Jim Hollan is Professor of Cognitive Science and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at UCSD. He co-directs the Distributed Cognition and Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory and the Ubiquitous Computing and Social Dynamics research group.

After completing a Ph.D. at the University of Florida and a postdoctoral fellowship in artificial intelligence at Stanford University, Hollan was on the faculty at the University of California, San Diego for a decade. Along with Ed Hutchins and Don Norman, he led the Intelligent Systems Group in the Institute for Cognitive Science. He left UCSD to become Director of the MCC Human Interface Laboratory and subsequently established the Computer Graphics and Interactive Media Research Group at Bellcore. In 1993, he moved to the University of New Mexico as Chair of the Computer Science Department. In 1997, Hollan returned to UCSD as Professor of Cognitive Science.

Professor Hollan's research explores the cognitive, computational, and social ecology of dynamic interactive media as a basis for designing computer-mediated interaction and communication. His current research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Microsoft Research, the UC MICRO Program, and the Chancellor's Interdisciplinary Collaboratories Program. Recently completed research was funded by California's Digital Media Innovation Program, Darpa, Intel, Microsoft, Nissan, NSF, and Sony. Additional information and recent publications are available at hci.ucsd.edu/hollan.