Brad Myers's Home Page

05-830, Advanced User Interface Software. Spring, 2013. (schedule) (homeworks)
List of systems and their acronyms
HCII Current Seminar Series
General Chair, IEEE VL/HCC'2011 Conference
Invited talk at ICSE'12 in the Horizons track, "Software Engineers are People Too: Applying Human Centered Approaches to Improve Software Development." See pdf of slides.
Keynote address to PLATEAU'2011 on "Inherent vs. Accidental vs. Intentional Difficulties in Programming". See pdf of slides.
Video of my talk on "End-User Design and Development" at IBM's Almaden's "New Paradigms for Using Computers" Workshop on The Future of Design and Software Development (NPUC'2009)
Video of my talk at Google on Natural Programming from Sep 26, 2007
Video of my talk at Stanford on Pebbles from 2002
Invited talk, "A User Acceptance Equation for Intelligent Assistants" at the AAAI 2007 Spring Symposium on Interaction Challenges for Intelligent Assistants. See also pdf of PowerPoint slides.

Research Projects

Natural Programming, affliated with the EUSES Consortium.
- Try our documentation tools: Apatite and Jadeite and Calcite and Euklas, and our logging tool, Fluorite
The ENGAGE Project on Educational Video Games, sponsored by DARPA
Pebbles Hand-Held Computer Project including the EdgeWrite text entry method (now patented! U.S. Pat. No. 7,729,542 [Patent]).

Former Projects

Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) Engineering Research Center.
RADAR: Reflective Agents with Distributed Adaptive Reasoning, which is part of: PAL program: Perceptive Assistant that Learns, which is part of: EPCA Enduring Personal Cognitive Agent. includes Citrine Smart Clipboard
The Silver Video Editor
Command Post of the Future
Amulet
Demonstrational Interfaces
Garnet

Biography

(See also my complete resume and publication list in HTML format).

Brad A. Myers is a Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is an IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, winner of six best paper awards and a Most Influential Paper Award, and a member of the CHI Academy, an honor bestowed on the principal leaders of the field. He is the principal investigator for the Natural Programming Project and the Pebbles Handheld Computer Project, and previously led the Amulet and Garnet projects. He is the author or editor of over 400 publications, including the books "Creating User Interfaces by Demonstration" and "Languages for Developing User Interfaces," and he has been on the editorial board of five journals. He has been a consultant on user interface design and implementation to over 75 companies, and regularly teaches courses on user interface design and software. Myers received a PhD in computer science at the University of Toronto where he developed the Peridot user interface tool. He received the MS and BSc degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during which time he was a research intern at Xerox PARC. From 1980 until 1983, he worked at PERQ Systems Corporation. His research interests include user interface development systems, user interfaces, handheld computers, programming environments, programming language design, programming by example, visual programming, interaction techniques, and window management. He belongs to ACM, SIGCHI, IEEE, and the IEEE Computer Society.

Research Interests

Programming Environments, End-User Software Engineering, Handheld devices, User Interface Development Systems, User Interfaces, Programming by Example, Visual Programming, Interaction Techniques, and Window Management

Students (PhD, MS, BS, in CS, HCII, ISRI at CMU)

Current Students

Erik Harpstead, PhD student, HCII
YoungSeok Yoon, PhD student, ISR
Kerry Shih-Ping Chang, PhD student, HCII
Stephen Oney, PhD student, HCII

Current Staff

Andrew Faulring

Former Students & PostDocs

Thomas LaToza, PhD ISR, May, 2012, Answering Reachability Questions. CMU-ISR-12-104. pdf. Currently, PostDoc at University of California at Irvine.
Christian Doerner, PostDoc, 2010-2011
Jeff Stylos, PhD CSD, May, 2009, Making APIs More Usable with Improved API Designs, Documentation and Tools, CMU-CS-09-130. pdf.
Christopher Scaffidi, PhD ISR, May, 2009, Topes: Enabling End-User Programmers to Validate and Reformat Data, CMU-ISR-09-105. pdf. Currently, Assistant Professor at Oregon State University.
Andrew Ko, PhD, May, 2008, Asking and Answering Questions about the Causes of Software Behavior. CMU-HCII-08-106 and CMU-CS-08-122. pdf. Currently, Assistant Professor at University of Washington.
Jeff Nichols, PhD, December, 2006, Automatically Generating High-Quality User Interfaces for Appliances. pdf. CMU-HCII-06-109. Currently, Research Staff Member at IBM's Almaden Research Center.
Jake Wobbrock. PhD, August, 2006, EdgeWrite: A Versatile Design for Text Entry and Control. Abstract and PDF. Currently, Assistant Professor at University of Washington.
Michael Coblenz, MS CSD, 2006. JASPER: Facilitating Software Maintenance Activities With Explicit Task Representations. Currently at Apple.
Iván Eduardo González, BS CSD, 2006. Thumb Based Interaction Techniques for Input on a Steering Wheel. Currently, at Microsoft.
Andrew Faulring, BS in Computer Science, 1999. Gold: Charting by Demonstration. MS, 2005. Currently, staff at CMU
Rajesh Seenichamy, MS, Information Networking Institute, August, 2003, Communicating With X-10 And Vehicle Functions To Enable Two-Way Remote Control.
Rob Miller, PhD, May, 2002, Lightweight Structure in Text. Currently, faculty at MIT.
John Pane, PhD, May, 2002, A Programming System for Children that is Designed for Usability, Currently at RAND
Sailesh Panchang, MS, August, 2002, from the Dept. of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, University of Pittsburgh. Assessing Web Page Usability For Users Of Text To Speech Assistive Technology.
Juan Casares, MS HCI, 2001. Currently, at VMWare.
Rich McDaniel, PhD, May, 1999, Creating Whole Applications Using Only Programming-by-Demonstration. Currently at Siemens Corporate Research.
Chotirat ("Ann") Ratanamahatana, BS in Computer Science, 1998. A Textual Programming Language and Environment for Beginners. Currently, University of California, Riverside
James Landay, PhD, Dec. 1996, Interactive Sketching for the Early Stages of User Interface Design. Currently, Professor, University of Washington.
Francesmary Modugno, PhD, 1995. (old CMU web page) Extending End-User Programming in a Visual Shell With Programming by Demonstration and Graphical Language Techniques.
Nobuhisa Yoda, MS INI, Dec, 1994, An Architectural Design of A Toolkit for Synchronous Groupware Applications
Andrew Werth, MS INI, Oct. 1992, Tourmaline: Formatting Document Headings by Example
Rajan Parthasarathy, BS CS, May, 1994, Garnette: An Interactive User Interface Tool
David Kosbie.

