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MERL People
Everyone past and present who have contributed ideas and laughs
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Chia Shen
Chia Shen is a Senior Research Scientist at MERL in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she served as Associate Director of the Research Lab from 2003 to 2006. She currently is also a Visiting Senior Scientist at the IIC@Harvard. DiamondSpin (www.diamondspin.org), developed at MERL under her direction during 2001 - 2003, is the first open toolkit made available to the tabletop research community for the construction of experimental multi-user tabletop applications. Her co-authored paper on the PDH (Personal Digital Historian), a tabletop story-sharing system, has been ranked as the most cited paper for the 2002 ACM CSCW. She was Conference Chair of the 20th ACM UIST 2007. Dr. Shen is on the Editorial Board of ACM Computers in Entertainment, as well as the Steering Committee of the IEEE Workshop on Tabletop and Interactive Surfaces.
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Clifton Forlines
Clifton Forlines is Research Associate at MERL Research Lab. His research interests include the design and evaluation of novel user interfaces. Current research projects span from three-dimensional presentation of and navigation through recorded digital video, to collaborative tabletop user interfaces, to using hand-held projectors for augmented reality. He is currently leading the evaluation of three projects, MediaFinder, TimeTunnel, and DiamondSpin. Before coming to MERL, Clifton worked on Carnegie Mellon's Alice project, which aimed at teaching programming to children through building interactive 3D worlds.
MERL Employee Page | Curriculum vitae
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Kathy Ryall
Kathy Ryall's research interests span human-computer interaction, computer-supported cooperative work, and information visualization.
The common thread across her work is to explore systems in which the interface acts as a medium for people and computers to work together on solving problems, rather than as a means for people to control computers. She is currently a principal research scientist at BAE Systems Advanced Information Technologies (AIT). Prior to joining AIT she has held positions at MERL, Xerox, NASA, DEC, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Harvard University and the University of Virginia.
Kathy earned a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard University and is a Senior Member of both the IEEE and the ACM. Contact her at ryall@acm.org.
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Alan Esenther
Alan is the DiamondTouch Software Development Manager. He is the primary technical force behind the software included with the DiamondTouch business product, as well as the author of most of that code. His goal is to bring multi-user, multi-touch tabletop interactions beyond research. To that end he has worked on integrating touch-table capabilities with the operating system and with professional applications. Other work includes instant co-browsing (lightweight real-time distributed collaboration using unmodified web browsers), tools for wrapping existing web applications with web services for use in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), web content generation for mobile agents, transaction monitors, kernel-level volume management, and microprocessor development.
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Sam Shipman
Sam Shipman received the M.S. degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and the B.S. from UNC-Wilmington. His technical interests and background are in real-time and distributed operating systems research and development. At MERL, he has worked on the Network Replication and Open Community projects, and on smaller efforts related to MPEG-7, interactive surroundings, and fingerprint recognition.
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Paul Dietz
Paul Dietz seeks to make the world a slightly better place by creating clever devices and systems. At Walt Disney Imagineering R&D, Paul led the Location Sensitive Smart Toys project, now known as the plush park companion, "Pal Mickey". "DiamondTouch", "iGlassware", "Buffer Phone", "Digital Merchandising", "LED Comm", and "Submerging Technologies", were some of his better known creations at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs.
Paul is currently in the Applied Sciences Group at Microsoft Corporation.
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Darrent Leigh
Darren Leigh's research interests range from electronic hardware and embedded systems to signal processing, RF and communications. Before coming to MERL, he worked on the Harvard University/Planetary Society Billion-channel ExtraTerrestrial Assay (Project BETA), a search for microwave signals from extraterrestrial civilizations (SETI). Other previous research included 3D microscopic scanning, desktop manufacturing and network architectures for multimedia. His current research includes the DiamondTouch multi-user touch technology, sensor networks and a plethora of gadgets.
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Fred Vernier
Fred is a Lecturer (Professor Assistant) and researcher in Computer Science teaching at South-Paris University who leads research at LIMSI laboratory in the AMI group. Before Fred did a post-doc in USA at Mitsubishi Electric Researsh Laboratories (MERL-CRL). Fred defended his PhD thesis in Febuary 2001 in the CLIPS-IMAG Laboratory, HCI team of Grenoble University (FRANCE). The topic of his thesis research (written in french) is the output multimodality applied to Information Visualization and Navigation. His former PhD adviser was Laurence Nigay.
Personal Web Site
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Interns
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Hao Jiang
Hao Jiang is currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Tsinghua University, China. At his intern position at MERL, he works with Dr. Chia Shen on multi-surface collaborative systems. He is also interested in research on interaction techniques. Hao received his B.E. degree in Computer Science at Tsinghua Univeristy in 2005.
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Daniel Wigdor
Daniel Wigdor is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto in the DGP lab with Professor Ravin Balakrishnan, and has also working with Dr. Chia Shen at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs in Cambridge, MA. Since 2001, he has been an instructor in the Department of Computer Science. His professional interests are in mobile devices and in teaching, and academic interests are computer science (HCI), political science, and law.
University of Toronto Student Page
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Peter Brandl
Peter Brandl is a Research Associate at the Media Interaction Lab (MIL) and a Ph.D. candidate at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences. He is interested in designing interfaces for digital surfaces (tabletops and walls) and applying new technologies in that context. His research at MERL was about pen and touch bimanual interaction on tabletops, a project supervised by Dr. Chia Shen. Coming from the Ars Electronica Futurelab, his other interests are interactive live performances and installations. The latest piece "Apparition" is a dance performance that shows how the dynamics of the human body and its movement quality are extended and transferred into the virtual world.
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Edward Tse
Edward Tse is an Alberta Ingenuity R&D Associate and Project Research Leader at Smart Technologies. His Ph.D. specialized in natural interaction over large digital displays where he collaborated with researchers at Smart Technologies and Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories. His research interest is supporting the speech and gesture actions that people naturally do when working together over large surfaces. For more information visit www.EdwardTse.com.
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Kate Everitt
Kate Everitt is a PhD student at the University of Washington, specializing in human-computer interaction. Her research interests include multimodal interfaces, collaborative interaction using tabletop surfaces and large displays, and applications for ubiquitous computing. She has a M.Sc. in Computer Science from The University of California, Berkeley, where she worked with the Group for User Interface Research, and a B.Sc. in Computing and Information Science from Queen's University.
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Meredith Ringel Morris
Meredith Ringel Morris is a researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at Microsoft Research. Her research interests include human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work. Merrie received her Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University, where her dissertation, "Supporting Effective Interaction with Tabletop Groupware", introduced novel interaction techniques and interface designs for supporting co-located collaborative work around tabletop displays.
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Mark Hancock
Mark Hancock is currently a computer science doctoral candidate at the University of Calgary under the supervision of Dr. Sheelagh Carpendale. His research interests include human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work, with a special interest in 3D interaction on tabletop displays.
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Mike Wu
Mike Wu is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Toronto, specializing in the study of Human-Computer Interaction under the supervision of Prof Ron Baecker. His current research interests involve designing cognitive aids for individuals with amnesia and their families. Mike has a MSc from the University of Toronto and a BSc from the University of British Columbia.
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