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by W. S. Ark and
T. Selker.
Biographical sketches of authors
Wendy S. Ark
IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (electronic mail: wsark@almaden.ibm.com).
Ms. Ark is a staff engineer in the Ease of Use department. Since joining IBM in mid-1997, she has led projects in the areas of information visualization, biosensing, and women and computing. In addition to these projects, she has been looking at IBM TrackPoint® pointing devices and IBM ThinkPad computer issues (algorithms, efficiency, performance, etc.). Her primary interests are affective computing, pervasive computing, socially oriented computing, and smart computing. Before coming to IBM, she spent a year at the University of Hawaii with a National Science Foundation grant, trying to answer the questions "How do people count?" and "How do people debug code?" using eyetracking methodology. She also worked at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Langley Research Center, simulating stratospheric readings based on mathematical computations for satellite missions and the International Space Station. Ms. Ark received her B.S. degree in computer science from the University of Delaware, with a concentration in mathematics, in 1997.
Ted Selker
IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (electronic mail: selker@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Selker is an IBM Fellow, Visiting Associate Professor at the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Media Laboratory, and Stanford University Consulting Professor. He is responsible for creating the User Systems Ergonomics Research Laboratory (USER) at the IBM Almaden Research Center. USER explores cognitive, graphical, and physical interfaces as well as agent intermediaries. Results from USER are available in IBM ThinkPad computers, IBM TrackPoint keyboards, the IBM ScrollPoint® mouse and the Edmark KidDesk TM. Dr. Selker is the designer of many product prototypes featured in the press and on television. His industrial design work includes the ThinkPad 755CV, a notebook computer that doubles as an LCD (liquid crystal display) projector. Prior to joining IBM in 1985, Dr. Selker conducted research at laboratories including Xerox PARC, Atari, and Stanford University.
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