David Nguyen
354 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94709
510-642-1268
nguyendt@eecs.berkeley.edu

I am a graduate student in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at University of California, Berkeley (UCB). I work in the Berkeley Institute of Design (BiD). My advisor is John Canny. My research area is in Human-Computer Interactions (HCI) and Computer Mediated Communications (CMC).
where will dave be?
April 3 - April 11, 2008CHI `08, Florence, Italy
November 8 - November 12, 2008CSCW, San Diego, CA
Present-May, 2008Berkeley
projects
MultiView
Improving spatial fidelity in video conferencing
David Nguyen and John Canny
InterView
Autostereoscopic 3D projection screen
David Nguyen and John Canny
The Yearbook Study
A method we worked on for eliciting English language learning game design criteria from primary school children in rural India. A study done as part of the MILLEE project. David Nguyen, Matthew Kam, Jenna Burrell, Aishvarya Agarwal, and John Canny
The Recycling Project
Supporting student understanding of atomic bonding using dynamic visualizations and guided reflection in education.
David Nguyen and Kevin McElhaney
Low Power Protocols for Sensor Networks
Designing low power protocols to reduce power comsumption in ad-hoc sensor networks
David Nguyen, Abhijit Davare, Farinaz Koushanfar, and Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
Low Power Circuit Design
Algorthms to synthesize low power circuits taking advantage of dual supply and threshold voltages.
David Nguyen, Abhijit Davare, Michael Orshansky, and Kurt Keutzer
books
Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces
Kimiko Ryokai, Ryan Aiperspach, and David Nguyen
journal papers

  1. Farinaz Koushanfar, Abhijit Davare, David Nguyen, Miodrag Potkonjak, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Techniques for Maintaining Connectivity in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks Under Energy Constraints, ACM Transactions on Embedded Systems (TECS), In Preparation.

conference papers

  1. David Nguyen, and John Canny. MultiView: Improving Trust in Group Video Conferencing through Spatial Faithfulness. Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'07). San Jose, CA. Best Paper Award (pdf)

  2. David Nguyen and John Canny. MultiView: Spatially Faithful Group Video Conferencing. Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'05). pp. 512-521. Portland, Oregon. (pdf | acm)

  3. David Nguyen, Abhijit Davare, Michael Orshansky, David Chinnery, Brandon Thompson, and Kurt Keutzer. Minimization of Dynamic and Static Power Through Joint Assignment of Threshold Voltages and Sizing Optimization. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design 2003 (ISLPED'03). pp. 348-353. (pdf | acm)

  4. Farinaz Koushanfar, Abhijit Davare, David Nguyen, Miodrag Potkonjak. Distributed Localized Algorithms and Protocols for Power Minimization in Networked Embedded Systems. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, 2003 (ISLPED'03). pp. 417-422. (pdf | acm)
thesis

  1. David Nguyen. MultiView: Spatially Faithful Group Video Conferencing. Masters of Science, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, 2005. (pdf)