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PhD: Information Technology (Information & Software Systems Engineering): 1995, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.
Thesis topic: A Methodology for the Representation of Requirements Specifications for Large-Scale Systems Using Multimedia Techniques
MS: Industrial Engineering/Human Factors: 1983, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
Thesis topic: The effects of irrelevant stimulus attributes on retrieval time for color and shape.
BA: Psychology: 1979, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Center for Graduate Study
Responsible for administering, teaching in, and conducting research in information systems, and building the Master of Science in Information Systems (MSIS) online program.
Department of Electrical Enginering, Computer Science, and Software Engineering
Responsible for teaching and conducting research surrounding in software engineering, and building the undergraduate software engineering program.
Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences (IIMS)
Discipline Leader: Information Systems Subject Area
Major Co-ordinator: Software Engineering Major - College of Engineering
Responsible for teaching and conducting research surrounding the analysis and design of information systems and software engineering. Industry liason for the Institute; IIMS representative on the Business Initiatives Group for the Albany Campus.
College of Information Science and Technology
Responsible for teaching and conducting research surrounding the analysis and design of information systems and software engineering. Courses include: Information Systems Analysis and Design: OOAD (INFO 620), Requirements Engineering (INFO 627), Human-Computer Interaction (INFO 609), Software Measurement (INFO 630).
Responsible for teaching and conducting research regarding management information systems in the College of Business Administration. Courses include: Decision Support Systems, Introduction to Management Information Systems. Also funded to perform research for the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis specializing in Human-Computer Interaction with Geographic Information Systems (Summer, 1995).
Responsible for teaching and conducting research regarding information systems in the College of Business. Courses include: Systems Analysis and Design, Human Aspects of Information Systems (HCI), Telecommunications Systems and Networking, Database Management Systems, Introduction to Information Processing.
College of Engineering: Manager of human factors computer facility
Human Factors Lab.
Web site design, software engineering assistance
Responsible for requirements engineering on the U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Network (O*NET) Database and Development Toolkit. Currently leading development of the Operational Concept Document and associated requirements for the system development toolkit for the U.S. Government's electronic replacement of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles.
Responsible for developing usability evaluation plans for U.S. Army Counter-Air command & control systems. Also responsible for contributing human engineering expertise and information systems engineering expertise to proposals and current contracts. Contributor to Software Operational Test and Evaluation Plans (SOTEP) for Army Operational Test and Evaluation Command (OPTEC).
Center of Excellence in Command, Control, Communications & Intelligence. Responsible for technology research in the areas of rapid prototyping, system and software requirements analysis, and human-computer interface design. Responsible for CASE tools collection and maintenance, guest lectures on rapid prototyping and HCI design, and proposal writing and research marketing.
Responsible for technology research in the areas of rapid prototyping, voice/speech input and output, and human-computer interface design. Assigned as CTC consultant to CONTEL Federal Systems due to my background in federal and defense systems.
Research and Technology Center: TRW Systems Division.
Provided human factors, requirements engineering, human-computer interface design, rapid prototyping, systems engineering, marketing and other support to business units within Systems Division. Supported numerous proposal efforts; provided extensive briefings on iterative system design methodologies, and provided hardware installation and maintenance in my facility.
Consultant for requirements analyses, rapid software prototyping modeling and simulation and interactive system design, development and installation. (Software and hardware systems.)
Contracts With: TRW, CONTEL Federal Systems, Federal Bureau of Investigation, CoGenTex.
Accepted a variety of assignments on government programs and Independent Research and Development (IRAD) efforts, leading to a position as Manager of the Command Support Division Rapid Prototyping Facility from 1985: 1987. Performed Human Factors and Requirements Engineering including human-computer interface design on a number of large-scale C3I information systems. Principal investigator for over $600,000 in User Engineering and Rapid Prototyping IR&D projects.
