Jeff Huang · Computer Science at Brown University

245 CIT
115 Waterman Street
Providence RI 02912
401-863-5808
home@jeffhuang.com

Office Hours: Tues 2-3pm
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Nov 19 hours moved to Nov 18 1pm

I'm an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Computer Science at Brown University. My research is in Human-Computer Interaction, where I focus on building personalized systems based on user behavior data. These systems are applied to attention, mobile, user experience, and health. I am primarily funded by the NSF, NIH, and ARO, and have received the NSF CAREER award, Facebook Fellowship, and ARO Young Investigator Award.

My Ph.D. is in Information Science from the University of Washington in Seattle, and my masters and undergraduate degrees are in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Before joining Brown, I analyzed search behavior at Microsoft Research, Google, Yahoo, and Bing; and co-founded World Blender, a Techstars-backed startup that made geolocation mobile games.

Brown University students interested in joining my group should review our active projects and read about the expectations. Ph.D. applicants please read the Student FAQ.

Teaching

User Interfaces
Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2022, Spring 2025

HCI Seminar
Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2023

Livestreaming Reimagined
Spring 2021

Computer Science Research Methods
Spring 2019

Personal Informatics Seminar
Spring 2016

Information Retrieval
Fall 2010 (University of Washington)

Computer Science Open Data

Data analysis about professors, rankings, best papers, and stipends

CS Faculty Composition and Hiring Trends [source: Drafty CS Professors]

Bias in Computer Science Rankings [source: CS Open Rankings]

Who Wins CS Best Paper Awards? [source: Best Paper Awards in Computer Science]

Verified Computer Science Ph.D. Stipends [contribute]

