Curriculum Vitae

Edward C. Clarkson
edward.clarkson[at]cc.gatech.edu

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Education

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Ph.D. student, College of Computing, Aug. 2003-present.
M.S. in Computer Science Aug. 2007 (GPA 4.0/4.0; Courses taken)
Advisor: Prof. James D. Foley

Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA

B.S., summa cum laude, June 2000
Majors in Mathematics and Computer Science (GPA 3.87/4.0, +/- scale)
Phi Beta Kappa, Darnall W. Boyd Honor Scholarship, Clifford Williams Honor Scholarship, National Merit.
Advisors: Profs. Paul Bourdon (Math) and Tom Whaley (CS)

Academic Positions

Graduate Research Assistant

HCC Education Digital Library Project/Jim Foley, Fall 2004 - present
- My latest research with the HCC EDL (and the related Visual Analytics Digital Library) involves visualization for search result listings and faceted browsing environments.
Mobile Robot Lab/Ron Arkin, Fall 2003

Graduate Teaching Assistant

CS 4750: User Interface Design (Elaine Huang, Instr.), Summer 2004
CS 4611/7611: AI Problem Solving (Ashok Goel, Prof.), Spring 2004

Undergraduate Research Assistant

NSF REU/Paul Bourdon, Summer 1998

Industry Positions

The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA
- R&D Intern - Weather Data Visualization, Summer 2007
IBM Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC
Enterprise Network Computing, z/OS Operating System Division
- Software Engineer, Aug. 2000-July 2003: Involved with design, development and test of various components of the TCP/IP application stack for the z/OS mainframe environment (BIND DNS server and TCP/IP MLS specifically).

Refereed Publications

Clarkson, E., Foley, J. and Desai, K. ResultMaps: Visualization for Search Interfaces. Accepted to Proceedings of InfoVis '09. (26% acceptance)

Clarkson, E., Navathe, S. and Foley, J. Generalized Formal Models for Faceted User Interfaces. In Proceedings of JCDL '09, pp. 125-134. (Best Paper Nominee - 28% acceptance)

Clarkson, E. and Arkin, R. Applying Heuristic Evaluation to Human-Robot Interaction Systems. In Proceedings of FLAIRS '07, pp. 44 - 49.

Clarkson, E., Lyons, K., Clawson, J. and Starner, T. Revisiting and Validating a Model of Two-Thumb Text Entry. In Proceedings of CHI '07, pp 163 - 166. (22% acceptance)

Clawson, J., Lyons, K., Starner, T. and Clarkson, E. The Impacts of Limited Visual Feedback on Mobile Text Entry for the Twiddler and Mini–QWERTY Keyboards. In Proc. of ISWC '05. (Best Paper Nominee - 25% acceptance) (pdf)

Clarkson, E., Clawson, J., Lyons, K. and Starner, T. An Empirical Study of Typing Rates on mini-QWERTY Keyboards. In CHI '05 Extended Abstracts, pp. 1288 - 1291. (25% acceptance) (pdf)

Conference Workshop/Colloquia Papers

Clarkson, E. and Foley, J. Augmenting Digital Library Search Interfaces with Visual Analysis Tools. In 2007 IEEE Visualization Doctoral Colloquium.

Clarkson, E. and Foley, J. ResultMaps: Search Result Visualization for Hierarchical Information Spaces. In Proceedings of the CHI '07 Workshop on Exploratory Search and HCI, pp. 32 - 39.

Conference Posters

Clarkson, E., Day, J. and Foley, J. An Educational Digital Library for Human-Centered Computing. In CHI '06 Extended Abstracts, pp. 646-651. (pdf)

Clarkson, E. and Foley, J. Browsing Affordance Designs for the Human-Centered Computing Education Digital Library. In JCDL '06 Extended Abstracts, p. 361.

Unrefereed:

Clarkson, E., Patel, S., Pierce, J. and Abowd, G. Application of Continuous Pressure Input to Mobile Interaction. GVU Tech Report GIT-GVU-06-20. (pdf)

Clarkson, E. and Arkin, R. Applying Heuristic Evaluation to Human-Robot Interaction Systems. GVU Tech Report GIT-GVU-06-08. (pdf)

Clarkson, E., Day, J. and Foley, J. The Development of an Educational Digital Library for Human-Centered Computing. GVU Tech Report GIT-GVU-05-33. (pdf)

Clarkson, E. Complex Plot: a Visual Aid for Plotting Analytic Functions. Washington and Lee Journal of Science 1(1), pp. 31-34.

Community Involvement

Reviewer: International Journal on Digital Libraries, UIST 2005, CHI 2006, CHI 2007, CHI 2008
Student Volunteer: JCDL 2006
Member: ACM, IEEE, CHI Atlanta

Workshops

Exploratory Search. CHI 2007, San Jose CA.
Graduate Education in Human-Computer Interaction. CHI 2005, Portland OR.
Human-Robot Interaction Workshop. 1st RAS/IFRR Summer School (2004), Volterra, Italy.

Last modified 29 July 2009 at 1:59 pm by Edward Clarkson