Faculty


Guoray Cai
Assistant Professor
Department of Geology
Office: 307F Info Sci & Tech Bldg
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-4448
Email: cai (at) ist.psu.edu
Homepage: http://spatial.ist.psu.edu/cai/
Interests: Geographical information systems, human-computer interaction, information retrieval, and geography of cyberspace.

Richard Carlson
Professor
Department of Psychology
Office: 613 Moore Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-863-1736
Email: racarlson (at) ist.psu.edu
Homepage: http://psych.la.psu.edu/faculty/carlson.html
Interests: The conscious control of skilled mental activity, and how control and experience change with increasing skill.

John M. Carroll
Professor
Information Sciences and Technology
Office: 307H Info Sci & Tech Bldg
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-863-2476
Email: jmcarroll (at) psu.edu
Homepage: http://cscl.ist.psu.edu/public/users/jcarroll/Self/
Interests: Methods and theory in human-computer interaction, particularly as applied to tools for collaborative learning and problem solving. Scenario-based design, development, and evaluation.

Magy Seif El-Nasr
Assistant Professor
Information Sciences and Technology
Office: 316E Info Sci & Tech Bldg
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-6166
Email: magy (at) ist.psu.edu
Homepage: http://ist.psu.edu/SeifEl-Nasr/
Interests: Researching human computer interaction, aesthetic functions in 3D environments, visual design and perception, and digital arts/expression.

Sven Fuhrmann
Research Associate
Department of Geology
Office: 302 Walker Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-3472
Email: fuhrmann (at) psu.edu
Homepage: http://www.geovista.psu.edu/members/fuhrmann/
Interests: Geovisualization, desktop & semi-immersive GeoVE design, 3D interactions in GeoVirtual environments, human wayfinding behavior in GeoVirtual environments, human-centered design.

Mark Gahegan
Professor
Department of Geography: GeoVISTA Center
Office: 302 Walker Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-2612
Email: mark (at) geog.psu.edu
Homepage: http://www.geog.psu.edu/people/gahegan/
Interests: Researching geographic information science, visualization, geocomputation, remote sensing.

Craig Ganoe
Senior Research Associate
Information Sciences and Technology
Office: 330E Info Sci & Tech Bldg
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-863-8856
Email: cganoe (at) psu.edu
Homepage: http://cscl.ist.psu.edu/public/users/cganoe/
Interests: Human-computer interaction (HCI) including: multiple-device interactions, computer supported cooperative work/learning (CSCW/CSCL), collaboration in community network contexts, ubiquitous computing, object-oriented UI reuse.

Steven Haynes
Assistant Professor
Information Sciences and Technology
Office: 301J Info Sci & Tech Bldg
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-7886
Email: shaynes (at) ist.psu.edu
Homepage: http://www.ist.psu.edu/research/FacultyResearch2.cfm?EmployeeID=37
Interests: Systems analysis, design, modeling, and development; human-computer interaction; design rationale; design capture; system explanation; and the philosophy of technology.

Chris Hoadley
Assistant Professor
Education & Information Sciences and Technology
Office: 314D Keller Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-863-0415
Email: tophe (at) psu.edu
Homepage: http://www.tophe.net
Interests: Research and teaching in cognitive and computer science as related to learning. Design of cognitively enabling technology, especially for collaboration and science education.

Jim Jansen
Assistant Professor
Information Sciences and Technology
Office: 329F Info Sci & Tech Bldg
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-6459
Email: jjansen (at) ist.psu.edu
Homepage: http://ist.psu.edu/faculty_pages/jjansen/index.html
Interests: Advancing the transfer and dissemination of information among participants within our society by improving the ability to locate relevant information. Central to this research goal is an approach centered on a concurrent, integrated view of users, information and technology within an information searching process.

Alan MacEachren
Professor
Department of Geography: GeoVISTA Center
Office: 310 Walker Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-7491
Email: maceachren (at) ist.psu.edu
Homepage: http://www.geovista.psu.edu/members/maceachren/
Interests: Defining a research agenda for human-centered geospatial visualization and in building cross-disciplinary links to related efforts in scientific and information visualization and in statistics.

Michael McNeese
Associate Professor
Information Sciences and Technology
Office: 301E Info Sci & Tech Bldg
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-7885
Email: mmcneese (at) ist.psu.edu
Homepage: http://www.ist.psu.edu/research/FacultyResearch2.cfm?EmployeeID=39
Interests: Human interaction with information technology in complex environments, particularly collaborative systems that bring together the confluences of cognition, computation, collaboration.

Cecelia Merkel
Postdoctoral Reseacher
Information Sciences and Technology
Office: 330C Info Sci & Tech Bldg
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-863-9498
Email: cbm12 (at) ist.psu.edu
Homepage: http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/b/cbm12/
Interests: Researching the digital divide, community networking, new literacies, social informatics, information seeking and information policy.

Frank Ritter
Associate Professor
Information Sciences and Technology, Psychology, & Computer Science and Engineering
Office: 316G Info Sci & Tech Bldg
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-4453
Email: frank-ritter (at) psu.edu
Homepage: http://www.frankritter.com
Interests: Using cognitive modeling within a unified theory of cognition such as Soar or ACT-R to test theories of learning and to improve human-computer interaction.

David Rosenbaum
Distinguished Professor
Department of Psychology
Office: 642 Moore Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-863-1991
Email: dar12 (at) psu.edu
Homepage: http://psych.la.psu.edu/faculty/rosenbaum.html
Interests: The cognitive substrates of skilled performance, especially those underlying human motor control and perceptual-motor integration.

Mary Beth Rosson
Professor
Information Sciences and Technology
Office: 330C Info Sci & Tech Bldg
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-863-2478
Email: mrosson (at) ist.psu.edu
Homepage: http://ist.psu.edu/rosson/
Interests: Issues and techniques related to the quality of the software produced by end users and requirements analysis and iterative development of an end user development tool for building simple web applications.

Rajeev Sharma
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Office: 343F Info Sci & Tech Bldg
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-863-0147
Email: rsharma (at) cse.psu.edu
Homepage: http://www.cse.psu.edu/~rsharma/
Interests: Researching computer vision, robotics, advanced human-computer interfaces.

Brian Smith
Associate Professor
Information Sciences and Technology & College of Education
Office: 301D Info Sci & Tech Bldg
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-863-0012
Email: bsmith (at) ist.psu.edu
Homepage: http://www.personal.psu.edu/bks12/
Interests: Researching educational technology, human computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, and digital arts/expression.

S. Shyam Sundar
Associate Professor
Media Studies & Advertising
Office: 212 Carnegie Building
University Park, PA 16802-5101
Phone: 814-865-1750
Email: sss12 (at) psu.edu
Homepage: http://www.psu.edu/dept/comm/faculty/sundar.html
Interests: Psychology of human-website interaction, particularly the role played by interactivity, navigability, multimodality and agency (source atrribution) upon user perception and processing of mass-communication content on the internet (such as online news and web advertising).

Warren Wake
Associate Professor
Integrative Arts & Architecture
Office: 009 Brumbaugh Hall
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-1750
Email: wkw10 (at) psu.edu
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