Courses

Interaction Techniques, Spring, 2014. New Course!
05-863/08-763/46-863: Introduction to Human Computer Interaction for Technology Executives, Fall, 2013, Mini-2.
05-773A4: Computer Science Perspectives in HCI, Spring, 2013, Mini 4.
05-830: Advanced User Interface Software. Spring, 2013
05-863/08-763/46-863: Introduction to Human Computer Interaction for Technology Executives, Fall, 2012, Mini-2. 60 students.
95-763 Z5: Introduction to Human Computer Interaction for Technology Executives, Summer, Mini-5, 2012. (For the Heinz Executive Ed program). 11 students
08-702, 08-703: Contextual Design, User Interface Design and Testing. For MSIT eBusiness program, Fall, 2012. 47 students.
05-671: Masters HCI Project, Spring, 2012. 51 students
05-863/08-763/46-863: Introduction to Human Computer Interaction for Technology Executives, Fall, 2011, Mini-2. 58 students
08-702, 08-703: Contextual Design, User Interface Design and Testing. For MSIT eBusiness program, Fall, 2011. 48 students
05-899D: Human Aspects of Software Development (HASD), Spring, 2011. 7 students for credit, plus 5 audit.
05-863/08-763/46-863: Introduction to Human Computer Interaction for Technology Executives. Fall, 2010, Mini-2. 65 students.
08-702, 08-703: Contextual Design, User Interface Design and Testing. For MSIT eBusiness program, Fall, 2010. 47 students.
05-671/672: Masters HCI Project. Spring/Summer, 2010. 12/48 units. 50 students.
05-863/08-763/46-863: Introduction to Human Computer Interaction for Technology Executives. Fall, 2009, Mini-2. 32 students.
08-702, 08-703: Contextual Design, User Interface Design and Testing. For MSIT eBusiness program, Fall, 2009. 24 students.
05-830: Advanced User Interface Software. Spring, 2009. 6 students.
08-702, 08-703: Contextual Design, User Interface Design and Testing. For MSIT eBusiness program, Fall, 2008. 38 students.
05-863 / 08-763 / 46-863: Introduction to Human Computer Interaction for Technology Executives. Fall, Mini 2, 2008.
08-702, 08-703: Contextual Design, User Interface Design and Testing. For MSIT eBusiness program, Fall, 2007. 27 students. web site (requires login)
05-863 / 08-763 / 46-863: Introduction to Human Computer Interaction for Technology Executives. Fall, Mini 2, 2007. 39 students.
05-671/672: Masters HCI Project. Spring/Summer, 2007. 12/48 units. 29/28 students.
08-702, 08-703: Contextual Design, User Interface Design and Testing. For MSIT eBusiness program, Fall, 2006. 32 students. web site (requires login)
17-770: Human Computer Interaction for Technology Executives. (For the Tepper School of Business, Technology Leadership Track). Fall, 2006. 12 students.
05-671/672: Masters HCI Project. Spring/Summer, 2006. 12/48 units. 29/28 students.
96-766, 96-768: Contextual Design, User Interface Design and Testing. For MSIT eBusiness program, Fall, 2005. 6/6 units. 28 students. web site (requires login)
96-766, 96-768: Contextual Design, User Interface Design and Testing. For MSIT eBusiness program, Fall, 2004. 6/6 units. 40 students. web site (requires login)
05-830: Advanced User Interface Software. Fall, 2004.
20-790: Human-Computer Interaction for eCommerce. Mini-6, Summer Session Two, 2004. (Taught for the UTC Flex-Mode distance-ed program)
20-790: Human-Computer Interaction for eCommerce. Mini-6, Summer Session Two, 2004.
05-630 / 05-430, Programming Usable Interfaces. Spring, 2004.
05-830, Advanced User Interface Software. Spring, 2003.
20-790: Human-Computer Interaction for eCommerce. Spring, first mini, 2003. (Taught for the UTC Flex-Mode distance-ed program)
96-766, 96-768, 96-771: CMU West Campus - Information Technology Masters of eBusiness Technology, Contextual Design, Fall, 2002 and Spring 2003.
20-790: Human-Computer Interaction for eCommerce. Fall, second mini, 2002.
Human-Computer Interaction in eCommerce. June 26 - August 9, 2002.
05-631 Software Architecture for User Interfaces, Fall, 2001.
20-790: Human-Computer Interaction for eCommerce. Fall, second mini, 2001.
Human-Computer Interaction in eCommerce. Summer, 2001. 45 students.
One Week Short Course: "User Interface Design and Implementation". Taught with Bonnie John, Randy Pausch, Ken Koedinger, Jodi Forlizzi and Len Bass. July 17-21, 2000.
05-830, User Interface Software, Spring, 2001.
05-830, User Interface Software, Spring, 2000.
05-830, User Interface Software, Spring, 1999.
05-830, User Interface Software, Spring, 1998.
05-830, User Interface Software, Spring, 1997.
15-621 and 15-499(A), Intro to User Interface Programming, taught with Dan Olsen, Fall, 1996.
HCI2: HCI Software Tools - A one day short course in the Carnegie Mellon Summer School of Computer Science, 1996
15-820 (B) Advanced Topics in HCI: User Interface Software, Spring, 1996.
17-698B or 15-499A Introduction to User Interface Programming, taught with Jim Morris, Fall, 1995.
15-820(C) or 15-499(B), Advanced Topics in HCI: User Interface Software, Spring, 1994.
Special 1.5 hour lecture on User Interfaces

