Prof. Steve Whittaker

University of Sheffield

HCI Researcher

 

Please note: I have recently moved to IBM Research @ Almaden

Contact: whittaker at almaden dot ibm dot com

 

 

RESEARCH: CSCW, CMC, PIM, Speech Retrieval, Lifelogging

The design and implementation of collaborative systems (CSCW), computer mediated communication (CMC), personal information management (PIM) and interfaces for information retrieval, in particular for speech data. Right now I am researching digital tools to help store and maintain personal memories (aka Lifelogging), and tools that extract of information from meetings.

 

ROLE

I am a Professor, Chair of Information Retrieval and am head of the Information Retrieval Group in the Information Studies Department which was ranked top ISchool in the UK in last year’s research assessment exercise. In 2008, I was elected to the CHI Academy for ‘substantial contribution’ to the field of Human Computer Interaction. According to Google Scholar my h index is 40. Here is a link to my CV. I am Papers Chair for ACM Conference on Computer Supported Co-operative Work, 2010.

 

Current Research grants

Temporal Tagging in Meetings, EPSRC

Memoir: helping create and manage long-term personal memories. EU Marie Curie Grant.

AMIDA: Augmented Multiparty Interaction with Distance Access. EU Framework 6

 

TEACHING

I organise INF206/6060 - Information Retrieval: Search Engines and Digital Libraries and INF6430 – User Interface Design. I also teach on Information Storage and Retrieval Research (INF6090, INF309), Information and Communication Networks in Organisations (INF 103), Business Information (INF 304)

 

MEDIA COVERAGE

The Economist (How people organise their desktops)

Hermann Miller Magazine(!) (Organising desktops again)

Technology Research News (Yet more desktops)

Salon Magazine (Email overload) – you need a subscription to read it

Computer World (On Social Networking Software)

Computer World (Instant Messaging)

Portland Business Journal (Accessing spoken conversations)

Dallas Morning News and the Newark Star Ledger (Developing computer agents who can converse)

Yorkshire Post (Digital Memories and Lifelogging)

IEEE Spectrum (PDAs and gadgets)

 

There’s also a youtube video of a recent talk I gave at Google about Digital Memories and Lifelogging.

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS (2009 only)

 

Sellen, A., and Whittaker, S. (in press). Lifelogging: What Are We Doing and Why Are We Doing It? To appear in Communications of the ACM.

 

Dib, L., Petrelli, D. and Whittaker, S. (in press). Sonic Souvenirs: Exploring the Paradoxes of Recorded Sound for Family Remembering. To appear in Proceedings of CSCW09 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work.

 

Tucker, S., Bergman, O., Ramamoorthy, A., and Whittaker, S. (in press). Catchup: A Useful Application of Time-Travel in Meetings. To appear in Proceedings of CSCW09 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work.

 

Petrelli, D. and Whittaker, S. (in press). Family Memories in the Home: Contrasting Physical and Digital Mementos. To appear in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.

 

Wrigley, S., Tucker, S., Brown, G., and Whittaker S. (in press). Audio spatialisation strategies for multitasking during teleconferences.  To appear in Interspeech, 2009.

 

Whittaker, S., Bergman, O., and Clough, P. (in press). Easy on That Trigger Dad:  A Study of Long Term Family Photo Retrieval. To appear in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.

 

Petrelli, D., Van den Hoven, E., and Whittaker, S. (2009).  Making History: Intentional Capture of Future Memories. In Proceedings of CHI09 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1723-1732, New York: ACM Press.

 

Bergman, O., Tucker, S. Beth-Marom, R., Cutrell, E., and Whittaker, S. (2009). It’s Not That Important: Demoting Personal Information of Low Subjective Importance Using GrayArea. In Proceedings of CHI09 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 269-278, New York: ACM Press.

 

San Pedro, J., Kalnikaite, V., Whittaker, S. (2009). You Can Play That Again: Exploring Social Redundancy to Derive Highlight Regions in Videos. In Proceedings of Intelligent User Interfaces.

 

Tucker, S. and Whittaker, S. (2009). Have A Say Over What You See: Evaluating Interactive Compression Techniques. In Proceedings of Intelligent User Interfaces. Nominated for Best Paper.

 

 

FULL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS & PATENTS

 

Here’s a full list of my publications and patents.

 

Steve Whittaker Aug 2009