Eric M. Wilcox
2130 Wightman St. #23
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15217,
U.S.A.
eric.wilcox@cmu.edu
Objective
My goal is to become a member of a team working toward improving and expanding positive interaction between people and technology.Education
Masters of Science in Human Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University expected August 2000Experience
Dual degree: Bachelors of Science in both Mathematics and Computer Science from Oregon State University June 1996, GPA: 3.47/4.00
Bodymedia Inc., 4 Smithfield Street Suite 1200, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222, U.S.A.
Interaction Design - 01/00-present
- Develop and design interactive public service announcements
- Prototype interactive applets which allow users to manipulate personal health and fitness data
Essential Surfing Gear, Inc., 707 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15210, U.S.A.
Interface Design - 09/99-present
- Design user interface and interaction for esgear web companion applications and application space
- Develop a consistent design language that is easily conveyed to engineer and product management with special attention to corporate identity
- Visualize new partner applications and create use scenarios for use in client presentations
Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, U.S.A.
Research Assistant - 08/98-09/99
- Designed user interfaces and interaction for the CSpace collaborative working environment
- Implemented generalized software architectures with the goal of supporting a wide breadth of user interactions across many small collaborative applications
- Researched the affects of visual cues and annotations in file system usage
Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, U.S.A.
Research Internship - 06/98-08/98
- Improved performance of the FRAN (Functional Reactive Animations) programming language using profiling software (Haskell)
- Developed animations to be used as a benchmark when testing FRAN
Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland
Research Assistant - 10/97-06/98
- Designed and implemented a time and heap profiler for the Glasgow Haskell Compiler written in ANSI C and Haskell
- Contributed to a team building a generation garbage collection
- Wrote a user manual for a profiling system using SGML tools
- Ran and taught labs on how to program in Pascal to first year Electrical Engineering students
Timberline Software Corporation, 9600 SW Nimbus Avenue, Beaverton, Oregon 97008, U.S.A.
Quality Assessment Engineer - 06/96-08/97
- Developed end user and in-house utilities using Visual Basic 5.0 and Visual C++ 5.0
- Tested Windows based accounting software applications
- Taught classes to support personnel on how to use new products
Department of Computer Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, 97331, U.S.A.
Undergraduate Research Assistant - 01/95-06/96
- Designed and ran an empirical study on the effects of liveness when debugging in a direct- manipulation visual programming language
- Introduced direct manipulation graphical widgets to the visual programming language Forms/3
- Researched the effects of time based manipulations while debugging in Forms/3
Does Continuous Visual Feedback Aid Debugging in Direct-Manipulation Programming Systems?, E. M. Wilcox, J. W. Atwood, M. M. Burnett, J. J. Cadiz, C. R. Cook, ACM Proceedings CHI'97: Human Factors in Computing Systems, Atlanta, GA, Mar. 22-27, 1997.
Steering Programs via Time Travel, John Atwood, Margaret Burnett, Rebecca Walpole, Eric Wilcox, and Sherry Yang, 1996 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, Sept. 1996.