Brodrick Stigall

About Brodrick

Brodrick Stigall is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Computer Science Department at The University of Memphis where he teaches undergraduate computing courses.

His research interests are in computer science education and how computer science departments can better prepare students for industry jobs. I’m particularly interested in how these computer science programs can affect social movement. He previously conducted research on the usage and perceptions of voice user interfaces (VUI). He is particularly interested in how widely available VUI technologies like smart speakers can be used to enhance lives.

Educational Background:

Graduate Certificate, Engineering Science Education - Clemson University(2024)
Master of Science, Computer Science - Georgia Institute of Technology(2018)
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science - University of Tennessee(2011)

Brodrick has 13 years of industry experience holding positions at Fortune 500 companies International Paper Co., AutoZone Inc, and Adobe Co.

Research

Brodrick's research interests revolve around Human Computer Interaction, with with an emphasis on Smart Technologies.

Histabot

Usage of a Smart Speaker to teach history to children..

Health Assistant

Using Smart Assistants in a health centered way.

Publications

Stigall, B., & Caine, K. (2022).Towards Self Expression Through Voice User Interfaces. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting.

Simon Coghlan, Jenny Waycott, Lei Nui, Kelly E Caine, and Brodrick Stigall. 2021. Swipe a Screen or Say the Word : Older Adults ’ Preferences for Information -seeking with Touchscreen and Voice-User Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 33rd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2021.

Stigall, B., & Caine, K. (2020). A Systematic Review of Human Factors Literature About Voice User Interfaces and Older Adults. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting.

Huff, E. W., Stigall, B., Brinkley, J., Pak, R., & Caine, K. E. (2020). Can Computer-Generated Speech Have an Age ? Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Stigall, B., Waycott, J., Baker, S., & Caine, K. (2019). Older Adults ’ Perception and Use of Voice User Interfaces : A Preliminary Review of the Computing Literature. Proceedings of the 31st Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2019.

Stigall, B. Just a Few Dares: Valedictorian Speech. Hamilton High School. 2006.

Academic Experience

  • 2024-Present

    Assistant Professor of Teaching

    University of Memphis, Computer Science Department

  • 2020-2023

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Clemson University School of Computing

  • 2019

    Visiting Student Researcher

    University of Melbourne(Australia) Interaction Design Lab: Melbourne School of Engineering

  • 2018-2019

    Graduate Teacher Assistant

    Clemson University School of Computing

  • 2017

    Teachers Assistant

    Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing

Industry Experience

I've been developing since I was 12 years old.

  • May 2021-August 2021

    Adobe Inc.

    Intern Researcher: I conducted a user study to understand what people wanted in a chatbot for exploratory data analysis.

  • 2016- 2018

    Autozone

    As a Systems Engineer at Autozone I am responsible for maintaining and improving the processes that support Autozone's E-Commerce.

  • 2011-2016

    International Paper

    For over 4 years I have been the primary front-end developer for OrderIP.com suite of applications. Initially I modernized the suite to work on multiple browsers by designing an HTML5/CSS3 template to be applied across the landscape. I have made responsive designs to allow the applications to be viewable on mobile devices and I have continuously made design changes to make OrderIP more usable. I also wrote Java data retrieval modules on OrderIP backend with consideration for efficiency and running time complexity

    I have also done some mobile development and SAP work

  • Summer 2010

    BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC

    As a research and development intern our jobs where to come up with innovative uses of technology at BMW. I learned iOS development and, developed an iPhone app for use in BMW vehicles.

  • Summer 2008 & Summer 2009

    AutoZone

    2008 - As my first internship as a programmer I created a job for myself. I taught myself GUI design and wrote a program to merge Fedex Trade Data into one searchable database.

    2009 - The next summer at AutoZone I joined the Z-Net Team. This was my first experience in a team environment. I helped to implement several features in the program.

Projects

I'm Midas with my spare time.

Stig's Poetry

A site of poetry yours truly and classmates from middle and high school. Though I could modernize this site, I wrote it in PURE HTML, using no page builders or special editors. Just me and NotePad. Occasionally I throw a new poem on there.

Stig's Poetry

MugenDream

M.U.G.E.N. is a engine for creating your own fighting game. I spent several years in high school and college working on a project I had to realize my "Dream" of a fun Dragonball Z game. M.U.G.E.N. gave me my first experience writing code for something other than a website, and ultimately led to my decision to pursue Computer Science. I am quite famous in the M.U.G.E.N community for this project. This site is also pure HTML made completely from tables and the News(they call them blogs now) is hard coded).

Mugen Dream

Kunio Dodgeball Translation

An old Geocities page for a project I had to Translate the SNES game Kunio-kun no Dodge Ball dayo Zenin Shuugou! (sequel to the NES game Super Dodgeball). The game was only released in Japan and as such had no English version. I HEX and bitmap edited my way into creating a patch to translate the game into English. Surprisingly the Geocities page is still up.

Stig87s Kunio Kun No Dodgeball Translation

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