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People: Ph.D. Student Profile
Ben W. Congleton
bcx@umich.edu
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Background:
B.S. in Business Information Technology, Virginia Tech, 2005
B.S. in Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 2005
M.S. in Computer Science, HCI Certificate, Virginia Tech, 2006
Advisor(s):
Research Tags:
- CSCW
- Mobile Computing
- Ubicomp
Bio/Research Statement:
Ben Congleton is a PhD student in the School of Information. He is interested: Ubiquitous Computing, CSCW, HCI, and the design of interactive systems. Ben has interned at the Context, Content, and Community group at Nokia Research Palo Alto. He has a BS in business information technology, a BS in computer science, Virginia Tech, 2005, and a MS in computer science, Virginia Tech, 2006.
Current Research:
Prospero is an opensource public display framework designed to simplify the task of building audience-aware public display applications. Prospero provides abstractions for both the social and technical concerns for public display development, including extendable user profiles, recommender systems, context, privacy, and governance.
SSAPP is a Simple Sensor Architecture for Pervasive Prototyping. There are many pervasive computing sensor architectures. However, most of these systems are complex, and not easy for novice users to configure or use. SSAPP is a simple sensor architecture designed to enable developers familiar with internet technologies to rapidly build and deploy pervasive applications.
Profile last updated Oct 28, 2008.
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Cal Lee (MSI '99, Ph.D. '05) is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina. At SI he distinguished himself with his research in the archives and records management field. In 2002, Lee was the first winner of the Paul Evan Peters Fellowship for graduate study in the information sciences or librarianship. The award is sponsored by the Coalition for Networked Information and "recognizes not only outstanding scholarship and intellectual rigor, but also civic responsibility, democratic values, and imagination, honoring the memory of CNI founding executive director Paul Evan Peters."
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