Office: CSB 614
Address:
614 Computer Studies Building
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
Email:
loparev [at] cs [dot] rochester [dot] edu
My name is Anna Loparev, and I am a third year graduate student at the University of Rochester pursuing a Ph.D. in the field of Human-Computer Interaction with my adviser Jeff Bigham in our lab ROCHCI. My research interests include accessibility, games and education, and interface design for cutting-edge technology. If you would like to see my CV, please send me an email at loparev [at] cs [dot] rochester [dot] edu.
I am working with Kyle Murray and Walter Lasecki on creating a system that turns any single-player game into a multiplayer experience and exploring the kinds of dynamics such a setup entails. This project builds builds off of another project from our lab: Legion. After our initial exploration, we plan on creating our own original game using what we learn.
During my undergraduate career, I wrote a 22-page paper on automata with the help of my project advisor Mia Minnes. The paper includes a new type of tree called an unfolding tree. I also worked at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab first as QA lead for Sc-rum'pet and later as lead designer on Waker and Woosh. Waker and Woosh are games that teach middle school and high school students about displacement and velocity in a non-direct way. They will be used in a future research project to determine if narrative helps kids learn. I also briefly worked as a designer/programmer on an extremely early version of Symon (not credited).
During my first year at the University of Rochester, I am created a developer hub for WebAnywhere. This hub includes documentation on all of the files and classes, along with tutorials and a section on frequently asked questions.
During my first and second years at the U of R, I worked on creating a model of how blind users use screen readers to experience the web. The goal was to explore the differences among blind users, as well as to use the model for evaluation purposes in various future projects.
Twice I worked as a teaching assistant for Jeff Bigham's CSC210 Web Programming course. I was also the head TA of Ted Pawlicki's CSC170 Introduction to Computer Programming and the Web course. All of these positions entail teaching the course when the Professor is away.
I designed and am currently teaching the introductory HCI course.