Research project was to develop the user interface to a new video control system which allows crew members to configure audio and video equipment to record and view events, and to downlink events from the Space Shuttle to the ground.
Research project was to evaluate the manner in which non-routine maintenance procedures are developed for Space Station, and to design and evaluate the HCI to an automated system (MILP) to assist in this process.
Specification and Design Defect Identification via Rapid Prototyping
NASA-EPSCoR Program Initiation Grant (PIG), $17,715 (including matching funds)
Fund for Innovation & Excellence In Teaching (FIET) - Massey University
Virtual Worlds for Teaching Systems Analysis, $9,500
Subcontractor: North Shore Schools Net program - A support program for primary and secondary schools in the Auckland Area, $6,000
Project Manager: soccerlife.com, Contract with Bluestone Consulting, $18,000.
Program Director: Pennsylvania Governor's School for Information Technology, Pennsylvania Department of Education, $250,000 per year for initial 2 years, with our option to continue indefinitely ($300,000 second year budget).
Co-Principal Investigator - "Human Resources for Information Systems Management" W. K. Kellogg Foundation, $1,100,000.
Principal Investigator: Evaluation Contract "Design Expert: Knowledge-Based Software Engineering" CoGenTex/USAF Rome Laboratories, $162,296.
Egenhofer, Max J. & Overmyer, Scott P. "Multi-modal Spatial Querying" National Science Foundation, $482,606 (est total).
Foundation of Software Engineering (Undergraduate - SE270)
Software Requirements & Formal Specifications (Undergraduate - SE320)
Human Factors & User Interface (Undergraduate: SE330)
Software Architecture (Undergraduate - SE340)
Software Test and Quality Assurance (Undergraduate - SE410)
Software Project Management (Undergraduate - SE420)
Software Engineering for Game Development (Dual Level - SE492/592)
Research Methods (Post-graduate - 157.750)
Systems Analysis and Design (Undergraduate - 157.221)
Design of Web-Based Systems (Undergraduate - 157.250)
Information Systems Project Paper (Undergraduate - 157.321)
User Interface Design and Evaluation (Post-graduate - 157.757)
(Adjunct Associate Professor - IST Online 1997-Present)
Information Systems Management (Graduate - INFO 646)
Human-Computer Interaction (Graduate - INFO 608)
Introduction to Systems Analysis and Design (Graduate - INFO 503)
Software Evaluation (Metrics) (Graduate - INFO 630)
Requirements Engineering and Management (Graduate - INFO 627)
Information Systems Analysis and Design (Graduate - INFO 620: Object-Oriented A&D using UML)
Introduction to Systems Analysis and Design (Graduate - INFO 503)
Human-Computer Interaction (Undergraduate - INSYS 110)
Introduction to Information Systems (Undergraduate - INSYS101)
Expert Consulting Systems (Undergraduate - INSYS 450)
Cooperating Assistant Professor: Department of Computer Science
Introduction to Management Information Systems
Decision Support Systems for Management
Management Information Systems (Graduate: MBA Program)
Introduction to Information Processing
Telecommunications Systems Management
Systems Analysis and Design
Database Management Systems
Human Aspects of Information Systems (HCI)
Independent Study in Systems Analysis
Decision Support System Design and Development
Requirements Engineering and Rapid Prototyping
Computing for Executives
Human Factors Considerations In C3I Systems Design and Development
Overmyer, S.P. (1999, March) Key Issues for U.S. Foreign Policy in the Information Age, Invited Presentation to the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia.
Overmyer, S.P. (1998, July) Applications of Pedagogical Agents in the SAVI (Skill Acquisition through Virtual Interaction) Project Environment, Presentation to the Workshop on Intelligent Pedagogical Agents, Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS'98), San Antonio, TX.
Overmyer, S.P. (1997, June) GIS in Business Education, In: (On-line: http://www.spatial.maine.edu/ucgis/testproc/overmyer/overmyer.html) Proceedings of the UCGIS 1997 Annual Assembly and Summer Retreat, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, Bar Harbor, ME.
