UVa HCI Students

Dave is currently working on a study of pediatric residents' abilities to read and interpret bedside flowsheets in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). His research interests include patient safety, technology implementation, and decision making within the healthcare domain.

HCI Alumni

Kelly O'Hargan

MS Student

kmo2h@virginia.edu

Kelly is working on new interface designs for the Tactical Tomahawk Missile project. Her interests are human-factors and interface designs primarily for military projects.

Mike Smoot

Ph.D. student

Graduated in 2005

mes5k@virginia.edu

Mike worked on the display of near-optimal DNA and protein sequence alignments. See Bioinformatics section under research area for further details.

Kevin Long

MS student

Graduated in 2005

klong@virginia.edu

Kevin's research interests included patient safety, teamwork, and decision making within the medical environment. His thesis work involved the study of pediatric residents' abilities to read and interpret bedside flowsheets in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

Jianhong Lv

MS student

Graduated in 2004

jl3qa@virginia.edu

Jianhong participated in surveys on surgeons' attitudes towards patient safety as well as developing a perceptual judgment trainer for laparoscopic cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal) surgery. She successfully defended her thesis on Safety Culture in Surgical Residency Programs across Virginia in August of 2004.

Stephen Allen

MS student

Graduated in 2004

stephen.allen@virginia.edu

Stephen developed a user interface for collaborative decision making in monitoring and retargeting Tactical Tomahawk missiles. He successfully defended his thesis entitled Interface Design and Team Structure in a Collaborative Environment in August of 2004.

Missy Cummings

Ph.D. student

Graduated in 2003

Missy was working on the Tactical Tomahawk mission planning monitoring project. In 2003, she successfully defended her dissertation titled "Designing Decision Support Systems for a Revolutionary Command and Control Domains". Now she is an assistant professor at MIT.

John Cushing

MS student

Graduated in 2003

John completed his Master’s degree in 2003. He studied the use of overview displays as applied to Tactical Tomahawk mission planning. His thesis was entitled, “A Measurement of the Effectiveness of an Overview Display for the Mission to Launch Platform Assignment Process Essential to the Tomahawk Strike Coordinator”. He is now on rotation as an Instructor at West Point.

Hui Guo

MS student

Graduated in 2003

Hui completed his thesis in 2003 entitled “Are Patients at Higher Risk if Having Operations at Night, on Weekends, or Holidays?” and currently he works for a company in North Virginia.

Thomas Shin

MS student

Graduated in 2003

Tom developed the Remote Analysis of Team Environments software (RATE) and finished his Master’s thesis in 2003, entitled: “Team Performance Measurement: Measuring Inter-Rater Reliability/Agreement of Independent Team Scores”. Tom is continuing to enhance the RATE and will be starting Dental school in 2004.

Chris Lankford

Ph. D. student

Graduated in 2002

Chris worked with Dr. Hutchinson on the ERICA system and is currently Chief Technology Officer of Eye Response Technologies.

Ben Darling

Graduated in 2005

Owen Seely

M.E. Graduated in Spring 2001

Owen works in the Quality Engineering Branch at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia.

Brian Jones

Brian worked on the head tracking for the ERICA project.

Alumni without pictures:

Rob Willis MS (2001)
Jason Misner MS (1999)
Dev Gupta MS (1993)
Rob Herstein MS (1992)
Nirav Desai MS (1991)
Lisa Frey Ph.D. (1990). Lisa went on to get her law degree from UVA.
Marshall Newton MS (1989) Marshall went on to get his medical degree from UVA.
Kevin Spetz MS(1989)