hci geek @ ubc (vancouver, bc)

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I am a PhD candidate supervised by Dr. Sidney Fels in the Human Communication Technologies Lab at the University of British Columbia. I am affiliated with Imager Laboratory, the Interaction Design Reading Group, and the Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC). My research interests are situated in Human Computer Interaction, specifically Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) — the study of how people work together using technology. My PhD thesis project examines how we can design groupware to allow users to smoothly transition between different styles of work. Other research buzzwords that get my geek mojo flowing include information visualization, ubiquitous computing, novel interaction techniques, and ethnomethodology. Finally, I am a proud member of the Extremely Tall and Extremely Short HCI Researchers Club. If you haven't met me, I am a very very tall guy. For those of you that have, be cool, shut up, no reason to ruin it for everybody else. Recent Work (December 17, 2009) Tang, A., Genest, A., Shoemaker, G., Gutwin, C., Fels, S., and Booth, K.S. (to appear). Enabling Expressiveness in Reference Space (preprint). In New Frontiers in Telepresence. (Workshop to be held at ACM CSCW 2010 Conference, Savannah, GA), (Venolia, G., Inkpen, K., Olson, J. S., and Nguyen, D. T. Eds.), Februrary 7. Neustaedter, C., Tang, A., and Judge, T.K. (to appear) The Role of Community and Groupware in Geocache Creation and Maintenance (preprint). To Appear in ACM 2010 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2010), Atlanta, USA, April 2010. (acceptance: 22% - 296/1346) Tang, A., Pahud, M., and Buxton, B. (2009). Visualizing Interactions on Distributed Tabletops. Technical Report TR-2009-25, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4. Woot! Our team (Jen Fernquist, Brad Swerdfeger and I) won the ITS 2009 SMART Table Application Design Competition! That means UBC gets a brand new SMART Table! :D Judge, T., Neustaedter, C., Tang, A., and Harrison, S. (to appear). Bridging the Gap: Moving from Contextual Analysis to Design. A Workshop at ACM 2010 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2010), Atlanta, USA, April 2010. Tang, A., Pahud, M., Inkpen, K. M., Benko, H., Tang, J. C., and Buxton, W. (to appear). Three's Company: Understanding Communication Channels in Three-way Distributed Collaboration (preprint). To Appear in Proceedings of CSCW 2010. (acceptance: 20% - 58/288) Recent Fun (July 1, 2009) Jul 1, 2009 - Salmonfest 2009 "Middle of the Pack" Champs! Woot! Becky, Jon, Jill, Me. . Jun 7, 2009 - Celebratin' our Hugh Boyd winnings at Meok Ja Gol - major Korean BBQ action!!!