Past Members and Alumni
Over the years a diverse group of researchers has contributed to the activities of the HCIL, many of them have been from nations around the world. Please feel free to browse this list to meet our diverse alumni, and let us know if you notice that a name is missing!
Alumni with Thesis and Dissertation
2024
Yuhan Lin
Advisor: David Weintrop
Dissertation: SWITCH MODE: SCAFFOLD LEARNERS FROM BLOCK-BASED PROGRAMMING TO TEXT-BASED PROGRAMMING
Kenna Hernly
Advisors: Tamara Clegg, Sarah McGrew
Dissertation: “In All Their Diversity”: Examining Participation, Funds of Knowledge, and Identity Representation in Art-Based Social Media Posts
Janet B. Fofang
Advisor: David Weintrop
Dissertation: COMPUTATIONAL THINKING IN EARLY GRADE CLASSROOMS: HOW YOUNG LEARNERS INTERACT WITH PHYSICAL DEVICES TO GROUND THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF COMPUTATIONAL THINKING
Salma Elsayed-Ali
Advisor: Joel Chan & beth bonsignore
Dissertation: Personal Objects as Design Materials
Sigfried Gold
Advisor: Wayne Lutters
Dissertation: VALUE SETS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF REAL-WORLD PATIENT DATA: PROBLEMS, THEORY, AND SOLUTIONS
Vedant Nanda
Advisor: John Dickerson
Dissertation: FOUNDATIONS OF TRUSTWORTHY DEEP LEARNING: FAIRNESS, ROBUSTNESS, AND EXPLAINABILITY
Noel Warford
Advisor: Michelle Mazurek
Dissertation: Real-World Security for At-Risk Users
2023
Jingling Li
Advisor: John Dickerson
Dissertation: Understanding and Enriching the Algorithmic Reasoning Capabilities of Deep Learning Models
Kelsey Fulton
Advisor: Michelle Mazurek
Dissertation: Understanding and Improving Secure Development from a Human-Centered Perspective
Omer Akgul
Advisor: Michelle Mazurek
Dissertation: CHARACTERIZING AND IMPROVING MENTAL MODELS OF SECURE COMMUNICATION TOOLS
Teja Maddali
Advisor: Amanda Lazar
Dissertation: Design Considerations for Remote Expert Guidance Using Extended Reality in Skilled Hobby Settings
Samuel Dooley
Advisor: John Dickerson
Dissertation: Expanding Robustness in Responsible AI for Novel Bias Mitigation
Eric Newburger
Advisor: Niklas Elmqvist
Dissertation: FROM EXPLORATORY TO CONFIRMATORY: TOWARDS DATA VISUALIZATION AS A COMPLETE ANALYSIS TOOL
Daniel Pauw
Advisor: Tamara Clegg
Dissertation: Digital Stickers for Learning: Designing Technology to Connect Affinity Spaces and Places
2022
Kyungjun Lee
Advisor: Hernisa Kacorri
Dissertation: Egocentric Vision in Assistive Technologies For and By the Blind
Andrea Batch
Advisor: Niklas Elmqvist
Dissertation: Situated Analytics for Data Scientists
Emma Dixon
Advisor: Amanda Lazar
Dissertation: Investigating The Use Of Everyday Technology and Ways To Improve Its Accessibility For People With Mild To Moderate Dementia
Xiaoyun Huang
Advisor: Jessica Vitak
Dissertation: Variations in Individuals’ Social Media Self-Presentation Across Time, Account, and Platform & How Audiences Perceive the Variations
Yuhan Luo
Advisor: Eun Kyoung Choe
Dissertation: Promoting Rich and Low-Burden Self-Tracking With Multimodal Data Input
Sarah DiPasquale
Advisor: Joel Chan
Dissertation: HOW DO NONPROFITS INVOLVE BENEFICIARIES IN THE DESIGN OF MISSION PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
2021
Jonggi Hong
Advisor: Hernisa Kacorri
Dissertation: Exploring Blind and Sighted Users’ Interactions with Error-Prone Speech and Image Recognition
Kimberly Glasgow
Advisor: Jessica Vitak
Dissertation: Talking About Justice: Predicting Actor Engagement on Social Media After a Galvanizing Event
