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 Left to right: Don Taylor, the Charles O. Gordon Professor and Head of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Woodrow Winchester, III, assistant professor in industrial and systems engineering and program coordinator for REU, Scott McCrickard, assistant professor in computer science and program coordinator for REU, and Dennis Kafura, Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science
The first annual symposium to showcase the proceedings of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction’s (HCI) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) was held at Knowledge Works II on July 13, 2006.
The REU is a new program at Virginia Tech funded by the National Science Foundation (Grant IIS0552732). The program provides undergraduate students from various universities with the opportunity to spend eight weeks at Virginia Tech, working with faculty and graduate students on research projects utilizing the state-of-the-art technology and laboratories available here.
Eight students from across the nation participated in this year’s REU program:
Ashley Peoples, Bennett College, Greensboro, NC
Mark Velez, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
Farid Sultani, California State University, Fullerton, CA
Janine Hernandez, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA
Daveta Henderson, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC
Jovan Jacobs, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC
Anthony Judkins, University of Pittsburgh, PA
Ryan Engle, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
REU participants presented their research on the following topics at the symposium:
Investigating Touch-Screen Interface and Interaction Design in a Car-Computer
Unleash Your Emotions
Talking Back to Government
ARDEX: An Integrated Framework for Handheld Augmented Reality
Body Motion Detection System Using a Wireless Embedded Sensor Network
Usability Guidelines for Group Decision Support Systems
Exploring Task Structure Preferences of Users for 3D Virtual Environments
Additional symposium photos:
Francis Quek, far left, is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and is the director of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech. Standing next to Quek, left to right: Kafura, Taylor, Winchester, and McCrickard. Shown in the bottom front center is Pardha Pyla, who is a graduate student at Virginia Tech and is the REU program assistant.
For more information about REU and the research presented at this year’s symposium please go to: http://www.reu.hci.vt.edu/
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