Curriculum Vitæ - Mark Chignell

I. Academic History

II. Scholarly and Professional Work

III. Teaching

Courses Taught

University of Southern California

• Work Analysis and Design (Undergraduate), 1984-1988.
• Human Factors (Undergraduate), 1987-1988.
• Human Factors in Engineering (Graduate), 1984-1986.
• Human Factors in Engineering Design (Graduate), 1985-1987.
• Expert Systems (Graduate course taught for the computer science department - televised), 1989-1990.
• New Course - Cognitive Engineering (Graduate), 1987-1989.
• New Course - Intelligent Interfaces (Graduate), 1985-1990.

University of Toronto

• Design Methodologies in Industrial Engineering (Undergraduate), 1991, 1993
• Human Factors in Workplace Design (Undergraduate), 1990 - present
• Information Display Systems (Undergraduate), 1992
• Human Factors Research Methods (Graduate), 1991
• New Course - Experimental Design and Statistics for Human Factors Researchers 1992 -
• New Course - Human Factors in Information Technology (Graduate), 1991 - present

Courses listed as New Courses above were designed by Mark Chignell

Membership on Ph.D. Committees

• Acted as the external member on Ph.D. committees in Psychology, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Accounting, and Public Administration, within the University of Southern California. I have also acted as the external examiner for dissertations from Monash University (Australia, Gitte Lindgaard, 1990) and York University (Canada, Don Hameluck, 1990).
• While at the University of Southern California I acted as the supervisor for three Ph.D students. Tom Higgins graduated in May, 1989 (1985-1989). Mica Endsley graduated in May 1990 (1986-1990). Felix Valdez graduated in August 1992 (1987-1992). Their topics were as follows:
• Tom Higgins - Pilot cognitive models during Instrument Landing Mica Endsley - Assessment of Situational Awareness in the Cockpit Felix Valdez - Navigation in Text and Hypertext
• I graduated my first Ph.D student at the University of Toronto (Deborah Fels) in July 1994. Her topic was "Evaluation of an output device independent vocabulary for computer feedback".
• I am currently the major advisor for six Ph.D students at the University of Toronto (Gene Golovchinsky, Nipon Charoenkitkarn, Jim Tam, Haig Baronikian, and Fraser Shein).
  • Jim Tam is working on the Use of Neighbourhoods in Hypermedia
  • Gene Golovchinsky is working on Visualization of Software Structure and Function
  • Nipon Charoenkitkarn is working on Browsing Methods for Query Formulation in Text Retrieval
  • Haig Baronikian is working on multimedia and computer supported cooperative work
  • Fraser Shein is working on Keyboard Scanning Methods for the Disabled
• I also acted as the internal appraiser for two Ph.Ds in industrial engineering (Lia Buarque, Carolyn McGregor) and I am currently a member of one other Ph.D committee in the Department of Industrial Engineering (Shu Min Zhai)
• I am on the committees of other Ph.D students in computer science (George Fitzmaurice) and OISE (Ontario Institute of Studies in Education - Rhona Charron). I also served as the internal appraiser for another Ph.D (Rod McGill in electrical engineering), and I served on the committees for Bertil Brandin (Electrical Engineering), Gordon Kurtenbach, Mariano Consens, and Isabel Cruz (computer science) and Ed Brown (OISE). I also acted as internal appraiser for a Ph.D in psychology (Justin Holland).

Masters Students

I am currently the major advisor for one Master's students in industrial engineering (Ferdie Poblete). Ferdie is working on the use of three dimensional hierarchies for information visualization. In addition I am supervising one fourth years thesis student who is doing the coordinated MS programme.

I have graduated three MS students at the University of Toronto. The first (Beverly Harrison) was co-supervised with Professor Ron Baecker (Computer Science). Beverly did some very innovative work on video analysis. Gene Golovchinsky successfully defended his MS thesis on February 11, 1993. Gene worked on interactive querying using direct markup of text in a full text retrieval system. Sarah Zuberec graduated in April, 1994. Her research was on the use of indices and tables of contents in navigating through information.

I was also on the committee of an MS student in computer science (Gary Hardock). His thesis was accepted in February, 1993.

Undergraduate Research

I have advised thirteen different undergraduate thesis groups involving 22 different students in the past three years.

• 1990-91 Steven Oakes, Yuri Lin, Joe Ho, Kai On Chen
• 1991-92 Kent Cottenden, Sharam Shafiee, Riccardo Logozzo, Gabriel Eiras, Eddie Yam, Flora Vuong
• 1992-93 Andrew Romocki, Hanneke van Weel, Michael Chen, Angie Wong, Ron Chaudhury, Paul Mavriyinnakis
• 1993-94 Greg Kam (Engineering Science), Roy Sanwalka, Cliff Hui, Allan Chau (Engineering Science), Secilia Kwong, Andy Lai

In addition, I co-supervised one additional group in 1992-93 (Matthew Cullen and Karen Mok).

All of these thesis projects involved substantial work for both advisor and students. Copies of the resulting theses are available from the Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Toronto.

I have also supervised an NSERC summer scholar (Klaus Kristoffersen, 1992) and two undergraduates on a Project Seed summer project (Kent Cottenden, Marion Donaldson, 1992).

IV. Committees and Organizations