Human Computer Interaction, design of technologies and study of their use and impact.

Fall 2006–current                  Texas A&M University        College Station , TX, USA

Teaching assistant

·     CPSC 211: Data Structure in Java and C

2002–summer 2006               Texas A&M University        College Station , TX, USA

Research assistant

·     VKB project: code development

·     VKB project: user studies

·     Supervisor: Frank Shipman.

Summer 2002                         IBM Almaden Research Center       San Jose, CA, USA

Internship

·     USER group: ethnographic study of websphere administrators.

·     Supervisors: Dan Russell , Paul Maglio, Eser Kandogan

2000–2001                              IBM Almaden Research Center       San Jose, CA, USA

Co-op

·     Storage Systems group.

·     Design of an interface for storage administrators.

·     Interviews and studies of storage administrators.

1999–2000                              Texas A&M University        College Station , TX, USA

Teaching assistant

·     Lab Assistant for Java classes.

1996–1998                              Texas A&M University        College Station , TX, USA

Research assistant

·     Initial studies for training systems for F-16 maintenance.

·     Supervisor: John Yen.

1995–1996                              Ars Informatica                                                Milan, Italy

Web Designer

·     Interaction with company representatives to inform the design of web sites.

·     Design of web sites.

·     Implementation of software for the easy development of civic networks.

1995-1996                               Universita’ degli Studi di Milano                  Milan, Italy

Research Assistant

·     Development of a course on CD-Rom about Fuzzy Logic.

·     Fellowship from SGS-Thomson Microelectronic.

1994                                        Universita’ degli Studi di Milano                  Milan, Italy

Research Assistant

·     Development and organization of a short course for industry and academia: "Fuzzy Logic & Soft Computing" (October  1994).

·     Organization and coordination among different instructors.

·     Instructor for one session of the course.

·     Fellowship from SGS-Thomson Microelectronic.

Present                                   Texas A&M University         College Station, TX, USA

Ph.D. student

·     Advisor: Frank Shipman

1999                                        Texas A&M University         College Station, TX, USA

Master in Computer Science

·     Conducted a study in a local elementary school to evaluate the interaction with the interface of an electronic game for teaching mathematics.

·     Thesis: “Merging physical Manipulatives and Digital Interface facilitates the Transition to Abstract Knowledge.”

1993                                        Cefriel                                                                Milan, Italy

Master in Information Technology

·     Sponsored by IBM: algorithms for temporal reasoning for an expert system that detects faults on electric power lines.

1993                                        Universita’ degli Studi di Milano                  Milan, Italy

Laurea, Computer Science.

·     Thesis in AI: development of a C++ library for temporal reasoning.

·     Graduated Summa Cum Laude.

Reading, photography, yoga, hiking, horticulture.

·     Zacchi A., Shipman F. “Personal Environment Management” to appear in ECDL 2007.

·     Soonil Bae, Catherine C. Marshall, Konstantinos Meintanis, Anna Zacchi,  Haowei Hsieh, J. Michael Moore, Frank M. Shipman “Patterns of Reading and Organizing Information in Document Triage” ASIST 2006

·     Badi, R., Bae, S., Moore, J. M., Meintanis, K., Zacchi, A., Hsieh, H., Shipman, F., and Marshall, C. C. 2006. “Recognizing user interest and document value from reading and organizing activities in document triage.” In Proceedings of the 11th international Conference on intelligent User interfaces (Sydney, Australia, January 29 - February 01, 2006). IUI '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 218-225.

·     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 Pages 130 - 143.

·     F. Shipman, H. Hsieh, J.M. Moore, 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.

·     Anna Zacchi and Nancy M. Amato, Merging Physical Manipulatives and Digital Interface in Educational Software, ED-MEDIA 2000: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, 2000.

·     A. Zacchi, Merging physical manipulatives and digital interface in educational software, Master Thesis, Department of computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 1999.

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