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Dr. Ogden is a Cognitive Psychologist who has
been involved in the study of human computer interaction since 1981. As a human factors
specialist, he has been involved in all aspects of software interface development,
including design, evaluation, prototyping and implementation. As a Project Manager at CRL, Dr. Ogden has successfully applied principles of user
participatory design to the development and implementation of many software interfaces,
including Cibola, a translator
support system incorporating state-of-the-art linguistic tools. He also designed and
developed a suite of tools extensively used by government analysts in ARPA's TIPSTER text
extraction project. He is the author of a GUI builder software package, Tabula Rasa, for
text extraction applications. |
Education: |
Education:
Ph.D Engineering Psychology, New Mexico State
University, 1981 .
M.A. Experimental Psychology, New Mexico State University, 1977.
B.S. Psychology (with Honors), University of Oregon, 1975.
Research Interests &
Background:
Working at IBM, he was involved in the development of user interface
guidelines and style guides, conducting IBM seminars related to these issues. He was
primarily involved in the design and evaluation of database query interfaces, conducting
research evaluating natural language interfaces which led to the publication of a number
of articles on this issue. He designed, prototyped, and tested a database interface that
became part of IBM's OS/2 software environment.
Recent Publications:
Ogden, William and Philip Bernick. "Oleada: User-Centered Tipster
Technology for Language Instruction." In Proceedings of the Tipster Phase II 24
Month Workshop. Tysons Corner, VA, May 6-8, 1996.
Ogden, William and Philip Bernick. "Using Natural Language Interfaces"
in Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction M. Helander (ed.), Elsevier Science Publishers
B.V. (North-Holland), 1996.
Current Projects:
Currently Dr.Ogden is managing the Oleada project, a networked
integrated multilingual text processing system with flexible tools designed for language
analysis and instruction. Currently this system is being used in government language
schools and universities to increase the quality of foreign language instruction. He
continues to teach the art of user interface design to undergraduate and graduate students
at New Mexico State University. [CS485]