I am a recent graduate of the Univeristy of Washington with a Master's degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. My research focuses on applying machine-learning techniques to human-computer interaction problems, specifically how to build interactive experiences on top of noisy, ambiguous input. I was supervised by James Fogarty. During my degree, I performed internships at Intel Labs Seattle and Microsoft Research.
Prior to pursuing my degree at UW, I spent three years working in product development at Microsoft as a test engineer on the Microsoft Office 2010 suite. I received a Bachelor of Computer Science with First Class Honors from Dalhousie University in 2006, where I worked with Kori Inkpen at the EdgeLab.
Ryder Ziola, Shweta Grampurohit, Nate Landes, James Fogarty, and Beverly Harrison. Examining Interaction with General-Purpose Object Recognition in LEGO OASIS. In Proceedings of 2011 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2011). IEEE, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 65-68.
Ryder Ziola, Shweta Grampurohit, Nate Landes, James Fogarty, and Beverly Harrison. 2010. OASIS: Creating Smart Objects with Dynamic Digital Behaviors. Presented at the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Workshop on Interacting with Smart Objects (IUI 2010).
Ryder Ziola, Melanie Kellar, and Kori Inkpen. 2007. DeskJockey: exploiting passive surfaces to display peripheral information. In Proceedings of the 11th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction (INTERACT'07). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 447-460.
Jim Wallace, Vicki Ha, Ryder Ziola, and Kori Inkpen. 2006. Swordfish: user tailored workspaces in multi-display environments. In CHI '06 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (CHI EA '06). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1487-1492.
Vicki Ha, Jim Wallace, Ryder Ziola, and Kori Inkpen. 2006. My MDE: configuring virtual workspaces in multi-display environments. In CHI '06 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (CHI EA '06). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1481-1486.