Scott McCrickard's Publications

Below is a fairly complete listing of the publications by me and my students. The links to the right of each publication show its availability. Keep in mind that many of the publishers have guidelines regarding the copying and use of the papers, please follow them. If you would like to obtain them in another form, please send me email at mccricks@cs.vt.edu. To learn more about my work, visit my home page or group research page.


Theses and Dissertations


Miten Sampat. "Enabling Locative Experiences." MS Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, December 2007. PDF

Alain Fabian. "Creating an Interactive Learning Environment with Reusable HCI Knowledge." MS Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, May 2006. PDF

Cyril Montabert. "Supporting Requirements Reuse in a User-Centric Design Framework through Task Modeling and Critical Parameters." MS Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, May 2006. PDF

Christa M. Chewar. "User-Centered Critical Parameters for Design Specification, Evaluation, and Reuse: Modeling Goals and Effects of Notification Systems." PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, July 2005. PDF

Jamie L. Smith. "Supporting Collaborative Design through Risk Analysis: Benefits of Calculated Risk in the Design of Interactive Systems." MS Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, May 2005. PDF

Jacob Somervell. "Developing Heuristic Evaluation Methods for Large Screen Information Exhibits Based on Critical Parameters." PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, June 2004. PDF

Brandon Berry. "VaDeR: Visualizing a Development Record -- A Study of Claims-Centric Scenario-Based Design." MS Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, June 2004. PDF

Christian Allgood. "The Claims Library Capability Maturity Model: Evaluating a Claims Library." MS Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, June 2004. PDF

Chuck Holbrook. "Input Methods for Notification Systems: A design analysis technique with a focus on input for dual-task situations." MS Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, June 2003. PDF

Ali Ndiwalana. "Ubiquitous Computing: By the People, For the People." MS Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, June 2003. PDF

D. Scott McCrickard. "Maintaining Information Awareness in a Dynamic Environment: Assessing Animation as a Communication Mechanism." PhD Dissertation, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, June 2000. PDF

Journal Papers and Book Chapters


D. Scott McCrickard, Miten Sampat, and Jason Chong Lee. "Building Applications to Establish Location Awareness: New Approaches to Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Mobile and Ubiquitous Interfaces." In Ubiquitous Computing: Design, Implementation, and Usability. Eds. Y.-L. Theng and H. Duh, pp. 253-265. IGI Global, 2008. PDF (TR version)

Joshua B. Gross, John M. Daughtry III, and Jason Chong Lee. "Heurists of the World Unite! Merging Agile Methods in Software and Interaction Design." Agile Journal, volume 3, number 2, February 2008. HTML

Jason Chong Lee, Shahtab Wahid, D. Scott McCrickard, C. M. Chewar, and Ben Congleton. "Understanding Usability: Investigating an Integrated Design Environment and Management System." International Journal of Information Technology and Smart Education (ITSE), volume 4, number 3, pages 161-175, August 2007. PDF

Leigh Lally, D. Scott McCrickard, and Jason Chong Lee. "Setting the stage for community-based tech-ubiquity in the built environment." Design Intelligence (DI), volume 13, number 4, pages 20-28, April 2007. PDF

Cyril Montabert and D. Scott McCrickard. "Reuse-centric Requirements Analysis with Task Models, Scenarios, and Critical Parameters." Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (SCI), volume 5, number 1, pages 72-78, 2007. PDF

D. Scott McCrickard and C. M. Chewar. "Designing Attention-Centric Notification Systems: Five HCI Challenges." In Cognitive Systems: Human Cognitive Models in Systems Design. Eds. J. Chris Forsythe, Michael L. Bernard, and Timothy E. Goldsmith, pp. 67-89. Lawrence Earlbaum, 2006. PDF (TR version)

Jacob Somervell and D. Scott McCrickard. "Better Discount Evaluation: Illustrating How Critical Parameters Support Heuristic Creation." Interacting with Computers (IwC), volume 17, number 5, pp. 592-612, September 2005. PDF

C. M. Chewar, D. Scott McCrickard, and John M. Carroll. "Analyzing the Social Capital Value Chain in Community Networks." Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy volume 15, number 3, pp. 262-280, 2005. (Recognized as an Outstanding Paper at the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2006.) PDF

C. M. Chewar, Edwin Bachetti, D. Scott McCrickard, and John Booker. "Automating a Design Reuse Facility with Critical Parameters: Lessons Learned in Developing the LINK-UP System." In Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces IV. Eds. Robert Jacob, Quentin Limbourg, and Jean Vanderdonckt, pp. 235-246. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005. (Extended version of CADUI conference paper.) PDF (conf version)

