Past & Present People in the HCI group:

1989

1994

1998

1999

2001

It is an active goal of the HCI group to develop strong interpersonal ties and develop professional relationships between current and prior members. To facilitate this, all members, from undergrad through faculty level, are encouraged to participate in the HCI discussion class, and social events are often planned.

Faculty Sarah Douglas Anthony Hornof (See Cognitive Modeling site) Ph.D. Students Shasta k Willson Temporal Integration of Tactile vs. Kinesthetic Perception of Relative Magnitude (Advisor S. Douglas) Masters Students

and Cedar.

Alumni

• Ph.D. Students
  • Yolanda Reimer Information assimilation in the Digital Age: Developing support for Web-based notetaking tasks. December 2001 (Advisor S. Douglas)
    Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Montana,
    
  • Ted Kirkpatrick, Force plus graphics is not equal to vision plus haptics: Towards usable haptic environments. August 2000 (Advisor S. Douglas)
    Assistant Professor, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser Univ.,
    
  • Christopher Hundhausen, ALVIS: a low-fidelity sketching system for algorithm visualization. June 1999, (Advisor S. Douglas)
    Assistant Professor, Computer Science Dept., Washington State University,
    
  • Eckehard Doerry, An empirical comparison of copresent and technologically-mediated interaction based on communicative breakdown. December 1995, (Advisor S. Douglas)
    Assistant Professor, Computer Science Dept., Northern Arizona University
    
  • Donna (McKeown) Leacock, (Psychology Ph.D.) Senior Developer, Intuit Inc.
    
  • Anant Kartik Mithal, Using psychomotor models of movement in the analysis and design of computer pointing devices. August 1995, (Advisor S. Douglas)
    SunSoft Developer Products, Sun Computers
  • Keith Downing, The use of teleology in the qualitative evaluation and explanation of circulatory systems. June 1990, (Advisor S. Douglas)
    Professor, Norweigian University of Science and Technology
    
  • David Novick, Control of mixed-initiative discourse through meta-locutionary acts: A computational model. December 1988, (Advisor S. Douglas)
    Professor and Head, Computer Science Dept. Univ of Texas at El Paso
• Masters Students
  • Sekhar Putcha, Hyperframes: an XML system for curricula. June 2002, (Advisor S. Douglas)
    
  • Zeineb Delel Chaabouni, Diplom Arbeit Thesis (from the University of Karlsruhe). A user-centered design of a visualization language for sorting algorithms. March 1996, (Advisor S. Douglas)
    
  • Markus Brandes, Diplom Arbeit Thesis (from University of Stuttgart). Using Markov models in speech recognition. June 1994, (Advisor S. Douglas)
    
  • Don Hubbard, User performance evaluation of color models. June 1991, (Advisor S. Douglas)
    Software Engineer, Vignette Corp.
  • Rune Skarbo, Towards a pattern language for user-interface design. June 1990, (Advisor S. Douglas)
  • Gary Smithrud, Microworld. March 1990, (Advisor S. Douglas)
  • Janice Bradford, Recognition of hand-printed characters. June 1989, (Advisor S. Douglas)
    President, Design Threads, Inc.
  • Kevin Looney, Modeling intention in computer-generated musical performance. June 1989, (Advisor S. Douglas)
  • Daniel Udovic, Modeling and simulation in biology. June 1989, (Advisor S. Douglas)
  • Lisbeth Duncan, Natural language interfaces. 1984, (Advisor S. Douglas)
    Natural Language & Human Computer Interfaces, The Boeing Company
• Undergraduate Students
  • Jeff Axup, June 1999, (Advisor S. Douglas)
    Interface Engineer, The Performance Technologies Group
  • Leigh Williams, June 1999, (Advisor S. Douglas)
    Research Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Lab
  • Jade Rubick, Honors College thesis: Group Communication on the Internet June 1997, (Advisor S. Douglas)
  • Peter Esbensen, Honors College Thesis: Multi-media scientific databases. June 1996, (Advisor S. Douglas) Agilent Corp.
  • Clifford Keele, Honors College Thesis. Neural networks of language learning. June 1990, (Advisor S. Douglas)
  • Sylvia Weaver, Honors College Thesis. A theory of metaphor for natural language processing. December 1986, (Advisor S. Douglas)
  • Beth Moursund, Honors College Thesis. Developing a Dungeons and Dragons adventure game. June 1985, (Advisor S. Douglas)