Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones

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  • University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Volunteer Experience

  • Co-Chair

    Coalition to Diversify Computing

    Co-chair of group working to increase the diversity of the computing field.

Publications

  • Underrepresented Middle School Girls: On the Path to Computer Science through Paper Prototyping

    ACM Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)

    The computing profession is lacking representation that mirrors the fabric of society in the United States. Most studies show a low percentage of participation for women and minority groups. In this paper, we present our experiences conducting a week-long Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) workshop with underrepresented middle school girls. Our description is focused on an activity where girls created a paper prototype for a chat application. We present qualitative results showing characteristics…

    The computing profession is lacking representation that mirrors the fabric of society in the United States. Most studies show a low percentage of participation for women and minority groups. In this paper, we present our experiences conducting a week-long Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) workshop with underrepresented middle school girls. Our description is focused on an activity where girls created a paper prototype for a chat application. We present qualitative results showing characteristics of the prototypes built, and discuss the participant responses to a few of the questions in an interview at the end of the week. Our results reveal that paper prototyping can be used as a motivator for a career path in computer science. In spite of the negative stereotypes that the underrepresented females had prior to the intervention, the HCI workshop revealed a user-centric component of computer science that gave participants a positive perception of the discipline.

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  • Underrepresented Middle School Girls: On the Path to Computer Science through Paper Prototyping

    ACM Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)

    The computing profession is lacking representation that mirrors the fabric of society in the United States. Most studies show a low percentage of participation for women and minority groups. In this paper, we present our experiences conducting a week-long Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) workshop with underrepresented middle school girls. Our description is focused on an activity where girls created a paper prototype for a chat application. We present qualitative results showing characteristics…

    The computing profession is lacking representation that mirrors the fabric of society in the United States. Most studies show a low percentage of participation for women and minority groups. In this paper, we present our experiences conducting a week-long Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) workshop with underrepresented middle school girls. Our description is focused on an activity where girls created a paper prototype for a chat application. We present qualitative results showing characteristics of the prototypes built, and discuss the participant responses to a few of the questions in an interview at the end of the week. Our results reveal that paper prototyping can be used as a motivator for a career path in computer science. In spite of the negative stereotypes that the underrepresented females had prior to the intervention, the HCI workshop revealed a user-centric component of computer science that gave participants a positive perception of the discipline.

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Projects

  • Virtual Town Square

    - Present

    An online community for small towns. It aggregates local news articles, blogs, events, Facebook posts and Twitter updates, correlates them and presents them as story mashups. It is built using Ruby on Rails and backbone.js.

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  • Contextinator

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    A browser extension that lets users divide their web browsing sessions into projects and manage all of their project-related information stored on the web. A project is a collection of browser tabs opened in the same window, series of filters in existing applications (Gmail, Evernote, Dropbox, etc.), bookmarks, people and tasks. This is a research prototype for my Masters thesis.

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  • Spanish

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