Overmyer, S.P. (1997, March) Software Requirements Engineering Approaches for Large-Scale Interactive Systems, Presentation to the Maine Software Developer's Association Annual Breakfast, Orono, ME.
Overmyer, S.P. (1996) Systems Approaches to Innovative Thinking. Presentation to the University of Maine CEO Forum: Division of Industrial Cooperation.
Overmyer, S.P. (1991, June) Validating System and Software Requirements: Extending the Davis-Jordan Requirements Metamodel to the "User's View", 2nd International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping, IEEE, Research Triangle Park, NC.
Overmyer, S.P. (1989, November) Rapid Prototyping Tools and Techniques, Invited presentation, CECOM Technical Cooperation Program Technical Panel on Software Engineering (TTCP XTP-2) U.S. Army, Requirements Engineering and Rapid Prototyping Workshop, Ft. Monmouth, N.J.
McLaughlin, L.L., Overmyer, S.P. and Valt, L.G. (1986, November) User Engineering, Tutorial, Fall Joint Computer Conference (ACM-IEEE), Dallas, TX.
Overmyer, S.P. (1987, May) Graphic Production and Visual Early Warning Systems for Top Management, Panel, National Computer Graphics Association, Computer Graphics '87, Anaheim, CA.
Overmyer, S.P. and Campbell, H.E., Jr. (1984, October) Rapid Prototyping: An approach to user interface design. Paper presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors Society, San Antonio, TX.
Overmyer, Scott P. and Gornostaev, Juri (Eds.) Proceedings of the 6th East-West International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Moscow, Russia; August 12-16, 1996.
Dadgostar, F., Sarrafzadeh, A., Overmyer, S., DeSilva, L.(2006, November) Is the Hand really quicker than the Eye? Variances of the Mean-Shift algorithm for real-time hand and face tracking, Accepted for publication in the proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation, 28 Nov-1 Dec, Sydney, Australia.
Ciliberti, C and Overmyer, S.P (2006, September) The Impact of Open Architecture on US Navy's AEGIS Requirements Engineering. Accepted for presentation and publication in the Proceedings of the Conference on Maritime Systems and Technology for Defence, Security and Safety, Nice, France, September 2006.
Dadgostar, F., Sarrafazdeh, A., and Overmyer, S.P. (2006, July) Genetic Algorithms and Long-Haar features: A Method for Object Detection. Accepted for presentation and publication in the Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications (CITSA 2006), Orlando, USA, July 20-23, 2006..
Dadgostar, F., Ryu, H., Sarrafazdeh, A., and Overmyer, S.P. (2005, November) Making sense of student use of non-verbal cues for intelligent tutoring systems. Proceedings of the 19th conference of the computer-human interaction special interest group (CHISIG) of Australia on Computer-human interaction: citizens online: considerations for today and the future, OZCHI '05, Canberra, Australia, 1-4.
Dadgostar, F., Sarrafzadeh, A., Overmyer, S.P. (2005, October) Face Tracking Using Mean-Shift Algorithm: A Fuzzy Approach for Boundary Detection, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3784 (Springer)/The Proceedings of the International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction, Beijing, China, 56-63.
Dadgostar, F., Sarrafzadeh, A., Overmyer, S. (2005) An Adaptive Real-Time Skin Detector for Video Sequences, In: H.R. Arabnia (Ed.) Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision (VISION05), Las Vegas, Nevada, 65-70.
Biglari-Abhari, M., Bigdeli, A., Fan, C., Sarrafzadeh, A., Overmyer S. P. (2003, December) FPGA Implementation of Facial Expression Analysis for Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Proceedings of the mICTE, Spain, 1985-1989.
