jonbax.com is Jonathan Baxter's personal website. Right now it's a glorified resume, but in the coming months I'll be starting my own blog and developing other apps that I'll link to from this page as they develop.
I'm a software engineer at Next Jump Inc specializing in web design and development and project management. I graduated from Cornell University in May 2009 with a BS in Information Science. I worked at the Interaction Design Lab on campus with Geri Gay, Dan Cosley and many undergraduate and graduate students conducting Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research. I generally worked with technologies in public spaces and the issues surrounding them like navigation, social presence, and experience.
Experienced in Human Computer Interaction, design principles, project management, and software engineering. Interested in technical project or program management, user-experience research, web development, or intereaction design.
Contact
Jonathan Baxter
92 Cambridge St
Valley Stream, NY 11581
Email: jonbasebl5 at gmail dot com
Resume
Publications
Cosley, D., Adams, P., Akey, K., Alson, B., Baxter, J., Broomfield, M., Lee, S., Sarabu, C. 2009. Using Technologies to Support Reminiscence. Accepted to HCI 2009 in Cambridge, UK.
Cosley, D., Baxter, J., Lee, S., Alson, B., Adams, P., Nomura, S., Sarabu, C., Gay, G. 2009. A Tag in the Hand: Supporting Semantic, Social, and Spatial Navigation in Museums. In Proceedings of the 27th international Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Boston, MA, USA, April 04 - 09, 2009). CHI '09. ACM, New York, NY, 1953-1962. [ACM] [PDF]
Cosley, D., Lewenstein, J., Herman, A., Holloway, J., Baxter, J., Nomura, S., Boehner, K., and Gay, G. 2008. Artlinks: Fostering Social Awareness and Reflection in Museums. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 403-412. [ACM] [PDF]
Press
Undergrad Invention Turns PDAs Into Tour Guides
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences News interview with Jonathan Baxter in 2009.
Cornell Chronicle - Artlinks Project Encourages Interaction
Cornell Chronicle interview with Jonathan Baxter and colleagues in 2008.
Artlinks Project wins Cisco Sponsor Award - BOOM 2008 at Cornell University
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Museum MyStory: Personalizing the Museum Experience - BOOM 2008 at Cornell University
Projects
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Online Surveys Application
A web application for creating, administering, and taking complex and customized online surveys. Used by the Department of Communication at Cornell University.
Pensieve
A web application designed to help people reminisce by sending them occasional emails containing memory triggers, which can take the form of short nonpersonalized prompts or personal content from social media sites like Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, Blogger or Twitter.
MobiTags Interface (best results on an iPhone/iPod Touch, but should work on other major browsers as well)
A mobile web application optimized for Mobile Safari that integrates social tagging, art information, and museum map representations to support navigation and collaborative curation of "open storage" art collections, those where the museum provides little curatorial information. [Abstract]
Poster Presentation Representing the MobiTags Project
Prepared for the Advisory Council to the Communication Department at Cornell University
Artlinks Interactive Visualization (requires Flash)
Final Usability Report for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University [DOC]
Compiled By: Geri Gay, Jonathan Baxter, Soyoung Lee, Phil Adams, and Alex Kresovich.
Cornell Secrets Powerpoint Presentation (includes screenshots)
INFO 130 Midterm Project - Personal Website
INFO 130 Final Project - A Redesign of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum Website (includes screenshots)
Call Me Taft - The Role of New Media in the Political Process
This wiki is an aggregation of scholarly resources and thoughts related to the role of new media in the political process