Sarah Douglas

Associate Professor, Computer and Information Science Department
Director, Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences
and
Fearless Leader of Interactive Systems Group
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon 97403-1202

Phone: (541) 346-3974

Fax: (541) 346-5373

Email: douglas@cs.uoregon.edu

Education

A.B., 1966, Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley
M.S., 1979, Engineering, Stanford University
Ph.D., 1983, Cognitive Ergonomics (Computer Science, Psychology, and Linguistics), Stanford University

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction:

Prior Positions

9/83-8/89 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, and Member, Cognitive Science Institute, University of Oregon.

5/81-9/83 Research Intern, Cognitive and Instructional Sciences Group, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

9/78 - 5/81 Research Assistant and Fellow, Stanford University.

9/67 - 6/78 Professional Programmer, Systems Analyst, Manager of Software Development, and Director of Computing Systems.

Professional Honors and Awards

Appointed to Human Sciences Special Editorial Board of the British Computer Society journal Interacting with Computers, starting 1996

Charles Johnson Memorial Award given by the University of Oregon Faculty, June 1995.

NSF/CRA Distributed Mentor award, Summer 1994.

EDUCOM 1992 Distinguished Natural Science Curriculum Award.

Fulbright lectureship in India, 1991-1992.

Selected Recent Publications

Pointing Devices and Haptic Interaction

Douglas, S.A. and Mithal, A.K.
The Ergonomics of Computer Pointing Devices. Springer-Verlag, 1997.

Mithal, A.K. and Douglas, S.A. Differences in Movement Microstructure of the Mouse and the Finger-Controlled Isometric Joystick. CHI'96 Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vancouver, BC, April 24-28, 1996.

Curry, M. Hobbs, J, Toub, R. and Douglas, S.A. Will using a head-mounted display affect pointing on wearable computers? Dept. of Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon, Technical Report CIS-TR 97-03, January 1997.

Douglas, S.A. and Mithal, A.K. The Effect of Reducing Homing Time on the Speed of a Finger-Controlled Isometric Pointing Device. CHI '94 Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Boston, MA, April 24-28, 1994.

WWW Interfaces

Westerfield, M., Doerry, E. Kirkpatrick, A.E., Driever, W., and Douglas, S.A. An On-line Database for Zebrafish Development and Genetics Research. To appear 1997 in Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology.

Doerry, E., Douglas, S.A., Kirkpatrick, A.E., and Westerfield,M. User-centered design for widely-distributed scientific communities. Proceedings of Third Conference on Human Factors and the Web. June 12, 1997, Denver, CO.

Doerry, E., Douglas, S.A., Kirkpatrick, T., and Westerfield, M. Moving beyond HTML to Create a Multimedia Database with User-Centered Design: A Case Study of a Biological Database. Dept. of Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon, Technical Report CIS-TR-97-02, January 1997.

User Interface Design and Programming

Douglas, S.A. Conversation Analysis and Human-Computer Interaction Design. In P.J. Thomas (Ed.) Social and Interactional Dimensions of Human-Computer Interfaces. Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp.184-203.

Douglas, S.A. and Kirkpatrick, A.E. The effect of feedback on a color selection interface. Proceedings Graphic Interface '96. Toronto, Canada, May 22-24, 1996.

Douglas, S.A. and Kirkpatrick, A.E. Do color models really make a difference? CHI '96 Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vancouver, BC, April 24-28, 1996.

Douglas, S.A., Hundhausen, C. and McKeown, D. Toward Empirically-Based Software Visualization Languages. Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, August 1995.

Douglas, S.A., Doerry, E. and Novick, D. QUICK: A Tool for Graphical User Interface Construction. The Visual Computer, Volume 8, Number 2, February 1992.

Douglas, S.A., Doerry, E. & Novick, D.G. QUICK: A User Interface Design Kit for Non-Programmers. Proceedings of the 1990 SIGGRAPH Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Snowbird, Utah, Oct. 3-5, 1990.

Bowden, E., Douglas, S.A. and Stanford, C.A. Testing the Principle of Orthogonality in the Design of Languages, Human-Computer Interaction, 4, 2, 1989.

Learning Systems

Douglas, S.A., Peterson, N. and Udovic, D. The Cardio-Vascular Construction Kit: Software, student laboratory manual and user's manual. The BIOQUEST Library CD-ROM, University of Maryland: First edition (1993), Second edition (1994), Third edition (1995), Fourth edition (1996).

Douglas, S.A. LingWorlds: An Intelligent Object-Oriented Environment for Second-Language Tutoring. In M. Holland, J. Kaplan, & M. Sams (Eds.), Intelligent Language Tutors: Balancing Theory and Technology. Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995.

Douglas, S.A. Tutoring as Interaction. In Peter Goodyear (Ed.) Teaching Knowledge and Intelligent Tutoring, Ablex, 1991.

Douglas, S.A. and Liu, Z-Y. Qualitative Simulation and Causal Explanation in an Intelligent Tutor. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Detroit, MI, August, 1989.


The Interactive Systems Group