Dissertations

Dissertations produced by students who have graduated with a PhD in Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE).

• Promoting Rhetorical Awareness and Perceived Self-efficacy: Engineering Undergraduate Students Created Preparedness Portfolios about Communication (Kathryn Mobrand, 2013)
• Engineering Student Development: Supporting Self-Authoring Engineers (Brook Sattler, 2013)
• Understanding University Students? Use of Tools and Artifacts in Support of Collaborative Project Work (Alex Thayer, 2013)
• Mediation, Motives, and Goals: Identifying the Networked Nature of Contemporary Activism (Natasha Jones, 2012)
• The Effect of Linguistic Explicitness on the Credibility of Online Medical Information for Nonnative English Speakers (Sandy Bartell, 2011)
• Investigating resource-constrained populations: developing design approaches to support agency and reciprocity (Emma Rose, 2011)
• Transitioning information and communication technology for development (ICTD) projects from research to implementation (Rebecca Walton, 2011)
• Getting on the Same Page: Negotiation and Intellectual Collaboration in Student Research Group (Kathleen Gygi, 2011)
• Bridging the Gap between User Experience Research and Design: An Analysis of Two Common Communication Tools—Personas and Scenarios (Cynthia Putnam, 2010)
• Indicating Impact: The Design of an Environmental Impact Labeling System for Consumer Goods (Jarrod Larson, 2009)
• Investigating a Novel User Experience Outcome: Psychological Well-Being through Mediated Self-Reflection (Matt Eliot, 2009)
• QuikScan: Facilitating Document Use Through Innovative Formatting (Quan Zhou, 2008)
• Mobile Hybridity: Supporting Personal and Romantic Relationships with Mobile Phones in Digitally Emergent Spaces. (Carolyn Wei, 2007)