Ph.D. Alumni
2007
Leslie E. Chipman
Advisor: Allison Druin
Dissertation: Collaborative Technology for Young Children's Outdoor Education
Amy K. Karlson
Advisor: Ben Bederson
Dissertation: Interface and Interaction Design for One-Handed Mobile Computing
2006
Hilary B. Hutchinson
Advisor: Ben Bederson
Dissertation: Children's Interface Design for Searching and Browsing
Bill Kules
Advisor: Ben Shneiderman
Dissertation: Categorical Search Result Visualization
Bongshin Lee
Advisor: Ben Bederson
Dissertation: Interactive Visualizations for Trees and Graphs
Haixia Zhao
Advisor: Ben Shneiderman
Dissertation: Interactive Sonification of Abstract Data – Framework, Design Space, Evaluation, and User Tool
2005
Jinwook Seo
Advisor: Ben Shneiderman
Dissertation: Information Visualization Design for Multidimensional Data: Integrating the Rank-By-Feature Framework with Hierarchical Clustering
Bongwon Suh
Advisor: Ben Bederson
Dissertation: Image Management Using Pattern Recognition
2003
Lance E. Good
Advisor: Ben Bederson
Dissertation: Zoomable User Interfaces for the Authoring and Delivery of Slide Presentations
Harry Hochheiser
Advisor: Ben Shneiderman
Dissertation: Interactive Graphical Querying of Time Series and Linear Sequence Data Sets
Juan P. Hourcade
Advisor: Ben Bederson
Dissertation: User Interface Technologies and Guidelines to Support Children's Creativity, Collaboration, and Learning
Hyunmo Kang
Advisor: Ben Shneiderman
Dissertation: Managing and Exploring Personal Media Using Semantic Regions: A Spatial Interface Supporting User-Defined Mental Models
Jaime Montemayor
Advisor: Allison Druin
Dissertation: Physical Programming: Tools for Kindergarten Children to Author Physical Interactive Environments
2002
Laura Slaughter
Advisor: Dagobert Soergel and Marilyn Domas White
Dissertation: Semantic Relationships in Health Consumer Questions and Physicians Answers: A Basis for Representing Medical Knowledge for Concept Exploration Interfaces
2001
Angela Boltman
Advisor: Allison Druin
Dissertation: Children's Storytelling Technologies: Differences in Elaboration and Recall
Egemen Tanin
Advisor: Ben Shneiderman
Dissertation: Browsing Large Online Data Using Generalized Query Previews
2000
Elizabeth D. Murphy
Advisor: Kent Norman
Dissertation: Cognitive Issues in Autonomous Spacecraft-Control Operations: An Investigation of Software-Mediated Decision Making in a Scaled Environment
Chris North
Advisor: Ben Shneiderman
Dissertation: A User Interface for Coordinating Visualizations based on Relational Schemata: Snap-Together Visualization
1999
Richard Potter
Advisor: Ben Shneiderman
Dissertation: Pixel Data Access for End-User Programming and Graphical Macros
Zhijun Zhang
Advisor: Ben Shneiderman
Dissertation: Perspective-based Usability Inspection: An Empirical Validation of Efficacy
1998
Diane L. Alonso
Advisor: Kent Norman
Dissertation: The Effects of Individual Differences in Spatial Visualization Ability on Dual-Task Performance
Eser Kandogan
Advisor: Ben Shneiderman
Dissertation: Hierarchical Multi-Window Management with Elastic Layout Dynamics
1995
David Carr
Advisor: Ben Shneiderman
Dissertation: A Compact Graphical Representation of User Interface Interaction Objects
1993
Brian Johnson
Advisor: Ben Shneiderman
Dissertation: Treemaps: Visualizing Hierarchical and Categorical Data
Andrew Sears
Advisor: Ben Shneiderman
Dissertation: Layout Appropriateness: Guiding User Interface Design with Simple Task Descriptions
1992
Leslie E. Carter
Advisor: Kent Norman
Dissertation: The Effects of Spatial Information Presentation on Human Decision-Making with a Hypertext Database
1989
John P. Chin
Advisor: Kent Norman
Dissertation: Fixed and Dynamic Menu Systems: A Script-Based Approach to Categorization
