Alice M. Agogino

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Alice M. Agogino is the Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chair-elect of UC Berkeley's Academic Senate. She has served in a number of administrative positions at UC Berkeley, including Associate Dean of Engineering and Faculty Assistant to the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost in Educational Development and Technology. She also served as Director for Synthesis, an NSF-sponsored coalition of eight universities with the goal of reforming undergraduate engineering education, and continues as PI for the NEEDS (www.needs.org) and SMETE.ORG educational digital libraries. Agogino leads a number of research projects in the areas of computational design, learning sciences, wireless micro-sensors MEMS, green design and diagnostics and monitoring. Agogino received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of New Mexico (1975), M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering (1978) from the University of California at Berkeley an! d Ph.D. from the Department of Engineering-Economic Systems at Stanford University (1984). She has authored over 150 scholarly publications; has won numerous teaching, best paper and research awards; and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. She has supervised 65 MS projects/theses, 26 doctoral dissertations and numerous undergraduate researchers.

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Wen, Yao-Jung, Granderson, Jessica and Agogino, Alice M. (2006): Towards Embedded Wireless-Networked Intelligent Daylighting Systems for Commercial Buildings. In: SUTC 2006 - IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing 5-7 June, 2006, Taichung, Taiwan. pp. 326-331. Available online

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Sandhu, Jaspal S., Hey, Jonathan, Newman, Catherine and Agogino, Alice M. (2005): Informal Health and Legal Rights Education in Rural, Agricultural Communities Using Mobile Devices. In: ICALT 2005 - Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies 05-08 July, 2005, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. pp. 988-992. Available online

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Wu, Jialong and Agogino, Alice M. (2004): Automating Keyphrase Extraction with Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithms. In: HICSS 2004 2004. . Available online

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Dong, Andy and Agogino, Alice M. (2001): Design Principles for the Information Architecture of a SMET Education Digital Library. In: JCDL01: Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2001. pp. 314-321. Available online

This implementation paper introduces principles for the information architecture of an educational digital library, principles that address the distinction between designing digital libraries for education and designing digital libraries for information retrieval in general. Design is a key element of any successful product. Good designers and their designs, put technology into the hands of the user, making the products focus comprehensible and tangible through design. As straightforward as this may appear, the design of learning technologies is often masked by the enabling technology. In fact, they often lack an explicitly stated instructional design methodology. While the technologies are important hurdles to overcome, we advocate learning systems that empower education-driven / experiences rather than technology-driven experiences. This work describes a concept for a digital library for science, mathematics, engineering and technology education (SMETE), a library with an information architecture designed to meet learners and educators needs. Utilizing a constructivist model of learning, the authors present practical approaches to implementing the information architecture and its technology underpinnings. The authors propose the specifications for the information architecture and a visual design of a digital library for communicating learning to the audience. The design methodology indicates that a scenario-driven design technique sensitive to the contextual nature of learning offers a useful framework for tailoring technologies that help empower, not hinder, the educational sector.

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Agogino, Alice M. (1999): Visions for a Digital Library for Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education (SMETE). In: DL99: Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries 1999. p. 205. Available online

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III, William H. Wood and Agogino, Alice M. (1996): Engineering Courseware Content and Delivery: The NEEDS Infrastructure for Distance Independent Education. In JASIST - Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 47 (11) pp. 863-869

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Osborn, James R. and Agogino, Alice M. (1992): An Interface for Interactive Spatial Reasoning and Visualization. In: Bauersfeld, Penny, Bennett, John and Lynch, Gene (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 92 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference June 3-7, 1992, Monterey, California. pp. 75-82. Available online

An interface for software that creates a natural environment for engineering graphics students to improve their spatial reasoning and 3D visualization skills is described. The skills of interest involve spatial transformations and rotations, specifically those skills that engineers use to reason about 3D objects based on 2D representations. The software uses an intuitive and interactive interface allowing direct manipulation of objects. Animation capability is provided to demonstrate the relationship between arbitrary positions of an object and standard orthographic views. A second skill of interest requires visualization of a cutting-plane intersection of an object. An interface is developed which allows intuitive positioning of the cutting-plane utilizing the metaphor of a "pool of water" in which the object is partially submerged. The surface of the water represents the cutting plane. Adjustment of the pool depth combined with direct manipulation of the object provides for arbitrary positioning of the cutting-plane. Subjective evaluation of the software thus far indicates that students enjoy using it and find it helpful. A formal testing plan to objectively evaluate the software and interface design is underway.

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Moore, Eric A. and Agogino, Alice M. (1987): INFORM: An Architecture for Expert-Directed Knowledge Acquisition. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 26 (2) pp. 213-230

This paper presents an architecture for INFORM, a domain-independent, expert-directed knowledge acquisition aid for developing knowledge-based systems. The INFORM architecture is based on information requirements and modeling approaches derived from both decision analysis and knowledge engineering. It emphasizes accommodating cycles of creative and analytic modeling activity and the assessment and representation of aggregates of information to holistically represent domain expertise. The architecture is best suited to heuristic classification problem-solving (Clancey, 1985), in particular domains with diagnosis or decision-making under uncertainty. Influence diagrams are used as the knowledge structure and computational representation. We present here a set of information and performance requirements for expert-directed knowledge acquisition, and describe a synthesis of approaches for supporting the knowledge engineering activity. We discuss potential applications of INFORM as a knowledge engineering aid, specifically as an aid for developing insight about the encoding domain on the part of its user.

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Publication period:1987-2006
Publication count:8
Number of co-authors:10



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Alice M. Agogino's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Andy Dong:3
Jaspal S. Sandhu:2
Catherine Newman:1


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Jonathan Hey:1
Catherine Newman:1
Yao-Jung Wen:1

 

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