| Orit Shaer Assistant Professor of Computer Science Wellesley College |
oshaer (at) wellesley.edu
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Wellesley College
Wellesley, MA
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Orit Shaer is the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Wellesley College. She also serves as a co-director of the Media Arts and Sciences program. Her research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), focuses on developing interaction techniques and software tools for next generation user interfaces. Orit received her PhD and MSc in Computer Science from Tufts University, where she worked with Professor Robert Jacob. She has been a visiting researcher in the Design Machine Group at the University of Washington and in the University College London Interaction Center. Previously, she served as a system engineer at Orbotech Ltd, where she led an interdisciplinary development team. News September 2010, our research proposal on "Enhancing Genomic Exploration through Reality-Based Interaction" has been awarded funding from the NSF IIS division. August 2010, the WCHCI Lab summer research students shared their results with the community at a poster session celebrating the end of the Wellesley College Summer Research program.Click here to read about summer research topics at Wellesley. August 2010, our research on increasing engagement in museums through social mobile applications is featured in the Boston Globe. Click here to read the article. May 2010, CS220 HCI students presented their projects - iPhone applications for the Wellesley community. Click here to see the projects. March 2010, a survey paper about Tangible User Interfaces: Past, Present, and Future Directions that I co-authored with Eva Hornecker was accepted for publication in the journal of Foundations and Trends of Human-Computer Interaction. February 2010, Our paper on Leveraging Gesture and Voice Data to Improve Group Brainstorming for accepted as a Work in Progress paper to the ACM CHI 2010 conference. January 2010, Our paper on G-nome Surfer: a Tabletop Interface for Collaborative Exploration of Genomic Data was accepted to the ACM CHI 2010 conference. December 2009, CS349 TUI students presented their projects on the Microsoft Surface and LilyPad Arduino. Click here to see the projects. July 2009, Our paper on a Specification Paradigm for the Design and Implementation of Tangible User Interfaces was accepted for publication in the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). March 2009, Honda R&D sponsors a User Interface Design Competetion for Wellesley Students enrolled in CS249: Human-Computer Interaction. January 2009, I serve as a Program Co-Chair for TEI 2010,the international conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction. August 2008, I am co-editting an ACM TOCHI special issue on User Interface Description Languages for Next Generation User Interfaces, with Rob Jacob, Mark Green, and Kris Luyten. Submissions are due November 7th 2008. July 2008, Our paper on Teaching Tangible Interaction in Practice will appear in AIEDAM Special Issue on Tangible Interaction for Design , Spring 2009. CS320: Tangible User Interfaces (Fall 2009, Fall 2010) CS 111: Computer Programming and Problem Solving (Spring 2010, Fall 2010) CS220: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)(Spring 2010, Spring 2011)
For Students Human Computer Interaction Tangible User Interfaces Women in Computer Science |
Emerging interaction styles such as tangible computing, gesture-based interfaces and virtual reality, extend beyond the desktop paradigm and offer a more natural, intuitive and accessible form of interaction. With a broad range of application-domains, including scientific visualization, energy management and education, these interfaces show a potential to significantly enhance the way people interact and leverage digital information. Check out the Wellesley College HCI Lab to learn about current research projects. Selected Publications G-nome Surfer: a Tabletop Interface for Collaborative Exploration of Genomic Data
A Specification Paradigm for the Design and Implementation of Tangible User Interfaes
Shaer, O., Horn, M.S., Jacob, R.J.K., AIEDAM Special Issue on Tangible Interaction for Design , Spring 2009, Vol. 23, No. 2.
Jacob, R.J.K., Girouard, A., Hirshfield, L.M., Horn, M.S. Shaer, O., Solovey, E.T., and Zigelbaum J., ACM CHI 2008.
Zigelbaum, J., Horn, M.S., Shaer, O., Jacob, R.J.K., TEI 2007.
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