245 CIT
115 Waterman Street
Providence RI 02912
401-863-5808
home@jeffhuang.com
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.
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
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Copyrighting Generative AI Co-Creations
Jeff Huang, Rui-Jie Yew, Suresh Venkatasubramanian DIS 2025 (Best Paper Award) |
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Beyond the Circadian Rhythm: Variable Cycles of Regularity Found in Long-Term Sleep Tracking
Ji Won Chung, Robin Yuan, Kirsi-Marja Zitting, Jiahua Chen, Neil G Xu, Nediyana Daskalova, Jeff Huang CHI 2025 [website] |
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Towards Fair and Equitable Incentives to Motivate Paid and Unpaid Crowd Contributions
Shaun Wallace, Talie Massachi, Jiaqi Su, Dave B Miller, Jeff Huang CHI 2025 [website] |
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IRCHIVER: An Information-Centric Personal Web Archive for Revisiting Past Online Sensemaking Tasks
Zhicheng Huang, Jeff Huang CHIIR 2025 [website] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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Negotiating Dyadic Interactions through the Lens of Augmented Reality Glasses
Ji Won Chung, Jenny Fu, Zachary Deocadiz-Smith, Malte Jung, Jeff Huang DIS 2023 |
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filtered.ink: Creating Dynamic Illustrations with SVG Filters
Tongyu Zhou, Connie Liu, Joshua Yang, Jeff Huang CHI 2023 [website] |
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"Together but not together": Evaluating Typing Indicators for Interaction-Rich Communication
Zainab Iftikhar, Yumeng Ma, Jeff Huang CHI 2023 [website] |
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FocalPoint: Adaptive Direct Manipulation for Selecting Small 3D Virtual Objects
Jiaju Ma, Jing Qian, Tongyu Zhou, Jeff Huang IMWUT 2023 |
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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 |
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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] |
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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 |
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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 |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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 |
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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] |
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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] |
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Lessons Learned from Two Cohorts of Personal Informatics Self-Experiments
Nediyana Daskalova, Karthik Desingh, Alexandra Papoutsaki, Diane Schulze, Han Sha, Jeff Huang IMWUT 2017 |
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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] |
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SearchGazer: Webcam Eye Tracking for Remote Studies of Web Search
Alexandra Papoutsaki, James Laskey, Jeff Huang CHIIR 2017 (Best Paper Finalist) [website] |
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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 |
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SleepCoacher: A Personalized Automated Self-Experimentation System for Sleep Recommendations
Nediyana Daskalova, Danaé Metaxa, Adrienne Tran, Nicole Nugent, Julie Boergers, John McGeary, Jeff Huang UIST 2016 [website] |
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WebGazer: Scalable Webcam Eye Tracking Using User Interactions
Alexandra Papoutsaki, Patsorn Sangkloy, James Laskey, Nediyana Daskalova, Jeff Huang, James Hays IJCAI 2016 [website] |
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Crowdsourcing from Scratch: A Pragmatic Experiment in Data Collection by Novice Requesters
Alexandra Papoutsaki, Hua Guo, Danaé Metaxa, Connor Gramazio, Jeff Rasley, Wenting Xie, Guan Wang, Jeff Huang HCOMP 2015 (Best Paper Finalist) |
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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
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VidSTR: Automatic Spatiotemporal Retargeting of Speech-Driven Video Compositions
Joshua Yang, Mackenzie Leake, Jeff Huang, Stephen DiVerdi CHI 2025 |
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EyeDraw: Investigating the Perceived Effects of Shared Gaze on Remote Collaborative Drawing
Eryn Ma, Priya Dixit, Andy Han, Nicholas Marsano, Brooke Sparks, Ashley Sun, Lucas Tiangco, Tongyu Zhou, Jeff Huang, Alexandra Papoutsaki GROUP 2025 |
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Epigraphics: Message-Driven Infographics Authoring
Tongyu Zhou, Jeff Huang, Gromit Chan CHI 2024 (Honorable Mention Award) |
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Understanding the Needs of Enterprise Users in Collaborative Python Notebooks
Catherine Li, Talie Massachi, Jordan Eschler, Jeff Huang CHI 2023 case study |
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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] |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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] |
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Evaluating Pan and Zoom Timelines and Sliders
Michail Schwab, Sicheng Hao, Olga Vitek, James Tompkin, Jeff Huang, Michelle Borkin CHI 2019 [website] |
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EasyPZ.js: Interaction Binding For Pan and Zoom Visualizations
Michail Schwab, James Tompkin, Jeff Huang, Michelle Borkin VIS 2019 short paper [website] |
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Investigating the Effectiveness of Cohort-Based Sleep Recommendations
Nediyana Daskalova, Bongshin Lee, Jeff Huang, Chester Ni, Jessica Lundin IMWUT 2018 |
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SEEDE: Simultaneous Execution and Editing in a Development Environment
Steven Reiss, Qi Xin, Jeff Huang ASE 2018 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Building a Better Mousetrap: Compressing Mouse Cursor Activity for Web Analytics
Luis Leiva, Jeff Huang IPM (Information Processing & Management), 51(2), 2015 [website] |
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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
Curious about the backstory behind my papers?
Workshop Papers
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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 |
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Influence of Gameplay on Skill in Halo Reach
Jeff Huang, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Charles Harrison, Bruce Phillips CHI Games User Research Workshop 2013 |
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Web User Interaction Mining from Touch-Enabled Mobile Devices
Jeff Huang and Abdigani Diriye HCIR Workshop 2012 |
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On the Value of Page-Level Interactions in Web Search
Jeff Huang HCIR Workshop 2011 |