Virginia Tech. Somewhere in the neighborhood of forty classrooms will be renovated over the next few years. The community design project will facilitate interaction with the classroom stakeholders (faculty, students, facilities, custodians, etc.) while the administration supported by consultants deliberates which classrooms should be modified and how. Visit the VTspace web site to follow the progress of this initiative. Lally Singh Graduate Research Assistant Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: 3030G Torgersen Hall hsingh@vt.edu http://127.0.0.1 Starting up a PhD. We'll see what happens. Jacob Somervell Graduate Student, Center for Human-Computer Interaction Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: 104 McBryde Hall 540-231-7409 NA jsomerve@vt.edu http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~jsomerve/ PhD student in Computer Science. Research interests include notification systems, large screen display technology, usability evaluation, developing evaluation methods, and comparing methods. Dissertation work is in developing and testing new evaluation methods for large screen information exhibits. students/Snook Manas Tungare Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Human-Computer Interaction Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: 3160a Torgersen Hall 540-230-7275 540-231-6075 manas@vt.edu http://www.manastungare.com/ I am a second-year Ph.D. student at the Center for HCI at Virginia Tech. My work involves exploring the disruptions users face when migrating a task from one platform to another (task disconnects), and developing systems to achieve seamless task migration across multiple platforms. In the past, I interned at Google with the Google Desktop team. Scott Turner Graduate Student, Center for Human-Computer Interaction Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: scturner@vt.edu Second year Masters student in Computer Science. Research interests include user interfaces, usibility design, and CS education. Chad Wingrave Graduate Research Assistant, 3D Interaction Group, Center for Human-Computer Interaction Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: 3050 Torgersen Hall (540) 392-1168 (540) 231-6075 cwingrav@vt.edu http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~cwingrav I received a Masters in CS at Virginia Tech and am returning for a PhD after serving at Georgia Tech. I research Virtual Reality interaction with an emphasis on the human, good architectures and complexity for simplicity in design. Beth Yost Graduate Student, Center for Human-Computer Interaction Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: 102 McBryde Hall 540-231-2756 none beyost@vt.edu http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~beyost PhD student in Computer Science working under Chris North. Research interests include information visualization and computer supported cooperative work (CSCW). Dissertation work is in the creation of design guidelines for multiple view visualizations. Xiaoyu Zhang Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Human-Computer Interaction Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: 3050 Torgersen Hall 540-231-6281 zhangxy@vt.edu http://www.nvc.cs.vt.edu/~zhangxy Second year PhD student in Computer Science. I am researching distributed virtual environment and web based human-computer interaction. Student Alumni These former students have gone on to other roles and organizations. These are their last entries into the student directory. We wish them all the best in their new careers. Jamika D. Burge Graduate Student, Center for Human-Computer Interaction jamika(AT)vt.edu http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~jaburge/ (Graduated 2007) PhD in computer science. My research interests include Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and social computing, psycholinguistics, and usability engineering. My Master's work (computer science) focused on epistemology and knowledge representation in the context of modeling human and non-human agents. Deborah Tatar, PhD, is my advisor. Robert Capra Center for Human-Computer Interaction rcapra [at] vt [dot] edu http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~rcapra/ (Graduated 2005) PhD in Computer Science. Advisor: Manuel Pérez-Quiñones. Research areas include information refinding, voice user interfaces, mobile access to information, and multi-platform user interfaces. Dissertation work is on information refinding. For more information, see my publications page. Miranda Capra Graduate Student, Assessment and Cognitive Ergonomics Laboratory Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: mcapra [at] vt [dot] edu http://www.thecapras.org/mcapra/ Dissertation: Usability Problem Description and the Evaluator Effect in Usability Testing, http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03222006-201913/ Mir Farooq Ali Graduate Student, Computer Science Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: 525 McBryde Hall 540-231-1927 540-231-6075 mfali@vt.edu http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~mfali Ph.D. student in Computer Science. Research interests include Multi-Platform user interfaces, Accessibility, User interface software. students/Ganoe Jon Howarth Center for Human-Computer Interaction jhowarth@vt.edu http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~jhowarth (Graduated 2007) PhD in computer science. My primary work is in usability engineering, but I also have general interests in CSCW. My dissertation work involved developing an infrastructure for usability problem analysis. Kibum Kim Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Human-Computer Interaction Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: 3160 Torgersen Hall kikim@vt.edu Pardha S. Pyla Graduate Teaching Assistant, Dept. Of Computer Science Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: 565 McBryde Hall 540-231-3986 540-231-6075 pardha@vt.edu I am a third year PhD student in Computer Science. My research interests include HCI and Software Engineering. My dissertation work focuses on design representations for supporting software engineering and usability engineering life cycles under a common development framework. Mary Pinney Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Human-Computer Interaction Office: Phone: Fax: Email: Homepage: mpinney@vt.edu none Second year masters student in Industrial & Systems Engineering. Wendy Schafer Center for Human-Computer Interaction wschafer@vt.edu http://java.cs.vt.edu/~wschafer/WebPage (Transferred to College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University.) Research interests include computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), map software programs, fisheye views, virtual environments, and social effects of the Internet. Dissertation work looks at spatial collaboration in both 2D and 3D environments. Graduates students associated with the CHCI can add themselves to this page using textthese instructions. :: Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech :: Contact: Dr. Francis Quek, Director Dr. Andrea Kavanaugh, Associate Director 2202 Kraft Drive, KWII Building (0902) Blacksburg, VA 24060 tel: (540) 231-3188 or 231-1806 fax: (540) 231-9218 CS Department Driving Directions Intranet /public/chci/site/students.html Login | Web Editor | Full Editor Last modified 9/14/07 2:16 PM by kavan (history) Site contents