%SECTION Academic Unit %Country USA-TX, College Station %Shortname Texas A&M Univ., Computer Science %Institution Texas A&M University %Unit Computer Science %Address College Station, TX 77843-3112 USA %Phone +01-409-845-5534 %Fax +01-409-847-8578 %Email volz@cs.tamu.edu %Contact Dick Volz %Updated 1994-03-03 %Degrees MS, PhD in CS %HCI_MS_Theses 13 %HCI_PhD_Theses 3 %HCI_MS_Current 18 %HCI_PhD_Current 7 %Description The TAMU CS department has rather broad research interests. %Facilities The TAMU CS department has several hundred Sun Sparc Stations for general graduate student use as well as several research labs with file servers and workstations. %SECTION HCI Program %Contact John J. Leggett %Title Associate Professor %Address Department of Computer Science Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-3112 USA %Phone +01-409-845-0298 %FAX +01-409-847-8578 %Email leggett@cs.tamu.edu %Program HCI is one of 8 areas of specialization in the department. We are most interested in hypermedia, multimedia, CSCW, digital library systems, and virtual reality systems. %SECTION HCI Faculty %Name John Leggett %Title Associate Professor %Degree Ph.D., 1982, Texas A&M, Computing Science %Phone +01-409-845-0298 %Email leggett@cs.tamu.edu %Interests + * Hypertext/Hypermedia systems * Collaborative systems * Agency * Multimedia networking * Digital Libraries %Publications + * Leggett, J., Schnase, J., "Viewing Dexter with Open Eyes", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 37, No. 2, (February), pp. 76-86, 1994. * Jacob, R.J.K., Leggett, J.J., Myers, B.A., Pausch, R., "Interaction Styles and Input/Output Devices", Behavior and Information Technology, Vol. 12, No. 2, (March), pp. 69-79, 1993. * Olson, J. S., Card, S. K., Landauer, T. K., Olson, G. M., Malone, T., Leggett, J., "Computer Supported Cooperative Work: Research Issues for the 90s", Behavior and Information Technology, Vol. 12, No. 2, (March), pp. 115-129, 1993. %SECTION HCI Faculty %Name Richard Furuta %Title Associate Professor %Degree Ph.D., 1986, University of Washington, Computer Science %Phone +01-409-845-3839 %Email furuta@cs.tamu.edu %Interests + * Hypertext/Hypermedia systems * Collaborative systems * Digital Libraries * 3D-gesture-based user interfaces * Structured documents and electronic publishing %Publications + * Richard Furuta, Jeffrey Scofield, and Alan Shaw. "Document Formatting Systems: Survey, Concepts, and Issues." Computing Surveys Vol. 14, No. 3, (September), pp. 417-472, 1982. * P. David Stotts and Richard Furuta. "Petri-Net-Based Hypertext: Document Structure with Browsing Semantics." ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Vol. 7, No. 1, (January), pp. 3-29, 1989. * S. Augustine Su and Richard Furuta. "The Virtual Panel Architecture: A 3D Gesture Framework." VRAIS 1993, Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium, September 18-22 1993, Seattle, WA, pp. 387-393. %SECTION HCI Courses %Title Computer-Human Interaction %Number CPSC 671 %Instructor John Leggett, Richard Furuta %Frequency Each Fall %Times_Taught 3 %Enrollment 25 %Format Lecture, Seminar, Project %Tools Various windowing systems, video %Text + * Thimbleby - User Interface Design * Laurel - The Art of Human-Computer Interaction %Description This course is designed to comprehensively cover the area of Computer-Human Interaction (CHI). Course content includes the history and importance of CHI, theories of CHI design, modelling of computer users and interfaces, empirical techniques for task analysis and interface design, styles of interaction and future directions of CHI. Emphasis is on previous, current, and future research in CHI. %SECTION HCI Courses %Title Hypermedia Systems %Number CPSC 610 %Instructor John Leggett, Richard Furuta %Frequency Even year Springs %Times_Taught 5 %Enrollment 25 %Format Lecture, Seminar, Project %Tools KMS %Text + - Readings from the literature (1000 pages) %Description This course is designed to comprehensively cover the area of hypermedia systems. Course content includes: the history of hypermedia, a survey of current hypermedia systems, and research directions in hypermedia. Students have the opportunity to use several hypermedia building systems and a hypermedia application is implemented as a term project. %SECTION HCI Courses %Title Computer-Supported Collaborative Work %Number CPSC 689 %Instructor John Leggett, Richard Furuta %Frequency Odd year Springs %Times_Taught 1 %Enrollment 25 %Format Lecture, Seminar, Project %Tools KMS, WScrawl, Netfone %Text + * Baecker, Readings in Groupware and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: assisting human-human collaboration, Morgan Kaufmann, 1993 %Description This course is designed to comprehensively cover the area concerned with the design, implementation and use of technical systems that support people working collaboratively. These systems are collectively known as Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) or Groupware systems. Course content includes coverage of the current theoretical, practical, technical and social issues in CSCW and future directions of the field. Major research issues include theoretical models of cooperative work, computer-mediated communication, group decision support systems (GDSS), situation theory and technical innovations such as electronic meeting rooms, liveboards, shared editors and synchronous and asynchronous communication technologies. Emphasis is on previous, current and future research in CSCW.