Brian Ondov
Advisor: Niklas Elmqvist
Dissertation: Revealing Perceptual Proxies in Comparative Data Visualization
Yuting Liao
Advisor: Jessica Vitak
Dissertation: Design And Evaluation of A Conversational Agent for Mental Health Support: Forming Human-Agent Sociotechnical And Therapeutic Relationships
Duncan McElfresh
Advisor: John Dickerson
Dissertation: Practical Algorithms for Resource Allocation and Decision Making
Priya Kumar
Advisor: Jessica Vitak
Dissertation: From Oversharing to Sharenting: How Experts Govern Parents and Their Social Media Use
2020
Daniel Votipka
Advisor: Michelle Mazurek
Dissertation: A Human-Centric Approach to Software Vulnerability Discovery
Candice Schumann
Advisor: John Dickerson
Dissertation: Exploring Diversity and Fairness in Machine Learning
Joohee Choi
Advisor: Yla Tausczik
Dissertation: The Effect of Role Specialization And Transactive Memory Systems On Performance in Data Science Teams
Virginia Byrne
Advisor: Diane Jass Ketelhut
Dissertation: The Role of Cyberbullying on Women’s Social Presence in Online Courses
2019
Sriram Karthik Badam
Advisor: Niklas Elmqvist
Dissertation: Enabling Collaborative Visual Analysis across Heterogeneous Devices
Zhe Cui
Advisor: Niklas Elmqvist
Dissertation: Towards efficient presentation and interaction in visual data analysis
Zhenpeng Zhao
Advisor: Niklas Elmqvist
Dissertation: Data-driven storytelling for casual users
2018
Alisha Pradhan
Advisor: Amanda Lazar
Dissertation: EXPLORING THE ACCESSIBILITY OF HOME-BASED, VOICE-CONTROLLED INTELLIGENT PERSONAL ASSISTANTS
Fan Du
Advisor: Ben Shneiderman
Dissertation: Explainable Recommendation for Event Sequences: A Visual Analytics Approach
Brenna McNally
Advisor: Allison Druin
Dissertation: Alumni Perspectives on their Membership in an Intergenerational Participatory Design Team
Matt Mauriello
Advisor: Jon Froehlich
Dissertation: Designing and Evaluating Next‐Generation Thermographic Systems to Support Residential Energy Audits
Lee Stearns
Advisor: Jon Froehlich
Dissertation: HandSight: A Touch-Based Wearable System to Increase Information Accessibility for People with Visual Impairments
Deok Gun Park
Advisor: Niklas Elmqvist
Dissertation: Visual Analytics for Open-Ended Tasks in Text Mining
Meethu Malu
Advisor: Leah Findlater
Dissertation: Designing and Implementing Accessible Wearable Interactions for People with Motor Impairments
2017
Zahra Ashktorab
Advisor: Jessica Vitak
Dissertation: Designing Cyberbullying Prevention and Mitigation Tools
Tak Yeon Lee
Advisor: Ben Bederson
Dissertation: Toward Symbiotic Human-AI Interaction Focusing On Programming By Example
2016
Elizabeth M. Bonsignore
Advisor: Allison Druin
Dissertation: Playing for Real: Designing Alternate Reality Games in Learning Contexts
Yurong He
Advisor: Jenny Preece
Dissertation: Data Sharing Across Research and Public Communities
Jinyoung Kim
Advisor: June Ahn
Dissertation: Information practices during life transition: Korean immigrant women’s everyday life information seeking and acculturation
Sana Malik
Advisor: Ben Shneiderman
Dissertation: A Visual Analytics Approach to Comparing Cohors of Event Sequences
Adil Yalcin
Advisor: Ben Bederson
Dissertation: Towards Rapid, Effective, and Expressive Visual Data Exploration
Kotaro Hara
Advisor: Jon Froehlich
Dissertation: Scalable Methods to Collect and Visualize Sidewalk Accessibility Data for People with Mobility Impairments
Uran Oh
Advisor: Leah Findlater
Dissertation: Accessible On-Body Interaction for People With Visual Impairments
