Research Interests

Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, Software Engineering.

Research

My work on Human Computer Interaction is situated at the intersection of computer science, cognitive science, communication, and social sciences. I am a computer scientist who develops tools, techniques and infrastructure supporting the deployment of innovative interactive multimodal and tangible devices, and an ethnographer creating novel methods for studying the cognitive consequences of the introduction of this technology in the everyday life.

In my past research I explored new ways of enhancing a seemingly mundane, but ubiquitous, resource such as paper to support everyday work, interaction and collaboration. In particular, I investigated how to support and extend the authoring and publishing infrastructure for interactive paper documents, providing distinctive ways of interweaving paper documents with digital materials.

I am currently looking at how to extend digital paper technology and other physical-digital interfaces such as touch-based devices, depth-cameras, and mobile devices to other aspects of cognition and HCI such as sketching, pen-based interfaces, online social networks, pen and paper authoring tools, multimodal interactions with large wall displays, and digital ethnography.

More Information: http://hci.ucsd.edu/weibel