Research

	My recent work is on building computer-based tools that support expert work—tasks that require expert knowledge and involve finding creative solutions to ill-structured problems, like design and writing. My doctoral dissertation presents and evaluates a set of design principles for building tools that support expert work. A shorter introduction to this work can be found in:   C. G. Jennings, A. E. Kirkpatrick, and P. Mohseni. Supporting expert work processes. In P. Barker and P. van Schaik, editors, Electronic Performance Support: Using Digital Technology to Enhance Human Ability, pages 249–262. Gower, 2010. One of the prototype systems built as part of this work is XDS, a tool that supports the design of ANOVA experiments. Some demonstration videos of XDS in use (QuickTime format):     Tour of the Interface (30.4 MB)     A Brief Exploration Session (17.8 MB)
	Another interest is developing better evaluation methods for broad-scoped research in human-computer interaction. This work draws on other domains for its inspiration, including legal practice, medicine, and philosophy. An introduction can be found in my doctoral dissertation.
	Besides human-computer interaction, I have also worked in stringology. For more information, see the Franek-Jennings-Smyth exact pattern matching algorithm.

Teaching

Computing Science 363 (User Interface Design)

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Click one of the following links if you are looking for... ...Strange Eons, a custom content design tool for board and card games ...checker, a validation tool for LibriVox volunteers ...a dosing tool recommended by the International Society of Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners

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The Computational Tickle Trunk... ...an introduction to Lindenmayer systems with an accompanying applet ...an applet demonstrating JPEG-89 compression, including the hierarchical variant ...precompiled binaries for the R math library ...and the rest of the Tickle Trunk

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Updated January 04, 2011