Session 4: 2:50 PM – 4:05 PM
PhD Forum One: HCI and Social Issues
Location: Royal Palm 1, 2 & 3
Session Chair: Lori Pollock
- A Framework to Identify Female High School Students’ Barriers to IT Careers
- Donna Grant, DePaul University
- Designing a Remote Communication Device with Young Adults with Cognitive Disabilities and Their Families
- Melissa Dawe, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Gender HCI Issues in Problem-Solving Software
- Laura A. Beckwith, Oregon State University
- Software Visualization: Using Perceptual and Cognitive Concepts to Quantify Quality, Support Instruction and Improve Interactions
- Philippa Rhodes, University of Georgia
- Using Storytelling to Motivate Middle School Girls to Learn Computer Programming
- Caitlin L. Kelleher, Carnegie Mellon University
PhD Forum Two: HCI and NLP
Location: Sunrise Conference Room
Session Chair: Tracy Camp
- Actively and Implicitly Learning Individual Reward Models
- Bowen Hui, University of Toronto
- Documenting and Understanding Everyday Activities through the Selective Archiving of Live Experiences
- Gillian R. Hayes, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Improving User Interaction with Spoken Dialog Systems via Shaping
- Stefanie L. Tomko, Carnegie Mellon University
- Natural Language Watermarking
- Mercan Topkara, Purdue University
- Strategies for Automatically Exposing Faults in Web Applications
- Sara E. Sprenkle, University of Delaware
PhD Forum Three: Mobile Computing and Networking
Location: Royal Palm 4, 5 & 6
Session Chair: Tajana Simunic Rosing
- A Remote Server-based Network Emulation System
- Yan Gu, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
- High Performance Query Planner for Distributed Data Streams on the Grid
- Ying Liu, Indiana University
- Hybrid Structure/P2P Approach to Optimize the Performance of Video Streaming over Heterogeneous Networks Based on Lower Layer Feedback
- Danjue Li, University of California at Davis
- Middleware for On-Demand Access to Sensor Networks
- Sanem Kabadayi, University of Texas, Austin
- Multi-Angle View of a Moving Target Using Mobile Robots
- Esra Kadioglu, University of Minnesota
PhD Forum Four: Architecture and Grid Computing
Location: Sunset Conference Room
Session Chair: Fran Allen
- A Framework for the Dynamic Reconfiguration of Scientific Applications in Grid Environments
- Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Dataflow Mini-Graphs: Amplifying Superscalar Capacity and Bandwidth
- Anne Bracy, University of Pennsylvania / Intel Corp.
- Toward Global Processor and Memory Power Management
- Nevine AbouGhazaleh, University of Pittsburgh
PhD Forum Five: Theory
Location: Dover Conference Room
Session Chair: Liz Jessup
- Evaluating Algorithmic Design Paradigms
- Sashka Davis, University of California, San Diego
- Scheduling LambdaGrids Using Advance Reservations with Co-Allocations
- Neena R. Kaushik, Santa Clara University
- Techniques for Generating Optimal, Robust Plans when Temporal Uncertainty is Present
- Janae N. Foss, Michigan Technological University
- Scalable Complex Pattern Search in Sequential Data
- Leila Kaghazian, USC
PhD Forum Six: Topics in Computer Science
Location: Towne Conference Room
Session Chair: Padma Raghavan
- Efficient Support Vector Learning for Large Datasets
- Seyda Ertekin (Dept. of CSE, Penn State University), Leon Bottou (NEC Labs America), C. Lee Giles (College of Information Sciences & Technology, Penn State University)
- Generating Surface Crack Patterns
- Hayley N. Iben, University of California, Berkeley
- VOGUE: A Novel Variable Order-Gap State Machine for Modeling Sequences
- Bouchra Bouqata, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
New Investigators 1: Computing Changes Our Lives
Location: San Diego Conference Room
- Designing Ubiquitous Computing Technologies to Motivate Fitness and Health
- Louise Barkhuus, University of Glasgow
- AIR: Advancement through Interactive Radio
- S. Revi Sterling, University of Colorado
- Coordination, Poverty, and Disasters: Discovering and Reinventing Computing Technology
- M. Bernadine Dias, Carnegie Mellon University
- Optimizing Computer Imagery for More Effective Visual Communication
- Vidya Setlur, Nokia Research Center
New Investigators 2: Computing Brings Speed and Safety
Location: Golden West Conference Room
- Defining and enforcing correct network behavior at application granularity
- Marianne L. Shaw, Univ. of Washington
- Efficient similarity search and data mining in multimedia databases
- Ira Assent, RWTH Aachen University
- Fast Probabilistic Pursuit of Mobile Entities in Road Networks
- Sahar A. Idwan, Sahar
- Making and Propagating Elastic Waves: An Overview of the New Wave Propagation Program
- Kathleen Patricia McCandless, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
