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Students Who Were Funded for 2005-2006

Nicholas F. Polys: "Effects of Information Layout, Screen Size, and Field of View on User Performance in Information-Rich Virtual Environments", ACM Virtual Reality Software and Technology, Nov 7-9, 2005
Rahul Agarwal: "Designing an Adaptive Learning Module to Teach Software Testing"
Nicholas Allen: "Building Modeling Tools That Support Verification, Validation, and Testing for the Domain Expert", 2005 Winter Simulation Conference in Orlando, FL, December 4-7
Pardha Pyla: "Vizability: A Tool for Usability Engineering Process Improvement through the Visualization of Usability Problem Data", ACM Southeast Conference, ACM Southeast Conference, 2006, Melbourne, FL, USA.
Jonathan Howarth: "Identifying Immediate Intention during Usability Evaluation", ACM Southeast Conference, ACM Southeast Conference, 2006, Melbourne, FL, USA.
Jian Chen: "Evaluation of Effectiveness of Cloning Techniques for Architectural Virtual Environments", IEEE Virtual Reality 2006 , Alexandria, VA during March 25-29
Chadwick A. Wingrave: "Overcoming World in Miniature Limitations by a Scaled and Scrolling WIM", IEEE Virtual Reality 2006, Alexandria, VA during March 25-29
Tao Ni: "Design and Evaluation of Navigation Techniques for Multiscale Virtual Environments" & "A Survey of Large High- Resolution Display Technologies, Techniques, and Applications", IEEE Virtual Reality 2006, Alexandria, VA during March 25-29
Arnold P. Boedihardjo: "AITVS: Advanced Interactive Traffic Visualization System", IEEE Virtual Reality 2006, Alexandria, VA during March 25-29
Yufeng Kou: "Spatial Weighted Data Mining", 2006 Siam Conference on Data Mining, April 20 and April 22 in Bethesda, Maryland
Saurabh Bhatia: "Listening to Your Inner Voices: Investigating Means for Voice Notifications", CHI 2006 : Conference on human factors in computing, April 22-27,2006, Monreal, Quebec, Canada
Manas Tungare: "Multiple User Interfaces: Why Consistency is Not Everything, and Seamless Task Migration is Key", CHI 2006 : Conference on human factors in computing, April 22-27,2006, Monreal, Quebec, Canada
Shahrooz Feizabadi: "Automatic Memory Management in Utility Accrual Scheduling Environments", 9th IEEE International Symposium on Object and component-oriented & Real-time distributed Computing (ISORC), April 24 - April 26, Gyeongju, Korea
Jing Dai: "Spatial-Temporal Data Mining in Traffic Incident Detection", 2006 SIAM Conference on Data Mining, April 20-22, in Bethesda, MD

Students Who Were Funded for 2004-2005

Mohammad Akram in Brisbane, Australia (Nov 20-28, 2004)
Wensi Xi, Yuxin Chen, and Baoping Zhang: "Combining Structural and Citation-based Evidence for Text Classification" at the ACM Thirteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management in Washington D.C. (Nov 8-13, 2004)
Kibum Kim: "Designing Knowledge Management Systems: Reuse and Integration of Findings in Computer Supported Cooperative Work" at the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Information
Reuse and Integration in Las Vegas, Nevada (Nov 8-12, 2004)
Abdelmounaam Rezgui: "Privacy-based ranking of Web services" at the International
Conference on Service Oriented Computing in New York (Nov 15-18, 2004)
Xumin Liu: "WebDG - A Platform for E-Government Web Services" at the the First International Workshop on Digital Government in Shanghai, China (Nov 8-12, 2004)
Liya Thomas: "Defect Detection on Hardwood Logs Using High Resolution Three-Dimensional Laser Scan Data" at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing in Singapore (Oct 24-27, 2004)
Partha Pyla at the Frontiers in Education Conference in Savannah, Georgia (Oct 20-23, 2004)
Jochen Rode: "End-users' Mental Models of Concepts Critical to Web Application Development" at the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing in Rome, Italy (Sep 26-29, 2004)
Will Humphries: "Laboratory Simulation Methods for Studying Complex Collaborative Tasks" at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's 48th Annual Meeting in New Orleans (Sept 20-24, 2004)

Students Who Were Funded for 2003-2004

The following students received funding from the graduate council to attend conferences:

