Jeff Huang ⋅ Brown University
407 CIT
115 Waterman Street
Providence RI 02912
401-863-5808
home@jeffhuang.com
407 CIT
115 Waterman Street
Providence RI 02912
401-863-5808
home@jeffhuang.com
I'm an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Brown University. My research areas span human-computer interaction and information retrieval, across the domains of mobile devices, self-tracking, games, and web search. My work involves decoding users' behavioral data to drive novel applications.
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. I was a Facebook Fellow and received a Google Research Award. I co-founded World Blender, a Techstars-backed company that makes geolocation mobile games. My research group is currently funded by NSF and NIH, including the NSF CAREER award.
Brown University students interested in doing research work with me should review my HCI group's active projects and read this page about the research experience and expectations. Contact me with some information about your interests. You can find me on the popular social networking platform called email.
May 2018 Farewell and congratulations to Sachin Pendse and Lucy van Kleunen who have been accepted to Ph.D. programs at Georgia Tech and the University of Colorado respectively.
Jun 2017 I'll be serving as a Program Chair for the CHIIR 2018 conference in New Jersey, and the HCI Track Chair for SIGIR 2018 in Ann Arbor.
Feb 2017 Congratulations to my Ph.D. student Alexandra for landing her dream position as Assistant Professor at Pomona College!
Sep 2016 Welcome Jing Qian, a designer with an MFA from UPenn, as a new Ph.D. student to our research group.
Jun 2016 Bought the Bannister House from Brown University as part of the Brown to Brown Home Ownership program.
Jan 2016 Excited to receive the NSF CAREER Award to start a project on Modeling User Touch and Motion Behaviors for Adaptive Interfaces in Mobile Devices.
| Evaluating Pan and Zoom Timelines and Sliders
Michail Schwab, Sicheng Hao, Olga Vitek, James Tompkin, Jeff Huang, Michelle Borkin CHI 2019 |
| 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 UbiComp 2019 |
| Investigating the Effectiveness of Cohort-Based Sleep Recommendations
Nediyana Daskalova, Bongshin Lee, Jeff Huang, Chester Ni, Jessica Lundin UbiComp 2018 (27.9% acceptance rate) |
| SEEDE: Simultaneous Execution and Editing in a Development Environment
Steven Reiss, Qi Xin, Jeff Huang ASE 2018 (20% acceptance rate) |
| 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 UbiComp 2018 (27.9% acceptance rate) |
| 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 (34% acceptance rate) |
| Lessons Learned from Two Cohorts of Personal Informatics Self-Experiments
Nediyana Daskalova, Karthik Desingh, Alexandra Papoutsaki, Diane Schulze, Han Sha, Jeff Huang UbiComp 2017 (24.9% acceptance rate) |
| 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 (28.9% acceptance rate) |
| SearchGazer: Webcam Eye Tracking for Remote Studies of Web Search
Alexandra Papoutsaki, James Laskey, Jeff Huang CHIIR 2017 (42% acceptance rate, Best Paper Finalist) |
| SleepCoacher: A Personalized Automated Self-Experimentation System for Sleep Recommendations
Nediyana Daskalova, Danaë Metaxa-Kakavouli, Adrienne Tran, Nicole Nugent, Julie Boergers, John McGeary, Jeff Huang UIST 2016 (20.6% acceptance rate) |
| WebGazer: Scalable Webcam Eye Tracking Using User Interactions
Alexandra Papoutsaki, Patsorn Sangkloy, James Laskey, Nediyana Daskalova, Jeff Huang, James Hays IJCAI 2016 (25% acceptance rate) |
| Crowdsourcing from Scratch: A Pragmatic Experiment in Data Collection by Novice Requesters
Alexandra Papoutsaki, Hua Guo, Danae Metaxa-Kakavouli, Connor Gramazio, Jeff Rasley, Wenting Xie, Guan Wang, Jeff Huang HCOMP 2015 (30% acceptance rate, Best Paper Finalist) |
| Masters of Control: Behavioral Patterns of Simultaneous Unit Group Manipulation in StarCraft 2
Eddie Yan, Jeff Huang, Gifford Cheung CHI 2015 (23% acceptance rate) |
| 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 (28% acceptance rate) |
| 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 (20% acceptance rate, 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 (21.5% acceptance rate) |
| Improving Searcher Models Using Mouse Cursor Activity
Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, Georg Buscher, Kuansan Wang SIGIR 2012 (20% acceptance rate) |
| User See, User Point: Gaze and Cursor Alignment in Web Search
Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, Georg Buscher CHI 2012 (23% acceptance rate) |
| No Search Result Left Behind: Branching Behavior with Browser Tabs
Jeff Huang, Thomas Lin, Ryen W. White WSDM 2012 (20.7% acceptance rate) |
