Elyon DeKoven

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Design of Collaborative Programmable Appliances

Design investigation into the acceptability of dialogue coupled with a touch screen panel in everyday home consumer products. Research based on collaborative discourse theory, and technical development in tandem with the Collagen collaborative agent middleware. Design work required requirements gathering, scenario generation and task modeling, prototyping (Visual Basic, Java and MS Office), user testing and iteration. Results include a new usability metric, a dialogue prototyping platform along with new design methods and tools, and design guidelines for multimodal interface design. Work was done in collaboration with industry, industrial research labs and other universities. The project resulted in an international patent, and numerous publications, culminating in a doctoral dissertation. Duties included developing and leading independent student design projects, and running design colloquia for graduate students.

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Picture Programming

As a member of the Picture Programming Group at HP Labs, was responsible for design and development of visual programming languages, using programming by demonstration techniques. Extensive prototyping in Visual Basic and Visual Basic for Applications. Domains included office automation, hospital patient information, and telephone network management. Technology developed in the project became the basis for Exemplary Software business-to-business e-commerce services.

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Creative Math Festival

Orchestrated a large event to celebrate Mathematics Awareness Week in 1992. The event was partially funded by a grant from the Santa Cruz County Council for the Arts, and made possible through collaboration between Dale Seymour Publications, the Dr. Schaffer and Mr. Stern Math Dance Ensemble, and numerous local mathematicians, artists, educators, and students.

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Math Education

One good math teacher can make a huge difference. Through various math advocacy, instructional design, teaching, tutoring, and instructional assistant roles, I have striven to be a good teacher, as well as to help others teach better.

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