Professional Activities

Affiliations: Past/Present

  1. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)

  2. American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

  3. Association for Computing Machinery(ACM)

  4. Cognitive Science Society

  5. Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

  6. Kerala Academy of Sciences

Boards/Committees

  1. Advisory Board Member, Studies in the Theory and Applications of Diagrams, A Book Series of CSLI Publications, Stanford University, Since 2006.

  2. Member of the International Steering Committee, Biennial Conferences on the Theory and Applications of Diagrams, 2002-2008.

  3. Advisory Board Member, NSF IERI Award "CoMPASS: Integrating digital text in design-based science classes", PI: Dr. Sadhana Puntambekar, Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sept. 2004 - August 2009.

  4. Advisory Board Member, NSF CAREER Award "Designing hypertext systems for the science classroom: Understanding students' changing cognitive representations", PI: Dr. Sadhana Puntambekar, Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 2000 - March 2004.

  5. International Advisory Board Member, Biennial International Conferences on Design Computing and Cognition, MIT, July 2004.

  6. Invited Member, Specialist Group, Synthesis project on animated graphics and their effects in multimedia learning technology, Technologies and Learning Thematic, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Project Action Concertee Incitative: Ecole et Sciences Cognitive, Universite de Bourgogne, France, January-December 2003.

  7. International Advisory Board Member, Biennial International Conferences on Artificial Intelligence in Design, Cambridge University, UK, July 2002; Worcester, MA, June 2000; Lisbon, Portugal, August 1998; Palo Alto, USA, August 1996; Lausanne, Switzerland, August 1994; Pittsburgh, USA, June 1992.

Chair

  1. Chair & Discussant, Session on Psychological Issues in Comprehension, Production and Communication, Diagrams 2006: Fourth International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Diagrams, Stanford University, CA, June 2006.

  2. Session Co-Chair, Breakout Session on Computer & Information Science & Engineering Directorate, National Science Foundation Education & Human Resources Directorate Division of Research, Evaluation & Communication Principal Investigator Meeting, Washington DC, December 2005.

  3. General Chair, Diagrams 2002: The Second International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Diagrams, Callaway Gardens, GA, April 2002.

  4. Chair, Session on Pupillary Response and Hand-Eye Coordination, First ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, November 2000.

  5. Chair, Hyped-Media to Hyper-Media: Toward Theoretical Foundations of Design, Use and Evaluation, A workshop in conjunction with CHI'98, Los Angeles, CA, April 1998.

  6. Chair, Panel on Diagrammatic Reasoning and Human-Computer Interaction, AAAI Fall Symposium on Reasoning with Diagrammatic Representations, MIT, Boston, November 1997.

  7. Co-Chair, Workshop on Visual Representation, Reasoning and Interaction in Design, Fourth International Conference on AI in Design, Stanford, CA, August 1996.

  8. Co-Chair, Symposium on Anchors, Cases, Problems, and Scenarios as Contexts for Learning: Issues in Cognition and Technology, The Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Pittsburgh, PA, July 1995.

  9. Chair, Symposium on Visual Reasoning in Discovery, Instruction and Problem Solving, The Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Atlanta, GA, August 1994.

Consultancy

  1. Consultant, NSF CAREER Award "Representational tools to support understanding of complex biological systems" PI: Dr. Cindy Hmelo-Silver, School of Education, Rutgers University, May 2002 - April 2007.

Editor

  1. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2001-present.

  2. Co-Guest Editor, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Special Issue on Interactive Graphical Communication, volume 57, number 4, October 2002.

  3. Editor, Electronic Proceedings of the CHI'98 Workshop: Hyped-Media to Hyper-Media: Toward Theoretical Foundations of Design, Use and Evaluation, Los Angeles, CA, April 1998.

  4. Guest Editor, Computational Intelligence Journal, Special issue on Computational Imagery, volume 9, number 4, 1993.

  5. Editor, Reasoning with Diagrammatic Representations, Proceedings of the 1992 AAAI Spring Symposium on Reasoning with Diagrammatic Representations, Published as Technical Report No. SS-92-02, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA.

Invited Activities

  1. Invited to present a lecture on Telematics and Human-Computer Interaction research at the Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute of Korea in 2006.

  2. Invited to present a keynote address on interactive multimedia design research at the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction Special Interest Group Meeting on Multimedia Comprehension in France in 2002.

  3. Invited to present a lecture on interactive multimedia design research at the 2002 Spring Seminar Series, of the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D. C. in 2002.

  4. Invited to present a lecture on the role of eye movements in Human-Computer Interaction research at the International Center for Biocybernetics, Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences in 2000.

  5. Invited to present a lecture on algorithm visualization research at the Cognitive Science Colloquia, University of California at Santa Barbara in 1999.

