HML Members
Dr. Roel Vertegaal
Dr. Roel Vertegaal is Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and director of the Human Media Laboratory. He is also CTO of Xuuk, Inc., a startup that develops attention sensors for interactive, real-world viewing statistics gathering. Roel's first degree is in Electronic Music from Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands.
Josh Marble
Josh is currently a Master’s student with the Human Media Lab doing work that pertains to organic user interfaces. He has an undergraduate degree in Biomedical Computing from Queen’s University.
He also likes to stay active in his spare time by playing basketball and squash, running, and learning new juggling tricks.
Andreas Hollatz
Tré is our regular hardware geek. When not busy hacking iPhone protectors into semi-useful input devices, he's trying to trick Philips Lumalive e-textiles into behaving.
David Holman
David Holman is a PhD student who studies the emerging area of Organic User Interfaces. He is currently examining how flexible and expandable displays will impact our experience with mobile phones. He is also researching how eye input can be used as an input channel in a multi-touch tabletop setting. He can be reached at holman@cs.queensu.ca
Doug Wightman
Doug Wightman is a PhD student. He studies how programming changes as computers are provided with more information about their users. He wants programming to become as natural as speaking.
Doug completed an MSc at Stanford and built an electronic medical record company in Los Angeles prior to joining the HML.
Stop by for a brainstorm - Friday afternoons at 2:30.
Sylvia H. Cheng
Sylvia is a Masters student at the Human Media Lab. She completed her undergraduate degree at Queen's University in Biomedical Computing. She is currently working on developing a remote haptic interface based on hand-gestures -- a new interaction display interface to view and manipulate magnetic resonance imagery and computed tomography data. She is also working on a project to develop a new ebook application that incorporates paper gesture interactions.
Tim Ginn
Tim is a Masters student in the HML. Tim is working on interaction techniques for a flexible electronic book reader. Also, he was the President of the Computing Students' Association of Queen's and is now a Computing Graduate Representative.