Andrew Miller, Human-Centered Computing PhD student

PhD Student, Human-Centered Computing, Georgia Tech
Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Research field: Computer and Information Science - Human-Computer Interaction
Human-Centered Computing

Publications

Conference Proceedings (2)
- Lena Mamykina, A.D. Miller, Elizabeth D. Mynatt et al. (2010) Constructing Identities through Storytelling in Diabetes Management, 1-10. In Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '10.
- A.D. Miller, W.K. Edwards (2007) Give and Take: A Study of Consumer Photo-Sharing Culture and Practice, 356. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems.
  http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id...
Generic (2)
- Elsa Eiriksdottir, Dan Kestranek, Andrew D Miller et al. (2010) Stepping Outside the Classroom: Fitness Video Games For K-12 Settings.
- Yevgeniy Medynskiy, Andrew D Miller, Jae Wook Yoo et al. (2009) Temporal Data in a Health Self- Management Application, 1-7.

Awards and Grants

Jul 2009

GTRI Shackleford Research Fellow View website
May 2009

GT College of Computing Graduate Research Award

Biographical Information

With my advisor, Professor Elizabeth Mynatt, I'm researching ways that social computing technologies can affect everyday health behaviors. I'm particularly interested in understanding the interplay between people's social sense of self and their identities as healthy and active individuals, and I hope to gain insight into the ways computing technologies can mediate and influence behavior change with respect to everyday health and wellness.

As an HCI Masters student at Georgia Tech, I learned about usability, prototyping and testing, and sociological user research methodologies. For my masters project, I examined a community of photography enthusiasts centered around Flickr.com, and contrasted their behaviors and stated motivations with a similar number of more traditional home photographers. This research became a full paper entitled "Give and Take: a study of photo sharing theory and practice” which I presented at the 2007 Computer-Human Interaction conference.

At Occidental, I majored in Cognitive Science with an emphasis in Philosophy. I also minored in music, playing cello in chamber ensembles and the college symphony, and singing in the Glee Club. I became interested in HCI when writing my Senior Comprehensive "The Beige Black Box: Belief and Desire in Human-Computer Interaction."

At Schematic, I designed high-profile projects on a variety of platforms. I worked with clients, visual designers, client-side and server-side developers to create compelling experiences. Sample projects include a Windows Media Center application for Nickelodeon, a web-based content management system for Sesame Workshop, and a mobile social network for Nokia. I created personas, storyboards, wireframes, and functional specs. I also helped scope projects and worked on proposals. I created and tested paper-based prototypes, and worked closely with user researchers to run and evaluate usability tests.

At Bellsouth, I conducted usability studies, created prototypes, and performed heuristic evaluations on a variety of telephony projects, including Voice Over IP, home networking and service center support software. I also prepared presentations and analyzed results.