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Our Research Staff
Stephen Fickas
Computer Science Dept.
Deschutes Hall
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
office: (541) 346-3964
fax: (541) 346-5373
email: fickas@cs.uoregon.edu
url: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/~fickas
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Stephen Fickas is a Full Professor in the Computer Science Department
at the University of Oregon. Before joining the UofO, he was a research
assistant at the Information Sciences Institute (USC). Professor Fickas leads
the software engineering effort on the project. His research interest is
in the area of requirements engineering. In particular, he is interested
in a means of acquiring the requirements of a specific user in terms of tool
assistance. As part of this project, he heads an effort to devise a "cyberevaluation",
an assessment application that can "prescribe" an assistance-profile for
a user.
Related to the cyberevaluation project, Professor Fickas is also interested
in monitoring requirements over time. A prescription generated today can
easily go out of date. The question is how to detect a no longer valid prescription.
He heads a project to do "prescription monitoring".
McKay Moore Sohlberg
voice: 541-346-2586
fax: 541-346-6778
email: mckay@oregon.uoregon.edu
Dr. Sohlberg is a nationally recognized leader in the field of traumatic
brain injury rehabilitation. For the past 15 years she has worked as
a clinician, researcher, and administrator in the development of programs
to assist individuals with brain injury to reintegrate into the community
at maximal levels of independence. The types of intervention programs
that she has developed and about which she has conducted research have become
models adopted by rehabilitation centers throughout the United States, Canada
and Europe. Dr. Sohlberg also has a wealth of experience in teaching
other professionals and assisting agencies to be more effective in their delivery
of community reintegration services to persons with brain injury.
Dr. Sohlberg has been a Principal Investigator on two U.S. Department of
Education projects. One project involved the development, evaluation
and dissemination of a model for schools to use to help students select and
adopt compensatory cognitive systems following traumatic brain injury.
She also developed a model to form collaborative partnerships between rehabilitation
therapists and families. Dr. Sohlberg has published numerous articles,
chapters, and manuals on managing cognitive impairments following neurogenic
insult and is co-author of two leading textbooks in the field. She is
currently an associate professor in the communication disorders and sciences
program at the University of Oregon.
Bonnie Todis
Teaching Research
99 West 10th Ave., Suite 370
Eugene, OR 97401
voice: 541-346-0595
fax: 541-346-0599
email: bonniet@oregon.uoregon.edu
Dr. Todis received extensive training in qualitative methodology
in both the departments of Sociology and Special Education during her doctoral
training at the University of Oregon. She has conducted qualitative
studies in several areas related to the integration of adults and children
with disabilities in educational and community settings and has published
the findings of these studies in books and refereed special education journals.
She was the Project Director of a recent qualitative research project sponsored
by the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) examining the issues
related to student use of assistive technology in educational settings, co-directed
two OSEP funded projects related to the education of students with TBI in
integrated settings, and is currently the director of a five-year OSEP funded
study of factors contributing to under-identification of individuals with
TBI in public schools. In each of these projects Dr. Todis has employed
and is employing PAR approaches and qualitative methodologies similar to those
that will be used in the proposed project. Dr. Todis will adjust her
FTE on currently funded projects to allow her to commit the allocated FTE
to the proposed project.
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