Biographical sketches of authors
Shumin Zhai
IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (zhai@almaden.ibm.com). Dr. Zhai is a research staff member at the Almaden Research Center where he conducts research and development of innovative input devices, interaction techniques, theoretical modeling of human-computer interaction, advanced graphical user interfaces, and eye-tracking-based next-generation multimodel interaction techniques. In the past three years he has led the research and development of the IBM ScrollPoint mouse. Dr. Zhai received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto where he worked on three-dimensional interfaces and six degree-of-freedom input control. His numerous publications can be found at http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/zhai/.
Barton A. Smith
IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (basmith@almaden.ibm.com). Dr. Smith received his B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin in 1972, and his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from Harvard University in 1977. After two years at Stanford University where he was a National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, he joined the IBM Research Division in San Jose, California, in 1979. In his 20 years as a research staff member in IBM Research, he has worked on fundamental problems in polymer, materials, and computer science, and on IBM products including magnetic disks, optical disks, magnetic tape, typewriter ribbon, circuit boards, integrated circuits, multi-chip ceramic circuit modules, optical data transmission, displays, and IBM ThinkPads. His most recent work centers on understanding how people use information technology and improving the human-computer interaction experience. Dr. Smith currently manages the Human Interface Research group in the Computer Science Department at the Almaden Research Center. For more information see: http://www.almaden.ibm.com/u/basmith.
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