Sort byHCC Ph.D. alumni who graduated in 2020:

Zane Cochran Zane Cochran Sucheta Ghoshal Sucheta Ghoshal Jessica Pater Jessica Pater Ian Stewart Ian Stewart Brianna Tomlinson Brianna Tomlinson Rui Zhou Rui Zhou

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Zane Cochran

Zane Cochran

Graduated 2020

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Sucheta Ghoshal

Sucheta Ghoshal

Graduated 2020

Advisor Dr. Amy Bruckman

Lab Electronic Learning Communities

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Jessica Pater

Jessica Pater

Graduated 2020

Advisor Dr. Elizabeth Mynatt

Lab Everyday Computing

Area Social Computing

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Research Interests Understanding how technology can be used to positively impact social and emotional wellness and exploring impacts of technology on self-harm and other psychosocial disorders

Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart

Graduated 2020

Advisor Dr. Jacob Eisenstein

Lab Computational Linguistics

Area Social Computing

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Research Interests Computational social science, natural language processing

Brianna Tomlinson

Brianna Tomlinson

Graduated 2020

Advisor Dr. Bruce Walker

Lab Sonification

Area Human-Computer Interaction

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Research Interests My current work is studying how to use auditory displays and sonifications (non-speech audio) to support glanceability and how these displays could also provide overviews of complex information and systems.

Dissertation Title Measuring the Effect of User Experience and Engagement on Learning Using Interactive Simulations

Rui Zhou

Rui Zhou

Graduated 2020

Advisor Dr. Betsy DiSalvo

Lab Culture and Technology

Area Human-Computer Interaction

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Research Interests I'm interested in the relationship between culture and technology. Specifically, I focus on how people communicate through social media/instant messengers, how they appropriate these technologies, and how such technologies affect these people.