Rob Jacob

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Address:

Robert J.K. Jacob
Dept. of Computer Science
Tufts University
Halligan Hall
161 College Avenue
Medford, Mass. 02155 U.S.A.

Email: Email address
WWW: http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~jacob/

Phone: 617-627-2225
Fax: 617-627-2227

Spring 2008:

Visiting Professor
Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique
Université Paris-Sud
91405 Orsay Cedex, France

http://www.lri.fr

Background:

Robert Jacob is a Professor of Computer Science at Tufts University, where his research interests are new interaction media and techniques and user interface software. He is currently also a visiting professor at the Universite Paris-Sud, and he was a visiting professor at the MIT Media Laboratory, in the Tangible Media Group, and continues collaboration with that group. Before coming to Tufts, he was in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the Naval Research Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, and he is a member of the editorial board of Human-Computer Interaction and the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. He was Papers Co-Chair of the CHI 2001 conference, Co-Chair of UIST 2007, and Vice-President of ACM SIGCHI. He was elected to the ACM CHI Academy in 2007, an honorary group of people who have made extensive contributions to the study of HCI and have shaped the field.

Research Interests:

Human-Computer Interaction
New Interaction Techniques and Media
Tangible User Interfaces
Virtual Environments
User Interface Software
Information Visualization

News:

Award dinner

Papers, Talks, etc.:

Research Projects:

Image from the project Brain-computer Interaction Using fNIR Spectroscopy [project]
Image from the project Reality-based Interaction: Understanding the Next Generation of User Interfaces [project] [older project webpage] [CHI 2006 workshop]
Image from the project TUIMS: Tangible User Interface Management System [Orit Shaer], Ph.D. student working on this [paper in PDF]
Image from the project TERN: Tangible Programming System for children [project] [Michael Horn], Ph.D. student working on this
Image from the project Visual Understanding Environment (interaction techniques for viewing and manipulating concept maps for learning) [project page]

Spring 2008:

Fall 2007 Courses:

Spring 2007 Courses:

Using head-mounted display and eye tracker HCI group
(Group photo courtesy of Mike Horn)

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