The Endlessness of Publishing

Behind the scenes: the struggle for each paper to get published

This page is designed to last, a manifesto for preserving content on the web

Illustrative notes for obsessing over publishing aesthetics

On Long-Term Self-Tracking

My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file

The Coronavirus pandemic has changed our sleep behavior

Extracting data from tracking devices by going to the cloud

Papers from my Research Group

	Chirp: The Impact of Private Online Self-Disclosure on Perceived Social Support Talie Massachi, John Roy, Lauren Choi, Gabriela Hoefer, Shaun Wallace, Jeff Huang CSCW 2024 [website]
	PortalInk: 2.5D Visual Storytelling with SVG Parallax and Waypoint Transitions Tongyu Zhou, Joshua Yang, Vivian Chan, Ji Won Chung, Jeff Huang UIST 2024 [website]
	Machine and Human Understanding of Empathy in Online Peer Support: A Cognitive Behavioral Approach Sara Syed, Zainab Iftikhar, Amy Xiao, Jeff Huang CHI 2024 [website]
	Negotiating Dyadic Interactions through the Lens of Augmented Reality Glasses Ji Won Chung, Jenny Fu, Zachary Deocadiz-Smith, Malte Jung, Jeff Huang DIS 2023
	filtered.ink: Creating Dynamic Illustrations with SVG Filters Tongyu Zhou, Connie Liu, Joshua Yang, Jeff Huang CHI 2023 [website]
	"Together but not together": Evaluating Typing Indicators for Interaction-Rich Communication Zainab Iftikhar, Yumeng Ma, Jeff Huang CHI 2023 [website]
	FocalPoint: Adaptive Direct Manipulation for Selecting Small 3D Virtual Objects Jiaju Ma, Jing Qian, Tongyu Zhou, Jeff Huang IMWUT 2023
	Bridging the Social Distance: Offline to Online Social Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic Gabriela Hoefer, Talie Massachi, Neil G Xu, Nicole Nugent, Jeff Huang CSCW 2022
	The UX Factor: Using Comparative Peer Review to Evaluate Designs through User Preferences Sarah Bawabe, Laura Wilson, Tongyu Zhou, Ezra Marks, Jeff Huang CSCW 2021 (Honorable Mention Award, Impact Recognition Award) [website]
	Case Studies on the Motivation and Performance of Contributors Who Verify and Maintain In-Flux Tabular Datasets Shaun Wallace, Alexandra Papoutsaki, Neilly H. Tan, Hua Guo, Jeff Huang CSCW 2021
	Portalware: Exploring Free-Hand AR Drawing with a Dual-Display Smartphone-Wearable Paradigm Jing Qian, Tongyu Zhou, Meredith Young-Ng, Jiaju Ma, Angel Cheung, Xiangyu Li, Ian Gonsher, Jeff Huang DIS 2021
	Self-E: Smartphone-Supported Guidance for Customizable Self-Experimentation Nediyana Daskalova, Eindra Kyi, Kevin Ouyang, Arthur Borem, Sally Chen, Sung Hyun Park, Nicole Nugent, Jeff Huang CHI 2021 [website]
	Sochiatrist: Signals of Affect in Messaging Data Talie Massachi, Grant Fong, Varun Mathur, Sachin Pendse, Gabriela Hoefer, Jessica Fu, Chong Wang, Nikita Ramoji, Nicole Nugent, Megan Ranney, Daniel Dickstein, Michael Armey, Ellie Pavlick, Jeff Huang CSCW 2020 [website]
	Sketchy: Drawing Inspiration from the Crowd Shaun Wallace, Brendan Le, Luis Leiva, Aman Haq, Ari Kintisch, Gabrielle Bufrem, Linda Chang, Jeff Huang CSCW 2020 [website]
	SleepBandits: Guided Flexible Self-Experiments for Sleep Nediyana Daskalova, Jina Yoon, Yibing Wang, Cintia Araujo, Guillermo Beltran, Nicole Nugent, John McGeary, Joseph Jay Williams, Jeff Huang CHI 2020 [website]
	Portal-ble: Intuitive Free-Hand Manipulation in Unbounded Smartphone-based Augmented Reality Jing Qian, Jiaju Ma, Xiangyu Li, Benjamin Attal, Haoming Lai, James Tompkin, John Hughes, Jeff Huang UIST 2019 [website]
	Rewind: Automatically Reconstructing Everyday Memories with First-Person Perspectives Neille-Ann Tan, Han Sha, Eda Celen, Phucanh Tran, Kelly Wang, Gifford Cheung, Philip Hinch, Jeff Huang IMWUT 2018
	Remotion: A Motion-Based Capture and Replay Platform of Mobile Device Interaction for Remote Usability Testing Jing Qian, Arielle Chapin, Alexandra Papoutsaki, Fumeng Yang, Klaas Nelissen, Jeff Huang IMWUT 2018 [website]
	The Eye of the Typer: A Benchmark and Analysis of Gaze Behavior during Typing Alexandra Papoutsaki, Aaron Gokaslan, James Tompkin, Yuze He, Jeff Huang ETRA 2018 [website]
	Lessons Learned from Two Cohorts of Personal Informatics Self-Experiments Nediyana Daskalova, Karthik Desingh, Alexandra Papoutsaki, Diane Schulze, Han Sha, Jeff Huang IMWUT 2017
	Drafty: Enlisting Users to be Editors who Maintain Structured Data Shaun Wallace, Lucy van Kleunen, Marianne Aubin-Le Quere, Abraham Peterkin, Yirui Huang, Jeff Huang HCOMP 2017 [website]
	SearchGazer: Webcam Eye Tracking for Remote Studies of Web Search Alexandra Papoutsaki, James Laskey, Jeff Huang CHIIR 2017 (Best Paper Finalist) [website]
	Master Maker: Understanding Gaming Skill through Practice and Habit from Gameplay Behavior Jeff Huang, Eddie Yan, Gifford Leung, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann topiCS (Topics in Cognitive Science), 9(2), 2017
	SleepCoacher: A Personalized Automated Self-Experimentation System for Sleep Recommendations Nediyana Daskalova, Danaë Metaxa, Adrienne Tran, Nicole Nugent, Julie Boergers, John McGeary, Jeff Huang UIST 2016 [website]
	WebGazer: Scalable Webcam Eye Tracking Using User Interactions Alexandra Papoutsaki, Patsorn Sangkloy, James Laskey, Nediyana Daskalova, Jeff Huang, James Hays IJCAI 2016 [website]
	Crowdsourcing from Scratch: A Pragmatic Experiment in Data Collection by Novice Requesters Alexandra Papoutsaki, Hua Guo, Danaë Metaxa, Connor Gramazio, Jeff Rasley, Wenting Xie, Guan Wang, Jeff Huang HCOMP 2015 (Best Paper Finalist)
	Masters of Control: Behavioral Patterns of Simultaneous Unit Group Manipulation in StarCraft 2 Eddie Yan, Jeff Huang, Gifford Cheung CHI 2015

