Biographical sketches of authors
Chris Schmandt
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: geek@media.mit.edu).
Mr. Schmandt received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from MIT, where he has been building speech systems since 1979. He is the director of the Speech Interface Group at the Media Laboratory, a position he has held since the creation of the laboratory. Before that he worked on speech applications research at the Architecture Machine Group, including the “Put That There” and “Phone Slave” projects, as well as projects in digital video typography and gestural input for stereoscopic video displays. His current research focuses on speech interfaces for highly mobile computers.
Natalia Marmasse
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: nmarmas@media.mit.edu).
Ms. Marmasse is a research assistant in the MIT Media Lab Speech Interface Group. She received a master's degree in media arts and sciences from MIT in 1999 and is currently a Ph.D. student. Her current interests, as can be seen in the comMotion system, include context-aware applications for mobile and wearable computers. More information may be found at http://www.media.mit.edu/~nmarmas/.
Stefan Marti
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: stefanm@media.mit.edu).
Mr. Marti is a doctoral student in the Speech Interface Group at the MIT Media Lab and a Motorola Fellow. In 1993 he received a master's degree in special psychology, philosophy, and computer sciences from the University of Bern, Switzerland. For his second M.S. degree in media arts and sciences, received from MIT in 1999, he developed Active Messenger and Knothole. Mr. Marti is interested in handheld communication devices, messaging, and autonomous free-flying microhelicopters. More information may be found at http://www.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/.
Nitin Sawhney
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: nitin@media.mit.edu).
Mr. Sawhney is a doctoral student in the Speech Interface Group at the MIT Media Laboratory and a British Telecom Fellow. He received his B.E. and M.S. degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1993 and 1996. He completed a second M.S. degree at the Media Lab in 1998, focusing on Nomadic Radio, a platform for wearable audio messaging. Nitin previously worked at Fuji-Xerox Research Labs in Palo Alto and Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs in Cambridge on mobile audio interfaces and speech modification techniques. His current research interests include computer-mediated awareness and perceptual interfaces for everyday social settings.
Sean Wheeler
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: swheeler@media.mit.edu).
Mr. Wheeler is a research assistant in the MIT Media Laboratory Speech Interface Group. He received his B.A. degree in linguistics from Brandeis University in 1991. He is currently an M.S. student at the Media Lab, where his current work extends the Clues message filtering system. His areas of interest include contextual systems and human-computer interfaces for mobile devices.
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