Fan, C., Sarrafzadeh, A., Overmyer, S. P., Gholam Hosseini, H., Biglari-Abhari, M., Bigdeli, A. (2003, December) A Fuzzy Approach to Facial Expression Analysis in Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Proceedings of the mICTE, Spain, 1933-1937.
Overmyer, S., Hosseini, H., Fan, C., Sarrafzadeh, A. (2003, November). A facial expression analysis component for affective tutoring systems. Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2003, Algarve, Portugal, 1003-1008.
Sarrafzadeh, A., Gholam Hosseini, H., Fan, C., Overmyer S. P., (2003) Using Machine Intelligence to Estimate Human Cognitive and Emotional States from Non-Verbal Signals, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2003), Athens, Greece, 336-337.
Sarrafzadeh, A., Page, C., Overmyer S. P., Fan, C., Messom, C., (2003, July) The Next Generation Intelligent Tutoring System, In: H.U. Hoppe et al (Eds.) Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), IOS Press, Sydney, Australia, 500-502.
Sarrafzadeh, A., Page, C., Overmyer, S., Messom, C., Mills, B., Pritchard, S., Bigdeli, A., Biglari-Abhari, M., Hosseini, H., (2003) Development of an Innovative Intelligent Tutoring System in an E-Learning Environment, Proceedings of the Enterprise 2003 Hawaiian International Faculty Student Conference, Honolulu, HI, USA, p 129-132.
Miller, R. & Overmyer, S.P. (2001, November) Deriving the "User View" from Analysis and Design Models of Requirements. In: Proceedings of the AWRE'2001, Sydney, Australia, pp. 61-69.
Overmyer, S.P., Lavoie, B., and Rambow, O. (2001, May) Conceptual modeling through linguistic analysis using LIDA. In: Proceedings of ICSE 2001, Toronto, Canada.
Overmyer, S.P. (1999, June) The Use of Scenarios in Developing, Validating, and Specifying Requirements for Interactive Systems: A case study from a NASA project. Paper presented at REFSQ'99, Heidelberg, Germany. http://www.ifi.uib.no/konf/refsq99/papers.html.
Overmyer, S.P. (1999, February) White Paper: Midatlantic Institute for Medical Informatics (MIMI): Preparing for 21st Century Health Care Challenges through Information Technology, Drexel University College of Information Science and Technology; and School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health.
Overmyer, S.P., Harrington, T.L., and Bidyuk, P.I. (1998, May) Kiev Chapter Holds Workshop. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Bulletin, 41(5), p. 4.
Overmyer, S.P. (1995) Capturing, Analyzing, and Representing Requirements for Large-Scale Command, Control, and Intelligence (C2I) Information Systems Using Electronic Multimedia. In: Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics, Vancouver, B.C., 3932-3937.
Overmyer, S.P. (1994, August) Technical Report: HCI Design and Rapid Prototyping for the Payload Video Console (PVC) System, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Johnson Space Center.
Overmyer, S.P. (1993, August) Technical Report: A Comparative Evaluation Plan for the Maintenance Inventory and Logistics Planning (MILP) Human-Computer Interface (HCI), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Johnson Space Center.
Davis, A.M., Overmyer, S.P., Jordan, K, et al (1993, May) Identifying and measuring quality in a software requirements specification. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Software Metrics Symposium, Baltimore, Maryland, IEEE Computer Society Press.
Overmyer, S.P. (1991, September) Revolutionary vs. evolutionary rapid prototyping: balancing software productivity and HCI design concerns. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Stuttgart, Germany.
Overmyer, S.P. (1991, June) The role of human-computer interface design in adaptive systems. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Associate Technology, DARPA/George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.
Overmyer, S.P. (December, 1991) White Paper: Maximizing End User Influence Over Software Design and Development. Contract #DCA100-91-C-003, Technical Report; Center of Excellence in Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence; George Mason University; Fairfax, VA.
