Nurit Kirshenbaum - Curriculum Vitae

Nurit Kirshenbaum
Laboratory for Advanced Visualization & Applications (LAVA)
University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Manoa)
Keller Hall 102
2550 Correa Rd
Honolulu HI 96822

nuritk at hawaii dot edu

Photo of Nurit Kirshenbaum

Interests

Human Centered Design, Tangible User Interfaces, Learning Technologies, CS Education, Games, Interactive Media, Collaborative Work, Augmented Reallity.

Education

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Aug 2016 - current

PhD In Computer Science

(Completed qualifying exam on May 11th 2017)

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Aug 2014 - Aug 2016

MSc In Computer Science

Quinnipiac University

Jan 2012 - Jan 2014

M. Sc in Interactive Media

Tel Aviv University

Aug 2001 - Sep 2004

Associate degree in Math

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

Aug 1997 - Oct 2001

B. Sc in Electrical Engineering

Publications

Full Paper

Nurit Kirshenbaum, Dylan Kobayashi, Alberto Gonzalez Martinez, and Jason Leigh. 2019. On a Side Note - Observations on Using Digital Notes on a Large Display with Users Sitting at Extreme Sides. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis '19), June 12-14, 2019, Palermo, Italy. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/ 3321335.3324945

Dylan Kobayashi, Matthew Ready, Alberto Gonzalez Martinez, Nurit Kirshenbaum, Tyson Seto-Mook, Jason Leigh, and Jason Haga. 2018. Sage River Disaster Information (SageRDI): Demonstrating Application Data Sharing In SAGE2. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 33-42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3279778.3279798

Extended Abstract

Nurit Kirshenbaum and Scott Robertson. 2018. Define, Refine, and Identify Events in a Bendable Interface. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 345-350. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3279778.3281461

Nurit Kirshenbaum and Scott Robertson. 2018. PEPA Deck: Bringing Interactivity to Playing Cards. In Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts (CHI PLAY '18 Extended Abstracts). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 479-486. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3270316.3271521

Nurit Kirshenbaum and Scott Robertson. 2016. Set&Motion: Tool for Authoring Interactive Stories with Sensors and Actuators. In Proceedings of the The 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 554-559. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2930674.2935988

Poster

Nurit Kirshenbaum, Dylan Kobayashi, Ryan Theriot, Kari Noe, and Jason Leigh. 2018. Flying a Broom in a Hybrid Reality Room: Eliciting Physical Interaction. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 189-189. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3267782.3274683

Additional

M.Sc in Computer Science Final Project: Set and Motion

Literature Review: Pragmatic Survey of Bendable Devices

Conference Volunteering

Student volunteer at: UIST 2014, UIST 2015, CHI 2016, UbiComp 2017, CHIPlay 2018, ISS 2018

Work Experience

LAVA - Laboratory of Advanced Visualizations and Applications

Aug 2018 - Current

Research Assistant

  • Develop products in the Lab's scope of interests
  • Design and conduct user studies on Lab's projects
  • Perform literature reviews
  • Assist in demonstrating and advocating Lab's products

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Aug 2014 - Aug 2018

Teaching Assistant

ICS 461 Artificial Intelligence

ICS 465 Introduction to Hypermedia

ICS 425 Computer Security and Ethics

ICS 485 Video Game Design and Development

ICS 426 Computer System Security

ICS 111 Introduction to Computer Science I

Responsibilities vary:

  • Conduct recitations
  • Write quiz and homework materials
  • Manage class website
  • Grade assignment
  • Assist students during office hours
  • Assisting professor as needed

University of Hawaii at West Oahu

Fall 16, Spring 17

Lecturer

CM 315 Interactive Applications

CM 342 Applied Game Design

  • Plan out the courses
  • Write materials/ prepare videos
  • Conduct classes
  • Help students with their projects
  • Grade students

Quinnipiac University

Fall 2013

Graduate Assistant (School of Communication) to Prof. Ewa Callahan

  • Participate in running research and writing the subsequent article.
  • Review literature for research.
  • Write project proposal for IRB committee.

Globe Pequot Press

Feb 2012 - Jul 2014

Digital Media Production

  • Develop solutions for fast paper-to-EBook conversions for book series (Falcon Guide imprint).
  • Explore enhanced user experience with digital books (using tools like iAuthor widgets).
  • Ran a CSS workshop.

Nekudat Mifne

Mar 2012 - Aug 2012

Game Development Consultant

  • Assisted in the creation of the iPad choose your own adventure game “The Guardians” (http://goo.gl/LuN66M)

Grand Light

2011 - Feb 2012

Marketing and Web Design

  • Maintain and create content for the company websites and the company blog.
  • Sketch technical drawings for custom fixtures.

Century 21 Kennedy, Ryan, Monigal and Assoc.

2009 - 2011

Technical Assistant

  • Designed and produced marketing materials for an office with 25 agents.
  • Coordinated marketing over the Internet and kiosk TV.

University of Chicago Mathematics Project

2005 - 2009

Production Assistant

  • Create technical art to help portray mathematical theory and problems.
  • Edited manuscripts.

Motorola Semiconductors, Herzylia Center (Freescale)

2001 - 2005

Programmer

  • Designed and wrote the code for a software component to work within the CodeWarrior IDE.
  • Worked in accordance with software development practices, for design, testing and peer review.
  • Coded a complex GUI (Graphical User Interface) in Visual C++.

Testing Simulation

  • Running simulations for hardware under development.
  • Update the simulation environment which was written in Perl.

Intel, Israel Development Center

2000 - 2001

Testing Simulation

  • Creating the environments used for simulations of hardware under development.
  • Writing in a specialized computer language for this purpose - “E”

Portfolio

Some of my current work can be seen on my site http://www2.hawaii.edu/~nuritk/
and YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/iamnurki/videos

Skills

Programming, Designing and Conducting User Studies, Video Editing, Communicating Ideas