Research
In my past life at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), I had the opportunity to work on several very interesting research projects, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. I also had a summer internship which resulted in a publication. Although in the coming years my work will take a decidedly more legalistic perspective, I’m sure that the publications below will prove to be valuable starting points.
Publications
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Friedenberg, Marc Aaron. Design and Development of a Geocollaborative Web Portal: A User-Centered Approach. Master’s thesis, Penn State University.
My Masters thesis involved the design and evaluation of a geocollaborative Web portal for use during emergency crisis management efforts.
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McNeese, M. D., Pfaff, M., Connors, E. S., Obieta, J., Terrell, I., & Friedenberg, M. (2006). Multiple vantage points of the common operational picture: Supporting complex teamwork. Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, San Franscico, CA.
I was involved in this research as part of my research assistantship with the MINDS Group at IST.
This paper summarizes multiple perspectives of the common operational picture (COP) in military and civilian crisis management domains viewed from three vantage points: historical, conceptual, and practical. The term COP extends prior research on large group displays to describe a visual representation of tactical, operational, and strategic information intended to generate situation awareness. We present four strata of interest to formulate an innovative conceptual framework of the COP based on user-team needs: structure, representation, processes, and management. This conceptual framework is applied as part of a review of recent and ongoing projects that examines current research gaps in the application of geographic information systems (GIS) to international humanitarian response.
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Dhiraj Joshi, Ritendra Datta, Ziming Zhuang, Walter Weiss, Marc Friedenberg, Jia Li, and James Wang. PARAgrab: A Comprehensive Architecture for Web Image Management and Multimodal Querying. In Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 2006. Demo. Seoul, Korea. September 2006.
I worked on this project for one of a graduate-level database class. I helped to create the overall design of the system, and I also wrote nearly all of the interface and the scripts that integrate with the lower-level search code which other students developed. I had a lot of fun with this project, and I understand that work continues on it. Feel free to try PARAgrab out yourself.
- Friedenberg MA, Miller L, Chung CY, Fleszler F, Banson FL, Thomas R, Swartz KP, Friedenberg FK. Simplified method of hepatic fibrosis quantification: design of a new morphometric analysis application.
Liver International 25(6): 1156-1161.During my summer intership at Temple University Hospital, I was the principal developer for an image analysis application (FibroXact) that automates and simplifies color segmentation. Trichrome slides were scanned and the program was used to evaluate each pixel based upon hue, lightness, and saturation values. Percent fibrosis was automatically calculated after thresholding. Essentially, it allows you to analyze liver biopsies for fibrosis, and using color segmentation to calculate a percentage.
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Haynes, S and Friedenberg, M. 2006. Best Practices in Agile Software Development. Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology.
I was able to work on this research project during my freshman year. It deals with agile methods, an approach to software development that is a subject of great interest to many in the IT field. I read numerous academic research papers, as well as case studies and expert opinions, to try to develop a set of best practices for agile methods. In 2006 IST published it as a technical report.