Papers Led by Collaborators

	Epigraphics: Message-Driven Infographics Authoring Tongyu Zhou, Jeff Huang, Gromit Chan CHI 2024 (Honorable Mention Award)
	Understanding the Needs of Enterprise Users in Collaborative Python Notebooks Catherine Li, Talie Massachi, Jordan Eschler, Jeff Huang CHI 2023 case study
	Increased sleep duration and delayed sleep timing during the COVID-19 pandemic Robin K. Yuan, Kirsi-Marja Zitting, Liyaan Maskati, Jeff Huang Scientific Reports, 12(10937), 2022 [website]
	Personalized Font Recommendations: Combining ML and Typographic Guidelines to Optimize Readability Tianyuan Cai, Shaun Wallace, Tina Rezvanian, Jonathan Dobres, Bernard Kerr, Samuel Berlow, Jeff Huang, Ben D. Sawyer, Zoya Bylinskii DIS 2022
	Days with and without self-injurious thoughts and behaviors: Impact of childhood maltreatment on adolescent online social networking Lauren R. Grocott, Anneliese Mair, Janine N. Galione, Michael F. Armey, Jeff Huang, Nicole R. Nugent Journal of Adolescence, 94(5), 2022
	Dually Noted: Layout-Aware Annotations with Smartphone Augmented Reality Jing Qian, Qi Sun, Curtis Wigington, Han L. Han, Tong Sun, Jennifer Healey, James Tompkin, Jeff Huang CHI 2022
	Towards Individuated Reading Experiences: Different Fonts Increase Reading Speed for Different Individuals Shaun Wallace, Zoya Bylinskii, Jonathan Dobres, Bernard Kerr, Sam Berlow, Rick Treitman, Nirmal Kumawat, Kathleen Arpin, Dave B. Miller, Jeff Huang, Ben D. Sawyer TOCHI (Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction), 29(4), 2022
	Scalable Scalable Vector Graphics: Automatic Translation of Interactive SVGs to a Multithread VDOM for Fast Rendering Michail Schwab, David Saffo, Nicholas Bond, Shash Sinha, Cody Dunne, Jeff Huang, James Tompkin, Michelle Borkin TVCG (Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics), 28(9), 2022 [website]
	Evaluating Pan and Zoom Timelines and Sliders Michail Schwab, Sicheng Hao, Olga Vitek, James Tompkin, Jeff Huang, Michelle Borkin CHI 2019 [website]
	EasyPZ.js: Interaction Binding For Pan and Zoom Visualizations Michail Schwab, James Tompkin, Jeff Huang, Michelle Borkin VIS 2019 short paper [website]
	Investigating the Effectiveness of Cohort-Based Sleep Recommendations Nediyana Daskalova, Bongshin Lee, Jeff Huang, Chester Ni, Jessica Lundin IMWUT 2018
	SEEDE: Simultaneous Execution and Editing in a Development Environment Steven Reiss, Qi Xin, Jeff Huang ASE 2018
	An Analysis of Automated Visual Analysis Classification: Interactive Visualization Task Inference of Cancer Genomics Domain Experts Connor Gramazio, Jeff Huang, David Laidlaw TVCG (Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics), 24(8), 2017
	Strokes of Insight: User Intent Detection and Kinematic Compression of Mouse Cursor Trails Daniel Martín-Albo, Luis Leiva, Jeff Huang, Réjean Plamondond IPM (Information Processing & Management), 52(6), 2016
	Learning Behaviors via Human-Delivered Discrete Feedback Robert Loftin, Bei Peng, James MacGlashan, Michael Littman, Matthew Taylor, Jeff Huang, David Roberts JAAMAS (Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems), 30(1), 2016
	Representing Uncertainty in Graph Edges: An Evaluation of Paired Visual Variables Hua Guo, Jeff Huang, David Laidlaw TVCG (Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics), 21(10), 2015
	Building a Better Mousetrap: Compressing Mouse Cursor Activity for Web Analytics Luis Leiva, Jeff Huang IPM (Information Processing & Management), 51(2), 2015 [website]
	A Strategy-Aware Technique for Learning Behaviors from Discrete Human Feedback Robert Loftin, James MacGlashan, Bei Peng, Matthew Taylor, Michael Littman, Jeff Huang, David Roberts AAAI 2014

