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Faculty Expertise Guide - College of Engineering - Virginia Tech

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<strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong> engineering faCulty expertise listing 2010-2012<br />

URL: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~north/<br />

Specialty: Information Visualization, Evaluating Visualizations,<br />

Large High-Resolution Displays, Bioinformatics Visualization,<br />

Geospatial Information Visualization<br />

Applications: Numeric and non-numeric data visualization and<br />

analysis for bioinformatics, geographic information systems,<br />

digital libraries, network intrusion detection, intelligence analysis<br />

and other domains; development <strong>of</strong> user interfaces for<br />

web-based dissemination <strong>of</strong> large or complex information;<br />

designing user interfaces for large high-resolution displays for<br />

control rooms, visualization labs, or classrooms<br />

<strong>Expertise</strong>: Design, development, and evaluation <strong>of</strong> user interfaces<br />

and visualizations; information visualization; multidimensional<br />

data visualization; multiple-view coordination;<br />

information and application integration; web-based s<strong>of</strong>tware<br />

architectures; architecting tiled, high-resolution displays and<br />

visualizations<br />

Examples <strong>of</strong> Funding Sources: National Science Foundation,<br />

National Geospatial-intelligence Agency, Advanced Research<br />

and Development Activity, U.S. Bureau <strong>of</strong> the Census<br />

HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION<br />

Name: Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones<br />

Department: Computer Science<br />

Office Phone: 540-231-2646<br />

FAX: 540-231-6075<br />

E-mail: perez@cs.vt.edu<br />

URL: www.cs.vt.edu/~perez<br />

Specialty: User Interface S<strong>of</strong>tware, Personal Information Management,<br />

Evaluations <strong>of</strong> Interactive Systems<br />

Applications: Design and development <strong>of</strong> interactive computerbased<br />

applications; assessment <strong>of</strong> computer use in educational<br />

settings; development <strong>of</strong> web-based applications; design<br />

and development <strong>of</strong> applications for multiple devices including<br />

interactive desktop applications, web-based database-driven<br />

applications, and handheld devices such as iPhones<br />

<strong>Expertise</strong>: Design, development and evaluation <strong>of</strong> interactive<br />

systems; usability engineering; experimental design to support<br />

the design and evaluation <strong>of</strong> user interfaces<br />

Examples <strong>of</strong> Funding Sources: National Science Foundation,<br />

IBM Corporation, Micros<strong>of</strong>t<br />

HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (a) and<br />

COMPUTER VISION (b)<br />

Name: Francis Quek<br />

Department: Computer Science<br />

Office Phone: 540-231-8453<br />

FAX: 540-231-9218<br />

E-mail: quek@vt.edu<br />

Specialty: (a) Embodied Cognition and Interaction, Human<br />

Multimodal Behavior Analysis, Human Multimodal Language<br />

Analysis, Meeting Analysis, Assistive <strong>Tech</strong>nologies for the<br />

Blind, User Interfaces Systems that Support Human Learning<br />

and Knowing, Agent-Based Vision Systems, Computer Vision-<br />

Based Interfaces, (b) Human Multimodal Behavior Analysis,<br />

Human Multimodal Language Analysis, Meeting Analysis,<br />

Computer Vision-Based Interfaces, Medical Imaging, Dynamic<br />

Vision, Agent-Based Vision Systems, Vision Processing Using<br />

Modern Graphical Processing Hardware<br />

Applications: (a) Human meeting analysis; distance tutoring avatars;<br />

systems to support mathematics instruction for the blind;<br />

sensemaking systems; simulation-based training; computer<br />

gaming systems; human creativity nurturing systems; tabletop<br />

interaction technology; (b) Human meeting analysis; tabletop<br />

interaction technology; medical imaging and modeling<br />

<strong>Expertise</strong>: (a) Human computer interaction; embodied cognition<br />

and interaction; computer vision-based interaction; (b) Human<br />

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