Samvith Srinivas


Graduate Student - University of Pittsburgh
Technical Editor - Spatial Cognition and Computation

Contact Info.
135 N. Bellefield Ave, Room 2B04, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260.
 Email:
Ph. 412 860 9738

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Doctoral student  in Information Science at the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 2004 - present.

M.S. in Information Science, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 2002 - 2004.

B.Tech Information Technology, S.V.C.E, 1998 - 2002, , University of Madras (now Anna University).

My advisor is Prof. Stephen Hirtle, and I am a member of the Spatial Information Research Group (S.I.R.G)

Current area of interest is Spatial Cognition. My broader academic interests include Human Computer Interaction and the  application of Information Technology in Social Development. Click here for a copy of my CV.

*New* Teaching INFSCI 1044 Course in Fall 2008 (Course is currently being developed and a website will be created soon-until then-you may email me for details about the current plans for the course!)

*Not so New* Influence of Affect on Wayfinding won the Google Award for promising PhD research propsal at COSIT 07, Melbourne Australia.

Misc: Tips for new graduate students at US (particularly Pitt)

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Publications:

Knowledge Based Schematization of Route Directions
S. Srinivas, S.C. Hirtle
Spatial Cognition 2006, (in press). (copyrighted) www.springerlink.com

Knowledge Based Schematization of Route Directions (extended abstract)
S. Srinivas, S.C. Hirtle
GIScience 2006.

Task Allocation in Teams for Launch and Range Operations
K. Sycara, P. Scerri, J.A. Giampapa, S. Srinivas, and M. Lewis
12th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, July, 2005.
(copyrighted)

 



 

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