John CannyUCB Computer Science

and Berkeley Institute of Design

Berkeley HCI

JFC’s Projects

• Multiview (HP & Cisco):– Recreating face-to-face

with spatial video

• Secret is Multiview screens – directional projection screen on which each viewer sees a different image.

• Very good performance in high-level studies vs. F2F

Context-Aware Computing

Activity Analysis: computing activity patterns from logs

GLAZE: Location-based user-created services on mobile phones

SNAC: Natural naming and configuration of UBICOMP spaces

logging software

data manager

temp data store

offline algorithm manager

online algorithm manager

data store

pattern detection algorithm

interactive display

All running on user’s machine for confidentiality

logging software

data manager

temp data store

temp data store

offline algorithm manager

online algorithm manager

data storedata store

pattern detection algorithm

interactive display

All running on user’s machine for confidentiality

Developing Regions

MILLEE: Second-language (English) learning on mobile phones

SIMILE: Open speech interfaces for developing regions