dhn 112304

 
David H. Nguyen
dnguyen@erstwhile.org
www.erstwhile.org
Graduate Researcher, 5/05 - 9/05.
Intel Research, Santa Clara, California
Investigated co-located photo sharing using Personal Servers with Trevor Pering and Roy Want.

 Research Engineer, 5/04 - 5/05.
Nokia Research Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Context-aware computing middleware research using heterogeneous devices and context (stationary, mobile, home, work, play).

 Graduate Researcher, 4/03 - 1/04.
Intel Research, Seattle, Washington
Investigated Proactive Displays through the Experience UbiComp Project with Joe McCarthy, using RFID technology and large displays.

 Graduate Student Teaching Assistant
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia
8/02 - 12/02. Assisted Prof. Bruce Walker in teaching the graduate level Human-Computer Interaction course.
8/01 - 12/01. Assisted Prof. Blair MacIntyre in teaching the undergraduate and graduate level User Interface Software course.
9/00 - 12/00. Assisted Prof. Elizabeth D. Mynatt in teaching the graduate level Human-Computer Interaction course.

Visiting Doctoral Researcher, 5/01 - 8/01.
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Visiting researcher of the Sociable Media Group led by Prof. Judith Donath.

Graduate Student Research Assistant, 1/01 - 5/01.
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia
Lead Privacy Mirrors research project to address awareness and privacy issues in the Aware Home Research Initiative.

HCI Fellow, 9/98 - 9/00.
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia
NSF funded to work on own research initiatives, collaborating with Prof. Elizabeth Mynatt and Prof. Gregory Abowd. Main initiative was to humanize the link between people and technology, focusing on ubiquitous computing.

Graduate Student Research Assistant, 12/97 - 9/98.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Assisted Prof. George W. Furnas and the Advanced User Interface Group. Helped implement and demonstrate NaviQue, a visually rich environment for information gathering and organizing, based on a navigable, fractal structure of information, ubiquitous queriability, lightweight interaction with ad hoc sets, and information visualization

Graduate Student Instructor, 9/96 - 12/97.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Graduate Student Instructor for the Interactive Computer Graphics class under Prof. Bert Herzog. Responsibilities include teaching students Computer Graphics (specifically OpenGL and Tcl/Tk); preparing programming assignments, homework assignments, and exam questions; and being a general resource for the students. Received the Outstanding Teaching Award (5/97).
Research
and
Teaching
Experience
David W. McDonald, Joseph F. McCarthy, Suzanne Soroczak, David H. Nguyen, and Al M. Rashid. Proactive displays: Supporting awareness in fluid social environments. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 14, 4 (Jan. 2008), 1-31.

Jennifer Rode, Carolina Johansson, Paul DiGioia, Roberto Silva Filho, Kari Nies, David H. Nguyen, Jie Ren, Paul Dourish, and David Redmiles. Seeing further: extending visualization as a basis for usable security. In Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 12 - 14, 2006). SOUPS '06, vol. 149. ACM Press, New York, NY, 145-155.

David H. Nguyen and Alfred Kobsa. Better RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Privacy Is Good for Consumers, and Manufacturers, and Distributors, and Retailers. In A. Kobsa, R. Chellappa and S. Spiekermann, eds.: Proceedings of PEP06, CHI 2006 Workshop on Privacy-Enhanced Personalization, Montréal, Canada

Trevor Pering, David H. Nguyen, John Light and Roy Want. Face-to-Face Media Sharing Using Wireless Mobile Devices. IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, December 2005.

Joseph F. McCarthy, David W. McDonald, Suzanne Soroczak, David H. Nguyen, Al M. Rashid. Augmenting the Social Space of an Academic Conference. Proceedings of the ACM 2004 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2004), 6-9 November 2004, Chicago.

Joseph F. McCarthy, David H. Nguyen, Al M. Rashid, Suzanne Soroczak. Proactive Displays: Enhancing Awareness and Interations in a Conference Context. Intel Research Seattle Technical Report (IRS-TR-04-015).

Fernanda Viegas, danah boyd, David H Nguyen, Jeffrey Potter, and Judith Donath. Digital Artifacts for Remembering and Storytelling: PostHistory and Social Network Fragments. Proceedings of the Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37). Big Island, HI: IEEE Computer Society. January 5 - 8, 2004.

Joseph F. McCarthy, David H. Nguyen, Al Mamunur Rashid, and Suzanne Soroczak. Proactive Displays & The Experience UbiComp Project. Position paper UbiComp 2003 Conference Workshop: First International Workshop on Ubiquitous Systems for Supporting Social Interaction and Face-to-Face Communication in Public Spaces.

