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]
Book chapters (peer-reviewed)
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.
Conference publications (peer-reviewed)
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]
Extended abstracts and workshop publications (peer-reviewed)
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., 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.
Technical reports
Tungare, M., Pyla, P.S., Perez-Quinones, M.A. and Harrison, S., Personal Information Ecosystems and Implications for Design. Technical Report arXiv:cs/0612081v1. Computing Research Repository (CoRR), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2006.
Perez-Quinones, M.A. Tungare, M., Pyla, P.S., and Kurdziolek, M., A Special Topics Course on Personal Information Management. Technical Report TR-06-26. Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 2006.
Manuscripts under review
Modeling the Software and Usability Engineering Life Cycles to Create an Integrated Development Environment. Under review with Transactions on Software Engineering.