I'm interested in developing novel technologies to enable weird and wonderful forms of human-computer interaction beyond the desktop. Essentially this means building, hacking, dismantling and playing with as much technology as possible, and unbelievably getting paid to do so! Some official buzz words would include:

• Novel user interfaces and input
• Interactive surfaces
• Tabletop systems
• Tangible computing
• Multi-display environments
• Novel hardware and sensing techniques for interactive systems
• Technologies for domains outside the office e.g. the home or public spaces
• Mobile UIs and infrastructures

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

Projects (present and past):

ThinSight
This project explores a new technique for optical sensing through thin form-factor displays. It allows for detection of fingers and other physical objects close to or on the display surface. This essentially allows us to turn a regular LCD into a sensing surface that can be used for multi-touch and tangible computing applications. We are interested in both the underlying hardware and software aspects of this approach as well as the interaction techniques and application scenarios it enables.

Applications and interaction techniques for surfaces
We’ve been exploring novel application scenarios and interaction techniques for surfaces including ThinSight and the new Surface computer. Application-wise these include VideoPlay, a tangible way of editing videos on a tabletop, and FamilyArchive, a system which allows the input and safe archiving of both digital and physical media, and allows natural interaction with those media. In terms of interaction techniques we are looking at new ways of detecting and interacting with the Surface using mobile devices, adding physics to UIs, and revisiting the classic problem of scale, rotate and translate.   

The Collaborative Slate (C-Slate)
With C-Slate we are exploring how direct input horizontal surfaces can be used for remote collaboration. We have developed new stereo vision techniques for enabling touch input on a large pen-based tablet display, with the ability to recognise everyday physical objects placed on the surface. This enables users to interact with the display very naturally using stylus, hands and tangible objects. We are also developing virtual embodiments of users to enrich the remote collaboration.

Situated appliances for the home
This is an umbrella project that covers some of the novel work that the group does in looking at situated displays and technologies for the home. I’ve been involved with the Whereabouts Clock a situated display for the kitchen wall which displays the general whereabouts of family members using GSM cell information, HomeNote a simple pen-based messaging board for the home, and the PictureBowl a spherical display for loosely managing content on mobile devices. 

Dynamo
Dynamo was my PhD thesis work and developed novel interaction techniques, applications and a toolkit to allow co-located people to collaborate and share information fluidly using a combination of large multi-user and input digital surfaces and personal technologies. It explored some of the interesting research questions around supporting multi-input displays, multi-display environments, and techniques for sharing data across heterogeneous systems.  

Equator
Equator was a huge and successful project that brought together like-minded thinkers (and drinkers) from eight leading UK universities. I was involved in various threads: In the Citywide experience we designed and developed gaming and mixed reality user experiences that bring together people outdoors with those online. In the Curious Home project, cutting edge technology met design with some interesting ludic consequences.

Speakeasy
The Speakeasy project at PARC brought new human-centred approaches to networked interoperability. The project developed an interconnection technology that enabled digital devices and software services to easily interoperate over both wired and wireless networks. I was fortunate enough to spend two years on the project, hang out with some seriously smart and cool people, and distil some of the results into my thesis work.

Papers (ACM, IEEE, and Springer)

1.  [UIST 2007, ACM]
Hodges, S., Izadi, S., Butler, A., Rrustemi, A., and Buxton, B. 2007. ThinSight: Versatile Multi-touch Sensing for Thin Form-factor Displays. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual ACM Conference on User Interface Software and Technology (Rhode Island, USA, October 2007).UIST 2007. Forthcoming

2. [TABLETOP 2007, IEEE]
Izadi, S., Agarwal, A., Criminisi, A., Winn, J., Blake, A., Fitzgibbon. A. 2007. C-Slate: A Multi-Touch and Object Recognition System for Remote Collaboration using Horizontal Surfaces. In IEEE Conference on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (Rhode Island, USA, October 2007). Tabletop 2007. Forthcoming.