| Large-Scale Analysis of Individual and Task Differences in Search Result Page Examination Strategies
Georg Buscher, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, Jeff Huang WSDM 2012 (20.7% acceptance rate) |
| Remix and Play: Lessons from Rule Variants in Texas Hold'em and Halo 2
Gifford Cheung and Jeff Huang CSCW 2012 (39% acceptance rate) |
| Interactive Search Support for Difficult Web Queries
Abdigani Diriye, Giridhar Kumaran, Jeff Huang ECIR 2012 (21% acceptance rate) |
| No Clicks, No Problem: Using Cursor Movements to Understand and Improve Search
Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, and Susan T. Dumais CHI 2011 (26% acceptance rate, Best Paper Finalist) |
| Starcraft from the Stands: Understanding the Game Spectator
Gifford Cheung and Jeff Huang CHI 2011 (26% acceptance rate) |
| Optimal Strategies for Reviewing Search Results
Jeff Huang and Anna Kazeykina AAAI 2010 (26.9% acceptance rate) |
| Assessing the Scenic Route: Measuring the Value of Search Trails in Web Logs
Ryen W. White and Jeff Huang SIGIR 2010 (16.7% acceptance rate, Best Paper Award) |
| Studying Trailfinding Algorithms for Enhanced Web Search
Adish Singla, Ryen W. White, and Jeff Huang SIGIR 2010 (16.7% acceptance rate) |
| Conversational Tagging in Twitter
Jeff Huang, Katherine Thornton, and Efthimis N. Efthimiadis Hypertext 2010 (35% acceptance rate, short paper) |
| Parallel Browsing Behavior on the Web
Jeff Huang and Ryen W. White Hypertext 2010 (35% acceptance rate, short paper) |
| Analyzing and Evaluating Query Reformulation Strategies in Web Search Logs
Jeff Huang and Efthimis N. Efthimiadis CIKM 2009 (14.5% acceptance rate, Best Student Paper Finalist) |
| Graphstract: Minimal Graphical Help for Computers
Jeff Huang and Michael B. Twidale UIST 2007 (17% acceptance rate) |
| An Analysis of Automated Visual Analysis Classification: Interactive Visualization Task Inference of Cancer Genomics Domain Experts
Connor Gramazio, Jeff Huang, David Laidlaw Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 24(8), 2017 |
| Master Maker: Understanding Gaming Skill through Practice and Habit from Gameplay Behavior
Jeff Huang, Eddie Yan, Gifford Leung, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann Topics in Cognitive Science, 9(2), 2017 |
| Strokes of Insight: User Intent Detection and Kinematic Compression of Mouse Cursor Trails
Daniel Martín-Albo, Luis Leiva, Jeff Huang, Réjean Plamondond 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 Journal of 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 Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 21(10), 2015 |
| Building a Better Mousetrap: Compressing Mouse Cursor Activity for Web Analytics
Luis Leiva, Jeff Huang Information Processing & Management, 51(2), 2015 |
| 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 |
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Brown University
407 CIT
115 Waterman Street
Providence RI 02912
401-863-5808
home@jeffhuang.com
User Interfaces
Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018
Personal Informatics Seminar
Spring 2016
HCI Seminar
Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2018
Information Retrieval
Fall 2010 (University of Washington)
Alexandra Papoutsaki (graduated!)
Computer Science Professors spreadsheet with background info
Best Paper Awards in top Computer Science conference
Hello Sense Data extraction
Microsoft Band Data extraction
Search Engine Query Logs available for download
Publishing Papers in Word that look professional
TheNextWeb
Study: Being a better gamer requires practice-but not too much
Seeker
Video Game Research Reveals Path to Advanced Gaming Skills
PC World
Web developers, meet WebGazer: software that turns webcams into eye-trackers
The Register
Brown boffins brew eye-tracking Javascript
Softpedia
WebGazer Uses JavaScript and Your Webcam to Track Eye Movements
MIT Technology Review
The Next Big Thing in Analytics: Tracking Your Cursor's Every Move
Kotaku
Why, Exactly, Do People Enjoy Watching StarCraft Games?
GeekWire
'Hello, computer!' UW prof and students search outside the box
Slashdot
Researchers Track Mouse Movements and Hesitations
97.3 KIRO FM
University of Washington student wins Facebook Fellowship
The Escapist
Research Paper Attempts to Prove Why StarCraft Is Fun to Watch
Seattle Times
Facebook "fellows" two UW students
Slashdot
Why People Watch StarCraft, Instead of Playing
PC Magazine
Invisible Cursor-Tracking Program Knows What Your Eyes Have Seen
Wall Street Journal
Geeks Beat Jocks as Bar Fight Breaks Out Over Control of the TV
Fresh Consulting
World Blender: Transforming the Gaming Landscape
ZDNet
2012-2013 Facebook Fellowship winners announced
1Up.com
Why We Love StarCraft So Much
