Alex was a Ph.D. student in the College of Computing,
Georgia Institute of Technology.
His past projects included:
Research Publications
- Dissertation
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Zhao, Q. Alex. Opportunistic Interfaces for Promoting Community
Awareness. Ph.D. thesis, College of Computing, Georgia
Institute of Technology, August 2001. (Download: 13M PDF file)
- Conference Paper
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Zhao, Q. Alex and Stasko, John T. What's Happening?: Promoting
Community Awareness through Opportunistic, Peripheral Interfaces. In
Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI
2002), Trento, Italy, May 2002, pp. 69-74.
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Zhao, Q. Alex and Stasko, John T.
What's Happening? The Community Awareness Application.
In CHI 2000
Extended Abstracts, 253-254.
ACM, 2000.
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McCrickard, D. Scott and Zhao, Q. Alex.
Supporting Information Awareness Using Animated Widgets.
In the 7th USENIX Tcl/Tk Conference Proceedings, 117-127.
USENIX, 2000. Awarded ``Best Student Paper''.
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Zhao, Q. Alex and Stasko, John T.
Evaluating Image Filtering Based Techniques in Media Space Applications.
In CSCW'98
Conference Proceedings, 11-18.
ACM, 1998.
- Conference Poster
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Zhao, Q. Alex, and McCrickard, D. Scott.
Designing Information Awareness Applications in Tcl/Tk.
In the 7th USENIX Tcl/Tk
Conference On-line Proceedings.
USENIX, 2000. Awarded ``Best Poster''.
- Technical Reports
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McCrickard, D. Scott, Stasko, John T., and Zhao, Q. Alex.
Exploring Animation as a Presentation Technique for Dynamic Information Sources.
Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center, Georgia Institute
of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Technical Report GIT-GVU-99-47,
December 1999.
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Zhao, Q. Alex and Stasko, John T.
The Awareness-Privacy Tradeoff in Video Supported Informal Awareness: A Study of Image-Filtering Based Techniques.
Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center, Georgia Institute
of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Technical Report GIT-GVU-98-16,
June 1998.
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Zhao, Q. Alex and Stasko, John T.
Visualizing the Execution of Threads-based Parallel Programs.
Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center, Georgia Institute
of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Technical Report GIT-GVU-95-01,
January 1995.
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Zhao, Q. Alex.
SRWin: A Graphics Library for SR.
Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ,
TR93-14, May 1993.
Miscellaneous
- His teaching assistant career included
CS 4470 Fall '00,
CS 4750 Summer '00,
CS 7260 Spring '00,
CS 6751 Summer '99,
CS 1155 Spring '99 (Section B),
CS 6751 Winter '99 (Section B),
CS 6751 Fall '98,
CS 2390 Summer '97,
CS 4391 Spring '97,
CS 4753 Winter '97,
CS 4753 Fall '96 and
CS 4753 Spring '95.
- At one time, he was also a GVU lab assistant.
- He volunteered at
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- Various
personal and hobby
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