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Research

My broad research goal is to create computers that allow people to do amazingly advanced computation without thinking about it. I am pursuing this at the School of Informatics at Indiana University. Yay for me.

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Topics:

• Papers

Language

• Language Development
• Linguistic crutches
• Linguistic theory of user-centered design
• Thoughts on conversant computers
• Visual Languages
• Disambiguation of language in HCI
• Common ground between people and machines
• The basic experiences of humans and computers as a linguistic barrier
• Formal subsets of natural interactions
• HCI as a language
• Foundations of human-computer semantic transfer
• Simulating language emergence
• The dangers of imagination
• Boxing deduction
• A man-machine conversation
• Natural Language in Pervasive Computing
• Programming Game
• BusyBodies

Design and Human Factors

• Why document centricity isn't enough
• Abominations of the Modern User Interface
• Principles of Good UI
• Novice programming use cases
• Information Centricity
• The wiki and implicit search
• Dynamo
• Context Sensitive Interface Elements
• Theory weary, theory leery

Language and Cognition

• Cognitive Development
• Brains
• The relationship between language production and understanding

Other

• Frame Problem
• Modality Specification
• On Pac-man
• Programming Needs in Science
• Programming as Teaching
• Things My Computer Should Understand
• Programming by Play
• Spring 05 Ethnography aka Information Usage In Science
• Dynamic web-based PDF annotation
• BunnieLand
• 2006-2007 Fulbright
• Creativity
• Browser Swallows Desktop

Meta:

• Library List
• On Journals