Research

In connection with the many digital library projects at Virginia Tech there are numerous research investigations underway.

• Algorithms:
  • FAST-INV
  • MPHF (with Heath, Chen, Daoud)
  • Fusion / combining evidence (with Shaw)
  • Sort-trees: rapid browsing, range searching, successive selections (with Wake)
  • Automatic link identification: cluster coefficient seed selection, fast clustering, analysis of various sizes of document components. (with Subhas)
• Data/information Collections:
  • Lexicon from CED (with France)
  • TULIP (with Dougherty, Gibb, Litchfield)
  • CS TRs (with NCSTRL Working Group)
  • ETDs (with Eaton, McMillan)
  • CS literature (with Heath, Hix, Brueni, Nowell, Wake)
  • http://ei.cs.vt.edu/courses.html - CS courseware involving 1/2 of CS faculty
• HCI:
  • Center for Human-Computer Interaction, Laboratories of NSF-funded RI project
  • Envision interface:
    (with Heath, Hix, Nowell)
    • ENVISION Query Window
    • ENVISION Graphic View Window
  • VR and presence
  • Video conferencing and task requirements (e.g., fps needed for a given task)
  • Remote usability (Hartson)
  • Usability methods research (Williges, Hix, Hartson)
  • Design, design history (with Carroll, Rosson, Schmidt, Kipp)
  • Collaboration, interactive learning, peer review (Carroll, Rosson, Shaffer)
  • Ethnographic studies of the development of networked information systems and courseware (Laughton)
• Services and Tools:
  • Log analyzers, translators, Chitra (with Abrams, Abdulla, Williams)
  • Simulation of caching
  • Institution-wide model of information systems and educational technologies
  • GeoSim, SAIL, SWAN (Shaffer, Heath)
  • sift-tcl, sift-mail (Lundblade)
  • MARIAN (with France, Cline)
  • DELTO (Averboch, Heath)
  • Object-database, Python front-end (Drake)
  • Support for instructors to prepare innovative, effective network-delivered learning materials