2009 Graduate Symposium

Wednesday, April 22nd, Room 165 Physics

9:00 - 10:30 Session 1

  • Andre Doucette: Visual Trackpad: Augmenting A Trackpad With Direct Touch

  • Clayton Epp: Identifying Affect Through Keystroke Dynamics

  • Ian Livingston: Interactive Testbed Development for Persuasive Game Research: A Case Study

  • Mangalagouri Masarakal: Improving Expertise-Sensitive Help Systems

  • Edgar Lelei: E-negotiation For Customized Products

  • Adrian Reetz: WorldPointing: Attaching Digital Objects to Real-World Locations

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:15 Session 2

  • Michael Lippold: Using the Standard Computer Mouse to Detect User States

  • Manju Chava: Designing the User Configurable Online Community Framework

  • Kadhambai Sankaranarayanan: Visualizing Reciprocal and Non Reciprocal Relationships In An Online Community

  • Radhika Ramasahayam: Porting Legacy Applications to Google App Engine

  • Quian Wang: Integrating Mobile and Cloud Computing

  • Yuan Wang: A User-Centric Data Interoperation Framework in Decentralized User Modeling

12:15 - 1:00 Lunch Break

1:00 - 2:30 Session 3

  • Waqas Ahmed: Automated Detection of Distance Scale in Ovarian Ultrasound Images

  • Xiaonuo Gantan: An Algorithmic Comparison Between xAC and AC2001

  • Albina Rahim: Study and Compare the CD-HIT Clustering Algorithm With Other Clustering Algorithms to Find Duplicates and Fragments in Large Protein Sequence Database

  • Craig Thompson: Machine Learning Techniques for Meta-Reasoning in Constraint Optimization

  • Mahsa Naseri: Evaluating Workflow Trust Using Hidden Markov Model and Provenance Data

  • Presentation of Best Graduate Student Award

2:30 - 2:45 Coffee Break

2:45 - 4:15 Session 4

  • Adam McKenzie: Serious Games for Professional Ethics: An Architecture to Support Adaptivity

  • Jason Boisvert: Using a Conditioning Constant to Estimate Global Error For Boundary Value Ordinary Differential Equations

  • Mohammad Hashemian: A Multi-Purpose Data Gathering System for Routing Analysis in Sparse Mobile Sensor Networks

  • Andrew Kroshko: A Problem Solving Environment for Developing Algorithms for Ordinary Differential Equations

  • Wojciech Quibell: Distributed End User Security System in Rural Wireless Mesh Networks

  • Terry Peckham: Contrasting Association Rules to Aid Pedagogy in a LCMS