Users today are eager to access new emerging technologies that they believe will give their business an edge over their competitors. Although various "glitches" or cumbersome interfaces in new technologies may be expected and tolerated by some users who are early adopters, such seemingly minor issues may represent major barriers to adoption by everyday users or customers. My research focuses on the design, development, and evaluation of new interfaces for emerging technologies for the average everyday user. I have experience across a broad range of interfaces, including those for: consumer digital photography (services and post-capture UX), collaborative and communication applications for wireless handheld devices, social games for mobile (iOS), information visualization applications for data analysis, and multimedia software for the foreign language classroom.
Manage interdisciplinary team of 30+ people, including interaction designers, visual designers, PoC engineers, user researchers, producers. Our lab has led UX commercialization efforts on Samsung Smart TV (core UX + new services such as Sports, Music, TV Plus, Universal Guide), art mode UX for Samsung's The Frame lifestyle TV, UX for Family Hub 2.0 refrigerator.
conduct research in areas primarily related to digital photography
develop user scenarios, interaction workflows, working prototypes
lead ideation sessions, conduct competitive assessment and develop patents
design user studies
Project Leader, New Business Development, Kodak R&D (01/2002 - 10/2004)
participated in corporate-wide strategic initiatives (e.g., mobile imaging) and intellectual property assessment
conducted early stage new business development to reduce risk and make recommendations to upper management
sized market, built business case, developed financial model; evaluated potential consumer and business vertical markets
developed and tested user concepts for focus group testing
collected international data in lead markets, including data from market leaders and consumer focus groups
conducted user surveys and collected ethnographic data
led cross-site, geographically distributed team
09/1997 - 09/2001
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies (Naperville, IL)
Software Production Research Department
Member of the Technical Staff
conducted research in several areas including:
next generation services for wireless handheld devices
information visualization
collaborative systems
user interfaces, including multimodal interfaces
handiMessenger: awareness-enhanced universal communication for wireless handheld devices
participated in architecture, design and implementation of the enterprise-based service (Java servlets)
integrated SIP VoIP technology and maintained interoperability with existing collaborative software
InfoStill: an information visualization environment to support the end-to-end process of analyzing data using information visualization
designed and implemented Java-based organizing framework with drag-and-drop GUI
integrated existing visualization library
automated the generation of LiveDocs interactive presentation of results
LiveDocs: web-based information visualization documents that provide guided exploration of data for naive infoVis users
participated in collaborative redesign
applied approach to a variety of real-life data including: business market data, user survey data, and NASCAR truck-racing data
Natural Language Interface to InfoStill
participated in design of a natural language interface (speech- and text-based) to an information visualization environment
co-mentored undergraduate summer student
conducted pilot user study to evaluate interface
Task Analysis of Users Analyzing Data Using Information Visualization
conducted task analysis
used results to initiate InfoStill project
06/1990 - 09/1996
The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
Project FLAME (Foreign Language Applications in the Multimedia Environment)
Technical, Design, and Educational Specialist
designed and developed interactive multimedia applications for foreign language and multi-cultural learning and instruction, including the award-winning Mexico Vivo Teacher's Partner and Learner's Partner applications
designed and built tools for end-user programming in ToolBook
maintained multimedia hardware and local PC network
reviewed and integrated new technology
Summer 1990
The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
Aerospace Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering Departments
Project Leader
led team of six in designing and developing software for promoting math and science to young adolescents, with focus on females and minorities
06/1987 - 08/1989
ICEC: InterUniversity Consortium for Educational Computing (Pittsburgh, PA)
Programmer and Technical Support
programmed demonstrations and educational software using in-house programming language (CMU Tutor)
provided technical software support for faculty, staff, and students at member schools
gave software demonstrations
wrote articles and edited a bimonthly newsletter
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Winter 1992
Toolbook Workshops. Led a series of three three-hour workshops on the introduction and use of Toolbook with Multimedia Extensions.
