CS 589: Human-Computer Interaction 'Patient' Project Information: Spring 2004

The following projects have been allocated teams:

The Tech Reports System Patient (Dr. Budd and Nancy Brown, EECS)

The 'patient' is the CS Tech Reports problem. Here is some online information about it. In addition, refer to the notes you may have taken during the presentation by Tim Budd and Nancy Brown. Finally, I have some hardcopy documentation from Nancy Brown available to the team who takes this one on.

• Dr. Budd's slides on the problem.
• EECS on-line library (including access to tech reports).

Team: Matt Labbe, Shraddha Sorte, and Ronny Bjarnason

The Willamette Basin Explorer Project (Tim Fiez, Library)

The 'patient' is this web site. I have documents from Tim Fiez, and you'll be able to explore the web site itself.

• Here is the patient web site.

Team: Shrinu Prabhakararao, Amit Phalgune, Liu Zheng

Task Tracer (Matt McLaughlin, presenter. Dr. Herlocker and Dr. Dietterich, EECS)

TaskTracer is a project to help users recover from interruptions and reuse their prior approaches. It keeps track of what they were doing and how they did it for each "task", for use when they need to resume a task or do another task like it.

• Here are some slides describing this project

Team: Matt McLaughlin, Dan Moffitt, Shu Hanamoto

ProWorks' SkinBuilder (Manobal Jani and Mike Faux, presenters, ProWorks)

This is a to-be-commercial product. Details available from the presenters. I'll provide the email address to get that started.

Team: Joey Lawrance, Christoph Neumann, Chirayu Krishnappa

These projects were not allocated to any teams:

The Excel-Based End-User Software Engineering Project (Marc Fisher and Dr. Burnett, EECS)

This project is part of an ongoing research project. The part that is the 'patient' is the user's view of how the end-user software engineering reasoning should look and behave in Excel. There will be a runnable prototype available to the team who takes this on.

• The end-user software engineering page has some useful information about what these features are supposed to do.

The OSU Library's Research Tools (Mary Caughey, Library)

The 'patient' is the Research Tools "sub-site" of the OSU library web page

Type Inference and Unit Inference in Spreadsheets (Robin Abraham and Dr. Erwig, EECS)

This is part of a research project that involves program analysis and inference that can be done for end users who are 'programming' using Excel spreadsheets. A working prototype will be made available to the team. No thought whatsoever has been given to how the system should present itself to the user, so anything a team can do to help will be a step forward. Here is a web page with more information about this research.