Papers as a Student

	Mastering the Art of War: How Patterns of Gameplay Influence Skill in Halo Jeff Huang, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Charles Harrison, Bruce Phillips CHI 2013 (Best Paper Finalist)
	RevMiner: An Extractive Interface for Navigating Reviews on a Smartphone Jeff Huang, Oren Etzioni, Luke Zettlemoyer, Kevin Clark, Christian Lee UIST 2012
	Improving Searcher Models Using Mouse Cursor Activity Jeff Huang, Ryen White, Georg Buscher, Kuansan Wang SIGIR 2012
	User See, User Point: Gaze and Cursor Alignment in Web Search Jeff Huang, Ryen White, Georg Buscher CHI 2012
	No Search Result Left Behind: Branching Behavior with Browser Tabs Jeff Huang, Thomas Lin, Ryen White WSDM 2012
	Large-Scale Analysis of Individual and Task Differences in Search Result Page Examination Strategies Georg Buscher, Ryen White, Susan Dumais, Jeff Huang WSDM 2012
	Remix and Play: Lessons from Rule Variants in Texas Hold'em and Halo 2 Gifford Cheung and Jeff Huang CSCW 2012
	Interactive Search Support for Difficult Web Queries Abdigani Diriye, Giridhar Kumaran, Jeff Huang ECIR 2012
	No Clicks, No Problem: Using Cursor Movements to Understand and Improve Search Jeff Huang, Ryen White, and Susan Dumais CHI 2011 (Best Paper Finalist)
	Starcraft from the Stands: Understanding the Game Spectator Gifford Cheung and Jeff Huang CHI 2011
	Optimal Strategies for Reviewing Search Results Jeff Huang and Anna Kazeykina AAAI 2010
	Assessing the Scenic Route: Measuring the Value of Search Trails in Web Logs Ryen White and Jeff Huang SIGIR 2010 (Best Paper Award)
	Studying Trailfinding Algorithms for Enhanced Web Search Adish Singla, Ryen White, and Jeff Huang SIGIR 2010
	Conversational Tagging in Twitter Jeff Huang, Katherine Thornton, and Efthimis Efthimiadis Hypertext 2010 short paper
	Parallel Browsing Behavior on the Web Jeff Huang and Ryen White Hypertext 2010 short paper
	Analyzing and Evaluating Query Reformulation Strategies in Web Search Logs Jeff Huang and Efthimis Efthimiadis CIKM 2009 (Best Student Paper Finalist)
	Graphstract: Minimal Graphical Help for Computers Jeff Huang and Michael Twidale UIST 2007

Curious about the backstory behind my papers?

Workshop Papers

	Learning Something from Nothing: Leveraging Implicit Human Feedback Strategies Robert Loftin, Bei Peng, James MacGlashan, Michael Littman, Matthew Taylor, Jeff Huang, David Roberts RO-MAN 2014
	Influence of Gameplay on Skill in Halo Reach Jeff Huang, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Charles Harrison, Bruce Phillips CHI Games User Research Workshop 2013
	Web User Interaction Mining from Touch-Enabled Mobile Devices Jeff Huang and Abdigani Diriye HCIR Workshop 2012
	On the Value of Page-Level Interactions in Web Search Jeff Huang HCIR Workshop 2011