Frank Shipman

Associate Director,
Center for the Study of Digital Libraries

Professor,
Department of Computer Science
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843-3112

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Selected Research Projects

Design Exploration

Design Exploration is a process aimed at increasing the quality of early-stage software requirements by collecting large quantities of input from stakeholders. The research includes the design, implementation, and evaluation of tools for collecting annotated partial designs from stakeholders and effectively browsing, searching, and analyzing large collectionsof these designs.

Distributed Collection Manager

The Distributed Collection Manager provides support for maintaining distributed collections, such as lists of web-based resources. Current research is on algorithms for identifying and determining the importance of change to resources and interfaces for presenting results.

Visual Knowledge Builder

The Visual Knowledge Builder is a spatial hypertext environment for working with a variety of information. Current research directions include adaptive visualizations based on inferred user interest and improved support for collaboration via improved interaction history.

Walden's Paths

Walden's Paths is a set of tools for authoring, distributing and viewing paths composed of annotated web pages. Paths can be static or dynamically generated. Current research emphasizes the design of template-based authoring tools that help authors create pedagogically sound paths for education.

Additional Projects

  • VITE
  • WARP
  • Hyper-Hitchcock