James Rubinstein My Personal Website

My Resume

Selected Accomplishments

Usability

  • Tested and facilitated Clemson University (CU) website redesigns including Graduate School manuscript review and College of Business and Behavioral Sciences
  • Tested and designed the CU Human Factors and Ergonomic Society chapter,  facilitating interaction among members
  • Researched and designed new information architecture for the top ranked website of the CU Psychology Department
  • Collaborated and developed new tracking of tutor/tutee data, maximizing efficiency while minimizing resources

Leadership

  • Directed and managed successful campaign for first African American mayor of the City of Anderson
  • Led User Centered Design team in creating long term agriculture plan in Anderson County
  • Acted as Webmaster for ClemsonHFES.org
  • Founder and Vice President of Anderson County Taxpayers Association

Research

  • Designed and implemented new line of research on Ecological Interface Design as part of master’s thesis
  • Led research on creating eye tracker based communication tool “EyeWrite”
  • Created new usability test technology for testing the Animated Work Environment (AWE)
  • Researched what process users engage in when searching the internet for information
  • Awarded “Rising Star Award for Outstanding Graduate Researcher” for research involving pedestrian conspicuity

Web Design

  • Using and manipulating Drupal technology, designed several internet and intranet sites for companies including B&B Swapshop, Clemson HFES, Upstate Health Link, and Simpsonville SC
  • Created and maintained websites such as Birkenstock Engineering using WordPress technology
  • Designed sites for Carolina Foothills Heritage Fair, Anderson International Festival, and pinpow!, with HTML and CSS
  • Provided search engine optimization (SEO) for all sites                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Education

M.S., Applied Psychology, Clemson University, Clemson, SC

May 2008

Concentration: Human Factors

B.S., Psychology, Clemson University, Clemson, SC

December 2004

Minor: Business Administration; Magna Cum Laude

Professional Experience

Adjunct Instructor, Tri County Technical College

Pendleton, SC

2010- Present

Freelance Web Developer

Anderson, SC

2008- Present

Public Information Intern for Anderson County

Anderson, SC

2007- 2009

Research and Teaching Assistant for Clemson University

Clemson, SC

2005-2008

Internet Design Internship for Clemson University

Clemson, SC

2006

Skills

  • Information Architecture Design
  • Content Management System Design
  • Audio Component Design & Construction
  • User Centered Design
  • HTML/CSS
  • MS Office
  • Information Architecture
  • PHP/MYSQL
  • Mac, Windows, & Linux OS
  • Welding/ Fabrication
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Prototyping

Publications and Awards

Master's Thesis
Rubinstein, J. S.(2008) Ecological Interface Design in Variable Workload Multitasking. Master's Thesis, Clemson University.
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Poster Presentation IE 2008.
K. E. Green, L. J. Gugerty, J. C. Witte, I. D. Walker, H. Houayek, J. Rubinstein, R. Daniels, J. Turchi, M. Kwoka, I. Dunlop, and J. Johnson. From Ethnography to Design (and back):  Configuring and “Animated Work Environment” for Digital Lifestyles Submitted to: Intelligent Environments (IE) 2008

Paper Presentation at ETRA 2008
Wobbrock, J. O., Rubinstein, J., Sawyer, M., & Duchowski, A. T. (2008,
March 26-28). Longitudinal Evaluation of Discrete Consecutive
Gaze Gestures for Text Enry. In Eye Tracking Research &
Applications (ETRA). Savannah, GA.
Presentation

Poster presentation at APA
Rubinstein, J. & Gugerty, L. (August, 2007). Individual Differences
in the Processes and Outcomes of WWW Searching. Poster presented at
the 115th Annual Convention of the American Psychological
Association. San Francisco, CA.

Presentation at COGAIN 2007 annual conference.
Wobbrock, J., Duchowski, A, Rubinstein, J., Sawyer, M. 2007, Not Typing but Writing: Eye-based Text Entry Using Letter-like Gestures, In proceedings of COGAIN 2007 (Communication by Gaze Interaction IST FP6 European Project) “Gaze-based Creativity, Interacting with Games and On-line Communities” Conference, 3-4 September 2007, Centre for Excellence in Performance Arts, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, pages TBA.

Work in progress poster presentation at 2006 CHI annual conference.
Gugerty, L., Treadaway, C., and Rubinstein, J. S. 2006. Individual differ ences in internet search outcomes and processes. In CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 22 - 27, 2006). CHI '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 815-820. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1125451.1125612

Poster Presentation at 2005 Vision Sciences Society annual conference
Balk, S. A., Carpenter, T. L., Brooks, J. O., Rubinstein, J. S., & Tyrrell, R. A. (2005). The conspicuity of pedestrians at night: How much biological motion is enough? [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 5(8), 19a, http://journalofvision.org/5/8/19/, doi:10.1167/5.8.19.

Awarded Clemson University “Rising Star Award” for graduate research for poster presentation of vision research in May 2005 as part of Clemson University’s Focus on Research month.

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