%SECTION            Academic Unit
%Institution        Worcester Polytechnic Institute
%Unit               Computer Science Department
%Country            USA-MA, Worcester
%Keyname            WPI
%Shortname          Worcester Polytechnic Inst., Computer Science
%Address            100 Institute Road
Worcester, MA 01609 USA
%Phone              508-831-5622
%Fax                508-831-5776
%Email              cew@cs.wpi.edu
%Contact            Craig E. Wills
%Updated            1993-04-01
%Degrees            MS, Ph.D in CS
%HCI_MS_Theses      1
%HCI_PhD_Theses     0
%HCI_MS_Current     1
%HCI_PhD_Current    1
%Description The WPI CS Department current research activities
include network performance and analysis, language processor
systems, user interfaces, system design simulation, computer
graphics, artificial intelligence, database and knowledge
acquisition, computational complexity, and computer vision.
%Facilities The computational facilities of Worcester Polytechnic
Institute include a number of labs with DEC, Sun and HP
workstations.  Specific labs are a Artificial Intelligence Lab,
an Image Processing Lab, a Data/Knowledge Base Lab, a Distributed
Systems Lab, a Graphics Lab, an Operating Systems and Networking
Lab, an Undergraduate Project Lab, and a Graduate Project Lab.

%SECTION            HCI Program
%Contact            Craig E. Wills
%Title              Assistant Professor
%Address            Worcester Polytechnic Institute
100 Institute Road
Worcester, MA 01609 USA
%Phone              508-831-5622
%FAX                508-831-5776
%Email              cew@cs.wpi.edu
%Program HCI is a field of interest among a few faculty in the
department.
%Other_Contacts +

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               Craig E. Wills
%Title              Assistant Professor
%Degree             Ph.D., 1988, Purdue University, Computer Science
%Phone              508-831-5622
%Email              cew@cs.wpi.edu
%Interests +
 * Information retrieval and hypertext
 * User Interface Development
 * System Interrelationships
 * Intelligent User Interfaces
%Publications +

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               David C. Brown
%Title              Professor
%Degree             
%Phone              508-831-5618
%Email              dcb@cs.wpi.edu
%Interests +
 * Intelligent User Interfaces
 * Relation to AI Design
 * User Interface Development
%Publications +

%SECTION            HCI Courses
%Title              Human-Computer Interaction
%Number             CS3041
%Instructor         Craig E. Wills
%Frequency          annually
%Times_Taught       10
%Enrollment         30
%Format             Lecture + projects
%Tools              SUIT
%Text +
 * Shneiderman, 1992
%Description An overview course in HCI issues.