T.C. Nicholas Graham

School of Computing
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
Canada K7L 3N6

Goodwin Hall, Room 629
Phone: (613) 533-6526
Fax: (613) 533-6513

graham@cs.queensu.ca

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Research

My research concentrates on how software engineering can contribute to the design and development of more usable computer systems. Current projects related to this work are:

Workspace Model: This is an architectural model supporting the design and development of interactive systems involving multiple users collaborating via heterogeneous computing devices. The novel aspects of the workspace model are its support for runtime evolution of the structure of the interactive system, and its principled refinement from conceptual to implementation architecture. Two implementations of the workspace model are ongoing, one in C++ and one in Python.
Software Design Board: This tool supports the collaborative work of software engineers. The novel aspect of the software design board is its support for transitions between different styles of work: from asynchronous to same-time collaboration, from informal work such as brainstorming to formal work, and between locations.

For more information, see the EQUIS Lab home page.

I am director of the EQUIS lab and member of the Software Technology Laboratory. These students are current and past members of the group.

I am a Chair of IFIP Working Group 2.7 on User Interface Engineering.

Teaching

I am currently on leave, and will not be teaching in the coming term.

Personal

I am an Associate Professor of Computing and Information Science at Queen's University. I received the Doctorate of Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) degree from the T.U. Berlin in 1995. I performed most of my thesis work at the GMD in Karlsruhe, Germany. I hold an M.Sc. from Queen's University (1988) and a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto (1985).

I have worked on the Turing project as a Computer Systems Programmer at the Computer Systems Research Institute (1985-86), as a Research Associate on the Nial project at Queen's University (1988-89), as a Visiting Researcher at the GMD (1989-92), as an Assistant Professor at York University (1993-1997) and as VP Research and Development at Namzak Labs (2000-present.)

I was born in Dundee (Scotland), and have since lived in Kingston (Jamaica), Toronto (Canada), Kingston (Canada), Karlsruhe (Germany), Trondheim (Norway) and Grenoble (France).

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