J. Michael Moore

PO Box 9874
College Station TX 77842

 

jmichael@jmichaelmoore.net

http://csdl.tamu.edu/~michael/

979-575-5359 (voice)

Research Interests

Human-Centered Computing, Interaction Design, Design Science, Intelligent User Interfaces, Software Engineering, Requirements Elicitation and Analysis, Interface Design, Education, Deaf Issues.

Education

PhD. in Computer Science (GPA:  4.0)                                                                                          August 2007

Texas A&M University

Dissertation:  Design Exploration: Engaging a Larger User Population

Advisor:  Frank Shipman

M.S. in Computer Science (GPA:  3.9)                                                                                          August 1997

Southwest Texas State University (currently Texas State University)

B.S. in Biochemistry (GPA:  3.5)                                                                                                    August 1991

Texas A&M University

·        University Undergraduate Fellow: Program involving a year of research and compilation of a thesis.

·        University Honors: Curriculum including honors coursework.

Research Experience

Dissertation: Design Exploration (DE)

Texas A&M University, Center for the Study of Digital Libraries (CSDL)

DE investigates an approach to gathering software development information from end-users that lies between a questionnaire and participatory design. End users express their vision of the software by creating partial designs, i.e. interface mockups augmented with textual descriptions. Software developers explore this constructive communication. The system computationally processes end-user information (windows, widgets and descriptions) to identify information that assists software developers as they navigate and explore the end-user communication. Formerly, the Graphical Requirements Collector (GRC).

Design Exploration (DE): Postdoc

Texas A&M University, Center for the Study of Digital Libraries (CSDL)

Extending DE into a web based service. This work further explores the understanding of user’s partial designs using textual, spatial, and temporal information.

Visual Knowledge Builder (VKB)

Texas A&M University, Center for the Study of Digital Libraries (CSDL)

VKB is a spatial hypertext workspace. Spatial hypertext provides for the organization of information in ways that are implicit rather than explicit. Users can then develop knowledge over time, i.e. incremental formalization. VKB assists users as they transition information from implicit structures into explicit formalized representations. VKB’s Suggestion Manager identifies formalizations of a workspace based on system interpretation of the workspace. These suggestions are then presented to users in a way that does not interfere with the user’s current activity in the workspace.

Document Triage

Texas A&M University, Center for the Study of Digital Libraries (CSDL)

Document triage is the practice of quickly determining the usefulness and relevance of documents in a collection of documents (e.g. from a search engine). This activity involves applications for reading documents, organizing documents, and viewing the set of documents to be triaged. User’s reading and annotation activity can be shared across applications to provide non-intrusive assistance to assist documents of interest.

Teaching Experience

Instructor                                                                                                                      June 2006 & June 2007

Duke TIP, College Station, Texas

Developed and presented course on Interaction Design for gifted junior high and high school students.

Lecturer                                                                                                                      August 1999 – May 2000

Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

Developed and presented lectures for Pascal (Fall 1999) and Java (Spring 2000).  Developed and coordinated labs. Supervised teaching assistants for the programming labs associated with the lectures.

Lecturer                                                                                                                January 1998 – August 1999

Blinn Junior College, Bryan, Texas

Developed and presented lectures for Pascal (Spring and Fall, 1998; Spring and Summer, 1999).  Developed and instructed the programming labs associated with the lectures.

Professional Experience

Postdoctoral Research Associate                                                                                       July 2007 – present

Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

Work with the Design Exploration (DE) grant. Write and assist with conference, journal, and grant proposal writing. Implemented with Java, PHP, and MySQL.

Freelance Sign Language Interpreter                                                                     September 2001 – present

Bryan/College Station/Houston, Texas

Interpret for clients with hearing impairments. Done primarily in the post-secondary setting at Texas A&M University, Blinn College, and Cy-Fair College. I have also done video relay interpreting for CSDVRS.

Webmaster                                                                                                                    October 1998 – present

Texas Society of Interpreters for the Deaf (TSID)

Volunteer work to develop and maintain the TSID website. Created a custom calendar for use by the organization. Created a custom content management system that allows officers, spread throughout the state, to share files. This system also allows TSID local chapters to create and maintain their own websites. Implemented with PHP and MySQL.

Graduate Assistant Research                                                                                   August 2000 – June 2007

Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

Worked on Visual Knowledge Builder (VKB) and Design Exploration (DE) development. Wrote and assisted with conference, journal, and grant proposal writing. Implemented with Java.

Sign Language Interpreter (Staff)                                                                         August 1996 – August 2000

Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

Interpreted lectures and labs for students with hearing impairments. Also developed policy and publications related to interpreting and disability services.

Graduate Assistant                                                                                               January 1996 – August 1996

Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas

Developed and modified a user interface for a project engineering package. Additionally, set up and maintained a group of Pentium 166 machines running Windows NT 3.51 for a Software Engineering practicum course.

Dissertation

1.      J.M. Moore, “Design Exploration: Engaging a Larger User Population”, PhD. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2007.

Publications

1.      J.M. Moore and F. Shipman, “Combining the Analysis of Spatial Layout and Text to Support Design Exploration”, Proceedings ASE 2008, The 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Sept. 2008. (24%)

2.      S. Bae, H. Hsieh, D. Kim, C. Marshall, K. Meintanis, J.M. Moore, A. Zacchi, and F. Shipman, “Supporting Document Triage via Annotation-based Visualizations”, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), Oct. 2008.

