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My name is Kevin McDonald and I live in Austin, Texas. My chosen profession
is a field called Human Computer Interaction - which is a fancy way
of saying that I strive to make technology easier for average people. |
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research interests:
contextual design, ethnography, design cognition, information visualization
and aesthetics |
long-term plans:
Alright, a last minute distraction surfaced. Instead of enrolling
in the Computer Science Ph.D. program at Georgia Tech come August,
I am staying here in Austin. After some soul-searching (blah, blah,
blah), I decided to stay and work at .
Ribbit. |
acknowledgments:
I'd like thank the following blogs (and their owners) for both design
inspiration and borrowed html code/style sheets:
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I hope they don't mind my pilfering too much. |
contact information:
2100 Payne Avenue
Austin Texas 78757
512.698.6471 (cell)
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SELECTED RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Graduate Researcher
Georgia Tech • • Fall 2000
• Conducted research in ubiquitous computing for the AwareHome
project at Georgia Tech
• Focused on the notion that users' values should be as intrinsic
to the design process as studies of context and task
• Building on existing research rooted in conceptual art, designed
unique and descriptive methodologies for capturing a sense of user
values
Teaching Assistant
Georgia Tech • • Fall 2000
• Graduate Student Instructor for the Human-Computer Interface
Design and Evaluation class under Professor Chris Shaw
• Responsible for teaching several undergraduate class sessions;
served as a general resource for 45 students
• Prepared and evaluated design assignments and exam questions
Research Assistant
Georgia Tech • • Winter/Spring 1999
• Designed and implemented usability sessions for two visualization
applications developed by a faculty member of the School of Computer
Science
• Collected, collated and analyzed quantitative and qualitative
data from usability sessions
• Utilized a variety of usability methods (cognitive walkthrough,
questionnaires, surveys, observation, informal interviews) in capturing
user reaction to the interface
• Worked with application developers to make iterative improvements
to the interface based on the formative evaluation sessions
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Stasko, John, Catrambone, Richard, Guzdial, Mark and McDonald, Kevin,
"An Evaluation of Space-Filling Information Visualizations for Depicting
Hierarchical Structures", International Journal of Human-Computer
Studies, Vol. 53, No. 5, November 2000, pp. 663-694.
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