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PhD student, CHISEL lab, University of Victoria

I am a PhD student in the Computer-Human Interaction Software Engineering Lab (CHISEL) at the University of Victoria, Canada, since September 2007. My supervisor is Dr. Margaret-Anne Storey. I received a Masters degree in Computer Science (Diplom-Informatiker) at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in February 2007.

My research topic is end user development of visualizations and user interfaces. I am currently investigating different ways of supporting users in visual analytics and rapid mashup construction. Others areas of interest are end user development, information visualization, human-computer interaction, domain specific languages, model driven development and software engineering in general.

Contact

EMail: lars.grammel@gmail.com
Profiles: LinkedIn, XING, Sourceforge

Blog: lgrammel.blogspot.com

Twitter: twitter.com/lgrammel

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Lars Grammel, Christoph Treude, Margaret-Anne Storey "Mashup Environments in Software Engineering", Web2SE: First Workshop on Web 2.0 for Software Engineering, 2010.
Lars Grammel "Supporting end users in analyzing multiple data sources", Graduate consortium at IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) 2009.
Sean M. Falconer, R. Ian Bull, Lars Grammel, Margaret-Anne Storey "Creating visualizations through ontology mapping", International Workshop on Ontology Alignment and Visualization, 2009.
Lars Grammel, Margaret-Anne Storey "An End User Perspective on Mashup Makers", Technical Report DCS-324-IR, Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, September 2008, BibTeX
Lars Grammel, Holger Schackmann, Horst Lichter "BugzillaMetrics - Design of an adaptable tool for evaluating user-defined metric specifications on change requests", MetriKon, 2007
Lars Grammel, Holger Schackmann, Horst Lichter "BugzillaMetrics - An adaptable tool approach for evaluating metric specifications on change requests", International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE), 2007
Lars Grammel "Development of a Tool for the Evaluation of Change Requests", Masters Thesis (Diplomarbeit), RWTH Aachen University Germany, February 2007

Posters

Lars Grammel, Margaret-Anne Storey "Visualization Mashups For Casual Users", Poster, 2009
Lars Grammel, Margaret-Anne Storey "End User Development of Visualizations", Poster, 2008

Presentations

Lars Grammel "Visualization Construction by Non-Experts", User Interfaces for Visual Analysis and Monitoring in Business Intelligence workshop at CASCON 2009
Lars Grammel "Supporting end users in analyzing multiple data sources", Graduate consortium at IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) 2009.
Lars Grammel "Visual Analytics for Average Business Users", Business Intelligence Track at IBM University Days 2009
Lars Grammel, Margaret-Anne Storey "Visualization Mashups For Casual Users", Smart Interactions Track at IBM University Days 2009
Lars Grammel "An End User Perspective on Mashup Makers", End User Development of Enterprise Mashups workshop at CASCON 2008

Open Source Projects

I am currently an active contributor to the following open source projects. Projects I have contributed to in the past can be found in my Sourceforge profile.

Nomad PIM [ www.nomadpim.org ]

Nomad PIM is an Eclipse RCP based personal information manager. I started the project in 2005. My goal is to create a personal information manager that can be extended and customized for personal needs in the way that the Eclipse IDE can be customized for development in different domains.

BugzillaMetrics [ www.bugzillametrics.org ]

BugzillaMetrics is a tool for the evaluation of change request metrics. I created its first version as part of my thesis 2006/2007. Its main characteristics are the specification of metrics by the users, separation between metric specification and data retrieval, an event driven algorithm, transparent execution optimization and an abstraction of its data sources.