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Tera Marie Green

Tera Condensed
● Research Assistant
& member of the
Data Visualization Group (DVG)
Charlotte
Visualization Center
College of Computing and Informatics
● University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Department of Psychology
●
B.A. summa cum laude May 2008
Major: Psychology
Minor: Cognitive Science
● grepmon@gmail.com
Background
My first career was in information technology, predominantly in database and software
development. (You can find my IT resume here.) When I realized that I was no longer
solving new problems, but was continuously re-implementing instantiations of the same solution,
I walked away from the field and went back to the proverbial drawing board. I do so dread
being bored.
My current studies and research are centered in the multidisciplinary field of
cognitive science. I approach questions from the perspectives of both psychology and
computer science. As I try to push the limits of what is known and has been previously studied, I
am aided (and plagued) by a childlike fascination with the question "Why?" And thus, I am
no longer bored.
Research Interests
cognitive modeling ● mechanization of complex reasoning ● interactive human learning within
an information space ● visual analytics ● problem-solving ● decision-making
Publications
Green, T.M., Ribarsky, W. & Fisher, B. "Visual analytics for complex concepts using a human cognition
model," (2008) IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology, October 2008,
Columbus, OH. pdf
Green, T.M. & Ribarsky, W., (2008) "Using a human cognition model in the creation of
collaborative knowledge visualizations," Proc. of SPIE Defense + Security 2008. March 2008.
Orlando, Florida, USA. doc
Green, T. M. & Najarian, K. (2007). "Correlations between emotion regulation, learning performance,
and cortical activity". In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society. August 2007. Nashville, Tennessee. pdf
Awards
NSF REU in Computer Science (2007) Full-time summer internship in the Charlotte Visualization
Center, Department of Computer Science. Tasks included the assembly of a cognition model
framework for use in the development and evaluation of interactive, intuitive information
visualization and other analytic interfaces through exhaustive literature review and human research
evaluation. This work is ongoing in my capacity as a research assistant (August 2006 to present).
NSF REU in Cognitive Science (2006-2007) Part-time internship through the academic year in the
Bioinformatics and Advanced Signal Processing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science.
My responsibilities included literature review, research design and IRB approval, data collection,
psychometric analysis with SPSS, signal processing of EEG data with MATLAB, and location of
venues for possible publication. This research project explored the possible impact of a person’s
ability to regulate emotion on learning performance. In addition, we studied any possible
correlations between those with high/low ability for emotion regulation and cortical activity during
task completion.
NSF REU in Computer Science (2006). Full-time summer internship in the Charlotte Visualization
Center, Department of Computer Science. My tasks included the overhaul of outdated C/C++
code to utilize certain utilities in the Virtual GIS (VGIS) system, a real-time interactive 3D
visualization for (in this case) meteorological data. In addition to code overhaul, I built
dominate/non-dominant controllers for use as input devices in the VGIS system. The goal of this
project was to prepare VGIS for two-handed interaction in a 3D environment; at the time, users
interacted with VGIS by use of a pen-style laser controller.
Languages
PL/SQL ● C/C++ ● JAVA ● Visual Basic ● Cold Fusion ● HTML● Just enough French and
Spanish to get myself into a whole heap of trouble :-)
Personal
I have been married to my best friend for 14 years. Together, Ben and I are movie buffs,
computer geeks, home remodeling gurus (ha!), and the party guests who are always
drinking the good stuff. I hug the tree while he imagines what beautiful cabinetry it would
make. And we never met a challenge we couldn't tackle and then mock -- together.