RESEARCH INTERESTS

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 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. (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)

PATENTS PENDING AND GRANTED

• Covannon, E. Gobeyn, K., and Hibino, S. "System and method for generating a context enhanced work of communication." Application #12/340,216, publication #US 2010/0161541 A1, filed Dec 19, 2008.
• Wood, M.D. and Hibino, S. "Identifying media assets from contextual information." Application #12/328,793, publication #US 2010/0145959 A1, filed Dec 5, 2008.
• Hibino, S. and Chen, J. "System and method for visually summarizing and interactively browsing hierarchically structured digital objects." Application #20090113350, filed October 26, 2007.
• 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." Application #20090094518, filed October 3, 2007.
• Hibino, S. and Wood, M.D. "Digital object information via category-based histograms." Application #11/690,994, publication #US 2008/0240560 A1, filed Mar 26, 2007.
• Gallagher, A., Loui, A., Cerosaletti, C., Hibino, S., Das, M., Stubler, P. "User interface for face recognition." Application #20080112621, filed November 14, 2006.
• Cox, K., Graves, T., Hibino, S. and A. Mockus. "Method And Apparatus For Data Visualization." Application #9/798,179, publication #US 2002/0156806 A1, filed Mar 2, 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 interface for translating natural language inquiries into database." Patent #6701294, filed Jan 19, 2000, issued Mar 2, 2004.

EDUCATION

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

PhD Computer Science and Engineering, August 1997

[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.]

MS Education and Computer Science, May 1991

University of California, Berkeley

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
• 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.