Contacts

shuangxu@yahoo.com
730 Claymont CT.
Algonquin, IL 60102
312.286.7822

Education

09/2000~08/2005
GPA: 4.0/4.0, Doctoral degree of Philosophy in Computer Science
School of Computer Science, Telecommunication and Information Systems, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Dissertation title: Development of Dual-modal Presentations of Textual Information.

09/1995~07/1998
GPA: 4.0/4.0, Master degree of Engineering
Computer Science Department, Nanjing University, China.
Major: Computer Science (Computer graphics and multimedia technology).

09/1991~07/1995
GPA: 4.0/4.0, Bachelor degree of Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, China.
Major: Industrial Design (Enrolled in an honored program with only top 2% students).

Experience

08/2005~Present
Senior Research Staff in Human Factors Engineering and Experience Design,
Experience Design and Prototyping Lab, Human Interaction Research Center
Motorola Labs, Schaumburg, IL.

09/2004~06/2005
Adjunct faculty, teaching HTML, DHTML/DOM, CSS, and JavaScript for web development.
School of Computer Science, Telecommunications, and Information Systems
DePaul University, Chicago, IL

09/2000~08/2005
Research and teaching assistant at DePaul University for the following courses:
- Web Applications Development with Scripting
- Advanced Scripting Technologies
- Design and Strategies for Internet Commerce
- E-Commerce Web Site Engineering
- Technical Fundamentals of Distributed Information Systems

06/2003~08/2003
Usability consultant/intern for the Portal Web Service Unit at the Office of Information System Technology, United Nations Development Programme, New York City. I participated in the Intranet prototype design and development, and was in charge of the usability evaluation of the portal web service during the transformation to PeopleSoft.

07/2002~08/2002
Intern at Absolute Solutions, building their database management web site from scratch with ASP.NET.

06/1998~08/2000
Working as a full-time senior engineer at Nanjing Cable TV Network. I was in charge of Web Site development and Usability Evaluation. I was also responsible for the maintenance of Local Area Network and the establishment of a 3D Animation and Nonlinear Editing System on SGI workstation.

04/1997~11/1997
Working as a part-time staff member for Alias | Wavefront authorized Training Center in Nanjing, China.

02/1995~06/1995
Working as a 3D animator in the National Key Lab of CAD & Computer Graphics at Zhejiang University, China.

Membership

Protptyping Skills

Research/Course projects (accomplished individually):
- Web site prototyping. <Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator>
- Internet Commerce web site. <ASP and JSP>
- Web site prototyping. <Microsoft FrontPage>
- Palm application development MoneyMeter, available at PalmGear.com. <Falch.NET>
- Implementation of Design Patterns in games. <Java Applet>
- Palm clipping development for the wireless web site of DePaul CTI appointment system. <ASP.NET and WCA Builder>
- Distributed Query Processing Strategy Implementation. <ASP>
- Online Enterprise Application Development. <Java Script>

Business projects:
01/1997~05/1998: OASYS StringPro V5.0 for Fujitsu Company. StringPro is an Art Font design system used in Windows.
09/1996~01/1997: TrueType Fonts Editor for Fujitsu Company. This Editor is used to modify or create a character on the base of a set of standard TrueType fonts. I developed the user interface with Visual C++.
09/1995~05/1996: the Chinese-Version of TeamWARE Imaging, a software offering the desktop management of file-folders and image-viewers.
01/1995~06/1995: the Corporate Identity System Design of Five-Continent Hotel in Hangzhou, China.
10/1994~12/1994: Running prizes in the International Industrial Design Competition with theme of "TOUCH".

Language

Publications

(2008). Development of a Dual-Modal Presentation of Texts for Small Screens. International Journal of Human Computer Interaction, 24(8), 1-18.
(2008). Understanding Users' Perception of Speech Recognition Errors in Mobile Communication. To appear in the International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation.
(2008). Development of a dual-modal information presentation of sequential relationship. To appear in the International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation.
(2007). An Empirical Study on Users' Acceptance of Speech Recognition Errors in Text-messaging. J. Jacko (Ed.): Human-Computer Interaction, Part III, HCII 2007, LNCS 4552, 232-242. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. (Presenter)
(2007). User Expectations from Dictation on Mobile Devices. J. Jacko (Ed.): Human-Computer Interaction, Part II, HCII 2007, LNCS 4551, 217-225. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
(2006). A Dual-Modal Presentation of Sequential Relationships in Texts. In R. N. Pikaar, E. A. P. Koningsveld, and P. J. M. Settels (Eds), In Proceedings of the 16th World Congress on Ergonomics (IEA 2006) (ISBN: 0003-6870). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Ltd.
(2005). A Study of the Feasibility and Effectiveness of Dual-Modal Information Presentations. International Journal of Human Computer Interaction, 20(1), 3-17.
(2005). Moderating Effects of Task Type on Wireless Technology Acceptance. Journal of Management Information Systems, Winter 2005-6, 22(3), 125-160.
(2005). A Dual-Modal Presentation of Network Relationships in Texts. In Proceedings of the 11th Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2348-2356. (Best Paper Award, Presenter)
(2005). Development of Dual-modal Presentations of Textual Information. In Proceedings of the 11th Americas Conference on Information Systems, 3618.
(2005). Dual-Modal Presentation of Hierarchical Relationships in Texts. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2005 (Volume 5: Emergent Application Domains in HCI). Mahwah, NJ: LEA. CD-ROM, ISBN: 0-8058-5807-5. (Presenter)
(2004). Dual-Modal Presentation of Sequential Information. In Proceedings of the 3rd SIGHCI in MIS Research Workshop, 95-99.
(2004). User-centered guidelines for design of mobile applications. In Jian Chen (Ed.), Proceedings of ICEB 2004, 853-857. International Academic Publishers/World Publishing Corporation. Beijing: P. R. China.
(2004). A Visual-Auditory Presentation Model for Sequential Textual Information. In Proceedings of DePaul University School of CTI Research Symposium, 45-54.
(2004). A dual-modal information presentation for mobile applications. In H.M. Khalid, M.G. Helander, A.W. Yeo (Eds.), Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Work With Computing Systems, 415-418.
(2004). An empirical study of dual-modal information presentation. In Proceedings of the 10th Americas Conference on Information Systems, 3149-3156.
(2003). Investigation of Dual-Modal Information Presentation. In Proceedings of DePaul University School of CTI Research Symposium, 75-83.
(2003). A study of task characteristics and user intention to use handheld devices for mobile commerce. In Proceedings of the 2nd HCI in MIS Research Workshop, 90-94. (*Nominated for Best Paper)
(2003). What Tasks are Suitable for Handheld Devices? In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Theory and Practice, 2, 333-337.
(2003). Towards natural language-based interface to appointment making system for mobile devices. In Proceedings of IADIS e-Society 2003 Conference. International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), Lisbon, Portugal, 769-772.
(2002). Usability for Mobile Commerce across Multiple Form Factors. Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, 3(3), 187-199.
(2002). A Direct Method for Positioning the Arms of a Human Model. In Proceedings of the Graphic Interfaces, 99-106.
(2001). Form Factors Analysis on Wireless Web Sites. In Proceedings of DePaul University School of CTI Research Symposium, 51-59.
(2001). Design for Better Information Searching. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 848-852.
(1998). The Design and Implementation of a Multi-functioned Art Font Designing System. Master¡¯s Thesis. (in Chinese)
(1997). A Shading Algorithm of 3D Objects, Microcomputer. vol.17, 1997. (in Chinese)
(1995). An Analysis of the Current CIS Market in China. Bachelor¡¯s Thesis. (in Chinese)

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