245 CIT
115 Waterman Street
Providence RI 02912
401-863-5808
home@jeffhuang.com
Office Hours Fri 12:30-1:30pm
Admitted via waiting room
I'm an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Brown University. My research is in Human-Computer Interaction, where I am interested in building personalized systems based on user behavior data. These systems are applied to attention, mobile, 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. I co-founded World Blender, a Techstars-backed company that makes 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.
Jun 2020 Ph.D. student Nedi is now Dr. Daskalova for pioneering flexible sleep and self-experimentation systems, and will become a research scientist at Spotify. Congrats!
Feb 2020 Got tenure along with a personal note from the Provost, "... The work you are doing is having a big impact in the world and in your field. And your students love you! Really proud of you." :-)
Sep 2019 Serving in the department as Chair of Ph.D. Admissions, Director of our Industry Partner Program, and Chair of Undergraduate Research
Jun 2019 After three years of work each, research about our systems Rewind and Portal-ble have been accepted for presentation later this year at IMWUT and UIST.
May 2018 Farewell + congratulations to Sachin Pendse and Lucy van Kleunen who will join the HCI Ph.D. programs at Georgia Tech and the University of Colorado respectively. [Update: and Neille-Ann Tan and Marianne Aubin-Le Quere to UW and Cornell]
Jun 2017 I'll be serving as a Program Chair for the CHIIR 2018 conference, and HCI Track Chair for SIGIR 2018 in Ann Arbor.
Feb 2017 Congrats to Ph.D. student Alexandra for landing her dream position as Assistant Professor at Pomona College!
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.
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 (26.3% acceptance rate) [website] |
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 A. Borkin TVCG (Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics), to appear [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 (41% acceptance rate) [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 (41% acceptance rate) [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 (24.3% acceptance rate) [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 (24.4% acceptance rate) [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 2019 (26.2% acceptance rate) |
EasyPZ.js: Interaction Binding For Pan and Zoom Visualizations
Michail Schwab, James Tompkin, Jeff Huang, Michelle Borkin VIS 2019 (31.7% acceptance rate, short paper) [website] |
Evaluating Pan and Zoom Timelines and Sliders
Michail Schwab, Sicheng Hao, Olga Vitek, James Tompkin, Jeff Huang, Michelle Borkin CHI 2019 (23.8% acceptance rate) [website] |
Investigating the Effectiveness of Cohort-Based Sleep Recommendations
Nediyana Daskalova, Bongshin Lee, Jeff Huang, Chester Ni, Jessica Lundin IMWUT 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 IMWUT 2018 (27.9% acceptance rate) [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 (34% acceptance rate) [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 (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) [website] |
SearchGazer: Webcam Eye Tracking for Remote Studies of Web Search
Alexandra Papoutsaki, James Laskey, Jeff Huang CHIIR 2017 (42% acceptance rate, Best Paper Finalist) [website] |
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 |
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 (20.6% acceptance rate) [website] |
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) [website] |
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 |
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 (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) |
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 (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 White, Georg Buscher, Kuansan Wang SIGIR 2012 (20% acceptance rate) |
User See, User Point: Gaze and Cursor Alignment in Web Search
Jeff Huang, Ryen White, Georg Buscher CHI 2012 (23% acceptance rate) |
No Search Result Left Behind: Branching Behavior with Browser Tabs
Jeff Huang, Thomas Lin, Ryen White WSDM 2012 (20.7% acceptance rate) |
Large-Scale Analysis of Individual and Task Differences in Search Result Page Examination Strategies
Georg Buscher, Ryen White, Susan 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 White, and Susan 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 White and Jeff Huang SIGIR 2010 (16.7% acceptance rate, Best Paper Award) |
Studying Trailfinding Algorithms for Enhanced Web Search
Adish Singla, Ryen White, and Jeff Huang SIGIR 2010 (16.7% acceptance rate) |
Conversational Tagging in Twitter
Jeff Huang, Katherine Thornton, and Efthimis Efthimiadis Hypertext 2010 (35% acceptance rate, short paper) |
Parallel Browsing Behavior on the Web
Jeff Huang and Ryen White Hypertext 2010 (35% acceptance rate, short paper) |
Analyzing and Evaluating Query Reformulation Strategies in Web Search Logs
Jeff Huang and Efthimis Efthimiadis CIKM 2009 (14.5% acceptance rate, Best Student Paper Finalist) |
Graphstract: Minimal Graphical Help for Computers
Jeff Huang and Michael Twidale UIST 2007 (17% acceptance rate) |
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 |
Associate Professor
Computer Science
Brown University
245 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, Fall 2019, Fall 2020
HCI Seminar
Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2018, Spring 2020
Livestreaming Reimagined
Spring 2021
Computer Science Research Methods
Spring 2019
Personal Informatics Seminar
Spring 2016
Information Retrieval
Fall 2010 (University of Washington)
Productivity Workflow with a single .txt file
This Page is Designed to Last manifesto for preserving content on the web
Sleep Behavior during the coronavirus pandemic
Hello Sense Data extraction
Microsoft Band Data extraction
Recommendation Letter protocol for less stress
Finding Advisors+Departments for your Computer Science Ph.D.
Computer Science Professors spreadsheet with background info
Best Paper Awards in top Computer Science conferences
Publishing Quality Images in papers
Publishing Papers in Word that look professional
Brown Daily Herald
Study indicates global shift in sleep patterns after COVID-19 lockdown
The Telegraph
Pandemic has let us finally get enough sleep, say scientists
VentureBeat
Researchers demo AR hand tracking controls for smartphones
Brown Daily Herald
‘Portal-ble’ reimagines reality by opening window into world of AR
Hackster
Brown University Unveils Portal-ble "Hands-On" Augmented Reality Technology
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