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

D. Scott McCrickard, Mary Czerwinski, and Lyn Bartram. "Introduction: Design and Evaluation of Notification User Interfaces." International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, volume 8, issue 5, May 2003, pages 509-514. PDF

D. Scott McCrickard, Richard Catrambone, C. M. Chewar, and John T. Stasko. "Establishing Tradeoffs that Leverage Attention for Utility: Empirically Evaluating Information Display in Notification Systems." International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, volume 8, issue 5, May 2003, pages 547-582. PDF

John M. Carroll, Dennis C. Neale, Philip L. Isenhour, Mary Beth Rosson, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Notification and Awareness: Synchronizing Task-Oriented Collaborative Activity." International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, volume 8, issue 5, May 2003, pages 605-632. PDF

D. Scott McCrickard and C. M. Chewar. "Attuning Notification Design to User Goals and Attention Costs." Communications of the ACM , 46 (3), March 2003, pp. 67-72. PDF

Ashwin Ram, Richard Catrambone, Mark J. Guzdial, Colleen Kehoe, D. Scott McCrickard, and John T. Stasko. "PML: Representing Procedural Domains for Multimedia Presentations." IEEE MultiMedia, volume 6, number 2, April-June 1999, pp 40-52. PDF

John T. Stasko and D. Scott McCrickard. "Real Clock Time Animation Support for Developing Software Visualizations." Australian Computer Journal, volume 27, number 3, November 1995, pp 118-128. gzipped Postscript, PDF

Refereed Conference Papers


Yeong-Tay Sun, Laurian Vega, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Taking the Case: An Evaluation of Digital Case Study Libraries." In Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia/Hypermedia and Educational Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA '07), Vancouver BC, June 2007, pages 813-820. PDF

Jason Chong Lee and D. Scott McCrickard. "Towards Extreme(ly) Usable Software: Exploring Tensions Between Usability and Agile Software Development." In Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Agile Software Development (Agile 2007), Washington DC, August 2007, pp. 59-70. PDF

Stacy M. Branham, Shahtab Wahid, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Channeling Creativity: Using Storyboards and Claims to Encourage Collaborative Design." In Workshop on Tools in Support of Creative Collaboration (part of Creativity & Cognition 2007), Washington DC, June 2007, 4 pages. PDF

Miten Sampat, D. Scott McCrickard, Joe Gabbard, Andrea Kavanaugh, Manuel A. Perez-Quinones, and Jason Chong Lee. "Refashioning our Interaction with Space." In Workshop on Mobile Spatial Interaction (part of CHI 2007), San Jose CA, May 2007, 4 pages. PDF

Goldie Terrell and D. Scott McCrickard. "Enlightening a Co-Located Community with a Semi-Public Notification System." In Proceedings of the 2006 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW 2006), Banff Alberta Canada, November 2006, pp. 21-24. PDF

Shahtab Wahid, Saurabh Bhatia, Jason Chong Lee, Manuel Perez-Quinones, and D. Scott McCrickard. "CaBN: Disparate Information Management through Context-Aware Notifications." In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Theory and Applications (ICCTA 2006), Alexandria Egypt, September 2006, pp. 46-49. PDF

Cyril Montabert and D. Scott McCrickard. "Task Models, Scenarios, and Critical Parameters: Toward the Establishment of an Effective Infrastructure for Reuse-centric Requirements Analysis." In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications (CITSA 2006), Orlando FL, July 2006, pages 186-191. (Selected to be in the top 10% of conference papers.) PDF

Brandon Berry, Laurian Hobby, D. Scott McCrickard, Chris North, and Manuel A. Perez-Quinones. "Making a Case for HCI: Exploring Benefits of Visualization for Case Studies." In Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia/Hypermedia and Educational Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA '06), Orlando FL, June 2006, pages 485-492. PDF

Shahtab Wahid and D. Scott McCrickard. "Claims Maps: Treasure Maps for Scenario-Based Design." In Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia/Hypermedia and Educational Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA '06), Orlando FL, June 2006, pages 553-560. PDF

Alain Fabian, Shahtab Wahid, Saurabh Bhatia, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Creating an Interactive Learning Environment with Reusable HCI Knowledge." In Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia/Hypermedia and Educational Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA '06), Orlando FL, June 2006, pages 2314-2322. PDF

Saurabh Bhatia and D. Scott McCrickard. "Listening to your inner voices: Investigating means for voice notifications." In Proceedings of the 2006 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '06), Montreal Canada, April 2006, pp. 1173-1176. PDF

