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Said Achmiz

www.saidachmiz.net
said [snail] saidachmiz [period] net
(full contact info available by email request)

Skills

Professional Experience

2012-2013

University Affiliated Research Center ,
Moffett Field, CA
(NASA Ames Research Center / UC Santa Cruz)
Research Assistant

2014

Biomimetic and Cognitive Robotics Lab at Brooklyn College ,
Brooklyn, NY
Researcher

2012, 2014-2015

University of California Santa Cruz ,
Santa Cruz, CA
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology (NSF REU) (2012)
Software Developer (freelance) (2014)

Publications

“Holes, Pits, and Valleys: Guiding Large-Display Touchless Interactions with Data-Morphed Topographies”
(presented at the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing in Seattle, Washington)

“NUICursorTools: Designing cursor behaviors for indirect-pointing interfaces”
(presented at the 2014 International Working Conference for Advanced Visualization Systems in Como, Italy)

“Digital Birth”'' project poster
(presented at Baskin School of Engineering poster session, Summer 2012)

“Spectrum Inversion and the Nature of Color”''
(presented at Midwest Undergraduate Cognitive Science Conference, CUNY Undergraduate Philosophy Conference; published in The Gadfly, Spring 2012)

Research

NUICursorTools: A modular toolkit for designing cursor behaviors for touchless input.
(IU School of Informatics; faculty advisor: Dr. Davide Bolchini)

Pointer acceleration in touchless interaction: Designing pointer acceleration curves, and investigating effect of constant and dynamic control-display gain, in touchless input scenarios and with large displays (using Kinect as input device).
(IU School of Informatics; faculty advisor: Dr. Davide Bolchini)

Education

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, 2013–2014
Human-Computer Interaction, PhD program
Coursework: Human-Computer Interaction Design, Usability and Evaluative Methods, Psychology of HCI, Contextual Design, Ubiquitous Computing

Brooklyn College, Bachelor of Science (2014)
Computer Science (major), Cognitive Science (minor)
Brooklyn, NY

Kingsborough Community College, Associate of Applied Science (2010)
Computer Information Systems
Brooklyn, NY

Stuyvesant High School
New York, NY

Honors