News
April 2012: NSF Expedition and Fellowships
I am Co-PI on a newly funded $10M Expedition on computer-aided program engineering. My students Valkyrie Savage and Shiry Ginosar win NSF graduate fellowships.
March 2012: Umati wins CHI Best Paper Award
Our work on CommunitySourcing will receive a Best Paper award at CHI in Austin.
March 2012: One DIS paper
A full paper on our shared display system Dazzle was accepted to DIS.
December 2011: Three CHI papers
Full papers on communitysourcing, workflow comparison, and multitouch architecture were accepted to CHI2012.
December 2011: Presentations
Final presentations/demos for CS260 are open to the public. They will be held on 12/6 at 4pm in 510 Soda.
December 2011: Research Awards
We received research awards from Adobe and Google.
Contact info
Office Hours: by appointment
533 Soda Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1760
bjoern@eecs.berkeley.edu
t: @bjo3rn, p: +1-415-868-5720
Admin: Barbara Goto,
bgoto@erso.berkeley.edu
RSO: Willa Walker, willa@erso.berkeley.edu
Materials
Curriculum Vitae, Talk Info
Archived Faculty Application Materials
Travel
April 26-27
MIT CSAIL, Media Lab, Harvard
May 7-10
CHI - Austin, TX
May 21-25
Paris, France
May 27
Philadelphia, PA
June 4-5
Philadelphia, PA
June 6
U Washington, Seattle, WA
June 7-8
UIST PC Meeting - Redmond, WA
July 17-20
UW Summer Institute - Seattle, WA
July 25-27
Google Faculty Summit, Mtn View, CS
My research in Human-Computer Interaction lies at the intersections of three domains: crowdsourcing; design tools; and physical computing. Research systems center on tools for designers and programmers, with emphasis on amateurs and DIY groups.
I am a co-director of the Berkeley Institute of Design. I collaborate with many excellent research groups in our department such as the Visual Computing Lab; the Parallel Computing Lab; and the Swarm Lab. I am also affiliated with the Berkeley Center for New Media, and the new Cal Design Lab. I co-initiated the Course Thread in Human-Centered Design. I received my PhD from the Stanford Computer Science department in 2009 where I worked with Scott Klemmer (dissertation). I received an MSE in Computer and Information Science as well as Undergraduate Degrees in Digital Media Design and Communication from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002.
Thinking about applying for a PhD/Masters in HCI at Berkeley?
Do not email me directly - I cannot help with the admissions process. Read this advice instead.
UCB Undergraduate Student interested in (Interface) Design?
We recently launched a Course Thread in Human-Centered Design that lists relevant courses across the university as well as reading materials. In Computer Science, you should take CS160. If you did well and want to deepen your understanding of HCI research, sign up for CS260. If you have completed either of these courses with outstanding results, come to my office hours to talk about undergraduate research opportunities. You can also look for projects my group has posted on ResearchMatch.