Sean Gustafson - Curriculum Vitae
Education
Doctorate
Hasso Plattner Institute (Potsdam, Germany)
Feb. 2009 - current
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Patrick Baudisch
Master of Science – Computer Science
University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
Sept. 2006 – Dec. 2008
Advisor: Dr. Pourang Irani
Grade: 4.50 (0 = fail, 4.50 = perfect)
Thesis: Visualizing Off-Screen Locations on Small Mobile Displays
Bachelor of Science with Distinction – Computer Science
University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
Sept. 1998 – May 2004
Minor in Psychology. Part-time.
Overall Grade: 3.51; Second Half Grade: 4.08
Research Projects
Full-length top-tier publications
Sean Gustafson, Christian Holz and Patrick Baudisch. 2011. Imaginary Phone: Learning Imaginary Interfaces by Transferring Spatial Memory from a Familiar Device. In Proceedings of the Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '11), 283-292.
Sean Gustafson, Daniel Bierwirth and Patrick Baudisch. 2010. Imaginary Interfaces: Spatial Interaction with Empty Hands and Without Visual Feedback. In Proceedings of the Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '10), 3-12.
Sebastian Boring, Dominikus Baur, Andreas Butz, Sean Gustafson and Patrick Baudisch. 2010. Touch Projector: Mobile Interaction through Video. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '10), 2287-2296.
Mahfuz Rahman, Sean Gustafson, Pourang Irani and Sriram Subramanian. 2009. Tilt Techniques: Investigating the Dexterity of Wrist-based Input. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '09), 1943-1952. (Honorable Mention Award.)
Sean Gustafson, Patrick Baudisch, Carl Gutwin and Pourang Irani. 2008. Wedge: Clutter-Free Visualization of Off-Screen Locations. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '08), 787-796.
Short top-tier publications
Kang Shi, Pourang Irani, Sean Gustafson and Sriram Subramanian. 2008. PressureFish: A Method to Improve Control of Discrete Pressure-based Input. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '08), 1295-1298.
Other publications
Christian Loclair, Sean Gustafson and Patrick Baudisch. 2010. PinchWatch: A Wearable Device for One-Handed Microinteractions. In MobileHCI Workshop on Ensembles of On-Body Devices, 4 Pages.
Sean Gustafson. 2008. Visualizing Off-Screen Locations on Small Mobile Displays. Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba.
Bowen Hui, Sean Gustafson, Pourang Irani and Craig Boutilier. 2008. The Need for an Interaction Cost Model in Adaptive Interfaces. In Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '08), 458-461.
Sean Gustafson and Pourang Irani. 2007. Comparing Visualizations for Tracking Off-Screen Moving Targets. In Extended Abstracts of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '07), 2399-2404.
Presentations
For Imaginary Phone
- 2011-11-17 Invited talk at the Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society.
- 2011-10-21 Guest presentation to Ruth Rosenholtz and Ted Adelson's groups at MIT.
- 2011-10-18 Full paper presentation at UIST 2011.
For Imaginary Interfaces
- 2010-07-26 Technical University of Berlin's Quality and Usability Lab Forshungskolloquium (Research Colloquium) hosted by Michael Rohs
- 2010-09-30 Paris SIGCHI Chapter hosted by Eric Lecolinet
- 2010-10-04 Full paper presentation at UIST 2010
For Tilt Techniques
- 2009-04-09 Full paper presentation at CHI 2009
For Wedge
- 2008-04-08 Full paper presentation at CHI 2008
Academic service
- 2012: CHI Works-in-progress - Program Committee member
- 2012: Kinect in Pervasive Computing Workshop - Program Committee member
- 2012: 3DUI - Program Committee member
- 2011: UIST Posters - Program Committee member
- 2011: CHI - student volunteer
- 2009: MUM - Demos and Posters co-chair
- 2009: CHI - student volunteer
- 2009: UIST - student volunteer
- 2008: CHI - student volunteer
External Reviewer:
- 2011: 13 full papers (CHI, UIST, 3DUI, GI, IwC, MobileHCI, InfoVis);
6 short papers (CHI, UIST, 3DUI, TEI)
- 2010: 5 full papers (UIST, InfoVis, GI, 3DUI); 2 short papers (CHI, 3DUI); 1 poster (CHI)
- 2009: 3 full papers (InfoVis, 3DUI, GI); 3 short papers (UIST, CHI, 3DUI)
- 2008: 1 full paper (GI)
Supervision
- 2011 - co-supervising Master's thesis of Christian Steins (Hasso Plattner Institute)
- 2009, 2010, 2011 - supervised projects for HCI project seminar (Hasso Plattner Institute)
Teaching and assistance
- 2011 - HCI Research (Masters), taught lectures on statistics (Hasso Plattner Institute)
- 2010 - HCI Research (Masters), taught lectures on statistics and on InfoVis (Hasso Plattner Institute)
- 2009 - HCI Research (Masters), taught one lecture on statistics (Hasso Plattner Institute)
- 2007, 2008 - TA and marker for "Human-Computer Interaction II" (University of Manitoba)
- 2006, 2007 - TA and marker for "Human-Computer Interaction I" (University of Manitoba)
Industrial Employment
(see Commercial Projects)
- Independent Consultant: Aug. 2003 – Aug. 2008
- Advanced Medical Optics Inc. (now Abbot Medical Optics) (Santa Ana, California, USA) Contract Software Engineer: Feb. 2005 – Sept. 2006
- ClearOption Technologies Inc. (now Canada's Web Shop) (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
Web Software Developer / System Administrator: Nov. 2003 – Feb. 2005
- Astra Network Inc. (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) Senior QNX Analyst / Embedded Software Engineer: Aug 2000 – Jun 2003
- Astra Network Inc. (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) Web Software Developer / Networking Consultant: May 1996 – Aug 2000