Resume of Usability Specialist

Title
Usability Specialist

Primary Skills
usability studies, interaction design, analysis

Location
- (will consider relocating)

Posted
Oct-12-07

Usability Experience

Lecturer, July 2007 - present, Australian National University (ANU)
Co-teaching an undergraduate / graduate course in HCI and Usability Engineering
• Preparing and presenting lectures to all students
• Organizing and facilitating undergraduate course project:
o creating project description
o planning and implementing tutorial-style lectures on related materials
o helping students manage issues that arise within their groups
o grading students' work
Supervising a Masters student's course work project

Research Officer, June 2006 - June 2007,
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)
Member of a small team of CSIRO scientists working with medical specialists to explore next generation delivery of specialist medical services over distance by designing and constructing a research prototype tele-health system
• Involved in requirements-gathering including site visits to observe current practice
• Worked on interface design and software development
• Planned, ran and analyzed usability studies of key component interfaces
• Designed in hospital trial

Internship, December 2005 - May 2006, CSIRO
Involved in developing a tele-health project proposal and system design
Explored mobile tactile communication through pilot study focus group

MSc Thesis, June 2004 -- November 2005, UBC
Using Haptics to Enrich Remote Dyad Communication: Explored how interaction design influences the expressiveness of a simple haptic (touch) communication device
• Researched face-to-face interpersonal touch and defined an interaction space
• Developed software
• Designed, ran, analyzed (quantitative and qualitative data) and published user study

HCI course project, September - December 2003, UBC
Gestures on Tabletop Displays: Created and evaluated gestures for video editing on a tabletop display using HCI techniques including paper prototypes and user studies (group project)

Human-Computer Technology course project, January - April 2004, UBC
Social Interaction based Musical Environment: Created and evaluated an interface that used basic interaction dynamics of a three-person group to control musical output (group project)

Student Researcher (co-op), May - December 2001, National Research Council of Canada
Responsible for research, design, user documentation, implementation, testing and client interaction for clustering module of the BioMiner system for genetic data mining

Other Experience

Teaching Assistant, September 2003 - April 2004, UBC
Course: Introduction to Discrete Structures
Responsible for running tutorial sections, involved in creating assignments and exams, and marking exams

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, September - April 2002, UBC
Course: Introduction to Data Structures
Marked programming assignments

Honours Thesis, January - April 2003
Triangle Guarding: a variation of the art gallery guarding problem in computational geometry
Proved general case NP-hard and developed an algorithm for a set of solvable cases

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Summer 2002, UBC
Programmed and evaluated collaborative filtering techniques and confidence heuristics

Methodologist (co-op), January - August 2000, Statistics Canada
Researched and implemented sample allocation strategies to meet survey objectives
Analyzed internal survey results

Awards and Honours
University of BC Graduate Fellowship 2004, $16000
Deans List 2000/01, 1998/99, 1997/98
Charles and Jane Banks Scholarship 2000, $500
Norman A. Mackenzie College Scholarship 1998, $2000
BC Scholarship for Excellence in Provincial Examinations 1997, $1000
BC Passport to Education 1994-97

Publications -- Journal and Conference Papers

Stevenson, D., Li, J., Smith, J.D., and Hutchins, M. (2008). A Collaborative Guidance Case Study. In Proceedings
of 9th Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC2008), Wollongong, NSW, Australia, January 2008. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 76. B. Plimmer, G. Weber, Eds. (to appear in
AUIC 2008)

Palmer, D., Adcock, M., Smith, J. D., Hutchins, M. A., Gunn, C., Stevenson, D., and Taylor, K. (2007). Annotating with Light for Remote Guidance. (to appear in OzCHI 2007)

Smith, J. D. and MacLean, K. E., (2007). Communicating Emotion through a Haptic Link: Design Space and Methodology. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Springer, 65(4), p. 376-387

Smith, J. D. (2005). Communicating emotion through a haptic link: A study of the influence of metaphor, personal space and relationship. Master's thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2005

Smith, J. and Evans, W. (2003). Triangle Guarding, in Proc. of the 15th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG), p. 76-80.

Carenini, G., Smith, J. & Poole, D., Towards more Conversational and Truly Collaborative Recommender Systems, in Proc. of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Miami, USA, 2003

Publications -- Workshops and Conference Posters

Stevenson, D., Smith, J.D., Hutchins, M., Palmer, D., Gunn, C., Taylor, K., Li, J. and Hansen, S. (2007) Media Spaces for Collaborative Tele-health - POSTER, in Proceedings of European Computer Supported
Collaborative Work (ECSCW'07)

Swindells, C., Smith, J. D., and MacLean, K. E. (2005). An Exploration of Representations to Aid Design of Haptic Behaviours. In Proceedings of Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Workshop -Hands-on Haptics, ACM, pp. 5-8

Smith, J. D. and MacLean, K. E. (2005). Using Haptic Metaphor to Communicate Emotion: a structured approach - POSTER, in Proceedings of World Haptics Conference, IEEE-VR2005, Pisa, Italy, 2005.

Conferences
Presenter at CeNTIE symposium, October 2006, Sydney Australia
Presenter at CSIRO Cebit Australia Stand, May 2006, Sydney Australia
Presenter and Participant, Hands on Haptics Workshop, CHI 2005, Oregon USA
Attendee, Computer Human Interaction Conference (ACM SIGCHI), 2005, Oregon USA
Poster presenter, World Haptics Conference (WHC), 2005, Pisa Italy
Attendee, User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2003, Vancouver Canada
Student Volunteer, 5th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 2003, Canada
Presenter, 15th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG), 2003, Canada

Community Roles and Volunteer Activities
Volunteer for ANU computer science department outreach activities
Reviewer for Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2007 conference
English reviewer for SIGGRAPH 2006 and 2007
Organizer of health and wellness activities for staff at ANU CSIRO site
Social Coordinator, Computer Science Graduate Student Society (CSGSA), 2004 - 2005
Leader of organizing committee for week-long orientation of 80 new graduate students,
volunteer for department-wide BBQs, information sessions and the CSGSA AGM
Chair, SPIN (Sensory Perception and Interaction) research group meetings, 2004 - 2005
Group leader for GirlSmart, a computer science workshop for grade 6/7 girls, 2004 and 2005

Certifications
Master of Science 2006
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Computer Science

Bachelor of Science 2003
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Computer Science Honours with co-op


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