Affiliated Faculty in Alphabetical Order

Len Bass
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Software Engineering Institute
Phone: 412.268.6763
email, home page

Research interests:
Evaluating user interface tools, user interfaces for hands-free operation

Tina Blaine
Faculty, Entertainment Technology Center

Research interests:

Peter L. Brusilovsky
Adjunct Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
School of Information Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
Phone: 412.624.9404
email, home page

Research interests:
Intelligent user interfaces, user and student modeling, adaptive hypermedia, adaptive Web-based systems, intelligent tutoring systems

Richard Buchanan
Professor, Former Head of School of Design
Phone: 412.268.1321
email

Teaching interests:
Interaction design, communication planning, and the philosophy and theory of design, with a special interest in the rhetorical thinking that lies behind the human-made world

Mike Christel
Senior Systems Scientist
School of Computer Science
Phone: 412.268.7799
email, home page

Research Interests:
Multimedia interfaces, digital video libraries, information visualization, human-computer interaction

Lorrie Cranor
Associate Research Professor
School of Computer Science and Engineering & Public Policy
home page

Research Interests:
Usable privacy and security, privacy enhancing technology, social impact of computers, technology policy

Roger Dannenberg
Senior Research Computer Scientist
School of Computer Science
Phone: 412.268.3827
email, home page

Research interests:
Computer languages, computer music, human-computer interaction

Ellen Yi-Luen Do
Associate Professor of Computational Design, School of Architecture
Phone: 412.268.6389
email, home page

Research interests:
sketching, design, intelligent user interfaces, visual and spatial reasoning, smart home, computationally enhanced artifacts

Maxine Eskenazi
Systems Scientist
Language Technologies Institute
Phone: 412.268.3858
email

Research interests:
Computer-assisted language learning

Scott E. Fahlman
Research Professor
Language Technologies Institute
Phone: 412.268.2575
email

Research interests:
Artificial Intelligence, including knowledge representation, planning,
machine learning, and application of AI techniques in HCI

Cleotilde Gonzalez
Assistant Professor
Social & Decision Sciences Dept.
Phone: 412.268.6242
email, home page

Research interests:
Human-computer interaction and decision making

Mark D. Gross
Professor
Computational Design, School of Architecture
email, home page

Research interests:
design systems, computational design environments, informal interaction, intelligent interfaces, computationally enhanced spaces

Bruce Hanington
Associate Professor
School of Design
Phone: 412.268.1641
email

Research interests:
Industrial design and human factors

Bill Hefley
Associate Teaching Professor
IT Services Qualification Center (ITsqc)
Phone: 412.268.4576
email

Research interests: Human-computer interaction and decision making, intelligent user interfaces, HCI and software engineering processes

James Herbsleb
Associate Professor, School of Computer Science
Director, Software Industry Center
Phone: 412.268.8933
email, homepage

Research interests: Collaboration and coordination in software development, open source ecologies

Jessica Hodgins
Professor, Robotics Institute
Phone: 412.268.
email

Research interests:
Human computer interaction

Lori L. Holt
Assistant Professor
Psychology Dept.
Phone: 412.268.4964
email

Research interests:
Human computer interaction

Takeo Kanade
Professor, Robotics Institute
Professor of Computer Science
and Robotics
Phone: 412.268.3016
email

Research interests:
Computer vision and sensors, development of self-mobile space manipulators

David Kaufer
Head of English Dept.
Phone: 412.268.2850
email

Research interests:
Interfaces for collaborative writing and composition processes

Samuel Leinhardt
Adjunct Professor, President and CEO of Penthera Technologies, Inc.
email

Research interests:
Human computer interaction

Peter Lucas
Adjunct Associate Professor; CEO, MAYA Design Group, Inc.
Pittsburgh,
Phone: 412.488.2900
email, home page

Research interests:
Human computer interaction, information architecture and product design

Don Marinelli
Professor of Drama
Co-Director, Entertainment
Technology Center
Phone: 412.268.2396
email

