RESEARCH INTERESTS

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: collaborative and communication applications for wireless handheld devices, information visualization applications for data analysis, and multimedia software for the foreign language classroom.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

01/2002 - present

Eastman Kodak Company (Employee from 06/2004; Consultant from 01/2002-06/2004, San Jose, CA)

Researcher, Photographic Science & Technology Center, Kodak R&D (10/2004 - present)

conduct research in areas related to digital photography

develop user scenarios, interaction workflows, prototype wireframes
lead ideation sessions, conduct competitive assessment and develop patents
participate in designing 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

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. (1999). "A Task-Oriented View of Information Visualization,"CHI'99 Extended Abstracts, Late-Breaking Paper, 178-179.
Hibino, S. and Rundensteiner, E.A. (1998a). "Comparing MMVIS to a Timeline for Temporal Trend Analysis of Video Data," Advanced Visual Interfaces 1998 (AVI'98) Conference Proceedings. NY: ACM Press, 195-204. (258K gzip'd ps file, 147K gzip'd ps file of color plate)
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.)
Hibino, S. and Rundensteiner, E.A. (1997a). "User Interface Evaluation of a Direct Manipulation Temporal Visual Query Language,"ACM Multimedia'97 Conference Proceedings. NY: ACM Press, 99-107. (308K gzip'd PS file)
Hibino, S. and Rundensteiner, E.A. (1996a). "MMVIS: Design and Implementation of a MultiMedia Visual Information Seeking Environment."ACM Multimedia'96 Conference Proceedings, NY: ACM Press, 75-86. (1.6Meg gzip'd pdf file, 363K gzip'd PS file)

[See also: full listing of Research Papers and Talks.]

PATENTS FILED

Cox, K., Graves, T., Hibino, S. and A. Mockus. "Method And Apparatus For Data Visualization in Context." Filed on 03/02/2001
Cox, K., Hibino, S., Hong, L., Mockus, A. and G. Wills. "A Method for Graphically Displaying an Overview." Filed on 08/24/2000.
Ball, T., Cox, K., Grinter, R.E., Hibino, S., Jagadeesan, L. and D. Mantilla. "User Interfaces for Data Presentation Systems." Filed on 01/19/2000.

EDUCATION

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: PhD Computer Science and Engineering, August 1997; MS Education and Computer Science, May 1991
University of California, Berkeley: BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, May 1987

HONORS AND AWARDS

Three patents filed (see below)
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
Member of IEEE Computer Society
Chair of BayCHI (San Francisco Bay Area local SIG for ACM SIGCHI), 07/2003 - 06/2005
Vice Chair of BayCHI, 01/2003 - 06/2003
Chair of CHI-Squared (Chicago area local SIG for ACM SIGCHI), 1999-2002
CSE Graduate Committee student representative, 1993-94
Student Volunteer: CHI'94, ACM MM'94, CHI'95, IJCAI'95, DIS'95
Volleyball, tennis, snow skiing, photography
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

References furnished upon request.

last updated 03/04/2006, hibino at acm dot org