Previous Projects

Previous Projects

	Research Projects
	NSF KDI This was a three-year continuing award. To ensure that new workplaces and digital work materials serve human needs requires a different theoretical base and an integration of theory with ethnographic and experimental methods. We applied our integrated approach to developing a distributed cognition based theory of annotation and explore a range of application domains: collaborative scientific research, education, and commercial aviation.	For more information: NSF Award
	Pilot Expertise in the Airbus A320 The Development of Pilot Expertise in Flying the Airbus A320 Aircraft. This study aims to discover how pilots' understanding of flight deck automation develops over the course of initial training and through early stages of operating experience. Although pilots claim that much of what they know about the operation of airplanes is learned while flying 'on the line',at present, no one knows what is being learned by pilots after they leave the training center and enter revenue service. We have negotiated an arrangement with a major airline to study the acquisition of expertise in flying the Airbus A320 aircraft. Airbus airplanes are widely regarded as the most extensively automated aircraft in the world. We are using surveys, interviews, and observations of pilots in actual flight to create an in-depth description of the processes of the development of expertise.	For a high resolution image: A320 Cockpit

	Software Projects
	Activity Histories Activity-Histories is an experimental software system for recording workstation activity histories.
	IRYS IRYS is an experimental software system for recording eye movements during workstation operation of any application. It provides the ability to replay workstation sessions with eye movements superimposed.
	PAD++ The PAD++ Project is research collaboration to explore dynamic multiscale interfaces. It involves researchers and students in the Human Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego, the Human Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, the Media Research Laboratory at New York University, School of Information at the University of Michigan, and Computer Science Department at the University of New Mexico. Sony has licensed the Pad++ software.	For more information: Pad++ Web Site

	STkPad and Image WorkSpace STkPad is an experimental version of Pad++ that replaces Tcl with Scheme and provides a connection to a relational database (MySQL). WorkSpace is an experimental software system based on STkPad to assist in exploring image-based information navigation. It provides facilities for multiscale access to image collections and other information repositories.