June 1991
MediaText Workshops at NECC'91 (National Educational Computing Conference, Phoenix, AZ) -- coordinated over 20 workshops with over 500 participants
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Wood, M.D., Loui, A. and Hibino, S. (2010). "Searching consumer image collections using web-based concept expansion," Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (CIKM '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 679-688. DOI=10.1145/1871437.1871525 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1871437.1871525
Hibino, S. and Wood, M.D. (2009). "Event-centric View of Consumer Image Collections," Proceedings of the 2009 11th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM '09). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 207-212. DOI=10.1109/ISM.2009.31 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISM.2009.31
Hibino, S., Loui, A., Wood, M.D., Fryer, S. and Cerosaletti, C. (2008). "Semantics Meets UX: Mediating Intelligent Indexing of Consumers' Multimedia Collections for Multifaceted Visualization and Media Creation," Proceedings of the 2008 Tenth IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM '08). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 9-14. DOI=10.1109/ISM.2008.48 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISM.2008.48
Chen, J. and Hibino, S. (2008). "Reminiscing View: Event-Based Browsing of Consumer's Photo and Video-Clip Collections," Proceedings of the 2008 Tenth IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM '08). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 23-30. DOI=10.1109/ISM.2008.104 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISM.2008.104
Hibino, S. and Mockus, A. (2002). "handimessenger: Awareness-Enhanced Universal Communication for Mobile Users," Mobile HCI 2002 Conference Proceedings. Springer-Verlag, 170-183.
Cox, K., Grinter, R.E., Hibino, S., Jagadeesan, L., and Mantilla, D. (2001). "A Multi-Modal Natural Language Interface to an Information Visualization Environment," International Journal of Speech Technology, 4(3), 297-314. (2.2M gzip'd PS file)
Mockus, A., Hibino, S. and Graves, T. (2000). "A Web-Based Approach to Interactive Visualization in Context," Advanced Visual Interfaces 2000 (AVI'2000) Conference Proceedings. NY: ACM Press, 181-188. (314K gzip'd PS file)
Cox, K., Hibino, S., Hong, L., Mockus, A., and Wills, G. (1999). "InfoStill: A Task-Oriented Framework for Analyzing Data Through Information Visualization," IEEE Information Visualization Symposium 1999, Late Breaking Hot Topics, 19-22. (342K gzip'd PS file)
Hibino, S. and Rundensteiner, E.A. (1998b). "Processing Incremental Multidimensional Range Queries in a Direct Manipulation Visual Query Environment," 1998 International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'98) Conference Proceedings. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, 458-465. (224K gzip'd PS file)
Hibino, S. (1997). MultiMedia Visual Information Seeking. University of Michigan Computer Science and Engineering PhD dissertation. (See thesis description in html format.)
Gallagher, A., Loui, A., Cerosaletti, C., Hibino, S., Das, M., Stubler, P. "User interface for face recognition." Patent #8,315,463, filed Nov 14, 2006, issued Nov 20, 2012.
Lawther, J., Cerosaletti, C., Loui, A., Thompson, A., Fryer, S., Covannon, E., Das, M., McIntyre, D., Telek, M. and Hibino, S. "Method for image animation using image value rules." Patent #8,122,356, filed Oct 3, 2007, issued Feb 21, 2012.
[Thesis: MultiMedia Visual Information Seeking (MMVIS): An interactive information visualization approach to analyzing temporal relationship trends in data such as video. MMVIS integrates a temporal visual query language (TVQL) with an abstract temporal visualization (TViz) of results.]
BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, May 1987
HONORS AND AWARDS
Third Place, Google Technology Users' Group (GTUG) Campout 2010, for HTML5 Concentration meets Tetris game (with Estelle Wyle, David Gregory, JeanCarl Bisson, Siamak Ashrafi, et al).
Best Social Game Award, iOSDevCamp 2010 for SocialPong (with Anna Billstrom).
New Developer Award, iPadDevCamp 2010 for DicePad (with Anna Billstrom)
Several patents filed (see above)
EDUCOM'93 Higher Education Software Award: Best Curriculum Innovation in the Humanities, for Mexico Vivo Teacher's Partner and Learner's Partner applications, October, 1993 (co-recipient with Edna A. Coffin and Gonzalo Silverio)
University of Michigan Rackham Merit Fellowship, 1989-93
University of Michigan School of Education Dean's Merit Fellowship, 1989-90 acad. year
Member and Officer of Eta Kappa Nu, Electrical Engineering Honor Society, UC Berkeley Chapter
ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS
Member of Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) and ACM SIGCHI, SIGMM, SIGMOD
Messaging and awareness services for mobile devices, information visualization, multimedia, user interfaces, collaborative systems, educational computing, cognitive psychology, end-user authoring tools, research issues and pedagogical uses of the WWW