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Teaching
Teaching is intertwined with almost everything I do. I have three major teaching activities: I am the director of the HCI Institute PhD program, I supervise (and co-supervise) a number of my own PhD students, and I teach HCI courses at the undergraduate, masters, and PhD levels.

Classroom Teaching

In the Spring of 2008 I am teaching 05(HCI)-833 "Applied Gadgets, Sensors and Activity Recognition in HCI".

In the past I have regularly or semi-regularly taught the following courses:

	05(HCI)-4/631		Software Architectures for User Interface.
	05(HCI)-771		HCI Process and Theory.
	05(HCI)-4/630		Programming Usable Interfaces.
	05(HCI)-671/2		HCI Project Course I/II.
	05(HCI)-833		Applied Gadgets, Sensors and Activity Recognition in HCI (formerly: Advanced Topics in UI Technology).

A full list of HCI Courses can be found here.

HCII PhD Program

I have directed the HCII PhD program since its inception in 2000. The program's central goal is to train world class interdisciplinary HCI researchers capable of transforming our field, and I take great pride in our students, both past and present. The program admits research-oriented students from a wide variety of backgrounds. However, admissions are very competitive. If you are interested in our program, please see the materials regarding applications on the HCII web site (including the frequently asked questions list), and of course either I or the PhD program coordinator would be happy to answer questions as well.

My Students

Current PhD Students

Joonhwan Lee

Proposed Thesis: "Move: Maps Optimized for Vehicular Environments", (CMU) Graduation Expected May 2008 (co-advised with Jodi Forlizzi)

Johnny Chung Lee

Proposed Thesis: "Projector-Based Location Discovery and Tracking", (CMU) Graduation expected May 2008

Gary Hsieh (CMU, co-advised with Robert Kraut)

Amy Hurst (CMU, co-advised with Jennifer Mankoff)

Chris Harrison (CMU)

Daniel Avrahami

Thesis: "Enhancing Technology-Mediated Communication: Tools, Analyses, and Predictive Models", (CMU) October 2007, Intel Research, Seattle.

James Fogarty

Thesis: "Constructing and Evaluating Sensor-Based Statistical Models of Human Interruptibility", (CMU) February 2006, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington.

Jennifer Mankoff

Thesis: "An Architecture and Interaction Techniques for Handling Ambiguity in Recognition-based Input", (Georgia Tech) May 2001, (unofficially co-advised with Gregory Abowd), Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, CMU, formerly Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley.

Ian Smith

Thesis: "Support For Multi-Viewed Interfaces" (Georgia Tech) June 1998, Chief Technical Officer, Transmutable Networks, formerly Intel Research Seattle and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

Andrey K. Yeatts

Thesis: "A Visual Notation for Specification of Rule-Based Graphical User Interfaces", (University of Arizona) December 1996, National Optical Astronomy Observatory.

Aravindan Veerasamy

Thesis: "Visualization and User Interface Techniques for Interactive Information Retrieval Systems" (Georgia Tech) March 1997 (co-advised with Sham Navathe).

Krishna Bharat

"Supporting the Construction of Distributed, Interoperative, User Interface Applications", (Georgia Tech) June 1996, Principle Scientist, Google Labs (Originator of Google News), formerly DEC Systems Research Center, Palo Alto.

Chen-Ning Hsi

Thesis: "High Level Techniques for Authoring, Analysis, and Synthesis of Multimedia Documents", (University of Arizona - in residence at Georgia Tech), August 1994, Phillips Research, Taiwan, formerly Associate Professor of Computer Science at Providence University, Taiwan.

Shamim P. Mohamed

Thesis: "End-User Specification of Interactive Displays", (University of Arizona) August 1993, formerly Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Idaho State University.

Gary L. Newell

Thesis: "A Probabilistic Approach to Gestural Interface Design", (University of Arizona), August 1993, Associate Professor and Department Head, Computer Science, Northern Kentucky University, formerly Chair of the Computer Science Department at McKendree College.

Tyson R. Henry

Thesis: "Techniques for Interacting with Large Graphs", (University of Arizona), May 1992, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the California State University, Chico

Bruce R. Schatz

Thesis: "Interactive Retrieval in Information Spaces Distributed Across Wide-Area Networks", (University of Arizona), December 1990, Recipient of NSF National Young Investigator Award, 1992. Professor and Head, Department of Medical Information Systems, College of Medicine, Professor of Library and Information Sciences and Computer Science at the University of Illinois.