Sort byHCC Ph.D. alumni who graduated in 2015:

Deana Brown Deana Brown Casey Fiesler Casey Fiesler Hwajung Hong Hwajung Hong David Joyner David Joyner Edison Thomaz Edison Thomaz

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Deana Brown

Deana Brown

Graduated 2015

Advisor Dr. Rebecca Grinter

Lab Work2Play

Area Human-Computer Interaction

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Research Interests Technology and International Development

Dissertation Title Designing technologies to support migrants and refugees

Casey Fiesler

Casey Fiesler

Graduated 2015

Advisor Dr. Amy Bruckman

Lab Electronic Learning Communities

Area Social Computing

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Research Interests copyright law, social computing, and collaborative creativity

Dissertation Title The role of copyright in online creative communities: law, norms, and policy

Hwajung Hong

Hwajung Hong

Graduated 2015

Advisors Dr. Gregory Abowd & Dr. Rosa Arriaga

Lab Ubiquitous Computing

Area Social Computing

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Research Interests Social Computing

Dissertation Title Specializing social networking services to support the independence of adolescents and adults with autism

David Joyner

David Joyner

Graduated 2015

Advisor Dr. Ashok Goel

Lab Design & Intelligence

Area Learning Sciences & Technology

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Research Interests Educational technology, intelligent tutoring systems, online education, metacognition

Dissertation Title Metacognitive tutoring for inquiry-driven modeling

Edison Thomaz

Edison Thomaz

Graduated 2015

Advisor Dr. Gregory Abowd

Lab Ubiquitous Computing

Area Human-Computer Interaction

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Research Interests Personal health informatics, activity recognition, HCI, computational health

Dissertation Title Automatic eating detection in real-world settings with commodity sensing