Cyril Montabert, Dillon Bussert, Solomon Gifford, C. M. Chewar, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Supporting Requirements Reuse in Notification Systems Design Through Task Modeling." In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII '05), Las Vegas NV, July 2005, 10 pages (CD-ROM). PDF

Ali Ndiwalana, Jason Lee, Jaime L. Smith, Shahtab Wahid, Laurian Hobby, C. M. Chewar, D. Scott McCrickard. "From Personas to Design: Creating a Collaborative Multi-disciplinary Design Environment." In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII '05), Las Vegas NV, July 2005, 10 pages (CD-ROM). PDF

D. Scott McCrickard, Shahtab Wahid, Jason Chong Lee, and Nicholas F. Polys. "Use and Reuse in Information and Interaction Design." In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII '05) (part of the Workshop on Information Visualization in 2D and 3D), Las Vegas NV, July 2005, 8 pages (CD-ROM). PDF

Jamie L. Smith, Shawn A. Bohner, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Toward Introducing Notification Technology into Distributed Project Teams." In Proceedings of the 12th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS '05), Greenbelt MD, April 2005, pp. 349-356. PDF

C. M. Chewar and D. Scott McCrickard. "Links for a Human-Centered Science of Design: Integrated Design Knowledge Environments for a Software Development Process." In Proceedings of the 2005 Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS '05), Waikoloa HI, January 2005, 10 pgs (CD-ROM). PDF

Shahtab Wahid, Jamie L. Smith, Brandon Berry, C. M. Chewar, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Visualization of Design Knowledge Component Relationships to Facilitate Reuse." In Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI '04), Las Vegas NV, November 2004, pp. 414-419. PDF

Jason Chong Lee, Sirong Lin, C. M. Chewar, D. Scott McCrickard, Alan Fabian, and Andrew Jackson. "From Chaos to Cooperation: Teaching Analytic Evaluation with LINK-UP." In Proceedings of the World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (E-Learn '04), Washington DC, November 2004, pp. 2755-2762. (Recipient of an E-Learn 2004 Outstanding Paper Award.) PDF

Jacob Somervell, C. M. Chewar, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Making a Case for HCI: Comparing Materials for Case-Based Teaching." In Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Frontiers in Education (FIE '04), Savannah GA, October 2004, pp. T3H-4 - T3H-9. (Recipient of a FIE '04 New Faculty Fellowship Award.) PDF

William D. Humphries, Dennis Neale, D. Scott McCrickard, and John M. Carroll. "Laboratory Simulation Methods for Studying Complex Collaborative Tasks." In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 48th Annual Meeting (HFES '04), New Orleans LA, September 2004, pp. 2451-2455. PDF

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

C. M. Chewar, D. Scott McCrickard, and Alistair G. Sutcliffe. "Unpacking Critical Parameters for Interface Design: Evaluating Notification Systems with the IRC Framework." In Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '04), Cambridge MA, August 2004, pp. 279-288. PDF

Shahtab Wahid, C. F. Allgood, C. M. Chewar, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Entering the Heart of Design: Relationships for Tracing Claim Evolution". In Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE '04), Banff Alberta Canada, June 2004, pp. 167-172. PDF

D. Scott McCrickard and C. M. Chewar. "Proselytizing Pervasive Computing Education: A Strategy and Approach Influenced by Human-Computer Interaction." In Proceedings of the Second IEEE Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerEd '04), Orlando FL, March 2004, pp 257-262. PDF

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

Purvi Saraiya, Clifford A. Shaffer, D. Scott McCrickard, and Chris North. "Effective Features of Algorithm Visualizations." In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '04), Norfolk VA, March 2004, pp 382-386. PDF

C. M. Chewar, Edwin Bachetti, D. Scott McCrickard, and John Booker. "Automating a Design Reuse Facility with Critical Parameters: Lessons Learned in Developing the LINK-UP System." In Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces (CADUI '04), Island of Madeira, Portugal, January 2004, pp 236-247. PDF

Craig Ganoe, Jacob Somervell, Dennis Neale, Philip Isenhour, John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Classroom BRIDGE: Using Collaborative Public and Desktop Timelines to Support Activity Awareness." In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '03), Vancouver BC Canada, November 2003, pp. 21-30. PDF

Catherine Payne, C. F. Allgood, C. M. Chewar, Chuck Holbrook, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Generalizing Interface Design Knowledge: Lessons Learned from Developing a Claims Library." In Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI '03), Las Vegas NV, October 2003, pp 362-369. PDF

