Rex Hartson
Title: Professor
Department of Computer Science
Blacksburg, VA 24060
USA
Phone:
Fax: 540-231-6075
Email: hartson@VT.EDU
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Personal Web Page: http://research.cs.vt.edu/usability/
Research Interest: Research interests include human factors in computing, interactive system development, and software engineering.
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Dissertations Supervised
- Pyla, Pardha S. Connecting the usability and software engineering life cycles through a communication-fostering software development framework and cross-pollinated computer science courses, PhD. Department: Computer Science. 2007-09-10. Committee: James Arthur, Manuel A. Perez-Quinones, Tonya Smith-Jackson, Debby Hix.
- Howarth, Jonathan Randall. Supporting Novice Usability Practitioners with Usability Engineering Tools, PhD. Department: Computer Science. 2007-04-13. Committee: Andrea L. Kavanaugh, Manuel A. Perez-Quinones, Tonya Smith-Jackson, Terence Andre.
MS Thesis Supervised
- Howarth, Jonathan R. An Infrastructure to Support Usability Problem Data Analysis, MS. Department: Computer Science. 2004-05-06. Committee: Manuel A. Perez-Quinones, Mary Beth Rosson.
- Mahajan, Reenal R. Usability Problem Diagnosis tool: Development and Evaluation, MS. Department: Computer Science. 2003-06-10. Committee: Chris North, Manuel A. Perez-Quinones.
- Kodiyalam, Narayanan Gopalakrishnan. Remote Usability Evaluation Tool, MS. Department: Computer Science. 2003-05-19. Committee: Scott McCrickard, Manuel A. Perez-Quinones.
- Colaso, Vikrant. A Usability Problem Inspection Tool: Development and Formative Evaluation, MS. Department: Computer Science. 2003-04-18. Committee: Scott McCrickard, Manuel A. Perez-Quinones.
- Helms, James W. Developing and Evaluating the (LUCID/Star)*Usability Engineering Process Model, MS. Department: Computer Science. 2001-05-03. Committee: James Arthur, Debby Hix.
- Castillo, Jose Carlos. The User-Reported Critical IncidentMethod for Remote Usability Evaluation, MS. Department: Computer Science. 1997-07-30. Committee: Debby Hix, Mary Beth Rosson, Robert C. Williges.
Dissertations Committees Served
- Capra, Robert G.. An Investigation of Finding and Refinding Information on the Web, PhD. Department: Computer Science. 2006-02-16. Advisor: Manuel A. Perez-Quinones. Committee: Naren Ramakrishnan, Rex Hartson, Dan Dunlap, David Novick.
- Seals, Cheryl Denise. A framework for Learning and Reuse in Visual Programming Envirnoments: Supporting Novice Programmer Development of Educational Simulations, PhD. Department: Computer Science. 2004-08-12. Advisor: Mary Beth Rosson. Committee: Roger W. Ehrich, Rex Hartson, John M. Carroll, John Burton.
- Amento, Brian. User Interfaces for Topic Management of Web Sites, PhD. Department: Computer Science. 2001-09-26. Advisor: Debby Hix. Committee: Roger W. Ehrich, Rex Hartson, Loren Terveen, Robert Schulman.
- Nowell, Lucille Terry. Graphical Encoding for Information Visualization:Using Icon Color, Shape, and Size to Convey Nominaland Quantitative Data, PhD. Department: Computer Science. 1997-11-07. Advisor: Debby Hix. Committee: Roger W. Ehrich, Lenwood S Heath, Rex Hartson, Robert Schulman.
MS Thesis Committees Served
- Catanzaro, Christopher David. Vizability: Visualizing Usability Evaluation Data Based on the User Action Framework, MS. Department: Computer Science. 2005-04-28. Advisor: Chris North. Committee: Manuel A. Perez-Quinones, Rex Hartson.
- Zhu, Qinwei. 5SGraph: A Modeling Tool for Digital Libraries, MS. Department: Computer Science. 2002-11-18. Advisor: Ed Fox. Committee: Chris North, Rex Hartson.
- Gabbard, Joseph L.. A Taxonomy of Usability Characteristics in Virtual Environments, MS. Department: Computer Science and Applications. 1997-12-03. Advisor: Debby Hix. Committee: Rex Hartson, Sallie Henry.
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