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William TomlinsonPresidential candidates and political bloggers typically have a lot to say, but the subtext to their messages isn't always clear. A UCI-developed Web site helps analyze political speeches, blogs. more
Crista LopesA local company is designing a futuristic transport system and Crista Lopes, a professor of informatics, is modeling its logic-control layer on virtual world Second Life. more
Robert NidefferResearchers have created Dino Quest, an interactive exhibit that brings to life prehistoric dinosaurs at Orange County’s Discovery Science Center. more
Silvia LindtnerPh.D. student Silvia Lindtner was part of a team within a Siemens Research lab that developed an interactive computer game, Fish 'N' Steps, which links a player's daily footstep count to the growth and activity of animated fish. more
Bonnie NardiInformatics professor Bonnie Nardi is using her real-life intellectual powers to study “the complex social world on the Internet,” as a a player in the popular “World of Warcraft” computer game. more
Paul DourishFour Bren School students have created an interactive game called STORYmixer that requires 5 players to work together to combine images, text and sound to create a story. more
Crista LopesProfessor of informatics Crista Lopes and professor of chemical engineering Stanley Grant are developing a web-based watershed information and management tool called the California Sustainable Wetland Information Manager, CalSWIM. more
Crista LopesProfessor of informatics Crista Lopes and Steven Cramer, professor of neurology, are designing a self-contained communications platform to facilitate in-home monitoring for patients with spinal cord injuries. more
Sushil BajracharyaInformatics professor Crista Lopes and graduate student Sushil Bajracharya have been working on a new methodology for assessing design options in building modular software systems. more
Lihua XuInformatics professors Debra Richardson and Hadar Ziv with Ph.D. student Lihua Xu are conducting research in the area of analysis and testing of software architectures against stated requirements. more
André van der HoekGraduate student Anita Sarma and Informatics professor André van der Hoek have developed Palantír, a novel configuration management (CM) workspace awareness tool. more
Paul DourishInformatics professor Paul Dourish, research associate Johanna Brewer and Ph.D. student Amanda Williams are working on designing ambient displays for the new Calit2 building. more
Richard N. TaylorGraduate student Eric Dashofy and Informatics professor Richard N. Taylor recently celebrated the third anniversary of ArchStudio 3, an open source software architecture-based development environment. more
Alfred KobsaGraduate student Sameer Patil and Informatics professor Alfred Kobsa have been studying the use of Instant Messaging (IM) from the perspective of privacy. more
Cristina LopesInformatics professor Cristina Lopes and Ph.D. student Trung Chi Ngo have created Aspect Markup Language (AML), a language-independent model for constructing XML-based aspect-oriented programming languages. more
Bill TomlinsonInformatics professor Bill Tomlinson and his Social Code Group have created the Protohuman Project, a creation of communities of believable autonomous characters that inhabit heterogeneous networks of computational devices. more
David RedmilesInformatics professor David Redmiles and Ph.D. student Cleidson de Souza are studying the interplay between software development practices and their effects on collaboration. more
Susan SimInformatics professors Susan Elliott Sim and Bonnie Nardi are studying how ecologists can be helped in integrating results across studies to form global models of climate change. more
Richard N. TaylorInformatics professor Richard N. Taylor and Rohit Khare (Ph.D. 2003,ICS) have developed new architectural styles for designing and implementing decentralized software systems. more
Bonnie NardiInformatics faculty Bill Tomlinson and Bonnie Nardi are studying ways in which social interactive technology can enhance human social relationships during face-to-face contact. more
Gloria MarkIn a study of the work practices of analysts, software developers and managers, graduate student Victor M. González and Informatics professor Gloria Mark come to the rather stunning revelation that people average a mere three minutes on a single task. more
Paul DourishGraduate student Jon Froelich and Informatics professor Paul Dourish have developed a new interactive visualization tool. more
Alex BakerGraduate student Alex Baker has developed Problems and Programmers, a physical card game for simulating the software engineering process. more
