Projects

Birth partners: Be interviewed

The Prepared Partner, a video game about childbirth support

Latch Master, a video game about breastfeeding

Usability of peta-scale file systems

Alexandra Holloway [CV]

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Ph. D. candidate in Computer Science,
in Sri Kurniawan's Assistive Technology Lab,
Expressive Intelligence Studio (EIS),
Storage Systems Research Center (SSRC), and
Working-group on Applied Security and Privacy (WASP)
at the Jack Baskin School of Engineering,
University of California, Santa Cruz.

Member of IEEE, Systers, OCG.

Recipient of CITRIS seed grant (Fall 2011), Systers Pass-it-on Award (Spring 2011).

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Conference Papers

A. Holloway, S. Kurniawan. The Prepared Partner: Can a Video Game Teach Labor and Childbirth Support Techniques? To appear: In Proc. of USAB 2011 -- Information Quality in eHealth. Graz, Austria, Nov 25--26, 2011. [PDF]

A. Holloway. The Purge Threat: Scientists' Thoughts on Peta-Scale Usability. 6th Parallel Data Storage Workshop, Seattle, WA, November 2011. [PDF]

S.N. Jones, C.R. Strong, A. Parker-Wood, A. Holloway, D.D.E. Long. Easing the Burdens of HPC File Management. 6th Parallel Data Storage Workshop, Seattle, WA, November 2011. [PDF]

A. Holloway, S. Orzech, W. S. Wong, N. Crenshaw. One-handed interface for multitouch-enabled real-time strategy games. 1st Workshop on Game Accessibility: Xtreme Interaction Design (GAXID'11) at Foundations of Digital Games, Bordeaux, France, June 2011. [PDF]

A. Holloway, R. DeArmond, M. Francoeur, D. Seagal, A. Zuill, S. Kurniawan. Visualizing Audio in a First-Person Shooter With Directional Sound Display. 1st Workshop on Game Accessibility: Xtreme Interaction Design (GAXID'11) at Foundations of Digital Games, Bordeaux, France, June 2011. [PDF]

N. Crenshaw, S. Orzech, W.S. Wong, A. Holloway. On Creating a Native Real Time Strategy Game User Interface for Multi-Touch Devices. Foundations of Digital Games, Bordeaux, France, June 2011. [PDF]

A. Holloway, S. Kurniawan. System Design Evolution of The Prepared Partner: How a Labor and Childbirth Game Came to Term. Proceedings of Meaningful Play. East Lansing, MI, Oct 21--23, 2010. [PDF]

S. C. Petersen, A. Carey, R. Hughey, D. Meek. Assembly Language Curriculum Realignment in Computer Engineering at UCSC. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. 2002.

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Articles

Slack, G. Birthing Games: Assistive Technology Lab Delivers Serious Perinatal Games. CITRIS News. August 29, 2011.

A. Holloway, C. Sadowski, L. Vega. Babies in Graduate School: Making it Happen. In ACM-W CIS Newsletter. 3(1), Winter 2011. [PDF]

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Posters

A. Holloway. Understanding the Purge Threat at Peta-Scale. [PDF]
-- 6th Parallel Data Storage Workshop, Seattle, WA, November 2011.
-- Research Review Day, Santa Cruz, CA, October 20, 2011

A. Holloway, S. Kurniawan. Making babies: Representations of childbirth in commercial video games. [PDF]
-- Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing, Portland, OR, November 2011.
-- Graduate Research Symposium, Santa Cruz, CA, May 6, 2011.

R. Emrick, A. Holloway, S. Kurniawan. Learn to Breastfeed with an iPhone. [PDF]
-- Research Review Day, Santa Cruz, CA, October 20, 2011
-- 14th Annual Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium, August 12, 2011.

A. Holloway, S. Kurniawan. The Prepared Partner: Learning assessment of a birth partner training game. [PDF]
-- Research Review Day, Santa Cruz, CA, October 21, 2010.
-- Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Atlanta, GA, Sept 28 -- Oct 2, 2010.

A. Tomb, E. Perlman, G. Littman, A. Carey. Using Kestrel. Physical Sciences and School of Engineering Poster Session. Santa Cruz, CA, September 18, 2001. [PDF]

A. Tomb, E. Perlman, G. Littman, A. Carey. Kestrel Software Folly. Physical Sciences and School of Engineering Poster Session. Santa Cruz, CA, September 18, 2001. [PDF]

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Panels

A. Holloway, C. Sadowski, L. Vega. Trial By Diaper: A Panel and Activity Session on Motherhood in Computing (Panel) Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Portland, OR, November 2011 [Proposal] [Slides]

C. Sadowski, A. Holloway, L. Vega, M. Smith, S. Sim, A. M. Horcher. Mommies Know Best: Continuing the Discussion of Pregnancy in Graduate School (Panel) Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Atlanta, GA, Sept 28 -- Oct 2, 2010. [PDF]

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Teaching

Computing Systems and Assembly Language Programming (CE12, CE12L): Summer 2010 | Summer 2009 | Summer 2008

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Teaching Assistant

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) (CE131, CE231, DANM131, DANM231): Winter 2011 | Winter 2010

Computer and Game Console Architecture (CE112): Spring 2009

Computer Architecture (CE110): Winter 2009

Computing Systems and Assembly Language Programming (CE12, CE12L): Fall 2008 | Spring 2008 | Winter 2008 | Fall 2007

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