The Computing Innovation Fellows Project

Posted on: Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Broad Research Area: AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision, Graphics / Visualization, HCI / CSCW, Mobile / Ubiquitous / Embedded Computing, Social Computing / Social Informatics

Research Interests:

I’m a member of the Media Interaction and Understanding Lab. My focus is mobile systems. How people will use media on these systems and how desktop computing, printing, and other media consumption devices can be used in conjunction with mobile devices. My academic background is in networking, systems, performance and QoS, but for teh past several years my focus is on the use of mobile devices for applications, especially those that involve imaging.

Recently I created and led a project that created a novel mobile consumer application — a mobile media imaging project for a cosmetics consumer application. We solved mobile usability problems, computer vision and color correction, all with any cell phone. Here are some URLs

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/11/BUG34QU3961.DTL&feed=rss.business

http://www.infoworld.com/archives/videoTemplate.jsp?Id=1330&type=News&tag=Mobile%20Tech

http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2007/jul-sep/color_match.html

http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/omagazine/2009_omag_beauty_favorites

This application has attracted attention from main stream media and has been licensed to a major cosmetics company. We also built a mobile translation service (text extracted from images) and a home decor color selection application.

Much of my work now is focused on mobile printing, viewing content on the mobile for capture and later use (by printers and other devices). I would love to host someone interested in mobile applications from a usability perspective, applied imaging, mobile web experiences etc. We build demonstrators for the iPhone, Nokia phone, Windows Mobile devices, RIM devices etc. We hope to accept any client device and place much of the computation in “cloud services” designed for specific applications. The ideal candidate should be comfortable prototyping and building systems as well as communicating effectively in written and oral form.

Please feel free to reach out with questions.

Nina

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