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glinert@cs.rpi.edu
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington
Visual and multimodal human-computer interfaces; computer-based assistive
technology for the disabled; multilanguage and multiparadigm programming
systems; computer science education and interactive learning.
Glinert's research interests center around two overlapping areas. One of these involves the study and design of computing environments. His goal is to develop ways to improve, even revolutionize, the manner in which people interact with the computer. Specific areas of investigation include: visual programming, in which graphics plays a central role alongside text in the human-computer interface; multimodal environments, in which the interface is further augmented (e.g., through the use of gestures for input and sound for output); and multiparadigm environments, in which users are free to code routines in a single program using a variety of styles which would traditionally require different languages.
Glinert's other major research interest involves using computers to assist people with disabilities. Empowering the members of this large community so that they can comfortably and profitably use computers is problematic, because conventional modes of communication, whether with other people or with machines, are often either impossible or at best burdensome. Glinert's goal is to develop concepts and software which will allow many people with disabilities to use conventional hardware and applications programs; this avoids the high cost associated with special devices, and allows the disabled to fit into the mainstream.
Together with colleagues within the Department and at the University of California, Glinert is currently working on three NSF-funded projects. One of these seeks to enhance the power of second-generation multimedia environments through incorporation of multimodal objects (which can alternatively present their information in two or more sensory modalities) and hyperwidgets (which extend graphical widgets into the sonic domain). The second project's objective is to make full screen, multiwindow interfaces accessible to users with a variety of visual and hearing impairments. The third project's goal is to improve education in software engineering, through pervasive use of object-oriented techniques and reusable libraries in interactive team projects. Previous research has been supported by DARPA, IBM and Xerox.
Glinert is the editor of a two-volume tutorial on visual programming environments published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. In July of 1991, Glinert was elected Chair of the ACM's Special Interest Group for Computers and the Physically Handicapped (SIGCAPH). During 1992-93 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the IEEE CS Task Force on Multimedia Computing. He served as Program Co-Chair for the 1993 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages in Bergen, Norway.