Research Seminar Series
Fall 2001
supplemented by faculty candidate lectures

 


Talks are in McBryde 655 at 4:00 unless otherwise noted.

Date

Speaker(s)

Topic

Material(s)

Sep 5

Ben Keller

Making Connections: Recommendation Beyond Predictive Accuracy

abstract

Sep 12

Carroll, Bowman, Hartson, McCrickard, North, Perez, Rosson

HCI

 

Sep 19

Edwards, Arthur, Balci, Henry, Lee, Nance

Software Engineering

 

Sept 24

3:30 PM - Squires 150/152

Wendy Rogers

Human factors contributions to the design and training of technology for older adults

http://filebox.vt.edu/org/HFES/activities.htm#rogers

 

Sep 26

Ron Kriz

Virtual Environments and Visualization at Virginia Tech: Collaborative Research and Distance Learning

abstract 

Oct 3

Srinidhi Varadarajan

Weaving a Code Tapestry: A Compiler Directed Framework for Scalable Network Emulation

abstract

Oct 10

Umer Farooq & Marcus Beale

Information Vis

DataWear:  Revealing Trends of Dynamic Data in Visualizations - Umer Farooq

 

 

Visualizing Communication Timelines Containing Sparsely Distributed Clusters

Marcus Beale

Oct 17

Shaffer, Heath, Kafura, Ramakrishnan, Ribbens, Watson

Bioinformatics and Problem Solving Environments

abstract

Oct 24

Robert Capra, Manuel Perez, and Naren Ramakrishnan

Mixed-Initiative Interaction = Mixed Computation

abstract  ,  slides1

Oct 31

Fox, Allison, Ehrich, Santos, Varadarajan

 

 

Nov 7

Layne T. Watson

How to Solve Hard Problems by Making Them Even Harder

abstract

Nov 30 Lucy Nowell

Interacting with Information

abstract
   

 

 

 Dec 5  

Ann Lally (U of Arizona)

The GetSmart Agent: your only alternative is chaos

abstract

* These sessions are yet to be confirmed


Old Seminar Schedules -

Fall 2000

Spring 2001


Other Related Presentations @ Tech

VE Group
Math Seminars

Human Factors & Ergonomics


To schedule a talk or for more information please contact either:
Dr. Ramakrishnan at naren@cs.vt.edu
Ameya Datey at adatey@vt.edu