2015
Anne Bowser
Advisor: Jenny Preece
Dissertation: Cooperative Design, Cooperative Science: Investigating Collaborative Research through Design with Floracaching
2014
Irene Eleta
Advisor: Jennifer Golbeck
Dissertation: Multilingual Use of Twitter: Language choice and language bridges in a social network
Elizabeth Foss
Advisor: Allison Druin
Dissertation: Internet Searching in Children and Adolescents: A longitudinal framework of youth search roles
Megan Monroe
Advisor: Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant
Dissertation: Interactive Event Sequence Query and Transformation
Alex J. Quinn
Advisor: Ben Bederson
Dissertation: Crowdsourcing Decision Support: Frugal Human Computation for Efficient Decision Input Acquisition
Jason C. Yip
Advisor: Allison Druin
Dissertation: The Evolution of Science Ownership in Learners Engaged in Design and Technology Usage
2013
Cody Dunne
Advisor: Ben Shneiderman
Dissertation: Measuring and improving the readability of network visualizations
John A. Guerra Gomez
Advisor: Ben Shneiderman
Dissertation: Exploring Differences in Multivariate Datasets Using Hierarchies: An interactive information visualization approach
Sureyya Tarkan
Advisor: Ben Shneiderman
Dissertation: Interactive Visual Displays for Results Management in Complex Medical Workflows
Dana Rotman
Advisor: Jenny Preece
Dissertation: Collaborative Science Across the Globe: The Influence of Motivation and Culture on Volunteers in the United States, India, and Costa Rica
2012
Nick Chen
Advisor: Francois Guimbretiere
Dissertation: The Use of Multiple Slate Devices to Support Active Reading Activities
Chang Hu
Advisor: Benjamin B. Bederson and Philip Resnik
Dissertation: Crowdsourced Monolingual Translation
Benjamin K. Smith
Advisor: Kent Norman
Dissertation: Comparing small graphs: How distance, orientation, and alignment affect the comparability of small multiple bar graphs
Greg Walsh
Advisor: Allison Druin
Dissertation: Enabling Geographically Distributed, Intergenerational, Co-operative Design
Krist Wongsuphasawat
Advisor: Ben Shneiderman
Dissertation: Interactive Exploration of Temporal Event Sequences
2011
Susan Campbell
Advisor: Kent Norman
Dissertation: Users’ Spatial Abilities Affect Interface Usability Outcomes
2010
Mona Leigh Guha
Advisor: Allison Druin
Dissertation: Understanding the Social and Cognitive Experiences of Children Involved in Technology Design Processes
Taowei D. Wang
Advisor: Ben Shneiderman
Dissertation: Interactive Visualization Techniques for Searching Temporal Categorical Data
2009
Jerry A. Fails
Advisor: Allison Druin
Dissertation: Mobile Collaboration for Young Children
Chunyuan Liao
Advisor: François Guimbretière
Dissertation: PapierCraft: A Paper-based Interface to Support Interaction with Digital Documents
Philip Wu
Advisor: Jenny Preece & Yan Qu
Dissertation: User Acceptance of Community Emergency Alert Technology: Motivations and Barriers
2008
Aleks Aris
Advisor: Ben Shneiderman
Dissertation: Visualizing & Exploring Networks using Semantic Substrates
Adam Perer
Advisor: Ben Shneiderman
Dissertation: Integrating Statistics and Visualization to Improve Exploratory Social Network Analysis
A. Walkyria Rivadeneira
Advisor: Kent L. Norman
Dissertation: Tag Clouds: How Format And Categorical Structure Affect Categorization Judgment
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
Co-advisor: Catherine Plaisant
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
