Andrew J. Ko

Assistant Professor

The Information School

University of Washington

Box 352840

Seattle, WA 98195




206-221-0352

ajko | @ | uw | edu

Mary Gates Hall 310F

Interested in a Ph.D. in HCI or software engineering? Apply to the iSchool or CSE and work with me as part of dub! If you're already a student at UW, let's chat.

06.29.09
VL/HCC paper on code autobiographies to appear
05.23.09
presented The State of the Art in EUSE at SEEUP
05.15.09
presented to the iSchool founding board
01.15.09
my CHI '09 paper was accepted.
11.05.08
I gave a talk at DUB.
09.16.08
I am now faculty at UW. Come do research with me!
05.10.08
I've posted the Whyline for Java for download! Try it out.
05.08.08
I submitted my dissertation!
04.15.08
I'm finally back in Pittsburgh, takin' it easy, writing a few journal papers :)
03.16.08
My Whyline for Java paper won distinguished paper award at ICSE 2008!
02.28.08
read L'Sociopath
01.28.08
posted the ICSE '08 Whyline paper
01.6.08
parity
12.29.07
read road
11.13.07
finished misadventure 101
08.15.07
finished the whole is elucidated
08.07.07
poetry by yours, (truly!)
07.25.07
wow, it's been a while. i've been a bit bookish lately, reading Sophie's World and No Country for Old Men.
06.12.07
finished a chilling killing
05.29.07
Finished Flowers for Algernon.
05.21.07
Finished Wharton's Summer.
05.11.07
Ellen did a wonderful job at her first violin recital!
05.06.07
Yay! New colors.
05.06.07
Finished Pride and Prejudice.
04.29.07
Reorganized reading page chronologically and hid the comments until a mouse over. Added a comment on Fausto-Sterling.
04.28.07
Yes, animation can be annoying. But I needed an excuse to play with Javascript. You can put up with it for a while.
04.20.07
Comments on My Mortal Enemy and yay for sepia!
04.12.07
Comments on Frankenstein and new fwf entry.
04.04.07
Posted comments L'Engle's Wrinkle.
03.27.07
Posted comments on Postman and Melville, and two new musings on meditation and flying
03.06.07
Remembered a bunch of books I read!
03.02.07
Added page about fwf
02.15.07
added some summaries to reading list
01.06.07
bit of a site redesign

Crystal


Watch the Crystal video! 

Many applications help users learn how to use new features, but few actually help users understand what's happened when things go wrong, nor how to fix it.

Crystal is application framework (written in Java and using the Swing toolkit) that extends the work of the Whyline, enabling the creation of software applications that allow users to ask questions about their data and the application's state.

For demonstration, we've implemented a word processor with Crystal that allows users to asky "Why 'teh' change to 'the'?" and "Why is this whitespace here?" You can see a demo of it in the video.