Pardha S. Pyla

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Education

Areas of Interest, Specialization, and Competence

Human-computer interaction (HCI), multi-platform user interfaces, sustainability of electronic systems through design, computer science education, usability engineering, software engineering, and connecting usability and software engineering life cycles

Professional Awards and Honors

Publications

Refereed journal articles

• Howarth, J., Pyla, P.S., Yost, B., Haciahmetoglu, Y., Young, D., Ball, R., Lambros, S. and Layne, P., Designing a Conference for Women Entering Academe in the Sciences And Engineering. Advancing Women in Leadership (AWL) Journal, 2007, 30 pages.[pdf]

Refereed book chapters

• Pyla, P.S., Pérez-Quiñones, M.A., Arthur, J.D. and Hartson, H.R., Ripple: An Event-Driven Design Representation Framework for Integrating Usability and Software Engineering Life Cycles. In Seffah, A., Gulliksen, J. and Desmarais, M. eds. Human-centered Software Engineering: Integrating Usability in the Software Development Lifecycle, Springer, 2005, 245-265.

Refereed conference publications

• Pyla, P.S., Tungare, M., Pérez-Quiñones, M.A., and Holman, J. Continuous User Interfaces for Seamless Task Migration, (to appear in) HCI International, 2009.
• Pyla, P.S., Hartson, H.R., Arthur, J.D., Smith-Jackson, T.L., Pérez-Quiñones, M.A., and Hix, D. “How do I evaluate THAT?” Experiences from a systems-level evaluation effort, (to appear in) HCI International, 2009.
• Pérez-Quiñones, M.A., Tungare, M., Pyla, P.S. and Harrison, S., Personal Information Ecosystems: Design Concerns for Net-Enagled Devices. Proc. of 6th Latin American Web Conference (LA-Web), 2008.
• Tungare, M., Pyla, P.S., Sampat, M., Pérez-Quiñones, M.A., Syncables: A Framework to Support Seamless Data Migration across Multiple Platforms. Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Portable Information Devices, IEEE Portables 2007, 2007, 1-5.[pdf]
• Pyla, P.S., Howarth, J.R., Catanzaro, C. and North, C., Vizability: A Tool for Usability Engineering Process Improvement through the Visualization of Usability Problem Data. Proc. of the 44th ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE), 2006, 620-625.[pdf]
• Tungare, M., Pyla, P.S., Glina, V., Bafna, P., Zheng, W., Yu, X., Balli, U., and Harrison, S., Embodied Data Objects: Tangible Interfaces to Information Appliances. Proc. of the 44th ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE), 2006, 359-364.[pdf]
• Pyla, P.S., Pérez-Quiñones, M.A., Arthur, J.D. and Hartson, H.R., What We Should Teach, but don’t: Proposal for a Cross Pollinated HCI-SE Curriculum. Proc. of the Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, 2004, S1H17-22.[pdf]
• Chen, J., Pyla, P.S. and Bowman, D.A., Testbed Evaluation of Navigation and Text Display Techniques in an Information-Rich Virtual Environment. Proc. of the IEEE Virtual Reality, 2004, 181-188.[pdf]
• Bowman, D.A., North, C., Chen, J., Polys, N.F., Pyla, P.S., and Yilmaz, U., Information-Rich Virtual Environment: Theory, Tools, and Research Agenda. Proc. of the ACM Virtual Reality Software and Technology, Oct 2003, 81-90.[pdf]

Refereed extended abstracts and workshop publications

• Judge, T. K., Pyla, P. S., McCrickard, D. S., and Harrison, S. Affinity Diagramming in Multiple Display Environments. Proc. of the CSCW 2008 Workshop on Beyond the Laboratory: Supporting Authentic Collaboration with Multiple Displays, 2008, 4 pages.
• Ball, R., Pyla, P.S. and Pérez-Quiñones, M.A. OSI and ET: Originating Source of Information and Evidence Traceability. Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '07), 2007, 2261-2266.[pdf]
• Pyla, P.S., Hartson, H.R., Arthur, J.D., Smith-Jackson, T.L. and Pérez-Quiñones, M.A. Evaluating Ripple: Experiences from a Cross Pollinated SE-UE Study. Proc. of the CHI 2007 Workshop on Increasing the Impact of Usability Work in Software Development, 2007, 4 pages.[pdf]
• Tungare, M., Pyla, P.S., Miten, S. and Pérez-Quiñones, M.A. Defragmenting Information with the Syncables Framework. Proc. of the 2nd Invitational Workshop on Personal Information Management at SIGIR 2006, 2006, 4 pages.[pdf]
• Pyla, P.S., Tungare, M. and Pérez-Quiñones, M.A., Multiple User Interfaces: Why Consistency is Not Everything, and Seamless Task Migration is Key. Proc. of the CHI 06 Workshop on The Many Faces of Consistency in Cross-Platform Design, 2006, 55-60.[pdf]
• Pyla, P.S., Pérez-Quiñones, M.A., Arthur, J.D. and Hartson, H.R., Towards a Model-Based Framework for Integrating Usability and Software Engineering Life Cycles. Proc. of the Interact 2003 Workshop on "Closing the Gaps: Software Engineering and Human Computer Interaction", 2003, Université catholique de Louvain, Institut d' Administration et de Gestion (IAG) on behalf of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), 67-74.[pdf]

Invited papers and presentations

• Pyla, P.S., Communication and Development Styles for Interactive Software: Experiences from a Cross-Pollinated SE-UE Course. Invited talk at NSF Chautauqua on Teaching Communication Skills in the Software Engineering Curriculum: A Forum for Professionals and Educators, June 9-11, 2008.
• Pyla, P.S., Connecting the Software Engineering and Usability Engineering Life Cycles. Villanova University Colloquia Lecture Series, March 31, 2008.
• Pyla, P.S., Tungare, M., Holman, J. and Pérez-Quiñones, M.A., Continuous UIs for Seamless Task Migration in MPUIs: Bridging Task-Disconnects. Presented at the Human-Computer Interaction Consortium 2007, February, 2007.
• Pyla, P.S., Connecting the Usability and Software Engineering Life Cycles Through a Communication-Fostering Software Development Framework and Cross-Pollinated Computer Science Courses. Invited talk at the Center for Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series, Virginia Tech, September 2006.

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