About
I am a faculty member in Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology. I am the Edward M Frymoyer Chair Professor and the co-Director (with Professor Mary Beth Rosson) of the College of IST’s Laboratory for Computer Supported Collaboration and Learning. I am also the Director of Penn State’s Center for Human-Computer Interaction. I also have courtesy appointments as professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Instructional Systems, and Psychology.
Until August 2003, I was a professor in Computer Science at Virginia Tech. I was also Director of Virginia Tech’s Center for Human-Computer Interaction, and had secondary appointments as professor of Teaching and Learning and Psychology. And prior to that, I was a scientist at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (1976-1994), where I managed the legendary User Interface Institute.
I have reached the stage in life where my colleagues have started giving me “lifetime” awards, though I have no specific plan to retire or die anytime soon: Joseph T. Rigo Award, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery, 1994), SIGCHI Academy, ACM (2001, “ACM SIGCHI” is the ACM’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction), SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award, ACM (2002, announcement), ACM Fellow (2003; announcement), Alfred N. Goldsmith Award, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2004, announcement), IEEE Fellow (2004), Honorary Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (2005, announcement).