3. [TABLETOP 2007, IEEE]
Agarwal, A., Izadi, S., Chandraker, M., Blake. A. 2007, High Precision Multi-touch Sensing on Surfaces using Overhead Cameras. In IEEE Conference on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (Rhode Island, USA, October 2007). Tabletop 2007. Forthcoming.

4. [UBICOMP 2007, LNCS]
Brown, B., Taylor, A., Izadi, S., Sellen, A., and Kaye, J. 2007. Locating family values: A field trial of the Whereabouts Clock. In Proceedings of the 9th international Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Innsbruck, Austria, September 2007). Lecture Notes In Computer Science. Springer-Verlag, London. Forthcoming.

5. [MOBILE HCI 2007, LNCS]
Harper, R., Regan, T., Izadi, S., Rouncefield, M., Rubens, S., Al Mosawi, K. 2007. Trafficking: Design for the Viral Exchange of Digital Content on Mobile Phones. In Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Human-Computer interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (Sigapore, September 11-14, 2007). MobileHCI '07. ACM Press, New York, NY. Forthcoming.

6. [EDT 2007, ACM]
Izadi, S., Hodges, S., Butler, A., Rrustemi, A., and Buxton, B. 2007. ThinSight: integrated optical multi-touch sensing through thin form-factor displays. In Proceedings of SIGRRAPH Emerging Displays Technologies: Images and Beyond – the Future of Displays and interaction (San Diego, California, August 04 - 04, 2007). SIGGRAPH EDT'07, vol. 252. ACM Press, New York, NY.

7. [CHI 2007, ACM]
Terrenghi, L., Kirk, D., Izadi, S., and Sellen, A. 2007. Affordances for manipulation of physical versus digital media on interactive surfaces. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, California, USA, April 28 - May 03, 2007). CHI '07. ACM Press, New York, NY, 1157-1166.

8. [PUC 2007, SPRINGER]
Taylor, A. S., Harper, R., Swan, L., Izadi, S., Sellen, A., and Perry, M. 2007. Homes that make us smart. Personal Ubiquitous Comput. 11, 5 (Jun. 2007). Springer-Verlag, London, 383-393.

9. [CHI 2006, ACM]
Sellen, A., Eardley, R., Izadi, S., and Harper, R. 2006. The whereabouts clock: early testing of a situated awareness device. In CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 22 - 27, 2006). CHI '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 1307-1312.

10. [CSCW 2006, ACM]
Sellen, A., Harper, R., Eardley, R., Izadi, S., Regan, T., Taylor, A. S., and Wood, K. R. 2006. HomeNote: supporting situated messaging in the home. In Proceedings of the 2006 20th Anniversary Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 04 - 08, 2006). CSCW '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 383-392.

11. [UBICOMP 2006, LNCS]
Hodges, S., Williams, L., Berry, E., Izadi, S., Srinivasan, J., Butler A., Smyth, G., Kapur N., and Wood, K. 2006. SenseCam: A Retrospective Memory Aid. In Proceedings of the 8th international Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Orange County, CA, USA, September 17-21, 2006). Lecture Notes In Computer Science, vol. 4206. Springer-Verlag, London, 177-193.

12. [UBICOMP 2005, LNCS]
Duff, P., McCarthy, M., Muller, H., Randell, C, Izadi, S., Boucher, A., Law, A., Pennington, S. and Swinford R. 2005. A New Method for Auto-calibrated Object Tracking. In Proceedings of the 7th international Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Tokyo, Japan, September September 11-14, 2005). Lecture Notes In Computer Science, vol. 3660. Springer-Verlag, London, 123-140.

13. [DUX 2005, ACM]
Izadi, S., Fitzpatrick, G., Rodden, T., Brignull, H., Rogers, Y., and Lindley, S. 2005. The iterative design and study of a large display for shared and sociable spaces. In Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Designing For User Experience (San Francisco, California, November 03 - 05, 2005). ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, vol. 135.

14. [TRANS. CONSUMER ELECTRONICS, IEEE]
Edwards, W.K.   Newman, M.W.   Smith, T.F.   Sedivy, J.  and Izadi, S. 2005. An extensible set-top box platform for home media applications, In IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. 51, 4 (Nov. 2005), 1175- 1181.

