Real Name Ecaterina Valicã;
Date of birth 22 Oct 1984, Vatra-Dornei;
Location Iaşi, Romania;
Teaching Activity
  • Computer-Human Interaction Laboratory - elective, 3rd year, 1nd semester (B.Sc. Studies) (in Romanian), 2007-2008 [ link ];
Book Chapters

"Aplicaţii hibride: mashup-uri" (in Romanian), pages 183-242, in S.Buraga (ed.), "Programarea în Web 2.0", ISBN 978-973-46-0816-4, Polirom Publishing House, Iaşi, 2007

This chapter presents the techniques behind mashup applications and shows you how to build them yourself. The examples show you how to integrate Google Map with other APIs like Flickr, Google Search, Google Feed, Google Calendar etc.

[ Chapter's Examples ]

[ Book's Presentation Site ]

[ Book's Blog ]

[ Book's Polirom Page ]

Published Papers
  • "Visual Communication through Infographics" (in Romanian), pages 77-80, in S. Buraga & I. Juvinã (eds.), Proceedings of the 5th National Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - RoCHI 2008, ISSN 1843-4460, MATRIX ROM, Bucureşti, Sept 2008;
  • "Interaction Design Patterns" (in Romanian), pages 163-164, in S. Buraga & I. Juvinã (eds.), Proceedings of the 5th National Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - RoCHI 2008, ISSN 1843-4460, MATRIX ROM, Bucureşti, Sept 2008 [ more ];
Talks
  • "Visual Communication through Infographics" (in English), RoCHI 2008 , Iaşi, Sept 2008 [ link ];
  • "Interaction Design Patterns" (in English), RoCHI 2008, Iaşi, Sept 2008 [ link ];
  • "CAPTCHA" (in English), May 2008 [ link ];
  • "Visual Cryptography" (in English), April 2008 [ link ];
  • "Software Testing - Achievements, Dreams" (in English), December 2007 [ link ];
  • "Mashups - work you don't have to do" (in English), <Web/> Workshop on Web Technologies, Iaşi, May 2007 [ link ];
Other Papers
  • "Customer Relationship Management Research" (in English), Nov 2007 [ XHTML ];
  • "Comparaţie Navigatoare Web 2006" (in Romanian), Jan 2007 (collaboration with R.Moroşan) [ XHTML ];
  • "Şabloane de proiectare XSLT" (in Romanian), Nov 2006 (collaboration with R.Moroşan) [ XHTML ];
  • "XML şi Baze de date" (in Romanian), Oct 2006 (collaboration with R.Moroşan) [ XHTML ];
  • "Protocoale de rutare" (in Romanian), Apr 2006 (collaboration with R.Moroşan) [ XHTML ];
General Studies
  • M.Sc. Studies in Software Engineering at the Faculty of Computer Science at "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University, Iaşi, 2007 - 2009;
  • B.Sc. Studies at the Faculty of Computer Science at "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University, Iaşi, 2003 - 2007, with the graduation paper "Mashup techniques for Web interactions in Geographical Informational Systems";
  • "Ion Luca" High School, Vatra-Dornei (1999 - 2003), graduated with an average grade of 9.50 (on a 1 to 10 scale);
Membership
  • Member of the Program Committee of RoCHI 2008, Iaşi, Sept 2008;
  • Member of the Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction [ SIGCHI ] – Romanian branch (RoCHI), since Sept 2007;
  • Member of AIESEC Iaşi – Corporate Relations Department, Oct 2007 - Sept 2008;