Anne Marie Piper

I am a graduate student in Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego. I work with the Distributed Cognition and Human-Computer Interaction Lab at UCSD. My research is advised by Jim Hollan and focuses on human-computer interaction. More specifically, I am interested the cognitive, social, and pedagogical affordances of multimodal, multitouch tabletop displays. Recently I designed and evaluated Shared Speech Interface, a multimodal tabletop system that facilitates communication between a deaf patient and a hearing doctor. Currently, I am exploring how multimodal tabletop displays could be used to support learning scenarios, enhance memory in cognitively demanding tasks, and augment ongoing co-located cooperative activity.

Before returning to graduate school in 2007, I worked in industry for a couple years. I worked at Microsoft as a researcher on their new multitouch tabletop system, Microsoft Surface. Then I conducted research at LeapFrog on the FLY Fusion Pentop Computer, a computationally enhanced digital pen. I received my BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and my MA in Education from Stanford University.

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