C. M. Chewar and D. Scott McCrickard. "Educating Novice Developers of Notification Systems: Targeting User-Goals with a Conceptual Framework." In Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia/Hypermedia and Educational Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA '03), Honolulu HI, June 2003, pp. 2759-2766. PDF

Douglas G. Turnbull, C. M. Chewar, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Are Cognitive Architectures Mature Enough to Evaluate Notification Systems?" In Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP '03), Las Vegas NV, June 2003, 5 pages (CD-ROM). PDF

C. M. Chewar, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Dynamic Route Descriptions: Tradeoffs by Usage Goals and User Characteristics" In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Smart Graphics (Smart Graphics '02), Hawthorne NY, June 2002, pp 71-78. PDF

Satadip Dutta, D. Scott McCrickard, Swapneil Deshmukh, and Vincent Jouenne. "Evaluating Benefits and Distractions of Animated Secondary Displays for Attention-Centric Primary Tasks." In Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST '02), Las Vegas NV, June 2002, 5 pages (CD-ROM). Word

C. M. Chewar, D. Scott McCrickard, Ali Ndiwalana, Chris North, Jon Pryor, and David Tessendorf. "Secondary Task Display Attributes -- Optimizing Visualizations for Cognitive Task Suitability and Interface Avoidance." In Proceedings of the IEEE TCVG Symposium of Visualization (VisSym '02), Barcelona Spain, May 2002, pp 165-171. PDF

D. Scott McCrickard. "The Effect of Changes in Information Access Times on Hypertext Choices." In Proceedings of HCI International (HCII '01), New Orleans LA, August 2001, volume 1, pp 1086-1090. PDF

D. Scott McCrickard, Richard Catrambone, and John T. Stasko. "Evaluating Animation in the Periphery as a Mechanism for Maintaining Awareness." In Proceedings of the IFIP TC.13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT '01), Tokyo Japan, July 2001, pp 148-156. (Received the Brian Shackel Award for Best Paper) PDF

D. Scott McCrickard and Q. Alex Zhao. "Supporting Information Awareness Using Animated Widgets." In Proceedings of the USENIX Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl2K), Austin TX, February 2000, pp 117-127. (Received Best Student Paper Award) PDF, gzipped Postscript

D. Scott McCrickard and Richard Catrambone. "Beyond the Scrollbar: An Evolution and Evaluation of Alternative Navigation Techniques." In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages (VL'99), Tokyo Japan, September 1999, pp 270-277. PDF, gzipped Postscript

D. Scott McCrickard. "Maintaining Information Awareness with Irwin." In Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia/Hypermedia and Educational Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA '99), Seattle WA, June 1999, pp. 552-557. gzipped Postscript, PDF

Matthew Realff, Teresa Hubscher-Younger, Joseph Petraglia-Bahri, Richard Catrambone, Mark Guzdial, Scott McCrickard, Ashwin Ram and John Stasko. "Multimedia Support for Learning Advanced Packaging Manufacturing Practices." In Proceedings of 1998 IEEE 48th Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC '98), pp 643-647. PDF

D. Scott McCrickard and Gregory D. Abowd. "Assessing the Impact of Changes at the Architectural Level: A Case Study on Graphical Debuggers." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM '96), Monterey CA, November 1996, pp 59-67. gzipped Postscript

Refereed Short Papers, Posters, and Similarly Refereed Documents


D. Scott McCrickard, Carlos Evia, Jacob Somervell, Jason Chong Lee, and Shahtab Wahid. "HCI for the Masses: Multidisciplinary Design Instruction with LINK-UP." Poster paper in Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia/Hypermedia and Educational Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA '06), Orlando FL, June 2006, pages 698-702. PDF

Saurabh Bhatia, D. Scott McCrickard, Tripp Lilley, Chris North, and Paul Kienzle. "Scientists in the MIST: Simplifying Interface Design for End Users." Poster paper in Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia/Hypermedia and Educational Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA '06), Orlando FL, June 2006, pages 653-657. PDF

D. Scott McCrickard and Laurian Hobby. "A Different Case: An Online Multimedia System for Teaching Design and Human-Computer Interaction." Rountable paper in Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia/Hypermedia and Educational Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA '06), Orlando FL, June 2006, pages 653-657. not available

Jason Chong Lee. "Embracing Agile Development of Usable Software Systems." Doctoral consortium paper in Proceedings of the 2006 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '06) Montreal Canada, April 2006, 4 pages. PDF

