Tera Marie Green

           Tera Condensed
                ●  Research Assistant                      

                                & member of the

                          Data Visualization Group (DVG)
                          Charlotte Visualization Center

                          College of Computing and Informatics

                           DVG website

                    ● 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.