Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction, expected 2010
Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University
B.A. summa cum laude in Computer Science, June 2001
Robert Donald Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
4.04 Cumulative GPA, Phi Beta Kappa "Oregon Six"
Minor in Spanish
Extensive Multimedia Design and Human-Computer Interaction coursework
Honors Thesis:
The Effect of Animated Banner Advertisements on a Visual Search Task
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2005): Three-year fellowship for outstanding potential graduate studies in science
- AT&T Labs Graduate Research Fellowship (2005): Three-year fellowship for Ph.D. research
- Most Innovative WebOPAC (2004): International award for best library catalog design
- Phi Beta Kappa Oregon Six (2001): One of the top six graduating seniors at the UO
- President's Award (2001): Completion of a distinguished honors thesis, academic excellence
- Mildred Braaten Archibald Scholarship in Science and Math (2000): High achievement in science
- Distributed Mentorship Program, Computing Research Association (1999 and 2000): One of 25 women across the country selected to work with female professors at prestigious universities
- Bess Templeton Cristman Award (1999): Junior woman exemplifying leadership, scholarship, and service
- Wigham Family Thesis Award (1999): Honors College student promising outstanding achievement
- Presidential Scholarship (1996-2001): Full-tuition awarded to outstanding students
Burke, M., Joyce, E., Kim, T., Anand, V., and Kraut, R. (2007). Introductions and Requests: Rhetorical Strategies That Elicit Response in Online Communities. Third International Conference on Communities & Technologies 2007. 
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Kraut, R., Wang, X., Butler, B., Joyce, E., and Burke, M. (under review). Building Commitment and Contribution in Online Communities Through Social Interaction. Information Systems Research.
Torrey, C., Lee, M., Burke, M. Dey, A., Fussell, S., and Kiesler, S., (2007). Connected Giving: Ordinary People Coordinating Disaster Relief on the Internet. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2007.
Torrey, C., Burke, M., Lee, M., Dey, A., Fussell, S., and Kiesler, S., (in press). Approaches to Authority in Online Disaster Relief Communities after Hurricane Katrina. Forthcoming in Atwater, L. and Weisband, S. (Eds.). Leadership at a Distance. Erlbaum, in press.
Burke M., Amento, B., Isengard, P. (2006). Error Correction of Voicemail Transcripts in SCANMail. ACM CHI 2006: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York: ACM. PDF (1M)
Burke, M., Hornof, A., Nilsen, E., and Gorman, N (2005). High Cost Banner Blindness: Ads Increase Perceived Workload, Hinder Visual Search, and Are Forgotten. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 12(4), 423-445. PDF (1M)http://www.thoughtcrumbs.com/publications/ToCHI04.pdf
Burke, M., Gorman, N., Hornof, A., and E. Nilsen (2004). Banner Advertisements Hinder Visual Search and Are Ignored. ACM CHI 2004: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Extended Abstracts of ACM CHI 2004: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York: ACM, 1139-1142. http://www.thoughtcrumbs.com/publications/CHI2004.pdf
Burke, M. K. & Hornof, A. J. (2001). The Effect of Animated Banner Advertisements on a Visual Search Task. University of Oregon, Department of CIS Technical Report 02-03, University of Oregon. http://www.thoughtcrumbs.com/publications/UO2001.pdf
Burke, M.K. (2001). The Effect of Animated Banner Advertisements on a Visual Search Task. University of Oregon, Clark Honors College Thesis. http://www.thoughtcrumbs.com/publications/thesis.pdf
http://www.thoughtcrumbs.com/research
- Investigated human attentional capacity for animation concurrent with visual search tasks
- Published (as first author) and presented findings at ACM CHI 2004, TOCHI journal article (under review)
- Designed and programmed experimental software in Director/Lingo
- Managed experiments with participants and performed statistical analysis
http://www.pcc.edu/library
- Designed and maintained award-winning library website and catalog based on usability testing
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Managed technology initiatives, including:
- Nationally recognized electronic reserves system
- IEEE-LOM compliant “learning objects” repository
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Database cleanup and configuration for library consortium membership
- Purchased and maintained two Sun Solaris 8 servers running Apache, SSL, ColdFusion, PHP
- Trained technical and non-technical staff in MARC cataloging, web publishing, accessibility standards
- Led workshops at national library conferences
http://www.thoughtcrumbs.com/portfolio
- Designed websites for non-profit organizations
- Conducted usability testing, card sorting, heuristic evaluation
- Composed creative standalone applications and Shockwave movies in Director
- Programmed dynamic content with PHP, ColdFusion, MySQL
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/animation/Areas/games
- Analyzed play-balancing techniques in massively multi-player games
- Wrote artificial intelligence modules for a C++ game engine
http://www.cs.brown.edu/research/graphics/research/animation/viz/research.html
- Developed tools to visualize aspects of motion, such as center-of-mass position and trajectory
- Coordinated Inventor and Alias|Wavefront geometry files with motion-track data
- Ported C++ code to Java3D
- Designed and implemented Java bots: software agents that act like humans
- Developed an online "office hours" environment for beginning computer science students
- Used object-oriented programming, applets, and server-client chat applications
| Principles: Formal usability testing Heuristic evaluation Cognitive walkthrough Card sorting Information architecture W3C standards ADA compliance Search engine usability |
Technology: Java Some C, C++ PHP, Perl Some ColdFusion, ASP, MySQL (X)HTML, CSS Javascript Lingo, ActionScript Some XML, XSLT |
Applications: Photoshop Fireworks Dreamweaver Director Flash XEmacs, Vi Blogger All Windows, Mac, Unix flavors |