PhD student (2010-Now): Computer Science at University of British Columbia, supervised by Dr. Joanna McGrenere in IMAGER Lab

MSc (2008-2010):  School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University, supervised by Dr. Brian Fisher in SCIENCE Lab.

My research is in the filed of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) with a particular focus on Personalization in Human-Information Interaction (HII) and Personal Information Management (PIM).

Publications

Haraty, M., Tam, D., Hadad, S., McGrenere, J., Tang, C., Individual Differences in Personal Task Management: A Field Study in an Academic Setting. To appear in the Proceedings of the 38th Graphics Interface conference, GI2012. (Best student paper award-HCI track)

Toker, D., Conati, C., Carenini, G., Haraty, M. (2012) Towards Adaptive Information Visualization: On the Influence of User Characteristics. To appear in the Proceedings of the 20th International conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2012)

Nobarany, S., Haraty, M., and Fisher, B. (2012) Facilitating the Reuse Process in Distributed Collaboration: A Distributed Cognition Approach. In Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW '12). ACM.

Flag, A., Haraty, M., Carenini, G., and Conati, C. The Role of Eye Tracking in Adaptive Information Visualization. 2nd Workshop on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction, IUI 2011.

Nobarany, S., Haraty, M., Fels, S. S., & Fisher, B. (2011). Leveraging Trust Relationships in Digital Backchannel Communications. In Proceedings of the 29th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, ACM (2011). Vancouver, BC, Canada

Haraty, M., Nobarany, S., & Fisher, B., ExplorationMap: Supporting Collaborative Exploratory Information Seeking. To appear in Proceedings of CSCW Workshop on Collaborative Information Seeking. Savannah, GA, USA (2010) 

Nobarany, S., Haraty, M., Fisher, B., & DiPaola, S., Epistemically Active Adaptive User Interfaces. In Adjunct Proceedings of 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (65-67). Presented at the UIST, Victoria, British Columbia (2009).

Haraty, M., Nobarany, S., DiPaola, S., and Fisher, B. AdWiL: Adaptive Windows Layout Manager. Proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, ACM (2009), 4177-4182.

Nobarany, S., Haraty, M., and Cosley, D. GePuTTIS: General Purpose Transitive Trust Inference System For Social Networks. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Social Information Processing (AAAI-SIP-08), AAAI (2008), 66-71.

Nobarany, S. andHaraty, M. Improving Accuracy of Tagging Systems Using Tag Qualifiers and Tagraph Vocabulary System. In Metadata and Semantics. 2009, 223-226. (Also in Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research 2007. Corfu, Greece.)

Awards