David H. Nguyen and Khai N. Truong. PHEMAIL: Designing a Privacy Honoring Email System. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2003). Fort Lauderdale, Florida: ACM Press.

Joe Tullio, Jeremy Goecks, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, and David H. Nguyen. Augmenting Shared Personal Calendars. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2002). Paris, France.

David H. Nguyen and Elizabeth D. Mynatt. Privacy Mirrors: Understanding and Shaping Socio-technical Ubiquitous Computing Systems. Georgia Institute of Technology Technical Report GIT-GVU-02-16. June 2002.

danah boyd, Carlos Jensen, Scott Lederer, and David H. Nguyen. Privacy in Digital Environments: Empowering Users. Workshop coordinated at CSCW 2002 Conference.

Elizabeth D. Mynatt and David H. Nguyen. Making Ubiquitous Computing Visible. Position paper ACM CHI 2001 Conference Workshop: Building the Ubiquitous Computing User Experience.
Publications
Joseph F. McCarthy, David H. Nguyen, Al Mamunur Rashid, and Suzanne Soroczak. Proactive Displays & The Experience UbiComp Project. Demonstration at the UbiComp 2003 Conference (October 12-15, Seattle, WA).

Fernanda B. Viegas and David H. Nguyen. PostHistory. Shown at Artists Space as part of “Infotecture.” 38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor. New York City. May 30 - July 13, 2002.

David H. Nguyen and Elizabeth D. Mynatt. Privacy Mirrors. Part of the “As We May Live” Demo. Invited to: ACM'2001 (March 12-14, San Jose, CA), ACM.

Samuel J. Rauch, David H. Nguyen, and George W. Furnas. Demonstration of the NaviQue Workspace. ACM Conference on Digital Library 1998.
Demonstrations
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Exhibitions
Graduate Student Intern, 5/97 - 8/97.
Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC.
Technical staff member of the VR Lab. Designed and implemented various interaction techniques for VR equipment, specifically the Responsive Workbench.

Software Engineer, 2/96 - 7/96.
TriTeal Corporation, San Diego, California.
Technical staff member on TriTeal’s flagship product TED (TriTeal Enterprise Desktop). Responsibilities included modifications and enhancements such as integrating a WWW browser into the desktop and integrating the Unix desktop with the Microsoft Windows environment (WinTED).

Software Engineer, 3/94 - 2/96.
Spectragraphics Corporation, San Diego, California.
Active team member of the TeamExchange group. TeamExchange is an object oriented designed, multi-platform (HP, SUN, IBM) collaborative engineering tool that enables team members to present, share, and communicate complex information (2D/3D models, images, graphs, audio, etc.) from different sources. Responsibilities included management of GUI development (Motif, C++, Smalltalk), UI Design, and usability. Also responsible for on-schedule delivery of the display and manipulation subsystem for 3D models (through X, OpenGL, PEX, NURBS).
Professional
Technical
Experience
UC Irvine, 9/05 – present.
PhD Program in Informatics, dissertation topic on RFID and Privacy.
GAANN Fellowship Recipient: 9/06 - present.
UCI Chancellor's Fellowship: 9/05 - 9/08.

Georgia Tech, 9/98 – 12/02.
PhD Program in Computer Science, focusing on Human-Computer Interaction and Ubiquitous Computing.
NSF HCI Traineeship Recipient: 9/98 - 9/00.
No degrees conferred.

University of Michigan, 9/96 - 5/98.
Master's Degree in Computer Science, focusing on Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence.
Outstanding Teaching Award: '96-'97.

University of California, San Diego, 9/89 - 6/94.
Bachelor's Degrees in Cognitive Science and Computer Science.
Provost Honor's List: Winter '91, Spring '92, Fall '92, Fall '93, Winter ‘94.
Education
- Industrial and extensive academic knowledge of Human-Computer Interaction, User Centered Design, Usability, and Human Factors.
- Experience with using and deploying RFID technologies.
- Experience with database management and programming (Oracle, mySQL, JDBC, SQL).
- Experience with network programming.
- Experience with Palm programming and WindowsCE programming.
- Experience with GUI programming and development.
- Experience with 2D/3D graphics programming (OpenGL, Motif, Java2D, Tcl/Tk, and X).
- Experience with WWW/multimedia design and development.
- Proficient at object oriented analysis and design.
- Proficient with object oriented programming languages (C++, Java, Smalltalk, and CLOS) and procedural programming languages (C, LISP, Pascal, and Assembly).
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