HCI at Stanford University

Affiliated Faculty

Jeremy Bailenson's main area of interest is the phenomenon of digital human representation, especially in the context of immersive virtual reality. He explores the manner in which people are able to represent themselves when the physical constraints of body and veridically-rendered behaviors are removed. Furthermore, he designs and studies collaborative virtual reality systems that allow physically remote individuals to meet in virtual space, and explores the manner in which these systems change the nature of verbal and nonverbal interaction.

Banny Banerjee

Banny Banerjee is the Director of the Stanford Joint Program in Design, and serves as a bridge between the d.school and the design program. In addition, he heads the "Design for Change" lab, which is aimed at conducting research through design in the areas of sustainability, technology futures, and the dynamics of rapid change.

Paulo Blikstein

Paulo Blikstein is an Assistant Professor at the School of Education and, by courtesy, at the Computer Science department. Paulo is very interested in why, and how, people build “stuff”: projects, robots, toys, computer programs, crafts, theories. Blikstein’s research focus is the design of technological tools for supporting it, and the analytical and methodological frameworks to study and understand what people learn in that process.

Chris Chafe

Chris Chafe (Music) is director of the Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). His research is in the area of Real-time Controllers for Physical Models, including haptic interfaces for musical performance and in modeling human aspects of musical performance. He also initiated an interuniversity course on HCI device design that has been taught at Stanford, jointly with San Jose State and Princeton.

Herbert H. Clark

Herbert H. Clark (Psychology) is interested in language use, especially in conversation and other forms of dialogue. He and his students have carried out a series of studies on how people collaborate with each other in using language in a variety of joint activities. They have also studied language use in other media. Much of this work is represented in two recent books, Arenas of Language Use(1992), and Using Language (1996). He has also worked on speech disfluencies and their role in managing conversation.

Joshua Cohen

Joshua Cohen is a professor of law, political science, and philosophy, program leader for the Program on Global Justice at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, where he is also a principal investigator in the programs on Human Rights and Liberation Technology. A political theorist, trained in philosophy, Cohen has written on issues of democratic theory, particularly deliberative democracy and the implications for personal liberty, freedom of expression, and campaign finance.

Pat Hanrahan

Pat Hanrahan (Professor. of Computer Science) is well known for his work on Computer Graphics. He has become increasingly interested in the interaction issues associated with visual displays, including developing interfaces for the responsive workbench. He is a leader of the project on interactive workspaces.

John Haymaker

John Haymaker researches formal theories for design and construction processes, and ways to implement these theories as computer methods, and apply them in industry to improve sustainability.

Pamela Hinds

Pamela Hinds (Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management) studies the interplay between information technologies, information sharing, and human judgment, as a core faculty member of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization. She is currently conducting research on the affect of remote and distributed work on employees' shared understanding of work, the affect of intellectual property agreements on information sharing, and the limitations of expertise.

Dan Jurafsky

Dan Jurafsky's research, as part of the Stanford NLP group, the Stanford Speech Lab, and the Stanford program in computational linguistics, focuses on computer speech recognition, speech synthesis, and dialogue, and natural language processing, especially in chinese computational linguistics, as well as in computational psycholinguistics, and in laboratory phonology. Dan also organizes the stanford courses in nlp, speech, and computational linguistics. Together with Eric Gaussier, he recently chaired EMNLP-2006 in Sydney.

Sep Kamvar

Sep Kamvar's research focuses on the availability of large-scale personal and social data and it's impact on mining algorithms and data visualization.

David Kelley

David Kelley (Professor of Mechanical Engineering - Design Division) is interested in new product development methodology from inception to production with an emphasis on user-centered design. Professor Kelleyís primary involvement is in the product design program, a joint program with the art department which emphasizes the blending of innovation, human values, and aesthetic concerns into a single curriculum. He also teaches HCI courses jointly with faculty from computer science. Kelley is also the founder and head of one of the world's most prominent product design firms, IDEO.

Vladlen Koltun

Vladlen Koltun directs the Stanford Virtual Worlds Group, which studies how scalable virtual world systems can be built and populated, and explores the limits of their usability. His research focuses on system architectures, content creation, and interaction. His prior theoretical work was recognized with the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, and the Machtey Award.

Larry Leifer

Larry Leifer (Professor of Mechanical Engineering - Design Division) directs the Center for Design Research. His research interests include design methodology, human operator information processing, rehabilitation robotics, design team protocol analysis, design knowledge capture, and concurrent engineering

Chris Manning

Chris Manning (Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science) specializes in computational linguistics. His current research focuses on robust but linguistically sophisticated (probabilistic) natural language processing, and opportunities to use it in real-world domains. He is also working on the visualization of natural language dictionaries.

Clifford Nass

Clifford Nass (Associate Professor of Communications) is co-director with Byron Reeves of the project on Social Responses to Communication Technologies. In a series of experiments over the past few years, they and their students have explored the ways in which people incorporate elements of human social conduct into the way they respond to computers and communication technologies. Their theories have been applied by a wide range of companies in the design of computer interfaces using agents and incorporating voice technologies.

John Ousterhout

John Ousterhout (Professor (Research) of Computer Science) is interested in frameworks, tools, and infrastructure that encourage the development of highly interactive Web applications. He is currently leading the development of Fiz, an open-source framework for creating Web applications out of reusable components.

Byron Reeves

Byron Reeves (Professor of Communication) is co-director with Clifford Nass of the project on Social Responses to Communication Technologies, with special interest in the psychological processing of media in the areas of attention, memory, emotions, and physiological responses. They have co-authored a book describing results of their research, The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Televisions, and New Media Like Real People and Places (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Ken Salisbury

Ken Salisbury (Research Professor of Computer Science and Surgery) does research on haptic interfaces (those involving touch). He has developed the Stanford-JPL Robot Hand, the JPL Force Reflecting Hand Controller, the MIT-WAM arm, and the Black Falcon Surgical Robot. His work led to the founding of SensAble Technology, producers of the Phantom haptic interface and software, and participation in Intuitive Surgical, which creates telerobotic systems for the operating room.

Dan Schwartz

Dan Schwartz studies how people's facility for spatial thinking can inform and influence processes of learning, instruction, assessment and problem solving. He finds that new media make it possible to exploit spatial representations and activities in fundamentally new ways, offering an exciting complement to the verbal approaches that dominate educational research and practice.

Fred Turner

Fred Turner studies the roles media and media technologies have played in American cultural history. His most recent book, From Counterculture to Cyberculture, traces the influence of the American counterculture of the 1960s on the computing machines and information ideologies of the 1990s. His new research focuses on multimedia art worlds of the 1940s, but he remains very interested in Silicon Valley, the local computing industry, and their impact on American life.

Ge Wang

Ge Wang (Assistant Professor, CCRMA | Music | Computer Science, by courtesy) researches interactive software systems for computer music, programming languages, mobile music, performance, and education at the intersection of computer science and music. Ge is the author of the ChucK audio programming language, the founder and director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk), and of the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO). Ge is Co-founder, CTO, and Chief Creative Officer of Smule, and the designer of the iPhone's Ocarina.