My Projects

Carnegie Mellon Class Papers

These are papers I wrote for my classes. They were not published in peer-reviewed journals, nor were they revised beyond the first time they were graded.

Intro to Human-Computer Interaction Methods

	Palm Redesign [pdf]
	The final project for my Intro to HCI Methods class involved using all of the data from the HCI methods we learned to motivate a redesign of the Palm OS 3 interface. This was a group project, and the actual writing is a bit dense—I recommend skipping to the appendix to read the design ideas there. Fall 2004

Memory Mechanisms & Memory Phenomena

Implicit Memory versus False Memory [pdf]

There is a possibility that implanted false memories and implicit memories of a real situation could be retained separately and thus actually be at odds with one another. If so, it may be possible to perform a test on memories to determine whether they are real or implanted. This paper proposes an experiment which may help bring us a step closer to understanding whether implicit memory is separate from implanted false memories. The proposed experiment puts the Wells and Bradfield (1998) False Feedback paradigm in opposition with the Chun and Jiang (1998) Contextual Cueing paradigm. Spring 2005

Computer-Mediated Communication

	iChat and Gabber: Interfaces Investigated [pdf]
	I wrote this paper attempting to "bridge the gap" between academia and the real world by comparing iChat and Gabber's interfaces with some of the Computer-Mediated Communication research problems. Feel free to leave comments. Spring 2005

Carnegie Mellon Research

End System Multicast is sort of a Bit Torrent for streaming video. Basically, every node on the network streams data to nodes beneath it. Lots of intelligence was put into the creation of a good network tree for distributing the streaming video data correctly. I was involved in researching the possibilities of a cross-platform user interface for both broadcasting and viewing the stream using VLC. This involved some of my HCI and design skills along with lots of really messy programming with VLC. 2004

Project BARN is the primary research project I was on—it's a joint Human-Computer Interaction Institute and Institute for Complex Engineered Systems project to aid student design groups learn process. This is accomplished through a web portal and an interactive stickie-note whiteboard called Thinking Surface. 2003–2004

ARIUS is another project I was semi-involved in through the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems as well. You may have heard of an earlier version of it called SenSay. The idea is that eventually I will be involved in the interaction between ARIUS and Carnegie Mellon's larger project RADAR. I may yet get to do so. 2003–2004

Integrated Infrastructure for Instant Messaging Working Group (I2IM) is the way I'm involved with Jabber at Carnegie Mellon currently (you knew there had to be a way I'd link the two). Carnegie Mellon Computing Services is investigating replacing Zephyr with Jabber/XMPP on-campus. I've done a presentation for them and will continue to help their investigation as well as the rest of the Internet2 effort to standardize instant messaging for universities. 2003–