François Guimbretière

François Guimbretière
Curriculum Vitae

Research statement & Teaching statement

3267 A.V. Williams Bldg
College Park, MD 20742
Tel: (301) 405 7952, Fax: (301) 405 6707

Office hours: Mon, Wed 10:00-11:00am

Classes
	Spring'08: Designing Human-Computer Interaction (CMSC 198G)
	Fall'07: Introduction to HCI (Undergraduate level, CMSC 434)
	Spring'07: Introduction to Rapid Prototyping Techniques (CMSC 498D)
	Fall'06: Introduction to Rapid Prototyping Techniques (CMSC 838G)
	Spring'06: Introduction to HCI (Undergraduate level) (CMSC 434)
	Fall'05: Introduction to HCI (Graduate level) (CMSC 838G now CMSC 634)

Projects
People, paper and computers 3D Modeling New interaction techniques Data analysis tools and Information visualization Hardware

People, paper and computers Bridging the Paper-Computer gap.
	Next Generation E-book Readers Nicholas Chen, François Guimbretière, Cassandra Lewis, Maneesh Agrawala. Enhancing Document Navigation Tasks With a Dual-Display Electronic Reader. UIST 2007 demonstration. Nick Chen, François Guimbretière, Morgan Dixon, Cassandra Lewis and Maneesh Agrawala.Navigation Techniques for Dual-Display E-Book Readers. Proceedings of CHI’08, pp. 1779 - 1788 , (Video). Build you own GumStix-based prototype.
	PADD: The Paper Augmented Digital Document infrastructure François Guimbretière. Paper Augmented Digital Documents. Proceedings of UIST 2003, pp. 51 – 60. (slides) Kevin Conroy, Dave Levin and François Guimbretière. ProofRite: A Paper-Augmented Word Processor (Unpublished draft, Video)
	PapierCraft: A Command System for Interactive Paper. This work was supported in parts by Microsoft Research. Chunyuan Liao, François Guimbretière and Ken Hinckley. PapierCraft: A Command System for Interactive Paper. Proceedings of UIST’05, pp. 241 – 244. (Video) Chunyuan Liao, François Guimbretière, Ken Hinckley and Jim Hollan. PapierCraft: A Gesture-Based Command System for Interactive Paper. (Transaction on Computer-Human Interaction, in press) Ron B. Yeh, Chunyuan Liao, Scott Klemmer, François Guimbretière, Brian Lee, Boyko Kakaradov, Jeannie Stamberger, and Andreas Paepcke. ButterflyNet: A Mobile Capture and Access System for Field Biology Research. Proceedings of CHI’06, pp. 571 – 580. Chunyuan Liao François Guimbretière and Corinna Loeckenhoff. Pen-top feedback for paper-based interfaces. Proceedings of UIST’06, pp. 291 - 220. Chunyuan Liao, François Guimbretière, Richard Anderson, Natalie Linnell, Craig Prince and Valentin Razmov. PaperCP: Exploring the Integration of Physical and Digital Affordances for Active Learning. Proceedings of INTERACT’07, pp 15 - 28.
	Document navigation techniques: This work was supported in parts by Microsoft Research. Liyang Sun and François Guimbretière. Flipper: a New Method for Digital Document Navigation. Proceedings of CHI’05 (Extended Abstract), pp. 2001 – 2004. Nick Chen, François Guimbretière, Liyang Sun, Mary Czerwinski, Gian Pangaro, Steven Bathiche. Hardware Support for Navigating Large Digital Document. (Submitted to IJHCI)

3D Modeling
	Capturing annotations and edits on 3D prototypes Hyunyoung Song, François Guimbretière, Hod Lipson and Chang Hu. Capturing Freehand Annotations and Edits on Physical 3D Models. Proceedings of UIST’06, pp 13 - 22, (Video). Hyunyoung Song, François Guimbretière, Michael A. Ambrose and Carl Lostritto. CubeExplorer: An Evaluation of Interaction Techniques in Architectural Education. Proceedings of INTERACT’07, pp 43 - 56. Hyunyoung Song^†, François Guimbretière, Chang Hu, and Hod Lipson. ModelCraft Framework: Capturing Freehand An-notations and Edits to facilitate the Design Process using Digital Pen. Submitted to Transaction on Human-Computer Interaction.

