Richard Halstead-Nussloch, Ph.D., CPE
Professor of Computing and Software Engineering
Southern Polytechnic State University
Marietta, GA 30060

Classes | Publications | Inventions
NIH CBT on Human Subjects

Last updated 6 January 2005

Rich's Classes

Spring Semester 2005

• CS6023 Research Methods and Presentations
• IT6403 Windows Application Development
• IT6753 Advanced Web Concepts and Development

All Courses Taught

• CS4324 User-Centered Design Summer '02
• CS6023 Research Methods and Presentations
• CS6323 and QA6722 Human Factors
• IT1124 Advanced Programming with Applications Development
• IT4123 Electronic Commerce
• IT4223 Web Development
• IT6403 Windows Application Development
• IT6473 Multimedia Applications
• IT5123 Web Development
• IT6763 Electronic Commerce
• SWe2642 Professional Practices and Ethics
• SE6343 User Interface Design and Implementation
• SE6783 User Interaction Engineering
• IT7833 IT Strategy and Policy (Capstone Course)

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Selected Reviewed/Refereed Publications (includes reviewed conference proceedings)

• Shaping user input: a strategy for natural language design
  1989 Interacting with Computers publication with Martin Ringle. Shows that natural-language assistance systems can gain effectiveness by shaping user's input to be more formal and precise.
• A Broader View for Computing Education
  1999 Frontiers in Eduation Conference--Establishes a framework for computing education that includes individual skill courses through advanced degrees and takes education planning to a strategic level
• An improved undergraduate human factors course: three results
  An evaluation of using computer simulations in a human factors design course. Students produced more engineering designs of higher quality.

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Selected Inventions

• U.S. Patent 5,337,347
  Method and Systems for progressive database search termination and dynamic information presentation utilizing telephone keypad input. An early patent in the HCI of tone and cellular phones.
• Function-Limited User Interface Devices (FLUIDs)
  An IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin article that defines an architecture for designing and implementing effective user interfaces utilizing phones, remote controls, and other limited user-interface devices.
• A thumb control for notebook computers
  An IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin article that discloses the thumb control ensemble used on many notebook computers in the early 1990's.

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Revised 7/3/02