Workshop Organizers
Jean Scholtz is a researcher in the Information Access Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Her interests are in the evaluation of interactive systems, including web usability. Prior to returning to NIST in 2002, she was on loan to the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency where she managed work in Ubiquitous Computing, Information Management, and Human-Robotic Interaction. She serves on the editorial board of EMSE and IWC. She is a member of IEEE, ACM, and ACM SIGCHI.
Elham Tabassi is a member of the Pervasive Computing Program at Information Access Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Her interests are in ubiquitous computing applications and infrastructures.
Sunny Consolvo is a member of the research staff at Intel Research Seattle. Sunny’s field is HCI, specifically user-centered design. She is particularly interested in researching user study techniques that can be applied to the design and evaluation of ubiquitous computing applications. Sunny previously worked in industry, where her focus was on web design and usability—specifica lly e-commerce.
Bill Schilit is a Principal Scientist and co-director of Intel Research Seattle, where his research focuses on ubiquitous and proactive computing applications. He is particularly interested in "context-aware communication" and ways to make information more accessible and useful in everyday life. Bill has worked at AT&T Bell Labs, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, and Fuji-Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory. At PARC, in the early 1990's, he championed the notion of location-aware computing, coined the term "context-aware computing," (with Roy Want and Mark Weiser) and helped invent, design, and build the software and applications for the PARCTAB, the first context-aware handheld computer. Bill has published numerous research papers and holds over 14 U.S. Patents.