Stephen B. Hughes Ph.D. Student University of Pittsburgh Information Science Department    (412) 824-4279

Research Interests:

• Visualization.
• Navigation Techniques and Wayfinding in Virtual Environments
• Mixed-Initiative Camera Control in Teleoperation
  
• Human Computer Interaction.
• Human Factors in System Design.
• Web Lies

I defended my dissertation in August 2005 and moved to Roanoke College

Some Projects at SIS:

• Directing viewer attention to salient information in complex information displays
• Camera Control for Teleoperation Activities
  
• Attentive Navigation Techniques in Virtual Environments
• Directing Attention in Open Scenes
• Taught Computer Graphics and Program Design and Software Tools for the Information Science Department
• Helped to develop a toolset for locating destinations using images, maps, and text.  The prototype focuses on campus libraries: Library Locator
• Mapping software for the NISS Crop & Chemical Survey

• Indiana University : M.S. Computer Science, 1997
• Dickinson College : B.S. Computer Science, 1995