Bonnie E. John

Director of Computation and Innovation

Grants Prior to Cooper Union

  • 2009-2010    IBM Open Collaborative Faculty Award. “Automatic Usability Testing”
  • 2008-2010    Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and NEC Corp. “Systematizing Usability”
  • 2007-2008    ABB Inc. “Usability Supporting Architectural Patterns for the Common Gauge Architecture”
  • 2007-2010    NASA.   “Automation Interaction Design and Evaluation Methods”
  • 2004-2009    Boeing. “Research on Cognitive Performance Modeling.”      
  • 2004             General Motors. “Interpretability of In-Vehicle Information Devices.”
  • 2003             General Motors. “Task Structure and Interpretability:  Criteria.”
  • 2002-2009    ONR. “Scalable Cognitive Modeling through Compositional Reuse” (With A. Vera, HCII; R. Remington, M. Matessa,, NASA; R. Lewis, U Michigan)
  • 2001-2005    NASA “High Dependability Computing Program.” (One of many named PIs, including multiple universities, headed by Bill Scherlis Institute of Software Research, International, SCS, CMU.)
  • 2001-2003    NASA “Effective Team Support” (with Katia Sycara, RI, CMU).
  • 2000             Rank-Xerox EuroPARC. Collaborative work agreement (3-month salary support for sabbatical in at Xerox, Cambridge UK).
  • 1999-2002    Software Engineering Institute, CMU. “Usability and Software Architecture.” SEI supported a 1-year Leave of Absence (’99-’00 calendar year sabbatical and part-time salary for two additional years). Work with Len Bass, continuing under HDCP.
  • 1998-1999    Xerox Foundation. “WWW Use.”
  • 1998-2001    NSF. The Strategic use of Complex Computer Systems. NSF CISE-EI Program. (with Dan Olsen, HCII).
  • 1994-1999    NSF Young Investigator Award.
  • 1994             AT&T Foundation Special Purpose Grants in Science and Engineering.
  • 1994-1997    NSF National Challenges  - ENG-CISE  "High Performance Computing for Simulation, Planning and Execution of Robot-Assisted Surgery" (with Takeo Kanade, Robotics Institute, CMU; Omar Ghattas, Civil Engineering, CMU; Anthony DiGioia & Branislav Jaramaz, Shadyside Hospital).
  • 1993-1996    ARPA "Usability of Knowledge-based Planning Systems."
  • 1992-1993    DARPA  (subcontracted from ISI/USC) "Improving the Soar Programming Environment."
  • 1992             Software Engineering Institute, CMU.  Development of a Curriculum Module entitled "Goals, Operators, Methods, and Selection rules."
  • 1991             NSF "CISE Research Instrumentation" (to re-equip the User Studies Lab, see academic experience, below).
  • 1990-1993    NASA  "Modeling the NASA Test Director."
  • 1989-1999    ONR "The Immediate Interaction Cycle: Generality of Mechanisms and Learning to Perform"
  • 1989-1990    U. S. West "Applying Cognitive Theory to the Evaluation and Design of Human-Computer Interfaces."
  • 1988-1990    Xerox  "Research on an Engineering Theory of the User of Browsers."
  • 1987-1989    ONR "Contributions to the Model Human Processor."