Year started in the program: 1991

Year graduated: 1999

Research interest: My interests involve applying most aspects of human-centered design (requirements elicitation, task/role analysis, rapid prototyping, participatory design, usability testing) to the creation of human-computer interfaces. I'm currently working on a large pharmacy system that serves a diverse set of users - via a range of UI technologies (Pharmacists/technicians - traditional client server; prescribers - web/PDA/WAP; customers - web/PDA/WAP; external partners - web).

Current employer: The Technical Resource Connection Inc. (a consulting subsidiary of Perot Systems). www.trcinc.com

Significant past employers: IBM, SPSS

Professional Summary:
Expertise in all phases of User Interface (UI) and user interaction planning, analysis, design, evaluation, and testing.

Specific areas of experience include project/team management, pre-design analysis, user profiling, requirements gathering and feature specification, prototyping, iterative design, and testing of new UIs. Also, performing heuristic evaluations, cognitive walkthroughs and usability testing of existing UIs. Finally, experience providing usability education to developers, working with development teams to standardize UIs, development of UI style guides, and designing and conducting high quality experimental research.

Experience applying user-centered and iterative design methodologies to a variety of products with real-world development schedules. Examples include pharmacy fulfillment applications, analysis tools, DBMS, modeling tools, on-line help systems, computer-based instruction, web sites and web-based applications.

Solid working knowledge of official and defacto standards for the design of object oriented and application oriented user interfaces including IBM's Common User Access and MS Windows application design guidelines. Additional training in visual literacy including the rhetoric of graphics, representation of concepts and relationships, and effective use of color and animation.

Experienced or familiar with the following architectures and technologies; stand-alone, client-server, agent-based applications, MFC, Java/SWING, web/JSP based applications, web-clipping/PDA, WAP, XML, virtual environments.

Select Publications
1999 Kline, P.B. Perception of traversed distance in a virtual environment. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL.

1998 Witmer, B.G. & Kline, P.B. Judging perceived and traversed distance in virtual environments. PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 7 (2), 144-167.

1997 Witmer, B.G., Kline, P.B., & Sadowski, W.J. Spatial learning and distance judgements in virtual environments. Paper presented at the 105th annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

1996 Kline, P.B. & Witmer, B.G. Distance perception in virtual environments: Effects of field of view and surface texture at near distances. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Philadelphia, PA.

1996 Witmer, B.G. & Kline, P.B. Training efficiently in virtual environments: Determinants of distance perception of stationary observers viewing stationary objects. (ARI Research Note 97-36). Alexandria, VA: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.

1995 Braun, C.C., Kline, P.B., & Silver, N.C. The influence of color on warning label perceptions. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 15 (3), 179-187.

1995 Kline, P.B, Blickensderfer, E.L., Dryer, D., & Bochenek, G. Development of an expert system for improving the graphic support of decision making. Proceedings of the 1995 International Conference on Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems, Cocoa Beach, FL.

1994 Silver, N.C., Kline, P.B. & Braun, C.C. Type form variables: Differences in perceived readability and perceived hazardousness. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Nashville, TN.

1993 Bowers, C.A., Braun, C.C., & Kline, P.B. Communication patterns and team situational awareness. Paper presented at the First International Conference on Situational Awareness, Orlando, FL.

1993 Kline, P.B., Braun, C.C., Peterson, N., & Silver, N.C. Impact of color on warnings research. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors Society, Seattle, WA.

1993 Kline, P.B., Paden, W.M., & Dyck, J.L. The role of visualization in knowledge acquisition from computer based instruction. Poster presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA.

1992 Bowers, C.A., Kline, P.B. & Morgan, B.B., Jr. Horizontal and vertical structures in small teams: Team performance and communication patterns. Proceedings of the 1992 Symposium on Command and Control Research, Monterey, CA.

1992 Kline, P.B. & McAlindon P.J. A human factors tool kit. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors Society, Atlanta, GA.

1992 Kline, P.B., Urban, J.M., Bowers, C.A., & Morgan, B.B., Jr. Team performance and communication in synthetic work paradigm. Poster presented at the 100th annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.

Email address: pbkline@hotmail.com