Highly cited with an H-Index of 101 and ~35,000 citations according to Google Scholar; ACM Fellow; held the AITF/NSERC/Smart Technologies Industrial Chair in Interactive Technologies; elected to the ACM CHI Academy; received the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society Achievement Award, the ACM UIST Lasting Impact Award, and the ACM ISS 10-Year Impact Award.
Research Experience
Former Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. His research spans across Human-Computer Interaction, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, and Ubiquitous Computing.
Background
Research interests include human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, and computer-supported cooperative work. He and his team are well known for developing toolkits enabling rapid prototyping of groupware and ubiquitous appliances, innovative and seminal system designs based on observations of social phenomena, articulation of design-oriented social science theories, and refinement of evaluation methods.
Miscellany
Consulted as an Expert Witness for various well-known companies involving patent infringement matters; creator and maintainer of Timelapse image analyser, an open-source free software system used internationally by scientists to encode data from thousands to millions of camera trap images; committed to making his tools, systems, and educational material readily available to other researchers and educators.