Rob Capra: "The Staging Transformation Approach to Mixing Initiative" at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Intelligent Systems in Acapulco, Mexico (August 9 - 15, 2003)
Max Moldenhauer: "The Effect of Information Modality on Geographic Cognition in Car Navigation Systems" at the IFIP INTERACT Conference in Zurich, Switzerland (Sept 1 - 5, 2003)
Roy Tan: "An Assertion Checking Wrapper Design for Java" at the European Software Engineering Conference / ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering in Helsinki, Finland (September 1 - 5, 2003)
Jacob Somervell: "Usability Heuristics for Large Screen Information Exhibits
Conference" at INTERACT in Zurich, Switzerland (September 2 - 5, 2003)
Choudhry M.Zaki Malik: Presented a paper titled "Reputation-based Approach to Preserving Privacy in Web Services" at the VLDB-TES Conference in Berlin, Germany (Sept 7 - 13, 2003)
Kibum Kim: "Using Scenarios for Contextual Design in Agent Oriented Information Systems" at the 22nd International Conference of Conceptual Modeling in Chicago, Illinois(October 13 - 16, 2003)
Qing Li: "Empirical Comparison of Dynamic Query Sliders and Brushing Histograms" at the IEEE InfoVis Conference in Seattle, Washington (Oct 18 - 24, 2003)
Catherine Payne: "Generalizing Interface Design: Lessons Learned from Developing a Claims Library" at the IEEE Information Reuse and Information Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada (Oct 27-29, 2003)
Jochen Rode: "Programming at Runtime: Requirements and Paradigms for Nonprogrammer Web Application Development" at the Human Centric Computing Conference in Auckland, New Zealand (October 28 - 31, 2003)
Zhiyan Shao: Transcoding HTML to Using Annotation" at the 15th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence in Sacramento, CA (November 3 - 5, 2003)
Liya Thomas: "Defect Detection on Hardwood Logs Using High Resolution Three-Dimensional Laser Scan" at Scan Tech '03 in Seattle, Washington (Nov 4 - 5, 2003)
Yang Rui: "Ranking Function Discovery by Genetic Programming" and "VT at TREC-2003: The Web Track Report" at the TREC 2003 Conference in Gaithersburg, MD (Nov 18 - Nov 21)
Ahmed Sidky: "RGML: A Markup Language for Characterizing Requirements Generation Processes" at The 28th NASA/IEEE Software Engineering Workshop in Melbourne, Florida (Nov 19 - 22, 2003)
Yufeng Kou: "Algorithms for Spatial Outlier Detection" at The third IEEE Conference on Data Mining in Greenbelt, MD (Dec 2 - 4, 2003)
Nicholas Allen: "Improving the Development Process for Eukaryotic Cell Cycle Models with a Modeling Support Environment" at The 2003 Winter Simulation Conference in New Orleans, LA (Dec 7 - 10, 2003)
Mohammad Salman Akram: "Supporting Dynamic Changes in Web Service Environments" at the International Conference on Service Oriented Computing in Trento, Italy (December 15 - 18, 2003)
Anil Bazaz: "Reflections on Operating in Hostile Environments" and "Authority Models for Collaborative Authoring" at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences in Big Island, Hawaii (January 5 - 8, 2004)


