Matt Bonner
matt dot bonner at gatech.edu --- 248.736.5766
Research Interests: Collaborative Computing, Healthcare, Participatory Design, User Studies,
Fieldwork, Nontraditional Users
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
PhD student, Human-Centered Computing
Advisor: Elizabeth Mynatt
Aug 2008 - present
GPA: 4.0/4.0
University of Michigan
B.S. Computer Science
Aug 2004 - Apr 2008
GPA: 3.6/4.0
Publications
Bonner, M., Wang, L., Mynatt, E. (2012). Activity-Based Interaction: Designing with Child Life Specialists in a Children’s Hospital. In Proceedings of the thirtieth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI ’12. Austin, TX. (in press).
Bonner, M., Brudvik, J., Abowd, G., Edwards, K. (2010). No-Look Notes: Accessible Eyes-Free Multi-touch Text Entry. In Proceedings of the eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing. Helsinki, Finland.
Kim, T., Jeong, H., Chew, Y., Bonner, M., Stasko, J. Social Visualization for Micro-Blogging Analysis. (2009). Poster at VisWeek 2009. Atlantic City, NJ, USA. (pdf)
Shi, X., Bonner, M., Adamic, L. A., & Gilbert, A. C. (2008). The very small world of the well-connected. In Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia (pp. 61-70). Pittsburgh, PA, USA: ACM. (Best Paper Award) (pdf)
Work Experience
Virtual Worlds Intern
Sun Microsystems - Sun Labs (Santa Clara, CA)
May 2009 - Aug 2009
Intern on Wonderland team, a Java-based 3D open-source virtual world. Developed “metadata” module with an LDAP database for tagging in-world objects and a dependent “annotations” module. Team-wide “week of code” to create a “3D timeline” demonstrating Wonderland’s features.
Website Design and Development
University of Michigan - Center for Sustainable Systems (Ann Arbor, MI)
Jan 2008 - Aug 2008
Designed and implemented a complete new website for the Center for Sustainable Systems. Extensive documentation and browser-compatibility work. Drupal Content Mangement System.
Website Development and Maintenance
Aug 2006 - Sep 2006
University of Michigan - Computer Aided Engineering Network (Ann Arbor, MI)
Worked on Web Team to develop and manage UMich College of Engineering website. Site development and maintenance, respond to client feedback. Zope Content Management System.
Technical Skills
Languages:C, C++, CSS, HTML, Java, Javascript, Objective-C, Python
Libraries/Tools:iOS, Java Swing, JQuery, Drupal, Flex, Photoshop, Subversion, XCode
Fieldwork:Focus groups, shadowing, surveys, user evaluations, interviewing, participatory design