Jerry Alan Fails jerryfails@boisestate.edu / 208-426-5783 City Center Plaza (CCP), Room 257 777 West Main Street Boise, ID 83702

Computer Science

research

kidsteam

teaching &
mentoring

publications

other
experience

cv & resume

misc links

organizer / committees

• Organizer of Workshop on Technologies for Today's Family in coordination with CHI 2012
• Interactive Design and Children Program Committee Member IDC 2011

peer reviewer for

• Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI 2009, CHI 2010, CHI 2011, CHI 2012)
• Interactive Design and Children (IDC 2004, IDC 2005, IDC 2006, IDC 2007, IDC 2008, IDC 2011)
• User Interface and Software Technology (UIST 2010)
• Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp2010)

grants and funding

Montclair State University

• Senior Personnel on NSF REU Imagine (PI Stefan Robile; Award #: IIS-1004447)
• Montclair State University Student Faculty Research Internal Award (2011) – $2,000
• Montclair State University Global Education Grant (2010) – $800

University of Maryland

Helped secure and maintain funding from the following agencies/partners:

• NSF Children's Mobile Workshop (2008) – $34,900
• Microsoft (2004-2006) – $100,000
• National Park Service (2004-2007) – $70,000
• Discovery (2005-2006) – $15,000

invited presentations

• Invited Panelist: Research Philosophy in Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2007)
• Invited Presenter: Mobile Collaboration for Young Children (HCIL Symposium 2007)
• Invited Lecturer: Mobile Computing (LBSC 698, February 21, 2007)
• Invited Speaker: Mobile Storytelling (CLIS Colloquium, October 11, 2006)

tutorials

• New Methods for Designing for and with the iChild: Strategies for Today's Mobile, Social, and Internet Technologies (CHI 2011)  – Allison Druin, Mona Leigh Guha, Jerry Alan Fails
• New Methods for Designing for and with the iChild: Strategies for Today's Mobile, Social, and Internet Technologies (CHI 2010)  – Allison Druin, Mona Leigh Guha, Jerry Alan Fails
• Giving Children a Voice in the Design of New Technology: What's new and old but still works (CHI 2009)  – Allison Druin, Mona Leigh Guha, Jerry Alan Fails
• Giving Children a Voice in the Design of New Technology: What's new and old but still works (CHI 2008) Highest Rated Tutorial by Participants  – Allison Druin, Mona Leigh Guha, Jerry Alan Fails

videos/demonstrations/posters

• Collocated Mobile Collaboration (CHI 2009 Video Showcase)  – Jerry Alan Fails, Allison Druin, Mona Leigh Guha
• Mobile Collaboration for Young Children (Children's Mobile Workshop 2008, HCIL Symposium 2008)  – Jerry Alan Fails, Allison Druin, Mona Leigh Guha
• Mobile Collaboration for Young Children (IDC 2007, HCIL Symposium 2007)
   Abstract
   – Jerry Alan Fails, Allison Druin, Gene Chipman, Mona Leigh Guha, Kevin McGehee
• International Childrens Digital Library [www.childrenslibrary.org] (Wired NextFest 2006)
• Collaborative Creation of Knowledge Artifacts in an Outdoor Environment for Young Children (IDC 2005)
   Abstract
   – Gene Chipman, Allison Druin, Mona Leigh Guha, Jerry Alan Fails, Wayne Churaman

ph.d. classes at umd

Spring 2005

• CMSC838S Information Visualization by Prof. Ben Shneiderman
• CMSC414 Computers and Network Security by Prof. Pete Keleher

Fall 2004

• CMSC818K Peer-to-Peer Systems by Prof. Pete Keleher

Spring 2004

• CMSC838G New Devices for New Interactions by Prof. Francois Guimbretiere
• CMSC858G Complexity Theory by Prof. William Gasarch

Fall 2003

• CMSC452 Elementary Theory of Computation by Prof. William Gasarch
• CMSC828J Approaches to Representing and Recognizing Objects by Prof. David W. Jacobs
• CMSC828S Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction by Dr. Evan Golub

master's classes at byu

Fall 2004

• CS 621 Pattern Recognition by Prof. William A. Barrett
• CS 678 Advanced Neural Networks by Prof. Tony R. Martinez

Winter 2002

• CS 550 Computer Vision 1 by Prof. Bryan S. Morse
• CS 556 Advanced Interactive Systems by Prof. Dan R. Olsen Jr.
• CS 580 Embedded Systems by Prof. J. Kelly Flanagan

Fall 2001

• CS 450 Introduction to Digital Signal Processing by Prof. William A. Barrett
• CS 472 Machine Learning by Prof. Dan Ventura
• CS 553 Information Retrieval by Dr. Yiu-Kai Dennis Ng

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