Graduate Schools

NOTE: The information on this page is from my Masters work. I will at some point rework this page with my PhD info. - 20 January 2009.

I'm in Ames, IA now working as a graduate student and research assistant at Iowa State University. The project I'm working on is with Dr. Chris Harding on Modeling 3D Geologic Structures in a Multi-sensory (Touch and Sound) Virtual Environment. Some of the work in sound will carry over nicely from my undergraduate senior project (which I also expanded under his supervision), where I built a platform game for the blind, which I am still actively working on and has earned me recognition through acceptance to the CHI Student Research Competition and the ICAD conference.

For Fall 2006, I was enrolled in the following courses and received the following grades:

Music 446 : Electronic Music Synthesis . Grade: A

Psychology 521: Congitive Psychology of HCI. Grade: A

Human Computer Interaction 591: Seminar in Human Computer Interaction. Grade: A

Human Computer Interaction 699: Research Credit. Grade: S

For Spring 2007, I am enrolled in the following courses:

Human Computer Interaction 522: Scientific Research Methods of HCI (My blog posts, presentation slides, and presentation videos). Grade: A

Human Computer Interaction 575: Computational Perception . My final project, which I worked on with Adam Faeth and Jeremy Bennett was a drum project played using Wii remotes, called Wiicussion. It took first place in the class demo competition. Grade: A

Music 590I: Independent Study in Electronic Music. My final project was a haptic musical instrument dubbed 3DJ. Grade: A

Human Computer Interaction 699: Research Credit. Grade: A

Presentations:

Accessible Technology - A Twenty-Five Minute lecture I gave on accessible technology in mobile devices. It's fairly general as it was for my cognitive psychology of HCI class and was thus geared more toward people who had limited knowledge of the topic (and thus covered a lot more background information). This was the first presentation I had to give in grad school. It was given on 14 September 2006. Wiki entry and slides are located here.

Active Learning - A 15-20 minute lecture I gave about Active Learning and Dyknow Vision. Once again, the content is general and does not go into great levels of detail. This was my second presentation in grad school and overall I think it went much smoother (I changed the style of presentation slightly, which I think helped me deliver a more relaxed presentation). It was given on 26 October 2006. Wiki entry and slides are located here.

Death to the Mouse! - A 15-20 minute lecture I gave about designing interfaces for Tablet/Pen based systems. I also had a nice rant against the mouse in this presentation. I had a lot of fun with this presenation and especially the wiki entry. It was given on 5 December 2006. Wiki entry and slides are located here.