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Associate Provost and AT&T Distinguished Professor of Computer Science

My research focuses on interactive systems, and especially (a) development methods for interfaces and their documentation and (b) models of conversation. The underlying question common to these areas is "What does it mean to interact?" With this knowledge, developers could build systems that are more intuitive, more useful, and safer, in domains ranging from consumer kiosks to modern aircraft.

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My research focuses on interactive systems, and especially (a) development methods for interfaces and their documentation and (b) models of conversation. The underlying question common to these areas is "What does it mean to interact?" With this knowledge, developers could build systems that are more intuitive, more useful, and safer, in domains ranging from consumer kiosks to modern aircraft.

Present	Associate Provost and AT&T Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso
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Toward a more accurate view of when and how people ...

Proceedings of SIGDOC 2007 (2007)

David G. Novick, Edith Elizalde and Nathaniel Bean

Based on 40 interviews and 11 on-site workplace observations of people using computer applications at work, we confirm that use ...

Usability inspection methods after 15 years of research and practice

Proceedings of SIGDOC 2007 (2007)

Tasha Hollingsed and David G. Novick

Usability inspection methods, such as heuristic evaluation, the cognitive walkthrough, formal usability inspections, and the pluralistic usability walkthrough, were introduced ...

A computational model of culture-specific conversational behavior

7th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA07) (2007)

Dusan Jan, David Herrera, Bilyana Martinovski, David G. Novick, et al.

This paper presents a model for simulating cultural differences in the conversational behavior of virtual agents. The model provides parameters ...

What users say they want in documentation

Proceedings of SIGDOC 2006 (2006)

David G. Novick and Karen Ward

While earlier work provided a partial view of users’ preferences about manuals, for most users in most work contexts the ...

Why don't people read the manual?

Proceedings of SIGDOC 2006 (2006)

David G. Novick and Karen Ward

Few users of computer applications seek help from the documentation. This paper reports the results of an empirical study of ...

Co-generation of text and graphics

Proceedings of SIGDOC 2005 (2005)

David G. Novick and Brian Lowe

content in documentation, it is possible to produce both text and graphics from a single common source. One approach to ...

Root causes of lost time and user stress in a ...

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech'2005 — Eurospeech), (2005)

Nigel Ward, Anais Rivera, Karen Ward and David G. Novick

As a priority-setting exercise, we compared interactions between users and a simple spoken dialog system to interactions between users and ...

Usability over time

Proceedings of SIGDOC 2005 (2005)

Valerie Mendoza and David G. Novick

Testing of usability could perhaps be more accurately described as testing of learnability. We know more about the problems of ...

Assessing Effectiveness of Personality Style in Documentation

Departmental Papers (CS) (2004)

Kenneth Sayles and David G. Novick

This paper extends previous work by other researchers that indicated that users of computers preferred a computer with a personality ...

Post-Training Support for Learning Technology

Departmental Papers (CS) (2004)

Sam Snoddy and David G. Novick

To examine the effects of post-training support, we studied the introduction of new gradebook software in a public high school. ...

An Interaction Initiative Model for Documentation

Departmental Papers (CS) (2003)

David G. Novick and Karen Ward

In this paper we propose a model of creation and use of documentation based on the concept of mixed-initiative interaction. ...

Hands-Free Documentation

Departmental Papers (CS) (2003)

Karen Ward and David G. Novick

In this paper, we introduce an analysis of the requirements and design choices for hands-free documentation. Hands-busy tasks such as ...

Extending Direct Manipulation in a Text Editor

Departmental Papers (CS) (2002)

David G. Novick, Francisco Romero, Edgar Rene Saenz and Armando Sandoval

This paper describes the implementation of a prototype text editor that incorporates conversation-like features through the direct-manipulation modality. In this ...

"Conversational" Dialogues in Direct-Manipulation Interfaces

Departmental Papers (CS) (2001)

David G. Novick

This paper reports ongoing research in extending direct-manipulation interfaces by incorporating, via the direct-manipulation modality itself, interaction techniques that add ...

Accounting for Domain Context in Evaluation

Departmental Papers (CS) (2001)

Meriem Chater and David G. Novick

Work is situated activity. Taking into account human factors in evaluation involves considering not only users but also their contexts ...

Users and Uses of Synchronous Business Communications Software

Departmental Papers (CS) (2001)

David G. Novick and Eleanor Wynn

To help designers and authors understand users' intentions and work practices for synchronous business communications in a systematic way, we ...