Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, Nevada Area
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- Assistant Professor at University of Nevada, Reno
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- Postdoctoral Researcher Game Engineering at University of Alberta
- intern at Rohill Technologies
- Ph.D student at University of Groningen
- Software Engineering at Notenbomer Internet Center
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- University of Groningen
- University of Groningen
- bakhuizen
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Eelke Folmer’s Summary
I'm primarily interested in accessibility of video games and virtual worlds. I developed several novel interfaces for video games and virtual worlds that allow users who are severely visually or motor impaired to play them. Some of my research projects include:
* Blind hero - an version of guitar hero that provides haptic feedback through a glove so visually impaired can play it.
* One switch interfaces for popular mainstream game genres such as first person shooters and real time strategy games.
* TextSL - an interface for Second life that can be accessed with a screen reader.
If you would like to learn more about my projects visit: http://www.eelke.com/projects.html
Eelke Folmer’s Specialties:
Accessibility, HCI, video games, virtual worlds, software architecture analysis.
Eelke Folmer’s Experience
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Assistant Professor
University of Nevada, Reno
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
July 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)
My research primarily focuses on interaction design of video games and virtual worlds. I seek to make video games/virtual worlds accessible using non visual forms of feedback and or reduced amounts of input.
I teach classes in game development, software engineering, human computer interaction and computer graphics. I am actively engaged in curriculum development of UNR's game engineering BS degree. -
Postdoctoral Researcher Game Engineering
University of Alberta
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
October 2005 — July 2006 (10 months)
My research focused on exploring new research directions in Software Engineering and Human computer interaction in the emerging field of video games.
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intern
Rohill Technologies
(Research industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year)
I was employed as a student researcher. I investigated how a real time database could be implemented to support a trunked radio systems and worked on a simulation that shows the effectiveness of different synchronization strategies for different types of network topologies.
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Ph.D student
University of Groningen
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)
July 2001 — July 2005 (4 years 1 month)
I was employed as a researcher on the EU funded STATUS (Software Architecture that supports Usability) project. The project studied the relationship between software architecture and the usability of a software system, identifying the characteristics of software architectures that improve software usability. The three main results of my research were:
ASUP: Architecture Sensitive Usability Pattern collection: The patterns are a means to capture design experience and provide a vocabulary that will aid discussion between software architects and usability engineers.
SAUF (Software Architecture Usability Framework): a framework has been developed which illustrates the relationship between usability and software architecture. The pattern collection and the framework can be found on www.designforquality.com
SALUTA: A Scenario based Architecture Level UsabiliTy Assessment Technique (SALUTA) that uses the SAUF framework to assess a software architecture's support for usability. -
Software Engineering
Notenbomer Internet Center
(Computer Software industry)
February 1998 — February 2000 (2 years 1 month)
I was a software engineer and my main responsibilities were to develop several web based bookstores specifically focusing on management literature. (http://www.managementboek.nl)
Eelke Folmer’s Education
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University of Groningen
Ph.D. , Software Engineering , July 2001 — July 2005
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University of Groningen
M.Sc. , Technical Computing science , September 1996 — September 2001
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bakhuizen
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Eelke Folmer’s Interests:
games, interaction design, software engineering, kitesurfing, running, walking, hiking, snowboarding, yoga.
Eelke Folmer’s Groups:
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