Edwin Bachetti and D. Scott McCrickard. "Form Meets Function: A Software Development Experience." Poster paper in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII '05) , Las Vegas NV, July 2005, auxiliary CD-ROM proceedings. PDF (abstract)

Saurabh Bhatia, Sam Edwards, Joe Stegner, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Do You Hear Voices? Exploring Notification Characteristics of Voice." Poster paper in Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII '05) , Las Vegas NV, July 2005, auxiliary CD-ROM proceedings. PDF

Miten Sampat, Anupam Kumar, Akshai Prakash, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Increasing Understanding of a New Environment using Location-Based Notification Systems." Poster paper in Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII '05) , Las Vegas NV, July 2005, auxiliary CD-ROM proceedings. PDF

Mathew Davis, Kai Tang, Jamie L. Smith, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Integrating Claim Quality and Risk into a Usability Engineering Tool." Poster paper in Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII '05) , Las Vegas NV, July 2005, auxiliary CD-ROM proceedings. PDF

D. Scott McCrickard, Charles J. Fowler, and C. M. Chewar. "Towards a 'Humans-First' Computer Science Curriculum." Poster paper in Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '05) , Kennesaw GA, March 2005, pp. 1-363 - 1-364. PDF

Edwin Bachetti. "'But Where's the Spec?' -- Learning Through Collaborative Development and Discovery." Poster paper in Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '05) , Kennesaw GA, March 2005, pp. 1-380 - 1-381. PDF

Ali Ndiwalana, Nithiwat Kampanya, Ian McEwan, C. M. Chewar, D. Scott McCrickard, and Kevin Pious. "A Tool for Participatory Negotiation: LINKing-UP Participatory Design and Design Knowledge Reuse." Short paper in Proceedings of the Eighth Biennial Participatory Design Conference (PDC '04), volume 2, Toronto Canada, July 2004, pp. 118-122. PDF

Maxim Moldenhauer and D. Scott McCrickard. "Effect of Information Modality on Geographic Cognition in Car Navigation Systems." Short paper in Proceedings of the IFIP TC.13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT '03), Zurich Switzerland, September 2003. PDF

Jacob Somervell, Shahtab Wahid, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Usability Heuristics for Large Screen Information Exhibits." Short paper in Proceedings of the IFIP TC.13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT '03), Zurich Switzerland, September 2003, pp 904-907. PDF

D. Scott McCrickard, Doug A. Bowman, Chris North, and Manuel A. Perez-Quinones. "Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech." Organizational overview in Proceedings of the IFIP TC.13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT '03), Zurich Switzerland, September 2003. PDF

Ali Ndiwalana, C. M. Chewar, Jacob Somervell, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Ubiquitous Computing: By the People, For the People." Short paper in Proceedings of the 2003 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '03) Fort Lauderdale FL, April 2003, pp 968-969. PDF

William Luebke, Michael Richmond, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Collaborative Environments Supported by Large Screen Displays." Poster paper in Proceedings of the 2002 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW '02), New Orleans LA, November 2002, 2 pages (CD-ROM). PDF

D. Scott McCrickard, David Wrighton, and Dillon Bussert. "Supporting the Construction of Real World Interfaces." Tech note in Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Symposia on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments (HCC '02), Arlington VA, September 2002, pp. 54-56. PDF

Vikrant Colaso, Aejaaz Kamal, Purvi Saraiya, Chris North, Scott McCrickard, and Clifford A. Shaffer. "Learning and Retention in Data Structures: A Comparison of Visualization, Text, and Combined Methods." Short paper in Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia/Hypermedia and Educational Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA '02), Denver CO, June 2002. PDF

Jacob Somervell, D. Scott McCrickard, Chris North, and Maulik Shukla. "An Evaluation of Information Visualization in Attention-Limited Environments." Research report in Proceedings of the IEEE TCVG Symposium of Visualization (VisSym '02), Barcelona Spain, May 2002. PDF

David Tessendorf, C. M. Chewar, Ali Ndiwalana, Jon Pryor, D. Scott McCrickard, and Chris North. "An Ordering of Secondary Task Display Attributes." Interactive poster in Conference Companion of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '02), Minneapolis MN, April 2002. PDF

C. M. Chewar, Ali Ndiwalana, D. Scott McCrickard, and Chris North. "An Ordering of Secondary Task Display Attributes." Poster abstract in Abstract Proceedings for the Midyear Symposium of Contemporary and Emerging Issues in Human Factors, Engineering, and Military Psychology, Fort Belvoir, VA, March 2002. Not available

