Dennis Groth Associate Professor of Informatics Email:    dgroth@indiana.edu Phone:    (812) 855-5886 Office:    Informatics East 216 Mail:    919 E. 10th St. Bloomington, IN 47408 While this page describes the graduate students that I have worked with, I have overseen more than 600 undergraduate students working on 200 capstone projects in the last 9 years.  For a complete listing of undergraduate capstone project descriptions see the Undergraduate Capstone website. Master's Degree Students   2004 - Sean Ellis Christie Flynn Megan Lewis Paul White 2005 - Vasudha Chandrasekaran Ben Murphy Current - Jackie Bauer Amanda Stephano  Student Details Sean Ellis (2004) Sean's capstone project studied annotation capabilities of tablet PC's for dynamic visualizations.  Sean is currently employed at XPert Solutions as the Director of Technology. Awards: Informatics Outstanding Associate Instructor (2003) Informatics Outstanding Research (2004) IU Making IT Happen (2004) Publications: Sean E. Ellis and Dennis P. Groth: A Collaborative Annotation System for Data Visualization, ACM Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, Gallipoli, Italy, May, 2004. Christie Flynn (2004) Christie's capstone project involved interfaces for web searching and query similarity metrics so that users could see when their searches were similar to other searches they had performed.  Christie is currently employed at Intel as an interaction designer. Megan Lewis (2004) Megan's capstone project studied copyright and fair-use issues for digital products.  Megan is currently completing her law degree at Indiana University School of Law. Awards: Informatics Outstanding Research (2004) Paul White (2004) Paul's capstone project involved digital preservation of biological species information, as well as visual map-based interfaces for browsing.  Paul is currently employed as an IT specialist with IU. Vasudha Chandrasekaran (2005) Vasudha's capstone project studied how tablet PC technology might be employed for middle school student science field trips.  Vasudha is currently employed at Microsoft Corporation in the Windows User Experience Group. Awards: IU Making IT Happen (2005) Publications: Vasudha Chandrasekaran, Dennis P. Groth and Yvonne Rogers: INFUSE - An Inquiry-based Field Learning Framework, Interface Design and Children, Boulder, CO, June, 2005. Ben Murphy (2005) Ben's project studied internet browser history could be visually represented, annotated and shared.  A prototype browser is available for download. Vasudha is currently employed at Abelson-Taylor in Chicago as an interaction designer. Awards: IU Making IT Happen (2005) Publications: Benjamin W. Murphy and Dennis P. Groth: Augmenting Internet Browser History with Contextual Visual Representations, HCI International Conference, Las Vegas, NV, July, 2005. Dennis P. Groth and Benjamin W. Murphy: Tracking User Interactions Within Visualizations, IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, Austin, Texas, October, 2004. Jackie Bauer (Current) Amanda Stephano (Current)