Parmit K. Chilana
http://students.washington.edu/pchilana/pchilana [at] uw.edu
Graduate Student
Information School
I am a PhD student in the Information School at the University of Washington, advised by Prof Andrew J. Ko and Prof Jacob O. Wobbrock . I was recently awarded Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Award.
My current research focus is on understanding and supporting user-developer communication and designing a web-based help tool that utilizes crowdsourced context. I will also be exploring techniques for capturing the large-scale help-request data and using it to support software maintenance decisions.
In other projects, I have investigated usability practices in complex domains and looked at the implications for training the next generation of usability professionals. I have also worked on a number of projects involving the design and evaluation of software in biomedicine.
I am currently a member of the AIM Research Group . Previously, I had research assistant positions with the Biomedical Informatics Core of the Institute of Translational Health Sciences and also with the Center for Public Health Informatics at the University of Washington.
My current research focus is on understanding and supporting user-developer communication and designing a web-based help tool that utilizes crowdsourced context. I will also be exploring techniques for capturing the large-scale help-request data and using it to support software maintenance decisions.
In other projects, I have investigated usability practices in complex domains and looked at the implications for training the next generation of usability professionals. I have also worked on a number of projects involving the design and evaluation of software in biomedicine.
I am currently a member of the AIM Research Group . Previously, I had research assistant positions with the Biomedical Informatics Core of the Institute of Translational Health Sciences and also with the Center for Public Health Informatics at the University of Washington.
Projects
Publications
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LemonAid: Selection-Based Crowdsourced Contextual Help for Web Applications Parmit K. Chilana, Andrew J. Ko and Jacob O. Wobbrock Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2012. Full Paper |
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How Power Users Help and Hinder Open Bug Reporting Andrew J. Ko and Parmit K. Chilana Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010. Full Paper (PDF) |
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Understanding Usability Practices in Complex Domains Parmit K. Chilana, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Andrew J. Ko Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010. Full Paper (PDF) |
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Designing for Discovery: Opening the Hood for Open-Source End User Tinkering Gifford K Cheung, Parmit K. Chilana, Shaun K. Kane and Braden Pellet Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009. Work in Progress (PDF) |
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Exploring the design of accessible goal crossing desktop widgets Eun Kyoung Choe, Kristen Shinohara, Parmit K. Chilana, Morgan Dixon and Jacob O. Wobbrock Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009. Work in Progress (PDF) |