Marcus Beale, Scott McCrickard, Chris North, Marty Einstein, and Purvi Saraiya. "Visualizing Communication Timelines Containing Sparsely Distributed Clusters" Late Breaking Hot Topics paper in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis '01), San Diego CA, October 2001. PDF, MS Word

David Wrighton, Dillon Bussert, and D. Scott McCrickard "Lessons Learned in Creating Real-World Interfaces" Demo paper in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp '01) , Atlanta GA, September 2001. PDF, PostScript

Wendy A. Schafer, James W. Helms, Sonal Ramnani, Shilpa Suresh, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Supporting Peripheral Web Awareness Using Wallpaper." Poster paper in Proceedings of the IFIP TC.13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT '01), Tokyo Japan, July 2001, pp 765-766. PDF

Q. Alex Zhao and D. Scott McCrickard. "Designing Information Awareness Applications in Tcl/Tk." Poster paper at USENIX Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl2K), Austin TX, February 2000. (Received Best Poster Award.) PDF

Quranna Khan, D. Scott McCrickard, Sherian Clay. "Searching Course Homepages using SCOUT." Extended abstract in Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '99), Mobile AL, April 1999. PDF

D. Scott McCrickard. "Enhancing Interfaces with Animated Widgets." Poster paper in Proceedings of the USENIX Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl '98), San Diego CA, September 1998. gzipped Postscript

D. Scott McCrickard and Colleen M. Kehoe. "Visualizing Search Results using SQWID." Poster paper in Proceedings of the 6th World Wide Web Conference (WWW6), Santa Clara CA, April 1997. gzipped Postscript, HTML

Refereed Papers at Regional Conferences


Gregory Smith, Laurian C. Vega, and D. Scott McCrickard. Education and Design: Using Human-Computer Interaction Case Studies to Learn In Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '08), Auburn AL, March 2008, 5 pages, CD-ROM proceedings. PDF

Sarav Bhatia, Curtis Dahn, Jason Chong Lee, Miten Sampat, and D. Scott McCrickard. "VTAssist--A location-based feedback notification system for the disabled." In Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '06), Melbourne FL, March 2006, pp. 512-517. (Posted version updated to include additional relevant reference.) PDF

Sandeep Nair, Anupam Kumar, Miten Sampat, Jason Chong Lee, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Alumni Campus Tour: Capturing the Fourth Dimension in Location Based Notification Systems." In Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '06), Melbourne FL, March 2006, pp. 500-505. PDF

Brian Sciacchitano, Chris Cerwinski, Ivan Brown, Miten Sampat, Jason Chong Lee, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Intelligent Library Navigation using Location-aware Systems." In Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '06), Melbourne FL, March 2006, pp. 371-376. PDF

Jason Chong Lee, C. M. Chewar, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Image is Everything: Advancing HCI Knowledge and Interface Design Using the System Image." In Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '05), Kennesaw GA, March 2005, pp. 2-376 - 2-381. PDF

Laurian Hobby, John Booker, D. Scott McCrickard, C. M. Chewar, and Jason Zietz. "Facilitating and Automating Empirical Evaluation for Education." In Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '05), Kennesaw GA, March 2005, pp. 1-303 - 1-308. PDF

Jamie L. Smith, Shawn A. Bohner, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Project Management for the 21st Century: Supporting Collaborative Design through Risk Analysis." In Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '05), Kennesaw GA, March 2005, pp. 2-300 - 2-305. PDF

Justin Belcher, Raheel Aidrus, Ben Congleton, Doug Hall, Shahzad Hussain, Matthew Jablonski, Theresa Klunk, and D. Scott McCrickard. "NotiFly: Enhancing Design through Claims-Based Personas and Knowledge Reuse." In Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '05), Kennesaw GA, March 2005, pp. 2-359 - 2-364. PDF

John E. Booker, C. M. Chewar, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Usability Testing of Notification Interfaces: Are We Focused on the Best Metrics?" In Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '04), Huntsville AL, April 2004, pp. 128-133. PDF

Alan Fabian, David Felton, Melissa Grant, Cyril Montabert, Kevin Pious, Nima Rashidi, Anderson Ray Tarpley III, Nicholas Taylor, C. M. Chewar, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Designing the Claims Reuse Library: Validating Classification Methods for Notification Systems." In Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '04), Huntsville AL, April 2004, pp 357-362. PDF

D. Scott McCrickard, Dillon Bussert, and David Wrighton. "A Toolkit for the Construction of Real World Interfaces." In Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '03), Savannah GA, March 2003, pp. 118-123. PDF