Home Student Home Pages Events ^New! Blog ^New! Members and Positions Photos ^New! Travel Fund Mentor Program Constitution Meetings Mailing List	Students Who Were Funded for 2005-2006 Nicholas F. Polys: "Effects of Information Layout, Screen Size, and Field of View on User Performance in Information-Rich Virtual Environments", ACM Virtual Reality Software and Technology, Nov 7-9, 2005 Rahul Agarwal: "Designing an Adaptive Learning Module to Teach Software Testing" Nicholas Allen: "Building Modeling Tools That Support Verification, Validation, and Testing for the Domain Expert", 2005 Winter Simulation Conference in Orlando, FL, December 4-7 Pardha Pyla: "Vizability: A Tool for Usability Engineering Process Improvement through the Visualization of Usability Problem Data", ACM Southeast Conference, ACM Southeast Conference, 2006, Melbourne, FL, USA. Jonathan Howarth: "Identifying Immediate Intention during Usability Evaluation", ACM Southeast Conference, ACM Southeast Conference, 2006, Melbourne, FL, USA. Jian Chen: "Evaluation of Effectiveness of Cloning Techniques for Architectural Virtual Environments", IEEE Virtual Reality 2006 , Alexandria, VA during March 25-29 Chadwick A. Wingrave: "Overcoming World in Miniature Limitations by a Scaled and Scrolling WIM", IEEE Virtual Reality 2006, Alexandria, VA during March 25-29 Tao Ni: "Design and Evaluation of Navigation Techniques for Multiscale Virtual Environments" & "A Survey of Large High- Resolution Display Technologies, Techniques, and Applications", IEEE Virtual Reality 2006, Alexandria, VA during March 25-29 Arnold P. Boedihardjo: "AITVS: Advanced Interactive Traffic Visualization System", IEEE Virtual Reality 2006, Alexandria, VA during March 25-29 Yufeng Kou: "Spatial Weighted Data Mining", 2006 Siam Conference on Data Mining, April 20 and April 22 in Bethesda, Maryland Saurabh Bhatia: "Listening to Your Inner Voices: Investigating Means for Voice Notifications", CHI 2006 : Conference on human factors in computing, April 22-27,2006, Monreal, Quebec, Canada Manas Tungare: "Multiple User Interfaces: Why Consistency is Not Everything, and Seamless Task Migration is Key", CHI 2006 : Conference on human factors in computing, April 22-27,2006, Monreal, Quebec, Canada Shahrooz Feizabadi: "Automatic Memory Management in Utility Accrual Scheduling Environments", 9th IEEE International Symposium on Object and component-oriented & Real-time distributed Computing (ISORC), April 24 - April 26, Gyeongju, Korea Jing Dai: "Spatial-Temporal Data Mining in Traffic Incident Detection", 2006 SIAM Conference on Data Mining, April 20-22, in Bethesda, MD Students Who Were Funded for 2004-2005 Mohammad Akram in Brisbane, Australia (Nov 20-28, 2004) Wensi Xi, Yuxin Chen, and Baoping Zhang: "Combining Structural and Citation-based Evidence for Text Classification" at the ACM Thirteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management in Washington D.C. (Nov 8-13, 2004) Kibum Kim: "Designing Knowledge Management Systems: Reuse and Integration of Findings in Computer Supported Cooperative Work" at the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration in Las Vegas, Nevada (Nov 8-12, 2004) Abdelmounaam Rezgui: "Privacy-based ranking of Web services" at the International Conference on Service Oriented Computing in New York (Nov 15-18, 2004) Xumin Liu: "WebDG - A Platform for E-Government Web Services" at the the First International Workshop on Digital Government in Shanghai, China (Nov 8-12, 2004) Liya Thomas: "Defect Detection on Hardwood Logs Using High Resolution Three-Dimensional Laser Scan Data" at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing in Singapore (Oct 24-27, 2004) Partha Pyla at the Frontiers in Education Conference in Savannah, Georgia (Oct 20-23, 2004) Jochen Rode: "End-users' Mental Models of Concepts Critical to Web Application Development" at the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing in Rome, Italy (Sep 26-29, 2004) Will Humphries: "Laboratory Simulation Methods for Studying Complex Collaborative Tasks" at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's 48th Annual Meeting in New Orleans (Sept 20-24, 2004) Students Who Were Funded for 2003-2004 The following students received funding from the graduate council to attend conferences: Rob Capra: "The Staging Transformation Approach to Mixing Initiative" at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Intelligent Systems in Acapulco, Mexico (August 9 - 15, 2003) Max Moldenhauer: "The Effect of Information Modality on Geographic Cognition in Car Navigation Systems" at the IFIP INTERACT Conference in Zurich, Switzerland (Sept 1 - 5, 2003) Roy Tan: "An Assertion Checking Wrapper Design for Java" at the European Software Engineering Conference / ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering in Helsinki, Finland (September 1 - 5, 2003) Jacob Somervell: "Usability Heuristics for Large Screen Information Exhibits Conference" at INTERACT in Zurich, Switzerland (September 2 - 5, 2003) Choudhry M.Zaki Malik: Presented a paper titled "Reputation-based Approach to Preserving Privacy in Web Services" at the VLDB-TES Conference in Berlin, Germany (Sept 7 - 13, 2003) Kibum Kim: "Using Scenarios for Contextual Design in Agent Oriented Information Systems" at the 22nd International Conference of Conceptual Modeling in Chicago, Illinois(October 13 - 16, 2003) Qing Li: "Empirical Comparison of Dynamic Query Sliders and Brushing Histograms" at the IEEE InfoVis Conference in Seattle, Washington (Oct 18 - 24, 2003) Catherine Payne: "Generalizing Interface Design: Lessons Learned from Developing a Claims Library" at the IEEE Information Reuse and Information Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada (Oct 27-29, 2003) Jochen Rode: "Programming at Runtime: Requirements and Paradigms for Nonprogrammer Web Application Development" at the Human Centric Computing Conference in Auckland, New Zealand (October 28 - 31, 2003) Zhiyan Shao: Transcoding HTML to Using Annotation" at the 15th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence in Sacramento, CA (November 3 - 5, 2003) Liya Thomas: "Defect Detection on Hardwood Logs Using High Resolution Three-Dimensional Laser Scan" at Scan Tech '03 in Seattle, Washington (Nov 4 - 5, 2003) Yang Rui: "Ranking Function Discovery by Genetic Programming" and "VT at TREC-2003: The Web Track Report" at the TREC 2003 Conference in Gaithersburg, MD (Nov 18 - Nov 21) Ahmed Sidky: "RGML: A Markup Language for Characterizing Requirements Generation Processes" at The 28th NASA/IEEE Software Engineering Workshop in Melbourne, Florida (Nov 19 - 22, 2003) Yufeng Kou: "Algorithms for Spatial Outlier Detection" at The third IEEE Conference on Data Mining in Greenbelt, MD (Dec 2 - 4, 2003) Nicholas Allen: "Improving the Development Process for Eukaryotic Cell Cycle Models with a Modeling Support Environment" at The 2003 Winter Simulation Conference in New Orleans, LA (Dec 7 - 10, 2003) Mohammad Salman Akram: "Supporting Dynamic Changes in Web Service Environments" at the International Conference on Service Oriented Computing in Trento, Italy (December 15 - 18, 2003) Anil Bazaz: "Reflections on Operating in Hostile Environments" and "Authority Models for Collaborative Authoring" at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences in Big Island, Hawaii (January 5 - 8, 2004)
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