Big Data in Service of People

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Human Interfaces Group
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
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A New Kind of Smart Calendar

Mobile phone GPS can be used to learn unsupervised models of family logistics. A smart app can display this as a plan. Parents report this improves their planning and coordination.

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Rapid Prototyping with Robots

How robots can "mechanicaly hijack" controls made for human hands

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Inventing New Design Methods

Speed Dating, a method I co-invented, is now part of the core curriculum in Design and Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon. Professor Bruce Hannington includes it in his new textbook.

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Google Tech Talk

Studying and modeling human routines opens the door to new types of coordination applications.

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Rss Most Cited Publications

UbiComp 2006
101 cites
Principles of smart home control
ppt | pdf
UbiComp 2007
Best Presentation Nominee
45 cites
Rapidly exploring application design through Speed Dating
ppt | pdf
D&E 2006
Best Paper Winner
13 cites
Smart homes, families and control
ppt | pdf
CHI 2010
10 cites
How routine learners can support family coordination
ppt | pdf

Rss Recent Publications

CSER 2013
 
Introduction to Information Visualization (InfoVis) techniques for Model-Based Systems Engineering
pdf
DIS 2012
Best Paper Winner
 
A Fieldwork of the future with User Enactments
pdf
Working Draft
 
Adding place and time to family calendars
pdf

Talks and Travel

19 Oct 12
Microsoft Research
17 Oct 12
University of Washington
05 Sep 12
Carnegie Mellon HCII
14 Feb 12
IBM Research
09 Feb 12
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
12 Jan 12
University of Helsinki
28 Oct 11
Microsoft UX
21 Oct 11
Arizona State University
19 Sep 11
ACM Ubicomp 2011
13 Sep 11
Xerox Research
01 Sep 11
University of Wisconsin-Madison
26 Jul 11
Keynote: Mobile Marketing Association
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