New interaction techniques Toward better, more fluid interfaces. This work was supported in parts by Microsoft Research.
	CrossY: Exploring crossing-based interfaces Apitz, Georg. and François Guimbretière. CrossY: A Crossing-Based Drawing Application. Proceedings of UIST'04, pp. 3 – 12. (Best Paper Award), (Video) Georg Apitz, François Guimbretière and Shumin Zhai. Foundations for designing and evaluating user interfaces based on the crossing paradigm. Submitted to Transaction on Human-Computer Interaction. Morgan Dixon, François Guimbretière and Nick Chen. Maximizing Efficiency in Crossing-Based Dialog Boxes. Proceedings of CHI’08, pp 1623 - 1632 .
	Stitching and Scriboli: Efficient pen interfaces for Tablet PC Ken Hinckley, Gonzalo Ramos, François Guimbretière, Patrick Baudisch and Marc Smith. Stitching: Pen Gestures that Span Multiple Displays. Proceedings of AVI’04, pp. 23 – 31. Ken Hinckley, Patrick Baudisch, Gonzalo Ramos and François Guimbretière. Design and Analysis of Delimiters for Selection-Action Pen Gesture Phrases in Scriboli. Proceedings of CHI’05, pp. 453 – 460. Video. Ken Hinckley, François Guimbretière, Patrick Baudisch, Raman Sarin and Maneesh Agrawala. The Springboard: Multiple Modes in One Spring-loaded Control. Proceedings of CHI’06, pp. 181 – 190. Ken Hinckley, François Guimbretière, Georg Apitz, Nicholas Chen, and Maneesh Agrawala. Phrasing Techniques for Multi-Stroke Selection Gestures. Proceedings of GI’06, pp. 147 – 154.
	Menu systems François Guimbretière and Terry Winograd. FlowMenu: Combining Command, Text and Parameter Entry. Procceedings of UIST 2000, pp. 213 – 216, Video François Guimbretière, Andrew Martin, and Terry Winograd, Benefits of Merging Command Selection and Direct Manipulation. Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 12(3), pp 460 – 476, 2005. Nicholas Chen and François Guimbretière. Relative Role of Merging and Two Handed Operation on Command Selection Speed. Submitted to IJHCS.
	Interfaces for Kids Juan Pablo Hourcade, Benjamin B. Bederson, Allison Druin and François Guimbretière. Differences in pointing task performance between preschool children and adults using mice. Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 11(4), pp 357 – 486, 2004.

Data analysis tools and information visualization
	ExperiScope: understanding interaction data better François Guimbretière, Morgan Dixon and Ken Hinckley. ExperiScope: An Analysis Tool for Interaction Data. Proceedings of CHI 2007, pp 1333 - 1342. (Video)
	TreeJuxtaposer: Comparing (very) large trees Tamara Munzner, François Guimbretière, Serdar Tasiran, Li Zhang and Yunhong Zhou. TreeJuxtaposer: Scalable Tree Comparison using Focus+Context with Guaranteed Visibility, ACM Transaction on Graphics 22(3), pp. 453 – 462, 2003, Video. Dmitry Nekrasovski, Adam Bodnar, Joanna McGrenere, François Guimbretière and Tamara Munzner. An Evaluation of Pan & Zoom and Rubber Sheet Navigation with and without an Overview. Proceedings of CHI’06, pp. 11 – 20.
	Constellation:Visualization of linguistic queries Tamara Munzner, François Guimbretière and George Robertson. Constellation: A Visualization Tool For Linguistic Queries from MindNet. Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, pp. 132 –135, 154, Video.

New devices for new interactions When software is not enough
	HCIL Rapid Prototyping Lab Z corp 310 3D printer Immersion MicroScribe G2X Versa Laser cutter
	PostBrainstorm: A fully digital brainstorming tool François Guimbretière, Maureen Stone and Terry Winograd. Fluid Interaction with High-resolution Wall-size Displays. Proceedings of UIST 2001, pp. 21 – 30, (slides, Video, Thesis (Sect 6.2))
	The Geometer's Workbench: A new front-end for Mathematica François Guimbretière, Terry Winograd and Sha Xin Wei. The Geometer's Workbench: An Experiment in Interacting with a Large, High Resolution Display. (Unpublished draft), Video
	Stanford Interactive Mural: A 9 Mpixel, 64dpi, whiteboard-size display Terry Winograd and François Guimbretière. Visual Instruments for an Interactive Mural. Proceedings of CHI 1999, Extended Abstracts, pp. 234 – 235. François Guimbretière. Fluid interaction for high-resolution wall-size displays, PhD Thesis, Stanford University. (Defense slides, first defense video, second defense video)

TreeJuxtaposer: Comparing (very) large trees

Tamara Munzner, François Guimbretière, Serdar Tasiran, Li Zhang and Yunhong Zhou. TreeJuxtaposer: Scalable Tree Comparison using Focus+Context with Guaranteed Visibility, ACM Transaction on Graphics 22(3), pp. 453 – 462, 2003, Video.

Dmitry Nekrasovski, Adam Bodnar, Joanna McGrenere, François Guimbretière and Tamara Munzner. An Evaluation of Pan & Zoom and Rubber Sheet Navigation with and without an Overview. Proceedings of CHI’06, pp. 11 – 20.