  6. Invited to present lecture on diagrammatic reasoning during the plenary session of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposia Series at MIT, Boston in 1997.

  7. Invited to be a faculty of the Third International Summer School in Cognitive Science, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria in 1996.

  8. Invited to present a lecture on multimedia comprehension research at the Office of Naval Research Workshop on Issues in Interactive Multi-media in New Mexico in 1996.

  9. Invited to participate in the National Science Foundation Strategic Planning Workshop on Setting a Computer Science Research Agenda in Educational Technology in Washington D. C. in 1995.

  10. Invited to present a lecture on interactive systems for middle school science education at the Homi Bhabha Center for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India in 1995.

  11. Invited to present a lecture on multimedia comprehension research at the Cognitive Science Colloquia, Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994.

  12. Invited to present a lecture on visual reasoning by humans and computers at the Departmental Colloquia, Department of Information Science, Kyoto University, Japan in 1992.

Organizer

  1. Hyped-Media to Hyper-Media: Toward Theoretical Foundations of Design, Use and Evaluation, A workshop organized in conjunction with CHI'98, Los Angeles, CA, April 1998.

  2. Panel on Diagrammatic Reasoning and Human-Computer Interaction, AAAI Fall Symposium on Reasoning with Diagrammatic Representations, MIT, Boston, November 1997.

  3. Symposium on Anchors, Cases, Problems, and Scenarios as Contexts for Learning: Issues in Cognition and Technology, The Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Pittsburgh, PA, July 1995.

  4. Symposium on Visual Reasoning in Discovery, Instruction and Problem Solving, The Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Atlanta, GA, August 1994.

  5. Spring Symposium on Reasoning with Diagrammatic Representations, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University, CA, March 1992.

Program Committee Member

  1. Multiple Modes of Learning Science: Enhancing Hands-on Investigations with Text, Computer Simulations and Animations Workshop at The Eighth International Conference for the Learning Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands, June 2008.

  2. 4th International ACM Symposium on Software Visualization (ACM SoftVis'08), Munich, Germany, September 2008.

  3. Diagrams - International Conferences on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, Munich, Germany, September 2008, Stanford University, USA, June 2006, Cambridge University, UK, March 2004; Callaway Gardens, USA, April 2002; Edinburgh University, UK, September 2000.

  4. The Third International Computing Education Research Workshop, September 2007, Atlanta, GA.

  5. Constructing and understanding visuo-spatial representations in design thinking, A Design Computing and Cognition 2006 Workshop, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May 2006.

  6. International Conferences on Visual and Spatial Reasoning in Design: Computational and Cognitive Approaches, MIT, Boston, July 2004, Bellagio, Italy, July 2001; MIT, Boston, June 1999.

  7. ACM Symposia on Eye Tracking Research & Applications, San Antonio, TX, March 2004; New Orleans, LA, March 2002; Palm Beach Gardens, FL, November 2000.

  8. The 15th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Computer Society, November 2003, Sacramento, CA.

  9. IGC2003: Second Workshop on Interactive Graphical Communication, University of London, August 2003, London.

  10. IADIS International Conference: e-Society 2003, International Association for Development of the Information Society, June 2003, Lisbon, Portugal.

  11. Second IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2002), September 2002, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia.

  12. First European Workshop on "Diagrammatics and Design" (D&D 2002), September 2002, Bielsko-Biala, Poland.

  13. COSIT'01: Conference on Spatial Information Theory, Morro Bay, CA, September, 2001.

  14. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Vegas, NV, June 2000.

  15. IFIP 13.2 Working Conference on Designing Effective and Usable Multimedia Systems, Stuttgart, Germany, September, 1998.

  16. Mind III: The Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society of Ireland, Dublin City University, Ireland, August 1998.

  17. Workshop on Graphical Reasoning in Expert Systems, 4th World Congress on Expert Systems, Mexico City, Mexico, March 1998.

  18. Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning, Toronto, Canada, December 1997.

  19. Reasoning with Diagrammatic Representations II, AAAI Fall Symposium Series, MIT, Boston, October 1997.

  20. International Working Conference on Integration of Enterprise Information and Processes: Rethinking Documents, MIT, Boston, November 1996.

  21. Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-96), Portland, OR, July 1996.

  22. Workshop on the Theory of Visual Languages, Advanced Visual Interfaces Conference (AVI'96), Gubbio, Italy, May 1996.

  23. Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Interaction: Representation and Reasoning, International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision, Singapore, November 1994.

  24. Workshop on Reasoning with Shapes in Design, Third International Conference on AI in Design, Lausanne, Sw tzerland, August 1994.

