Interests

The main idea behind my research is that computers would be a lot easier to use if they could understand what it was that their users were trying to do. Basically, in order to cooperate with people you need to have a pretty good idea of what they're doing. In service of the goal of producing a friendlier breed of computer, I am working on the Intelligent Classroom: an automated lecture facility with which the speaker (ideally) interacts as he would with a human A/V assistant. It also will use its understanding of what's going on to produce videos of presentations.

Papers

Happy Patrons Make Better Tippers: Creating a Robot Waiter Using Perseus and the Animate Agent Architecture


Integrating Range and Object Data for Robot Navigation


All gadget and no representation makes Jack a dull environment


Cooperating with people: The Intelligent Classroom


Beyond "Next slide, please": The use of content and speech in multi-modal control


Improving Human Computer Interaction in a Classroom Environment using Computer Vision


Jabberwocky: You don't have to be a rocket scientist to change slides for a hydrogen combustion lecture