Brian Ferris
http://gplus.to/bdferrisbdferris [at] gmail.com
Alumni
Computer Science & Engineering
@bwferris
I am an engineer at Google, working on Google Transit.
I received my PhD from the Computer Science & Engineeringin 2011, under the watchful eyes of my advisors Prof. Alan Borning and Prof. Dieter Fox. My dissertation, "OneBusAway: Improving the usability of public transit", combined elements of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) with the goal of helping transit riders.
I am also the lead developer for http://onebusaway.org, a site that aims to improve the usability of public transit in the Puget Sound region and beyond.
Projects
Publications
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OneBusAway: Improving the Usability of Public Transit Brian Ferris UW, 2011. Ph.D. Dissertation (PDF) |
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OneBusAway: Results from Providing Real-Time Arrival Information for Public Transit. Brian Ferris, Kari Watkins and Alan Borning Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010. Full Paper (PDF) 
Best Paper Nominee
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OneBusAway: Location-Aware Tools for Improving Public Transit Usability Brian Ferris, Kari Watkins and Alan Borning IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2010. Article (PDF) |