Overmyer, S.P. (March, 1990) Throwaway vs. Evolutionary Prototyping: A Software Productivity Perspective. Technical Report; Center of Excellence in Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence; George Mason University; Fairfax, VA.
Overmyer, S.P. (January, 1990) Survey of Rapid Prototyping Tools for C3I Requirements Definition and User-Computer Interface Design. Technical Report; Center of Excellence in Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence; George Mason University; Fairfax, VA.
Overmyer, S.P. (October, 1990) The Impact of DoD-Std-2167A on Iterative Design Methodologies: Help or Hinder?. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, 15(5), 50-59.
Overmyer, S.P. (1989) Survey of Rapid Prototyping Tools for User-computer Interface Design. Technical Note 8901, CONTEL Technology Center, Fairfax, VA.
Overmyer, S.P. (1987) Rapid Prototyping in the design of large-scale interactive information systems. Human Factors Society Bulletin, 30(1), 3-4.
Melde, J.E., Overmyer, S.P. and Trowbridge, T.L. (1985, March) Simulation and display prototyping in the design of man-machine systems. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Simulation Symposium (pp. 235-253) Tampa, FL: Society for Computer Simulation.
Overmyer, S.P., Prokop, L.J., and Ellingstad, V.S. (1982) Human factors considerations in software development and interactive system design: Critical summary and annotated bibliography (PMTC-USN Contract No. N0429A-81N4130) University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD.
Sarrafzadeh, A., Messom, C., Overmyer, S.P., Mills, B., Hosseini, H.G., Fan, C., Bigdeli, A., Biglari, M. (2002) The future of computer-assisted management education and development, International Journal of Management Literature, 2(3&4), 214-229.
Procaccino, J.D., Verner, J.M., Overmyer, S.P., and Darter, M.E. (2002, January) Case study: factors for early prediction of software development success., Information and Software Technology, 44, 53-62.
Vernor, J., Overmyer, S., and McCain, K. (1999, November) In the 25 years since The Mythical Man-Month what have we learned about project management?, Information and Software Technology, 41, 1021-1026.
Overmyer S. (1999). If only my intelligent pedagogical agent could ... ! Educational Technology & Society, 2(1), 4-6.
Overmyer, S.P. (1999, May) A Methodology for Constructing User-Oriented Requirements Specifications for Large-Scale Systems Using Electronic Hypermedia, Requirements Engineering, 4(1), 1-18.
Artim, J., van Harmelen, M., Butler, K., Gulliksen, J., Henderson, A., Kovacevic, S., Lu, S., Overmyer, S., Reaux, R., Roberts, R., Tarby, J-C., Vander Linden, K. (1998, October) Incorporating Work, Process And Task Analysis Into Commercial And Industrial Object-Oriented Systems Development: A CHI 98 Workshop, SIGCHI Bulletin, 30(4), 7-12.
Simon, J.R., Paullin, C., Overmyer, S.P., and Berbaum, K. (1985) Reaction time to word meaning and ink color of laterally-presented Stroop stimuli: Effects of handedness and sex. International Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 21-33.
Overmyer, S.P. and Simon, J.R. (1985) The effect of irrelevant cues on "Same-Different" judgements in a sequential information processing task. Acta Psychologica, 58, 237-249.
Simon, J.R. and Overmyer, S.P. (1984) The effect of redundant cues on retrieval time. Human Factors, 26(3), 315-321.
Ralph Miller, Ph.D.: Drexel University: Graduated 2002: "Learning and using requirements representation notations by information technology professionals"
Ramesh Lal: Master's Candidate: Massey University - 2004 - "User interface design practice for web sites and web-based applications in New Zealand"
5 Ph.D. committees, 14 M.S. committees
Budget, Planning & Development Committee of the Faculty Senate
Douglas Englebart Award Committee
Curriculum Committee: School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health
Past Newsletter Editor: Virtual Environments Technical Group
Past Chair: System Development Technical Group
Past Newsletter Editor: System Development Technical Group