Parmit Chilana

pchilana [at] u.washington.edu
Graduate Student
Information School
I am a PhD student in the Information School at the University of Washington, advised by Prof Jacob O. Wobbrock and Prof Andrew J. Ko . My main research interest is in investigating ways to make usability evaluation and software development practices more efficient in expert domains, such as bioinformatics. I am currently a member of the AIM Research Group and working as a research assistant with the Biomedical Informatics Core of the Institute of Translational Health Sciences . My previous RA position was with the Center for Public Health Informatics.

Projects


Publications

Designing for Discovery: Opening the Hood for Open-Source End User Tinkering
Gifford K Cheung, Parmit Chilana, Shaun K. Kane and Braden Pellet
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009. Work in Progress (PDF)
Exploring the design of accessible goal crossing desktop widgets Exploring the design of accessible goal crossing desktop widgets
Eun Kyoung Choe, Kristen Shinohara, Parmit Chilana, Morgan Dixon and Jacob O. Wobbrock
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009. Work in Progress (PDF)