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Phone: (434) 982-2212
Fax: (434) 982-2214
Email: ryall@cs.virginia.edu
Office: 212 Olsson Hall, UVa
athy Ryall received a BA with a double major in
Mathematics/Computer Science and Psychology from Wesleyan University, and an SM and
Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard
University. She joined the University of Virginia as an
Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the Fall of 1997.
athy Ryall's primary research interest is the
design and implementation of systems in which the interface acts as a
medium for people and computers to work together on solving problems,
rather than as a means for people to control computers. As interactive
applications become more complex, it is increasingly difficult to
design interface methods that deliver the full power of an application
to users, while enabling them to learn and to use effectively the
interface to a system. The challenge is finding a balance between user
intervention and computer control within the computer-user
interface. Ryall's research has included the development of systems
for a variety of tasks in the computer graphics and graphic design
domains.