Member of the Editorial Board of:

Formerly

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.
ACM interactions magazine.

Family

Our dog, Oreo
See our 2012 Holiday Greeting Card (pdf) (and 1997, 1998, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009)
Here is my Dad's page: Bert Myers.
One of my sons, Ryan Myers, works for Evil Genius Designs. Another son, Reid Myers, works for IHC.

Links

My entry at:
- A page about me in Wikipedia
- My "Author Profile Page" at ACM
- Academia.edu
- Microsoft Academic Search (MAS)
- My citations page on Google Scholar (15,214 total citations, h-index 60 as of 10/10/12)
- My Google profile
- Interaction-Design.org
- On the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- My LinkedIn profile (rated one of the top 10% most viewed @LinkedIn profiles for 2012)
My place in listings:
- Third most published author in HCI, according to hcibib.org
- Ranked 6th overall in all years in Microsoft's Academic Search for HCI based on "H-Index"
- Listed in The h Index for Computer Science: Computer Science researchers who have an h index of 40 or higher according to Google Scholar
- Most published author at the CHI conference, according to Microsoft's Academic Search
- Fellow of the IEEE: IEEE 2013 List
- Fellow of the ACM: My citation at ACM
- Elected to the CHI Academy, 2004, as one of the top 25 "principal leaders of the field" of HCI. My citation at ACM, and my citation at CHI'04
Badges and ribbons from all previous SIGCHI Conferences
API Usability web site.
New NSH HCII Lobby
Concert with James Lee Stanley and John Batdorf, Sunday, June 7th, 2009. (See also previous concerts: June 21st, 2008, April 28, 2007, Oct 23, 2005 with John Batdorf, Feb 5, 2005, and Peter Tork and James Lee Stanley, Feb 1, 2004.)
My Legal Intellectual Property Testimony work
General Conference Chair, IEEE VL/HCC'2011 Conference
Was Co-Chair for SEEUP'09 Workshop at ICSE
Pictures of Brad as a "Celebrity Judge" of the Pittsburgh World Usability Game Show
WEUSE II: Workshop on End-User Software Engineering
Committee to plan the HCII Twelfth Anniversary Celebration
Former CubMaster of Cub Scout Pack 109
Conference Co-Chair for HCIC'04
List of systems and their acronyms
Editor, IEEE Computer Special Issue on Handhelds
My talk at Stanford on Pebbles from 2002: streaming video of the full talk (1hr26min). (Warning: video link crashes Netscape 4.7)
My ICFP'02 Talk on Natural Programming
EkaTetra Corporation, where I am a Technical Member of the Advisory Committee
IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, VL'2000, Seattle, Washington, where I gave the opening keynote.
The Human Computer Interaction Working Group of the ACM Workshop on Strategic Directions in Computing Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 14-15, 1996, of which I was co-chair.
Keynote address at the ACM Multimedia'97 Conference
Old list of User Interface Software Tools (updated list from class in 2013)
Human Computer Interaction Institute
ACM SIGCHI's main page
UIST'95 that I was the chair for.
PBD Home page
Languages for Developing User Interfaces
Racketball FAQ and Official Rules
Computer Almanac (numbers)
This page translated into Bulgarian by Albert Ward (as of 9/14/2011)