3.      S. Bae, C. Marshall, K. Meintanis, A. Zacchi, H. Hsieh, J.M. Moore, and F. Shipman, “Patterns of Reading and Organizing Information in Document Triage”, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), 2006.

4.      R. Badi, S. Bae, J.M. Moore, K. Meintanis, A. Zacchi, H. Hsieh, F. Shipman, C. Marshall, “Recognizing User Interest and Document Value from Reading and Organizing Activities in Document Triage”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2006, pp. 218-225. (24%)

5.      S. Bae, R. Badi, K. Meintanis, J.M. Moore, A. Zacchi, H. Hsieh, C. Marshall, F. Shipman, “Effects of Display Configurations on Document Triage”, Human-Computer Interaction: INTERACT 2005, pp. 130-143. (26%)

6.      F. Shipman, H. Hsieh, J.M. Moore, and A. Zacchi, "Supporting Personal Collections across Digital Libraries in Spatial Hypertext", Proceedings of the ACM and IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2004, pp. 358-367. (30%) (Nominated for Best Paper Award)

7.      J.M. Moore, Communicating Requirements Using End-User GUI Constructions with Argumentation. Proceedings ASE 2003, The Eighteenth IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, pp. 360-363.

8.      F. Shipman, J.M. Moore, P. Maloor, H. Hsieh, and R. Akkapeddi, "Semantics Happen: Knowledge Building in Spatial Hypertext", Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypertext, 2002, pp. 25-34. (31%) (Nominated for Best Paper Award)

9.      J.M. Moore and F. Shipman, "Requirements Elicitation using Visual and Textual Information", Proceedings Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering, 2001, pp. 308-309.

10.  F. Shipman, H. Hsieh, R. Airhart, P. Maloor, J.M. Moore, and D. Shah, "Emergent Structure in Analytic Workspaces: Design and Use of the Visual Knowledge Builder", Human-Computer Interaction: INTERACT 2001, pp. 132-139. (33%)

11.  F. Shipman, H. Hsieh, R. Airhart, P. Maloor, and J.M. Moore, "The Visual Knowledge Builder: A Second Generation Spatial Hypertext", Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypertext, 2001, pp. 113-122. (27%)

12.  F. Shipman, R. Airhart, H. Hsieh, P. Maloor, J.M. Moore, and D. Shah, "Visual and Spatial Communication and Task Organization in the Visual Knowledge Builder", Proceedings of the ACM 2001 GROUP Conference, 2001, pp. 260-269. (30%)

13.  J.M. Moore and F. Shipman, "A Comparison of Questionnaire-Based and GUI-Based Requirements Gathering", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2000, pp. 35-44. (~20%) (Nominated for Best Paper Award)


Book Chapters

1.      S. Bae, R. Badi, K. Meintanis, J.M. Moore, A. Zacchi, H. Hsieh, C. Marshall, F. Shipman, “Effects of Display Configurations on Document Triage”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3585, Sep 2005, Pages 130 - 143

2.      F. Shipman, H. Hsieh, J.M. Moore, "Towards a World-Wide Spatial Hypertext", in N. Arganaraz, editor, Humanistic Informatics, in press.

Professional Service

Program Committee Member: Hypertext 2008                                                                         2008

Judge: Student Research Week, Texas A&M University                                                              2008

President: Brazos Valley Interpreters for the Deaf                                                                        2006 - 2007

Parliamentarian: Brazos Valley Interpreters for the Deaf                                                             2003 – 2006

Temporary Member: Aggie Honor Council                                                                                2005

President: Computer Science Graduate Student Association, Texas A&M University                   2003 – 2004

Student Member: Institutional Review Board (non-voting), Texas A&M University                      2003 – 2004

Student Member: Graduate Appeals Panel, Texas A&M University                                            2002 – 2004

Financial Officer: Rainbow Graduate Student Association , Texas A&M University                     2002 – 2004

Doctoral Symposium/Student Volunteer: IEEE ASE 2003, Montreal, Quebec, Canada            2003

Student Volunteer: ACM-IEEE JCDL 2003, Houston, TX                                                         2003

Computer Science Representative: Graduate Student Council, Texas A&M University             2002 – 2003

Student Member: Ad Hoc Committee on Diversity and Globalization                                          2002

Vice President: Graduate Student Council, Texas A&M University                                              2001 – 2002

Co-Chair: Student Research Week, Texas A&M University                                                         2001 – 2002

Graduate Student Member: Graduate Committee, Texas A&M University                                 2001 – 2002

Student Volunteer: ACM Hypertext 2000 conference, San Antonio, TX                                     2000

Student Volunteer: ACM Digital Libraries 2000 conference, San Antonio, TX                            2000

Computer Science Representative: Graduate Student Council, Texas A&M University             1999 – 2000

Secretary: Texas Society of Interpreters for the Deaf                                                                   1999 – 2001

Webmaster: Texas Society of Interpreters for the Deaf                                                                1998 – present

Awards

Mentoring Award (2004) selected by faculty members in the Computer Science department and presented by the Aggie Women in Computer Science at Texas A&M University

Student scholarship recipient to attend the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference 2003 presented by the Texas A&M University Department of Computer Science

Guseman Award (2002) presented for outstanding contributions to the Graduate Student Council at Texas A&M University

2nd Place (2006) Student Research Week Poster Competition


Affiliations

ACM Member

Association for Information Systems Member

The American Society for Information Science & Technology Member

Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID) Associate Member

Texas Society of Interpreters for the Deaf (TSID) Certified Member

Certifications

Level II Interpreter Certification (Sign Language) granted by the State of Texas, Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services, Office for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services