Reviewer

Books:

  1. The Digital Information Age by Roman Kuc, Reviewed for The PWS Publishing Company, Boston, MA, 1998.
  2. Human Computer Interaction: Designing Effective Organizational Information Syst ems by Dov Te'eni and Jane Carey, Reviewed for Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

Research Proposals:

  1. National Science Foundation Advanced Learning Technologies, 2008.
  2. National Science Foundation Computer & Network Systems Division, Division of Research on Learning, 2008.
  3. National Science Foundation, Partnerships for International Research and Education, 2007.
  4. National Science Foundation, CAREER Program, 2004, 2007.
  5. National Science Foundation, Research on Learning and Education Program, 2004.
  6. National Science Foundation, Research on Learning and Education Program, 2001.
  7. National Science Foundation, Small Business Innovative Research Program, 1999.
  8. National Science Foundation, Research, Evaluation, Policy & Practices Program, 1999.
  9. National Science Foundation, Knowledge & Distributed Intelligence Program, 1999, 1998.

Journal Manuscripts:

  1. ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction
  2. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
  3. Artificial Intelligence Journal
  4. ASME Transactions, Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering
  5. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers
  6. Computational Intelligence
  7. Computers and Education
  8. IEEE Intelligent Systems & Applications
  9. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
  10. Informatica
  11. Instructional Science
  12. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
  13. Journal of Engineering Education
  14. Journal of the Learning Sciences
  15. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
  16. Machine Graphics and Vision
  17. Spatial Cognition and Computation
  18. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Conference Papers:

  1. The 46th Annual ACM Southeast Conference, March 2008.
  2. International Conferences on Theory and Application of Diagrams, June 2006, March 2004, April 2002, September 2000.
  3. Workshop on constructing and understanding visuo-spatial representations in design thinking, Design Computing and Cognition Conference, May 2006.
  4. ACM Conferences on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 2005, April 2004, April 2002, April 2001, April 2000, May 1999, April 1998.
  5. HCI 2004: British Human-Computer Interaction Group Annual Conference, September 2004.
  6. Annual Conferences of the Cognitive Science Society, August 2004, August 2003, August 2001, August 1999, August 1997, July 1995.
  7. DCC'04: First International conference on Design Computing and Cognition, July 2004.
  8. ACM Symposia on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, March 2004, March 2002, November 2000.
  9. IADIS International Conference: e-Society 2003, June 2003.
  10. ACM Southeast Conferences, March 2003, April 2001, April 2000, April 1998.
  11. Second IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2002), September 2002.
  12. First European Workshop on "Diagrammatics and Design" (D&D 2002), September 2002.
  13. International Conferences on Artificial Intelligence in Design, July 2002, August 2000, August 1998, August 1996, August 1994, August 1992.
  14. 13th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, September 2001.
  15. IHM-HCI 2001: Conference of the Association Francophone d'Interaction Homme-Machine and the British Human-Computer Interaction Group, September 2001.
  16. COSIT'01: Conference on Spatial Information Theory, Morro Bay, CA, September 2001.
  17. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, August 2001, August 1995.
  18. International Conferences on Visual and Spatial Reasoning in Design: Computational and Cognitive Approaches, July 2001, June 1999.
  19. ACM Symposia on Applied Computing, February 2001, February 1999, February 1998.
  20. International Conferences of the Learning Sciences, June 2000, July 1996.
  21. IEEE International Symposium on Visual Languages, September 1999.
  22. AAAI Fall Symposium on Formalizing Reasoning with Visual and Diagrammatic Representations, October 1998.
  23. International Federation of Information Processing Societies (IFIP) 13.2 Working Conference on Designing Effective and Usable Multimedia Systems, September 1998.
  24. Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, September 1998.
  25. Mind III: The Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society of Ireland, August 1998.
  26. National Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), July 1998, July 1996, July 1995.
  27. Eleventh International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems, June 1998.
  28. Ninth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, June 1998.
  29. Workshop on Graphical Reasoning in Expert Systems, Fourth World Congress on Expert Systems, March 1998.
  30. ACM Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning, December 1997.
  31. AAAI Fall Symposium on Reasoning with Diagrammatic Representations II, November 1997.
  32. International Working Conference on Integration of Enterprise Information and Processes: Rethinking Documents, November 1996.
  33. Workshop on Visual Representation, Reasoning and Interaction in Design, Fourth International Conference on AI in Design, August 1996.
  34. Workshop on the Theory of Visual Languages, Advanced Visual Interfaces Conference (AVI'96), May 1996.
  35. Workshop on Reasoning with Shapes in Design, Third International Conference on AI in Design, August 1994.
  36. First AAAI Spring Symposium on Reasoning with Diagrammatic Representations, March 1992. 





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