Ali Ndiwalana, C. M. Chewar, Dillon Bussert, Jacob Somervell, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Ubiquitous Computing: By the People, For the People." In Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '03), Savannah GA, March 2003, pp. 16-21. PDF

Jacob Somervell, C. M. Chewar, D. Scott McCrickard, and Ali Ndiwalana. "Enlarging Usability for Ubiquitous Displays." In Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '03), Savannah GA, March 2003, pp. 24-29. PDF

William Luebke, Michael Richmond, Jacob Somervell, and D. Scott McCrickard. "An Extensible Framework for Information Visualization and Collection." In Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '03), Savannah GA, March 2003, pp. 365-370. PDF

Shahtab Wahid, Steve Battjer and Aditi Jain. "Developing Ideas Using Personal and Large Screen Displays." In Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '03), Savannah GA, March 2003, pp. 124-129. PDF

Brandon Berry. "Adapting Heuristics for Notification Systems." In Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '03), Savannah GA, March 2003. PDF

John Morgan, Scott Seal, Alejandro Cabrera, Kristopher Godek, and Travis Pendergraft. "Evaluation of Scenario-Based Design for Interface Development." In Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '03), Savannah GA, March 2003. Not available.

Jacob Somervell, C. M. Chewar, and D. Scott McCrickard. "Evaluating Graphical vs Textual Secondary Displays for Information Notification." In Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '02), Raleigh NC, April 2002, pp 153-160. PDF

Jacob Somervell, Ragavan Srinivasan, Omar Vasnaik, and Kim Woods. "Measuring Distraction and Awareness Caused by Graphical and Textual Displays in the Periphery." In Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '01), Athens GA, March 2001. PDF

Quasedra Y. Brown and D. Scott McCrickard. "CWIC: Continuous Web Image Collector." In Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '00), Clemson SC, April 2000, pp 244-252. PDF, gzipped Postscript

D. Scott McCrickard. "A Study of Wait-Free Hierarchies in Concurrent Systems." In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE '94), Tuscaloosa AL, March 1994, pp 169-172. gzipped Postscript

Invited Papers, Presentations, and Other Work


Craig H. Ganoe, Dennis C. Neale, Jacob P. Somervell, John M. Carroll, D. Scott McCrickard, Mary Beth Rosson, Philip L. Isenhour, Gregorio Convertino, Dan L. Dunlap, Kathy Bunn, and Peggy Davie. "Classroom BRIDGE: Providing Activity Awareness in Distributed Group Learning." Learning Technology, Volume 5, Issue 3, July 2003. HTML

D. Scott McCrickard. "Designing Attentive Notification Systems: Five HCI Challenges." Invited talk at "Cognitive Systems: Human Cognitive Models in System Design" workshop hosted by Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico, Santa Fe NM, June/July 2003. PPT

C. M. Chewar, D. Scott McCrickard, and John M. Carroll. "Persistent Virtual Identity in Community Networks." Talk at the Human Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC) 2003 Winter Workshop, Winter Park, CO, Feb 2003. PDF (technical report)

D. Scott McCrickard and Chris North. "Benefits and Distractions from Secondary Displays on the Desktop." Talk at the Human Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC) 2002 Winter Workshop, Winter Park, CO, Jan/Feb 2002. Not available

Jacob Somervell, C. M. Chewar, and D. Scott McCrickard "Evaluating Graphical vs Textual Displays in Dual-Task Environments." Boaster paper at the Human Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC) 2002 Winter Workshop, Winter Park, CO, Jan/Feb 2002. PDF

D. Scott McCrickard. "Agentk: A Toolkit for Enhancing Agent Interfaces." ;login: The Magazine of Usenix and Sage, Volume 25, Number 4, pp 72-3, July 2000. HTML

D. Scott McCrickard. "User Interfaces for Dynamic Systems." Invited talk at Harbinger Corporation, January 1999. Not available

D. Scott McCrickard. "An Extensible Interactor Toolkit for Enhancing Information Awareness." Boaster paper at the Human Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC '98) Winter Workshop, Winter Park, CO, March 1998. PDF

D. Scott McCrickard and May Wing-Sze Cheng. "How Do We Interact with an Agent: A Perspective from an Undergraduate Human Factors Class." Boaster paper at the Human Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC '98) Winter Workshop, Winter Park, CO, March 1998. PDF

D. Scott McCrickard and Thomas H. Rowan. "Monitoring and Visualizing Information Resources." Boaster paper at the Human Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC '96) Winter Workshop, Winter Park, CO, March 1996. Not available

