Sarah Douglas
Phone: (541) 346-3974
Fax: (541) 346-5373
Email: douglas AT cs.uoregon.edu
Last updated October 9, 2003
Education
Ph.D. 1983, Cognitive Ergonomics (Computer Science, Psychology, and
Engineering), Stanford University
M.S. 1979, Engineering, Stanford University
A.B. 1966, Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley
Research Areas
Human-Computer Interaction
Positions
- 9/97-
Professor, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Member, Cognitive
Science Institute and Computational Science Institute, University of
Oregon.
- 7/99-6/02
Head, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon.
- 7/95-
6/98 Director, Cognitive and Decision Sciences Institute, University of
Oregon.
- 9/89-
8/97 Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer and Information Science,
Member, Cognitive & Decision Sciences Institute, University of Oregon.
- 9/83-8/89
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, and
Member, Cognitive & Decision 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
- Elected
to European Academy of Sciences, June 2002
- Chair
of Human-Computer Interaction Knowledge Focus Group for the ACM-IEEE
Curriculum 2001, appointed April 2000
- Appointed
to Human Sciences Special Editorial Board of the British Computer Society
journal Interacting with Computers,1996
- present.
- 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.
- Kirkpatrick,
A.E. and Douglas, S.A. Application-based
Evaluation of Haptic Interfaces.
Tenth Symposium on haptic interfaces for virtual
environment and teleoperator
systems. Orlando, FL, March 24-25,
2002. Part of IEEE Virtual Reality 2002, March 24-27, 2002.
- Kirkpatrick,
A.E., and Douglas, S.A., A
shape recognition task for evaluating usability of a haptic environment.
In Lecture notes in computer science,
Brewster, Stephen, & Murray-Smith, Roderick (Eds.), Vol. 2058. pp.
151-156, Berlin: Springer, 2001. From Haptic human computer
interaction: First international workshop,
Glasgow, UK, August 31-September 1, 2000.
- Douglas,
S.A., Kirkpatrick, A.E., and MacKenzie, I.S. Testing
Pointing Device Performance and User Assessment with the ISO 9241, Part 9
Standard. CHI ’99 Proceedings of the ACM
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Pittsburgh, PA,
April 24-28, 1999.
- WinFitts
program tests pointing devices
for the ISO 9241, Part 9 standard. Since 1999 this is a free
download (http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/hci/research/winfitts.html).
- 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.
- 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 and Bioinformatics
- Reimer,
Y. J. and Douglas, S.A. Ethnography, task analysis, and other background
user studies inform the design of a Web-based E-notebook. In press, International Journal
of Human-Computer Interaction.
- Reimer,
Y. J. and Douglas, S.A. Implementation
challenges associated with developing a web-based E-notebook. Journal
of Digital Information, Volume 4,
Number 3, September 2003.
- Reimer,
Y. and Douglas, S.A. Capturing volatile information: Server-side solutions
for a WWW notebook. Web Net Journal:
Internet Technologies, Applications and Issues, volume 3, issue 1, April 2001.
- Sprague,
J., Doerry, E., Douglas, S.A. and Westerfield, M. The Zebrafish Information Network
(ZFIN): A Resource for Genetic, Genomic and Developmental Research. Nucleic
Acid Research, January 2001.
- Reimer,
Y., Kirkpatrick, A.E., and Douglas, S.A. Supporting Web information
gathering tasks. Proceedings of HCI 2000 Conference, October 2000.
- Westerfield,
M., Doerry, E. and Douglas, S.A. Zebrafish in the net. Trends in
Genetics, Vol. 15, No. 6, June 1999,
pp. 248-249.
- Westerfield,
M., Doerry, E. Kirkpatrick, A.E., and Douglas, S.A. Zebrafish informatics
and the ZFIN database. Methods in Cell Biology, Vol. 6, pp.339-3550.
- Doerry,
E., Douglas, S.A., Kirkpatrick, A.E. User-centered and participatory
design for a WWW genetics database. ACM Interactions, Vol. 3, May-June 1998, p.69.
- Doerry,
E., Douglas, S.A., Kirkpatrick, A.E., and Westerfield, M. Task-centered
Navigation in a Web-accessible Data Space. Proceedings of
WebNet97, Nov. 3-6, 1997, Toronto,
Canada.
