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Kurt
Partridge Ubiquitous Computing |
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BIOGRAPHY Kurt Partridge is a researcher in PARC’s ubiquitous
computing area. His research interests
include context awareness, activity modeling, location modeling, wearable
computing, and using users’ natural behaviors to simplify human-computer
interaction. He received a Ph. D. in
Computer Science from the PROJECTS Time-Use Studies Time use studies are large data sets containing activity diaries of
hundreds to hundreds of thousands of participants. We have showed how time-use studies can
benefit Ubicomp research. Escape Escape is a gesture-based mobile target
selection technique for touch screens that allows users to quickly and
accurately select targets much smaller than they can with their finger or
thumb alone. Magitti Magitti is a leisure-time mobile
recommender system. PEST PEST, the “Proactive Experience Sampling
Toolkit” is a wizard-of-oz approach to activity-based mobile
advertising. Users report their
activities, and advertisements are presented relative to their reported
activity. Paradiddle How does one enter text quickly using just
one hand? Paradiddle is a one-handed
mobile text-entry technique that emphasizes specific finger use rather than specific
button presses. Obje Obje is a media interoperability framework
that uses mobile code to overcome protocol compatibility problems. A unique feature of Obje is how it uses
context-awareness to simplify user interaction. Body-Coupled Communication My
dissertation research
investigated the hardware, middleware, and applications for applying
low-power within-body electrical signals for communication in ubiquitous
computing environments. TiltType This project involves interaction technique for entering text
into a watch-sized device. Button presses and tilt angles are used to select
letters. Text-entry speeds are surprisingly fast, approaching PDA handwriting
speeds for some users. Chinook Chinook is a hardware/software codesign methodology. Components are composed by two mechanisms: traditional message passing, and explicit declaration of the relationship between public component state variables. BDDTCL BDDTCL is an interactive Tcl/Tk interface to a Binary Decision Diagram (BDD) library. BDDTCL can draw diagrams of BDDs containing thousands of nodes. RSML RSML is a toolkit and methodology for modeling requirement specifications. It supports hierarchical finite state machines, tabular representations of transition conditions, and various safety analyses including forward and backward simulation. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Kurt Partridge and Philippe Golle. On Using Existing Time-Use Study Data for Ubiquitous Computing Applications. Ubicomp 2008. (pdf) Victoria Bellotti, et al. Activity-Based Serendipitous Recommendations with the Magitti Mobile Leisure Guide. CHI 2008. Koji Yatani, Kurt Partridge, Marshall Bern, and Mark Newman. Escape: A Target Selection Technique Using Visually-cued Gestures. CHI 2008. Ying Zhang, Kurt Partridge, and Jim Reich. Localizing Tags Using Mobile Infrastructure. LoCA 2007. Matthias C. Sala, Kurt Partridge, Linda Jacobson, and James “Bo” Begole. An Exploration into Activity-Informed Physical Advertising Using PEST. Pervasive 2007. Seungyon “Claire” Lee, Mark Newman, and Kurt Partridge. Paradiddle: An Exploration of a One-Handed Tap-Based Text Entry Technique. PERMID 2007. Max Van Kleek, Kai Kunze, Kurt Partridge, and James “Bo” Begole. OPF: A Distributed Context-Sensing Framework for Ubiquitous Computing Environments. UCS 2006. Kurt Partridge, James “Bo” Begole, and Victoria Bellotti. Evaluating Contextual Models. UbiPCMM, Workshop on Personalized Context Modeling and Management for UbiComp Applications, 2005. Kurt Partridge, Sarah Newman, and Gaetano Borriello. Facile: A Framework for Attention-Correlated Local Communication. WMCSA, October 2003. Kenneth P. Fishkin, Kurt Partridge, and Saurav Chatterjee. User Interface Components for Lightweight WPANs. IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, October-December 2002. Kurt Partridge, Bradley Dahlquist, Alireza Veiseh and Gaetano Borriello. Touch-Aware Communication for Portable Devices. UW CSE Technical Report. Kurt Partridge, Saurav Chatterjee, Vibha Sazawal, Gaetano Borriello, and Roy Want. TiltType: Accelerometer-Supported Text Entry for Very Small Devices. UIST 2002 technote. Kurt Partridge, Bradley Dahlquist, Alireza Veiseh, Annie Cain, Joseph Goldberg, Ann Foreman, and Gaetano Borriello. Empirical Measurements of Intrabody Communication Performance under Varied Physical Configurations. UIST 2001. Kurt Partridge, Larry Arnstein, Gaetano Borriello, and Turner
Whitted. Fast Intrabody Signaling. Demonstration at Wireless and
Matt Rosencrantz and Kurt Partridge. Walk-up Keyboard: An Efficient Low Overhead Interface for Transient Workers. CHI Student Poster, CHI 2001. Kurt E. Partridge. BDDTCL: An Environment for Visualizing and Manipulating Binary Decision Diagrams. Interactive Poster at CHI '96. CONTACT INFO Kurt Partridge
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