Tamara Babaian

papers by research area

Visualizations for Real-Life systems

• Babaian T. (2021) A Speech-Based Data Collection Interface for Contact Tracing. In: HCI International 2021 - Late Breaking Posters. HCII 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1499. Springer, Cham. [view abstract]
• Wang, R., Babaian, T. (2020). A Detailed Examination of User Interactions with Two Different Data Interfaces, Springer, Cham, HCII 2020, vol 12184. 183-197. [view paper]
• Babaian, T., Boeri, M. W., Ligure, G. (2019). Supporting Life History Research with Interactive Visualizations, Springer, Cham, HCII 2019, vol 11566. 259-269. [view paper]
• Babaian, T., Lucas, W. T., Chircu, A. M. (2019). Mapping Data Associations in Enterprise Systems, Springer, LNCS book series. vol. 11491 254--268. [view paper]
• Babaian, T., Xu, J., Lucas, W. ERP Prototype with built-in task and process support. EJIS, 27(2). [view paper]
• Babaian, T., Lucas, W., Chircu A. and Power N. Interactive Visualizations for Workplace Tasks, Enterprise Information Systems 18th International Conference, Rome, Italy, Revised Selected Papers, LNBIP vol. 291, pp. 389-413 Springer, 2017. [pdf]
• Babaian, T., Zhag, R., Lucas, W. DTMi – a New Interface for Informed Navigations, HCII 2017, In Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Contexts, 413–23. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Cham, 2017. [pdf]
• Babaian, T., Lucas, W., Chircu A. and Power N. Extending an Association Map to Handle Large Data Sets, HCII 2017, In Human Interface and the Management of Information: Information, Knowledge and Interaction Design, 3–21. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Cham, 2017. [pdf]
• Babaian, T., Lucas, W., Chircu, A. M., and Power, N. Evaluating Interactive Visualizations for Supporting Navigation and Exploration in Enterprise Systems. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2016), April 2016.
• Babaian, T., Lucas,W. and Li, M. Modernizing Exploration and Navigation in Enterprise Systems with Interactive Visualizations, in Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Knowledge Design, HCII 2015, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9172, pages 23-33, Springer, 2015

Usability evaluation: Collaborative Critique Method

• Lucas,W. and Babaian, T. Collaborative Critique: An Inspection Method for Expert Evaluation of User Interfaces, in International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 31 (11), pages 843-859, 2015.
• Babaian, T., Lucas,W. and Oja M.-K. Evaluating the Collaborative Critique Method. In Proceedings of CHI'12 2012. pp. 2137-2146, ACM, 2012.

Enterprise System Usability
Improving usability through human-computer collaboration

• Babaian, T., Xu, J., Lucas, W. ERP Prototype with built-in task and process support. EJIS, 27(2). [view paper]
• Babaian, T., Lucas,W. and Xu, J. Task and Process Support in ERP Systems in Advancing the Impact of Design Science: Moving from Theory to Practice. Proceedings of DESRIST 2014 Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 443-448, Springer, 2014.
• Babaian, T. and Lucas, W. Modeling Data for Enterpise Systems with Memories. In Journal of Database Management, vol 24(2), pp. 1-12, 2013. Babaian, T. and Lucas, W. Composing Interface Demonstrations Automatically from Usage Logs. In Leszek Maciaszek, Jose Cordeiro, and Joaquim Filipe, eds., Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP), Springer-Verlag, vol. 141, pp. 376-392, 2013.
• Lucas, W., Xu, J., and Babaian, T. Visualizing ERP Usage Logs in Real Time. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS ’13), pp. 83-90, July 2013.
• Babaian, T. and Lucas,W. Leveraging Usage History To Support Enterprise System Users. in Proceedings of ICEIS'12, vol. 3, 35-44, SciTePress, 2012. Lucas,W. and Babaian,T. Implementing Design Principles for Collaborative ERP Systems. in Proceedings of DESRIST'12, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 88-107, Springer-Verlag, 2012.
• Babaian, T., Lucas, W., Xu, J., and Topi, H. Usability through System-User Collaboration: Deriving Design Principles for Greater ERP Usability. In the 5th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST 2010) 2010.
• Lucas, W. and Babaian, T. Reasoning for Intelligent System-User Interactions with Enterprise Resource Planning Systems. In the IJCAI 2009 Workshop on Intelligence and Interaction 2009. Babaian, T. and Lucas, W. A reasoned approach to error handling: Position Paper on Work-in-Progress. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS-2008) 2008.
• Babaian, T.; Lucas, W.; and Topi, H. Visualizing the process: A graph-based approach to enhancing system-user knowledge sharing. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS-2007), 123-128, 2007. Babaian, T.; Lucas, W.; and Topi, H. A data-driven design for deriving usability metrics. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software and Data Technologies ICSOFT'2007
• Babaian, T.; Lucas, W.; and Topi, H. Using a process graph to improve system-user knowledge sharing. In CHIMIT '07: Proceedings of the 2007 symposium on Computer human interaction for the management of information technology, article No. 9. ACM Press, 2007. Topi, H.; Lucas, W.; and Babaian, T. Using informal notes for sharing corporate technology know-how. European Journal of Information Systems, 15(5):486-499, 2006.
• Babaian, T.; Lucas, W.; and Topi, H. Improving ERP usability through user-system collaboration. International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems, 2(3):10-23, 2006. Babaian, T.; Lucas, W.; and Topi, H. Making memories: applying user input logs to interface design and evaluation. In CHI ’06 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, pages 496-501. ACM Press, 2006.
• Topi, H.; Lucas, W.; and Babaian, T. Identifying usability issues with an ERP implementation. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS-2005), pages 128-133, 2005.

Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Planning
Intelligent and collaborative interfaces

• Babaian, T., Grosz, B. J., and Shieber, S. M. A Writer's Collaborative Assistant. In Proceedings of Intelligent User Interfaces Conference (IUI-02), pages 7-14. ACM Press, January 2002. [.avi] Demo.
• Babaian, T., Grosz, B. J., and Shieber, S. M. Writer's Aid: Using a Planner in a Collaborative Interface In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS DEMONSTRATIONS, (IJCAI-03), pages 1629-1631, 2003. [.avi] Demo.
• Babaian, T., and Schmolze, J. Practical reasoning about knowledge states for open world planning with sensing. Journal of Applied and Non-classical Logics, 19(1), pages 7-41, 2009.
• Babaian, T., and Schmolze, J. G. Efficient open world reasoning for planning. Logical Methods in Computer Science, 2(3), 2006. Babaian, T. Hypothetical planning. In Proceedings of IJCAI 2005 Workshop on Planning and Learning in A Priori Unknown or Dynamic Domains, pages 90-96, August 2005.
• Carlin, A., Schmolze, J. G., and Babaian, T. Graphplan-based conformant planning with limited quantifcation. Research on Computing Science, 16, Advances in Artificial Intelli gence Theory: 65-75, 2005. Babaian, Tamara and Schmolze, James G. PsiPLAN: Open World Planning with psiforms. In Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference (AIPS'00), pages 292-300, 2000.

Pedagogy

• Xu, J., Babaian, T. (2021). Artificial intelligence in business curriculum: The pedagogy and learning outcomes, The International Journal of Management Education, Volume 19, Issue 3, Elsevier, [view paper]
• Babaian, T., Schiano, B. T. (2020). Energize Your Online Course with Group Work. Harvard Business Publishing. [view column]
• Babaian, T., and Lucas, W. Black-box testing in the introductory programming course. Journal of Informatics Education Research, 8(3):107–128, 2006