Research interests:
Interactive drama, dramatic structure, location-based entertainment, immersive environments, role-playing/role-playing games, performance art, synthetic interviews

Richard L. Martin
Adjunct Principal Systems Scientist
Robotics Institute
Phone: 412.268.7617
email

Research interests:
Systems engineering and development of software-intensive systems, evolutionary development models

Yoky Matsuoka
Assistant Professor
Robotics Institute
email

Research interests:
Development of neuromuscular rehabilitation and assistive robotic devices to understand and enhance human motor learning capabilities

Roy Maxion
Principal Systems Scientist
Computer Science Dept.
Phone: 412.268.7556
email

Research interests:
Dependable user interfaces, automated detection of user error at the human-machine interface, human and machine diagnosis of complex systems, computer security

Tom M. Mitchell
Fredkin Professor of AI and Learning; Director, Center for Automated Learning and Discovery (CALD)
Phone: 412.268.2611
email, home page

Research interests:
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, interfaces that learn, engineering design

Jack Mostow
Research Professor
Robotics Institute, Language Technologies Institute, HCII, Center for Automated Learning and Discovery, and PIER
Director, Project LISTEN
Phone: 412.268.1330
email

Research interests:
Developing and evaluating an automated reading tutor that listens, educational data mining, speech recognition, artificial intelligence

Raj Reddy
Simon University Professor
School of Computer Science
Phone: 412.268.2597
email

Research interests:
Artificial intelligence, speech recognition and understanding, integrated manufacturing systems

Lynne M. Reder
Professor of Psychology
Phone: 412.268.3792
email, home page

Research interests:
Human memory, cognitive skill learning, transfer of training, unified cognitive model of implicit and explicit memory, modeling of individual differences in working memory

Roni Rosenfeld
Professor
LTI, CALD, CSD
Phone: 412.268.7678
email, home page

Research Interests:
Speech interfaces, Mobile interfaces, The Universal Speech Interface project, computational molecular
biology

Alexander I. Rudnicky
Senior Systems Scientist
Computer Science Dept.
Phone: 412.268.2622
email, home page

Research interests:
Speech recognition, spoken language interaction, interface design

Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol
Associate Professor
School of Computer Science
Phone: 412.268.8144
email

Research interests:
Human computer interaction at large, Context-Aware Mobile Commerce, Ubiquitous Computing, Intelligent Agents and the Semantic Web

Jesse Schell
Assistant Professor of the Practice
Entertainment Technology Center
Phone: 412.268.5350
email

Research interests:
Creating interfaces that enable users to navigate and communicate as naturally as possible in massively multiplayer 3D worlds.

William L. Scherlis
Principal Research Scientist; Director,
Information Technology Center
Phone: 412.268.8741
email, home page

Research interests:
Collaboration information management, program manipulation and restructuring, analysis of home Internet use

Mary Shaw
J. Perlis Professor of Computer Science
Phone: 412.268.2589
email, home page

Research interests:
Enabling people who aren't computer experts to make productive use of software systems and to compose and tailor those systems to meet their own needs

Mel Siegel
Associate Research Professor, Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science;
Director, Measurement and Control Lab
Phone: 412.268.8742
email, home page

Research interests:
Measurement, diagnosis, and control; perception systems; stereoscopic displays; sensor and confidence fusion in ubiquitous computing; scaling issues in robotic systems

Susan Straus
Adjunct Associate Professor
Behavioral Scientist
RAND
Phone: 412.683.2300 x4925
email

Research interests:
social impacts of technologies, virtual teams, distance learning

Katia P. Sycara
Principal Research Scientist
Robotics Institute
Phone: 412.268.8825
email, home page

Research interests:
Case-based and analogical reasoning and learning, group problem solving, negotiation, intelligent agents, team decision aiding

Alonso Vera
Adjunct Associate Research Scientist
Carnegie Mellon West
Phone: 650.604.6294
email, home page

Research interests:
Applied human performance modeling, Usability and interface design for collaborative work, Accessible & affordable modeling tools