15. [CSCW 2004, ACM]
Brignull, H., Izadi, S., Fitzpatrick, G., Rogers, Y., and Rodden, T. 2004. The introduction of a shared interactive surface into a communal space. In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 06 - 10, 2004). CSCW '04. ACM Press, New York, NY, 49-58.

16. [UIST 2003, ACM]
Izadi, S., Brignull, H., Rodden, T., Rogers, Y., and Underwood, M. 2003. Dynamo: a public interactive surface supporting the cooperative sharing and exchange of media. In Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM Conference on User interface Software and Technology (Vancouver, Canada, November 02 - 05, 2003). UIST '03. ACM Press, New York, NY, 159-168.

17. [MOBICOM 2002, ACM]
Edwards, W. K., Izadi, S., Newman, M. W., Sedivy, J., and Smith, T. F. 2002. Recombinant computing and the speakeasy approach. In Proceedings of the 8th Annual international Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, September 23 - 28, 2002). MobiCom '02. ACM Press, New York, NY, 279-286.

18. [UIST 2002, ACM]
Newman, M. W., Izadi, S., Edwards, W. K., Sedivy, J. Z., and Smith, T. F. 2002. User interfaces when and where they are needed: an infrastructure for recombinant computing. In Proceedings of the 15th Annual ACM Conference on User interface Software and Technology (Paris, France, October 27 - 30, 2002). UIST '02. ACM Press, New York, NY, 171-180.

19. [PUC 2002, SPRINGER]
Izadi, S., Fraser, M., Benford, S., Flintham, M., Greenhalgh, C., Rodden, T., and Schnädelbach, H. 2002. Citywide: Supporting Interactive Digital Experiences Across Physical Space. Personal Ubiquitous Comput. 6, 4 (Jan. 2002), 290-298.

20. [CHI 2002, ACM]
Schnädelbach, H., Koleva, B., Flintham, M., Fraser, M., Izadi, S., Chandler, P., Foster, M., Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., and Rodden, T. 2002. The augurscope: a mixed reality interface for outdoors. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Changing Our World, Changing Ourselves (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, April 20 - 25, 2002). CHI '02. ACM Press, New York, NY, 9-16.

21. [DIS 2002, ACM]
Newman, M. W., Sedivy, J. Z., Neuwirth, C. M., Edwards, W. K., Hong, J. I., Izadi, S., Marcelo, K., Smith, T. F., Sedivy, J., and Newman, M. 2002. Designing for serendipity: supporting end-user configuration of ubiquitous computing environments. In Proceedings of the Conference on Designing interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques (London, England, June 25 - 28, 2002). DIS '02. ACM Press, New York, NY, 147-156.

22. [CSCW 2002, ACM]
Edwards, W. K., Newman, M. W., Sedivy, J. Z., Smith, T. F., Balfanz, D., Smetters, D. K., Wong, H. C., and Izadi, S. 2002. Using speakeasy for ad hoc peer-to-peer collaboration. In Proceedings of the 2002 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November 16 - 20, 2002). CSCW '02. ACM Press, New York, NY, 256-265.

23. [AUTOMATED SOFT. ENG. 2002, SPRINGER]
Izadi, S., Coutinho, P., Rodden, T., and Smith, G. 2002. The FUSE Platform: Supporting Ubiquitous Collaboration Within Diverse Mobile Environments. In Automated Software Engg. 9, 2 (Apr. 2002). Springer-Verlag, London, 167-186.

24. [VAST 2002, ACM]
Hall, T., Ciolfi, L., Bannon, L., Fraser, M., Benford, S., Bowers, J., Greenhalgh, C., Hellström, S., Izadi, S., Schnädelbach, H., and Flintham, M. 2001. The visitor as virtual archaeologist: explorations in mixed reality technology to enhance educational and social interaction in the museum. In Proceedings of the 2001 Conference on Virtual Reality, Archaeology, and Cultural Heritage (Glyfada, Greece, November 28 - 30, 2001). VAST '01. ACM Press, New York, NY, 91-96.

