Qiang Alex Zhao

Qiang Alex Zhao

Ph.D.
College of Computing

Alex was a Ph.D. student in the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. His past projects included:

Opportunistic interfaces for promoting community awareness and communication.
Video-based informal group awareness.
Agentk.
System monitoring for Solaris NEO.
3D visualizations for distributed systems.
Program Animation Designer for Parade - EditAnim.
KSR Pthread Visualization Package - Gthread.

Research Publications

Dissertation
- 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
- 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.
- Zhao, Q. Alex and Stasko, John T. What's Happening? The Community Awareness Application. In CHI 2000 Extended Abstracts, 253-254. ACM, 2000.
- 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''.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Zhao, Q. Alex. SRWin: A Graphics Library for SR. Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, TR93-14, May 1993.