Richard C. Davis

Biographical Information

I am a graduate student in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley who is currently visiting at the University of Washington. My chief research interest is Human-Computer Interaction, but I am also interested in Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Computer Graphics. I plan to finish my PhD in August of 2008, and I have accepted a new position as Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Singapore Management University starting in October of 2008. I'm also interested in teaching, philosophy, religion, acting, and art in its many forms.

• Professional Bio
• Curriculum Vita
• Research Statement
• Teaching Statement
• Publications

Research Projects

K-Sketch

• Project Home Page
• New Scientist Article on K-Sketch
• 2005 UIST Graduate Student Consortium Poster
• 2004 AAAI Workshop Paper
• 2003 Animation in CS Education
• 1997 Initial Study

SketchWizard

A tool for building Wizard of Oz prototypes of informal pen-based applications.

• Project Home Page

NotePals

A lightweight note sharing system for groups.

• Project Home Page

Class Projects

Here is an assortment of noteworthy class projects from my graduate school days.

• The Terraformer - A Planetary Terrain Generator (CS184 - Fall 1996)
• A Hierarchical B-Spline Surface Modeler (CS284 - Fall 1996)
• Virtual Batting Cage and Human Model (CS294-5 - Spring 1997)
• A non-blocking, concurrent hash table implementation with scalable, incremental rehashing. (240k pdf file)(CS262 - Fall 1997)
• The PowerlessPC - A 6-bit microprocessor designed with Parag Gupta and Dominic Sartorio (6.371 - Fall 1994)

Fun

Dear Friends

• My Evil Twin, and his Berkeley web pages (personal, research)
• The Pereira Family
• Cat Clark

Photographs

• My Photos Web Site
• Old Theater Photos
• Old Camping Photos
• Some Miscellaneous Old Photos
• Selected Artistic Attempts

Neato Programs (for download)

• The Terraformer
• A Hierarchical B-Spline Modeler