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Scott McCrickard |
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Jeremy Barksdale |
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Gregory Wilson |
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Notification
systems attempt to deliver information to a multitasking user
in the most efficient and effective manner. Examples vary widely,
from office workers' use of messaging to share ideas
to a driver (or walker) using a mobile navigation device
to people monitoring and sharing their physical activity during the day.
With the popularity of these
systems skyrocketing in recent years, our group explores the effects of
incoming notifications on ongoing computing tasks, creating models for
their design, implementation, and evaluation. Please feel free to contact us
with questions or comments about our work.
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Selected
Designs
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seeVT
Leverages location-based technology for on-the-go handheld and Tablet users, providing appropriate notification of nearby events of interest. See also: UbiComp 2008 book chapter, Sampat thesis |
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Online
Enlightenment
Leverages instant messenger data in an off-the-desktop semi-public display showing online presence data and history. See also: CSCW 2006 note |
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Methods
and Toolkits
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PIC-UP/LINK-UP
Explores a web-based development environment for notification systems; with a focus on encouraging the use of claims in design storyboarding See also: CHI 2010 paper on the storyboarding tool; CADUI '03 paper on the original design vision for a claims library tool |
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Claims
Library
Captures knowledge about notification systems in designer-digestible packets called claims, that can then be searched, augmented, and otherwise used by tools like LINK-UP. See also: IRI '03 paper on the original vision, HICSS '05 paper detailing usage case studies, HCII '05 paper on envisioned future directions |
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Real
World Interfaces toolkit
Supports the creation of off-the-desktop displays with any pluggable electronic device using X10 technology. See also: web page |
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Summer 2011 marked the sixth year of the Center for HCI's NSF-sponsored Research Experience for Undergrads program led by Scott McCrickard and Woodrow Winchester. We have hosted students from partner schools North Carolina A&T, Norfolk State, Hollins, and Jackson State, and also from Georgia Tech, Wellesley College, Oberlin, TCNJ, and (of course) Virginia Tech, among others. Visit the REU website for more details about the program. CHI 2011 featured three presentations from our group. 2011 PhD graduate Shahtab Wahid led a full paper--capping an impressive series of papers at CHI, DIS, and Interact--that discussed his PhD work on image-based claims. 2010 PhD graduate Jason Chong Lee led a case study paper and a course, both focused on his eXtreme Scenario-Based Design (xSBD) usability engineering method. M.S. student Miten Sampat received the Department of Computer Science Outstanding Graduate Student award in 2008. In receiving the award, he was cited for his bridges with people in other departments, best quantified by his seven publications (including his thesis) with fifteen different co-authors or committee members from three different departments or university centers. Miten is now at Feeva Technology in San Francisco. Visit the lab alumni page to catch up with other alumni activities. |
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These selected articles provide an overview to the type of work that is ongoing in our lab, and in the field of notification systems. Please visit our full publication list for additional articles. D. Scott McCrickard, Shahtab Wahid, Stacy M. Branham, and Steve Harrison. " Achieving both creativity and rationale: Reuse in design with images and claims . Human Technology 7 (2), August 2011, pp. 109-122. Shahtab Wahid, D. Scott McCrickard, Joseph DeGol, Nina Elias, and Steve Harrison. " Don't drop it! Pick it up and storyboard." In Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011), Vancouver BC Canada, May 2011, pp. 1571-1580. Jason Chong Lee, Tejinder K. Judge, and D. Scott McCrickard. " Evaluating eXtreme Scenario-Based Design in a Distributed Team." In Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011), Vancouver BC Canada, May 2011, pp. 863-877. |
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