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Doctoral Thesis

"Developing Heuristic Evaluation Methods for Large Screen Information Exhibits Based on Critical Parameters"

Submitted, pending

Refereed Papers

"Pair Programming: Not for Everyone?" Jacob Somervell.2006 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'06) June 26-29, 2006, Las Vegas.

"Better Discount Evaluation: Illustrating How Critical Parameters Support Heuristic Creation." Jacob Somervell and D. Scott McCrickard. Interacting with Computers: Special Issue on Social Impact of Emerging Technologies Volume 17, Issue 5 , September 2005, Pages 592-612

"Making a Case for HCI: Comparing Materials for Case-Based Teaching." Jacob Somervell, C. M. Chewar, and D. Scott McCrickard. In Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Frontiers in Education (FIE '04), Savannah GA, October 2004. (Recipient of a FIE '04 New Faculty Fellowship Award.) [pdf]

"Comparing Generic vs Specific Heuristics: Illustrating a New UEM Comparison Technique." Jacob Somervell and D. Scott McCrickard. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 48th Annual Meeting (HFES '04), New Orleans LA, September 2004, pp. 2480-2484. [pdf]

"Design, Science, and Engineering Topics? Teaching HCI with a Unified Method." D. Scott McCrickard, C. M. Chewar, and Jacob Somervell. In Proceedings of the Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SigCSE'04), Norfolk VA, March 2004, pp 31-35. [pdf]

"A Model for Notification Systems Evaluation--Assessing User Goals for Multitasking Activity." D. Scott McCrickard, C. M. Chewar, Jacob P. Somervell, and Ali Ndiwalana. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), volume 10, number 4, pp. 312-338, December 2003. [pdf]

"Classroom BRIDGE: using collaborative public and desktop timelines to support activity awareness." Craig H. Ganoe, Jacob P. Somervell, Dennis C. Neale, Phil L. Isenhour, John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson, and D. Scott McCrickard. In Proceedings of Sixteenth Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'03). November 2-5, 2003. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [pdf]

"Usability Heuristics for Large Screen Information Exhibits." Jacob Somervell, Shahtab Wahid, and D. Scott McCrickard. In Proceedings of the Ninth IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT'03). September 1-5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland. [pdf]

"Enlarging Usability for Ubiquitous Displays." Jacob Somervell, C.M. Chewar, D.Scott McCrickard, and Ali Ndiwalana. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual ACM Southeast Conference . March 2003. Savannah, Georgia. [pdf]

"Ubiquitous Computing: By the People, For the People." Ali Ndiwalana, Christa Chewar, Dillon Bussert, Jacob Somervell, and D. Scott McCrickard. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual ACM Southeast Conference . March 2003. Savannah, Georgia. [pdf]

"An Extensible Framework for Information Visualization and Collection." William Luebke, Micheal Richmond, Jacob Somervell, and D. Scott McCrickard. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual ACM Southeast Conference . March 2003. Savannah, Georgia. [pdf]

"An Evaluation of Information Visualization in Attention-Limited Environments." Jacob Somervell, D. Scott McCrickard, Chris North, Maulik Shukla. In Joint Eurographics-IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization, May 27-29, 2002. Barcelona, Spain.[pdf]

"Evaluating Graphical vs. Textual Displays in Dual-Task Environments." Jacob Somervell, C. M. Chewar, D. Scott McCrickard. In Proceedings of the 40th Annual ACM Southeast Conference, April 26-27, 2002. Raleigh, NC. [pdf]

"Measuring Distraction and Awareness Caused by Graphical and Textual Displays in the Periphery." Jacob Somervell, Ragavan Srinivasan, Omar Vasnaik, Kim Woods. In Proceedings of the 39th Annual ACM Southeast Conference, March 16-17, 2001. Athens, GA. [pdf]

Other Publications

"Ubiquitous Computing: By the People, For the People." Ali Ndiwalana, Christa Chewar, Dillon Bussert, Jacob Somervell, and D. Scott McCrickard. In Extended Abstracts: CHI 2003 . April 2003. Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. [pdf]

"Enhancing Classroom Participation Through Secondary Displays." Jacob Somervell. Presented at: SigCSE Doctoral Consortium in Northern Kentucky, KY. February 27 - March 3, 2002.

"Synergy: Collaborative Efforts at UMD." Ameya Datey, Jacob Somervell, Mike Richmond, Mike Shore, Sanjini Jayrayman. Workshop Report. In SigCHI Bulletin, November-December 2001 Issue.