Matthew N. Bonner
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Research Interests: Collaborative Computing, Healthcare, Participatory Design, User Studies,
Fieldwork, Nontraditional Users
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology Aug 2008 - present
PhD student, Human-Centered Computing GPA: 4.0/4.0
Advisor: Elizabeth Mynatt
University of Michigan 2004- 2008
B.S. Computer Science GPA: 3.6/4.0
Selected Publications
Bonner, M., Wang, L., Mynatt, E. (2012). Activity-Based Interaction: Designing with Child Life
Specialists in a Children s Hospital. In Proceedings of the thirtieth annual SIGCHI Conference on
Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI 12. Austin, TX. (in press).
Bonner, M., Brudvik, J., Abowd, G., Edwards, K. (2010). No-Look Notes: Accessible Eyes-Free Multi-
touch Text Entry. In Proceedings of the eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing.
Helsinki, Finland.
Kim, T., Jeong, H., Chew, Y., Bonner, M., Stasko, J. Social Visualization for Micro-Blogging Analysis.
(2009). Poster at VisWeek 2009. Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.
Shi, X., Bonner, M., Adamic, L. A., & Gilbert, A. C. (2008). The very small world of the well-connected.
In Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia (pp. 61-70).
Pittsburgh, PA, USA: ACM. (Best Paper Award)
Work Experience
Virtual Worlds Intern May 2009 - Aug 2009
Sun Microsystems - Sun Labs (Santa Clara, CA)
Intern on Wonderland team, a Java-based 3D open-source virtual world. Developed metadata module
with an LDAP database for tagging in-world objects and a dependent annotations module. Team-wide
week of code to create a 3D timeline demonstrating Wonderland s features.
Website Design and Development Jun 2008 - Aug 2008
University of Michigan - Center for Sustainable Systems (Ann Arbor, MI)
Designed and implemented a complete new website for the Center for Sustainable Systems. Extensive
documentation and browser-compatibility work. Drupal Content Mangement System.
Website Development and Maintenance Apr 2006 - Sep 2006
University of Michigan - Computer Aided Engineering Network (Ann Arbor, MI)
Worked on Web Team to develop and manage UMich College of Engineering website. Site
development and maintenance, respond to client feedback. Zope Content Management System.
Skills
Languages: C, C++, CSS, HTML, Java, Javascript, Objective-C, Python, French
Libraries/Tools:iOS, Java Swing, JQuery, Drupal, Flex, Photoshop, Subversion, XCode
Fieldwork: Focus groups, shadowing, surveys, user evaluations, interviewing, participatory design