Doctoral Consortium

Student Participants, Affiliations and Paper Titles:

  A method for enhancing digital information displayed to computer users with visual refractive errors via spatial and spectral based processing
  • Alonso, Miguel, Florida Intl Univ, USA
  Accessibility and usability model for mobile devices in home health monitoring
  • Hubert, Rita, Pace Univ, USA
  Distal object perception through haptic user interfaces for users who are blind
  • Kahol, Kanav, Arizona State Univ, USA
  Clique: A conversant, task-based audio display for GUI Applications
  • Parente, Peter, UNC - Chapel Hill, USA
  Using functional assessments to improve research, design, and technology matching
  • Price, Kathy, UMBC, USA
  Storytelling as a virtual peer as an intervention for children with autism
  • Tartaro, Andrea, Northwestern Univ, USA
  Accessility heuristics utilizing learnability characteristics of synthesized speech applications
  • Wattenberg, Ted, NOVA Southeastern Univ, USA
  A robust deisgn for accessible text entry
  • Wobbrock, Jacob, CMU, USA

Doctoral Consortium Chairperson:

  Julie A. Jacko
Georgia Institute Of Technology (USA)

Doctoral Consortium Faculty Advisors:

  Professor Armando B. Barreto
Florida International University (USA)
  Professor Anthony Hornof
University of Oregon (USA)
  Professor Steven J. Landry
Purdue University (USA)
  Professor Jonathan Lazar
Towson University (USA)

Doctoral Consortium Transitional Advisor:

  V. Kathlene Leonard
Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)

Sunday, October 9, 2005

Doctoral Consortium Program Agenda:

Time Speaker
8:30-9:00 Introductions and continental breakfast
9:00-9:45 Miguel Alonso, Florida International University
9:45-10:30 Rita Hubert, Pace University
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:45 Kanav Kahol, Arizona State University
11:45-12:30 Peter Parente, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:15 Kathy Price, UMBC
2:15-3:00 Andrea Tartaro, Northwestern University
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-4:15 Ted Wattenberg, NOVA Southeastern University
4:15-5:00 Jacob Wobbrock, CMU
5:30 Dinner