Brief Resumes

Brief Resumes CS 5734: Student Resumes

By the end of the first week of class, I would like each student to submit to me (via email) a short resume summarizing background skills and interests. The general intent is for class members to learn more about each other, but more specifically to use this information when dividing up into groups. For example, some students in the class will have taken one or both of the HCI courses taught last semester--although these courses are not prerequisites to this class, these students are likely to be better prepared for the project work!

Please use my example resume below as a template, sending me a plain text version of your version via email. I will then compile them into a single page accessible through the "People" link. I would like these by the end of the first week of class, i.e., by Friday January 16.

Mary Beth Rosson (rosson@vt.edu)
HCI (or other behavioral, experimental design, etc.) courses taken:
I haven't taken any of the HCI courses ;-) but did teach a pilot version of this class as a 6724 seminar last spring. I also teach 1-2 sections of the junior-level HCI course, which is very similar to the course taught by Dr. Hartson (CS 5714). I have considerable background in psychology and experimental design.

Software development skills:
I have worked only on research prototypes, mostly in Smalltalk. I am quite familiar with the object-oriented paradigm in general, including building tools and environments for support of learning and reuse. I am reasonably conversant with HTML and basic Web authoring applications.

Research interests:
I work on a variety of topics in HCI--right now, focussing on network communities (especially the support of educational activities) and on programming environments (agents and OOP). I am trying to begin a research program in problem-solving environments.

Personal information:
I am married (to the head!) and have a 9-year old daughter Erin. I like to run (usually at lunch), hike, garden, and I'm a big fan of college and professional sports. I also am quite involved in professional activities, e.g., helping to organize conferences like CHI and OOPSLA.

Known schedule constraints:
Aside from this class and my office hours TH 9:30-11am, I have a regularly scheduled meeting every other week on Fridays at 3:30. (But I'm sure other commitments will soon develop :-)