Collaborators
I have been blessed with the opportunities to work with great researchers. I have been influenced by many of them (particularly Paul Milgram, Bill Buxton and John Senders when I was a graduate student) and hope to influence others to do good and useful research.
Research colleagues at Google (2011 ~)
Great many research colleagues at Google. Philip Quinn, Seungyon Claire Lee, Xiaojun Bi, Tom Ouyang, Kurt Partridge, Yang Li, Ciprian Chelba, ...
Research colleagues at IBM Almaden (1996~2010)
Many research colleagues in the IBM Almaden Research Center. Co-authored papers with Barton Smith, Johnny Accot, Ted Selker, Eser Kandogan, Paul Maglio, Jeff Pierce, Steve Whittaker, Tom Moran and others.
Postdoctoral fellows
Xiaojun Bi, advanced gesture keyboard and touch tapping modeling, 2012
Caroline Appert, cognitive benefits and toolkit support of gesture UI, 2007~2008
Johnny Accot, laws of action, 2000 ~ 2003
PhD students
Per Ola Kristensson, primary thesis advisor, Linköping University, Sweden, 2002~2007 (including Master's and license degrees)
Tue Haste Andersen, advisor of portions of his PhD work, University of Copenhagen, 2004
PhD committees served on as examiner/reader
Ying Liu, 2010, Tampere, Finland
Manu Kumar, 2007, Stanford
Jacob Wobbrock, 2006, CMU
Poika Isokoski, 2004, U. Tampere
Graduate Interns (topic, year, school)
I frequently and periodically host (or co-host) and work with interns on exploratory research projects, typically during the summer. The ideal candidates should have strong technical skills and a passion for innovative and deep research in the areas of my current interest.
___At Google (2011 ~ )___
Tianshi Li (2018) Phrasewriter
Mitchell Gordon (2017) Haptics
Jingjie Zheng (2017), Mobile marking menu (M3)
Wenxin Feng (2017), Deep touch ML
Premal Nair (2016), Adaptive touch surface typing (Flex 10)
Mitchell Gordon (2015), WatchWriter
Shyam Reyal (2015), Text input error correction
Brian Smith (2014), Gesture Typing layout
Andrew Fowler (2013), Language Modelling and Personalization in the mobile keyboard
Ying Yin, Adaptive text input (2012) MIT
Philip Quinn, Suggestion UI (2012) U Canterbury
Kun Li, Mobile Gesture Menu (2012) U Colorado Boulder
Shiri Azenkot, Mobile Keyboard Touch Patterns (2011) UW
Lawrence Diao, Mobile Touch Keyboard (2011) Princeton U
Kun Li, Mobile Gesture Keyboard (2011) U Colorado Boulder
___At IBM Research (1996 - 2010)___
Patti Bao, smartphones business use, 2010, Northwestern U
Kimberlly Weaver, mobile information preview, 2010, from Georgia Tech
Seungyon Clare Lee, touchscreen soft button performance, 2007, from Georgia Tech
Xiang Cao, CLC model of gesture complexity, 2006, from U. Toronto
Per Ola Kristensson, ShapeWriter, 2003, 2004, from Linköping University, Sweden
Paul Lee, soft keyboard skill acquisition, 2000
Michael Hunter, graphical keyboard optimization, 1999
Johnny Accot, steering law, 1998, U. of Toulouse, France
Eser Kandogan, 3D VR navigation, 1997, U. Maryland
Academic visitors
Andy Cockburn, 2006
Yves Guiard
Hosts of my academic visits/sabbatical/guest professorship
Yuanchun Shi, Tsinghua U, China, 2004
Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, U Paris-Sud, France, 2002
Sture Hägglund, Linköping U, Sweden, 2001~2002
Kerstin Severinson-Eklundh, KTH Royal Inst. Technology, Sweden, 2001~2002