ecologylab.net,
I am a Ph.d. student working under
Dr. Andruid Kerne in the
Interface Ecology Lab. My research interests are focused through a human-centered
approach and include human computer interaction, information visualization,
interface design, physical interfaces, computer vision for tracking movement, art (and the beautiful interchange
science and art can have), and wearable computing.
Currently, I am involved in developing combinFormation, a mixed-initative creativity support tool that uses composition to represent collections of information and promote information discovery. My Master's thesis developed an new fluid, transitory interface component, the In-Context Slider, for visualization and adjustment of a value near a participant's point of focus. combinFormation uses the In-Context Slider as an interface for the human participant to express interest (provide feedback on relevance) on elements within a mixed-initiative composition to help direct the agents.
Being a member of the Interface Ecology Lab, I've had the opportunity to mix artistic avocations with systematic science, to design interfaces for the playful and the efficient, to explore ideas of embodied interactions that promote social invitation, and to bridge disciplinary domains improving research and understanding. In doing so, I've collected not only a better awareness of my own research but also an inflection to my creative process - a bend in my design methodology. A bend away from creating just the beautiful and practical towards designing for the experiential, the expressive, the embodied.
publications, presentations, and exhibitions:
Kerne, A., Koh, E., Smith, S. M., Webb, A., Dworaczyk, B.,
combinFormation: Mixed-Initiative Composition of Image and Text Surrogates Promotes Information Discovery
,
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 27(1), Dec. 2008, 5:1-45,http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1416950.1416955.
Kerne, A., Damaraju, S., Kumar, B., and Webb, A.
Meta-Metadata: A Semantic Architecture for Multimedia Metadata Definition, Extraction, and Presentation,
Poster and Demo Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies,
Koblenz, Germany, 3-5 December 2008.
Webb, A. and Kerne, A.
The In-Context Slider: A Fluid Interface Component for Visualization and Adjustment of Values while Authoring,
Proceedings of ACM Advanced Visual Interfaces,
Napoli, Italy, 28-30 May 2008.
Koh, E., Kerne, A., Webb, A., Damaraju, S., Sturdivant, D.,
Generating Views of the Buzz: Browsing Popular Media and Authoring using Mixed-Initiative Composition,
Proceedings of ACM Multimedia,
Augsburg, Germany, 23-29 September 2007.
Webb, A.,
A Transitory Interface Component for the In-Context Visualization and Adjustment of a Value
,
M.S. thesis, Texas A&M University, August 2007.
Webb, A., Kerne, A., Koh, E., Joshi, P., Park, Y., Graeber, R.,
Choreographic Buttons: Promoting Social Interaction through Human
Movement and Clear Affordances, Proc ACM Multimedia, Santa
Barbara, Oct 2006.
Kerne, A., Koh, E., Dworaczyk, B., Mistrot, J.M., Choi, H.,
Smith, S., Graeber, R., Caruso, D., Webb, A., Hill, R., Albea, J., A
Mixed-Initiative System for Representing Collections as Compositions of
Image and Text Surrogates,Proc Joint ACM/IEEE Conf. on Digital Libraries (JCDL), June 2006, Chapel Hill.