- Westerfield,
M., Doerry, E. Kirkpatrick, A.E., Driever, W., and Douglas, S.A. An
On-line Database for Zebrafish Development and Genetics Research. Seminars
in Cell and Developmental Biology, Vol. 8, 1997, pp.477-488.
- 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.
- 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); Academic Press: Fifth edition (1998).
Visualization and Visual Interfaces
- Hundhausen,
C. and Douglas, S.A. Low fidelity algorithm visualization. Journal of
Visual Languages and Computing, 13(5),
2002, pp. 449-470.
- Hundhausen,
C., Douglas, S.A. and Stasko, J.T.
A meta-study of algorithm visualization effectiveness. Journal
of Visual Languages and Computing,
13(3), 2002, pp. 259-290.
- Douglas,
S.A. and Kirkpatrick, A.E. The
relationship between color model and visual feedback in a color selection
interface. ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 18, No. 2, April 1999, pp. 96-127.
- Hundhausen,
C. and Douglas, S.A. Low fidelity algorithm visualization. Proceedings
of the Visual End User Workshop,
Seattle, WA, September 10, 2000.
- Hundhausen,
C. and Douglas, S.A. SALSA and ALVIS: A language and system for
constructing and presenting low fidelity algorithm visualizations. VL2000:
IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages,
Seattle, WA, September 11-14, 2000.
- Hundhausen,
C. and Douglas, S.A. Using Visualizations to learn algorithms: Should
students construct their own, or view an expert’s? VL2000 Proceedings
of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages,
Seattle, WA, September 10-14, 2000.
- Hundhausen,
C. and Douglas, S.A. Shifting from "High Fidelity" to "Low
Fidelity" algorithm visualization technology. CHI 00 Proceedings
of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Amsterdam, NL, April 4-6, 2000.
- 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.
Students
Supervised Ph.D.Students
- Shasta
Willson, Ph.D. Improving accessibility with haptics. Expected June 2004.
- Yolanda Reimer, Ph.D. Information
assimilation in the Digital Age: Developing support for Web-based
notetaking tasks. December 2001.
- Ted Kirkpatrick, Ph.D. Force plus
graphics is not equal to vision plus haptics: Towards usable haptic
environments. August 2000.
- Chris Hundhausen, Ph.D. ALVIS:
a low-fidelity sketching system for algorithm visualization. June 1999.
- Eckehard Doerry, Ph.D. An
empirical comparison of copresent and technologically-mediated interaction
based on communicative breakdown..
December 1995.
- Anant
Kartik Mithal, Ph.D. Using psychomotor models of movement in the
analysis and design of computer pointing devices August 1995.
- Keith Downing, Ph.D. The use
of teleology in the qualitative evaluation and explanation of circulatory
systems. June 1990.
- David Novick, Ph.D. Control
of mixed-initiative discourse through meta-locutionary acts: A
computational model..
December 1988.
Supervised M.S. Students Projects & Theses
- Sekhar
Putcha, M.S. Project Usability
Studies of HyperFrame. June 2002.
- Delel
Chaabouni, Diplom Arbeit Thesis (from the University of Karlsruhe). A
user-centered design of a visualization language for sorting algorithms. March 1996.
- Markus
Brandes, Diplom Arbeit Thesis (from University of Stuttgart). Using
Markov models in speech recognition.
June 1994.
- Don
Hubbard, M.S. User performance evaluation of color models. June 1991.
- Rune
Skarbo, M.S. Towards a pattern language for user-interface design. June 1990.
- Gary
Smithrud, M.S. Microworld.
March 1990.
- Janice
Bradford-Wilcox, M.S. Recognition of hand-printed characters. June 1989.
- Kevin
Looney, M.S. Modeling intention in computer-generated musical
performance. June 1989.
- Daniel
Udovic, M.S. Modeling and simulation in biology. June 1989.
Supervised B.S. Honors College Theses
- Jade Rubick, Honors College
Thesis. Community and group formation on the Internet. June 1997.
- Peter
Esbensen, Honors College Thesis. Multi-media scientific databases. June 1996.
- Clifford
Keele, Honors College Thesis. Neural networks of language
learning. June 1990.
- Sylvia
Weaver, Honors College Thesis. A theory of metaphor for natural
language processing. December 1986.
- Beth
Moursund, Honors College Thesis. Developing a Dungeons and Dragons
adventure game. June 1985.
Human-Computer
Interaction Group