Robert Capra
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I am a research scientist on the NSF sponsored ResultsSpace project in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

My research interests lie in the broad categories of human-computer interaction, information and knowledge management, and digital libraries. My work is unified by an interest in how people find, refind, and reuse information and how technology can help support these tasks. Recently, I have been exploring aspects of personal information management (PIM), information interfaces, and voice user interfaces (VUIs). I completed my Ph.D. in May 2006 at Virginia Tech, working with Dr. Manuel Pérez-Quiñones and the Dialogue Research Group. In the summer of 2006, I moved to Chapel Hill, NC, where I currently work with Dr. Gary Marchionini and am part of the Interaction Design Lab at UNC.
Recent Projects
HCI Browser The HCI Browser is a tool to help researchers conduct HCI experiments that involve doing web browsing tasks. HCI Browser ResultsSpace is a 3-year, NSF-funded project on which I co-authored the grant proposal. The project focuses on developing architectures and interfaces to support mutli-session, exploratory, and collaborative search.
HCI Browser The Relation Browser is a tool designed to help users understand relationships between items in a collection and to support exploration of an information space. HCI Browser TagSearch is an experimental web search tool that includes Delicious tags as part of the search results.


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