Technical Reports and Other Documents


Lauria Hobby and D. Scott McCrickard. Education and Design: Using Human-Computer Interaction Case Studies to Learn. Technical Report TR-06-19, Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 2006. PDF

D. Scott McCrickard, Woodrow W. Winchester, and Pardha S. Pyla (eds). Proceedings of the First Annual Virginia Tech Center for Human-Computer Interaction Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Symposium. Technical Report TR-06-18, Center for Human-Computer Interaction, Virginia Tech, 2006. PDF

Saurabh Bhatia, D. Scott McCrickard, Tripp Lilley, Chris North, and Paul Kienzle. Scientists in the MIST: Simplifying Interface Design for End Users. Technical Report TR-06-13, Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 2006. PDF

Jason Chong Lee, Shahtab Wahid, C. M. Chewar, Ben Congleton, and D. Scott McCrickard. Spiraling Toward Usability: An Integrated Design Environment and Management System. Technical Report TR-05-15, Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 2005. PDF

D. Scott McCrickard and C. M. Chewar. Designing Attention-Centric Notification Systems: Five HCI Challenges. Technical Report TR-05-13, Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 2005. PDF

Manveer Heir, Harish Hoon, Goldie Terrell, D. Scott McCrickard. Online Enlightenment: A Phidget Notification System for Online Status. Technical Report TR-04-30, Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 2004. PDF

Goldie Terrell. A Critique of Design Approaches for Notification Systems. Technical Report TR-04-29, Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 2004. PDF

Brandon Berry, Jamie Smith, and Shahtab Wahid. "Visualizing Case Studies." Technical Report TR-04-12, Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 2004. PDF

C. M. Chewar, and D. Scott McCrickard, and John M. Carroll. "Persistent virtual identity in community networks: Impact to social capital value chains." Technical Report TR-03-01, Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 2003. PDF

C. M. Chewar and D. Scott McCrickard. "Claims Reuse for Notification Systems Design: LINK-UP Vision and IRC Equations." Technical Report TR-03-29, Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 2003. PDF

Somervell, Jacob and Chewar, C.M. and McCrickard, D. Scott. Making a case for HCI: Comparing materials for case-based teaching. Technical Report TR-04-07, Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 2003. PDF

D. Scott McCrickard, John T. Stasko, and Richard Catrambone. "Evaluating Animation as a Mechanism for Maintaining Peripheral Awareness." GVU Technical Report GIT-GVU-00-01, GVU Center, Georgia Tech, 2000. PDF or Postscript

D. Scott McCrickard, John T. Stasko, and Q. Alex Zhao. "Exploring Animation as a Presentation Technique for Dynamic Information Sources." GVU Technical Report GIT-GVU-99-47, 1999. PDF or Postscript

Quasedra Y. Brown and D. Scott McCrickard. "CWIC: Using Images to Passively Browse the Web." GVU Technical Report GIT-GVU-99-48, GVU Center, Georgia Tech, 1999. PDF or Postscript

D. Scott McCrickard. "An Extensible Interactor Toolkit for Enhancing Information Awareness." GVU Technical Report GIT-GVU-98-28, GVU Center, Georgia Tech, 1998. Abstract

D. Scott McCrickard and May Wing-Sze Cheng. "How Do We Interact with an Agent: A Perspective From an Undergraduate Human Factors Class" GVU Technical Report GIT-GVU-98-29, GVU Center, Georgia Tech, 1998. Abstract

Ashwin Ram, Richard Catrambone, Mark J. Guzdial, Colleen Kehoe, D. Scott McCrickard, and John T. Stasko. "PML: Representing Procedural Domains for Multimedia Presentations." GVU Technical Report GIT-GVU-98-20, GVU Center, Georgia Tech, 1998. Abstract

D. Scott McCrickard and Richard Catrambone. "Beyond the Scrollbar: An Evolution and Evaluation of Alternative List Navigation Techniques." GVU Technical Report GIT-GVU-97-19, GVU Center, Georgia Tech, 1997. Abstract

D. Scott McCrickard. "Information Awareness on the Desktop: A Case Study." GVU Technical Report GIT-GVU-97-03, GVU Center, Georgia Tech, 1997. Abstract

John Stasko and D. Scott McCrickard. "Real Clock Time Animation Support for Developing Software Visualizations" GVU Technical Report GIT-GVU-95-21, GVU Center, Georgia Tech, 1995. Abstract

D. Scott McCrickard. "A Study of Wait-Free Hierarchies in Concurrent Systems." CoC Technical Report GIT-CC-94-04, College of Computing, Georgia Tech, 1994. Compressed Postscript