Pardha S. Pyla
Research Interests
- Human-computer interaction
- Usability engineering
- Software engineering
- Multi-platform user interfaces
- Sustainability through design
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I am a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech.
My dissertation research, which was directed by Dr. H. Rex Hartson, focused on creating a design representation framework for connecting the usability and software engineering life cycles. This framework provides a development infrastructure within which the usability engineering and software engineering lifecycles co-exist in cooperative and complementary roles. You can find more about this work at the research and publication pages.
My research interests also include sustainability through design. My focus in this area is on identifying and supplementing existing design activities aimed at incorporating sustainability concerns into the overall development life cycle.
One of my other key research areas is multi-platform user interfaces and my collaborators in this work are Dr. Manas Tungare and Dr. Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones.
I am currently preparing manuscripts from my research for publication, teaching Human-Computer Interaction and Problem Solving in Computer Science courses, and conducting an active job search.