25. [UBICOMP 2001, LNCS]
Benford, S., Bowers, J., Izadi, S., Rodden, T., Schnädelbach, H., Chandler, P., Ciolfi, L., Flintham, M., Fraser, M., Greenhalgh, C., Hall, T., Hellström, S. O., and Taylor, I. 2001. Unearthing Virtual History: Using Diverse Interfaces to Reveal Hidden Virtual Worlds. In Proceedings of the 3rd international Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, September 30 - October 02, 2001). Lecture Notes In Computer Science, vol. 2201. Springer-Verlag, London, 225-231.

Papers (Other)

1. PHD Thesis, Public Interactive Surfaces for Communal Ubiquitous Computing Spaces, 2004
   
   
2. Bilgen, A. and Izadi, S.  Using Cellphones to Interact with Public Displays from a Distance. In Adjunct Proceedings of Pervasive Computing, 5th International Conference, PERVASIVE 2007, Toronto, Canada, May 13-16, 2007.
   
   
3. Swan, L., Taylor, A. S., Izadi, S. and Harper, R. Containing family clutter. In Proceedings of Home Informatics and Telematics: Information, Technology and Society (HOIT), Chennai, India, August 22-25, 2007.
   
   
4. Taylor, S., Izadi, S., Ozenc, K. and Harper, R. VideoPlay: Playful and Social Editing of Video using Tangible Objects and Multi-touch Interaction. In adjunct proceedings of IEEE Conference on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (Rhode Island, USA, October 2007). Tabletop 2007.
   
   
5. Steve Hodges, Shahram Izadi, Alex Butler and Alban Rrustemi, ThinSight: A new interaction technology for ubicomp. In Adjunct proceedings of 9th international Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Innsbruck, Austria, September 2007).
   
   
6. Swan, L., Izadi S., Taylor, A., Harper, R., Sellen, A. Rethinking the "Smart" Home. In Proceedings of IEE International Workshop on Intelligent Environments, University of Essex, Colchester, UK, 28-29 June 2005.
   
   
7. Taylor, A., Izadi, S., Swan, L., Buxton, B., Harper, R. Building Bowls for Miscellaneous Media In Proceedings of  First International Workshop on Physicality, Lancaster University, UK, July 2006.
   
   
8. Hodges, S., Izadi, S., Han, S. WASP: Wireless Actuator and Sensor Platform. In Proceedings of Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges for Ubiquitous Computing, June 1-2, 2006 - Lancaster, UK.
   
   
9. Izadi S., Brignull H., Fitzpatrick G., Rogers Y. and T. Rodden, "Studying the Use of a Large Interactive Surface within a Social Setting". In Ubicomp 2004, Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Workshop on
   Ubiquitous Systems for Supporting Social Interaction and Face-to-Face Communication in Public Spaces), September 7-10, 2004, Nottingham, UK, 1-8.
   
   
10. Greenhalgh C., Izadi S., Mathrick J., Humble J. and I. Taylor, "ECT: A Toolkit to Support Rapid Construction of Ubicomp Environments". In Ubicomp 2004, Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Workshop on System Support for Ubiquitous Computing UbiSys04), September 7-10, 2004, Nottingham, UK.
    
    
11. Greenhalgh C., Izadi S., Taylor, I. and J. Mathrick, "A Toolkit to Support Rapid Construction of Ubicomp Environments". Technical Report, University of Nottingham, 2004.
    
    
12. Izadi S., Brignull H., Rodden T., Rogers Y. and M. Underwood, “Dynamo: Supporting Sharing and Collaboration around Large Interactive Surfaces”. In Ubicomp 2003, Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Workshop on Ubiquitous Systems for Supporting Social Interaction and Face-to-Face Communication in Public Spaces), October 12-15, 2003, Seattle, USA, 53-59.
    
    
13. Black J.A., Hong J.I., Newman M.W., Edwards W.K., Izadi S., Sedivy J.Z. and T. Smith, "Speakeasy: A Platform for Interactive Public Displays". In CSCW 2002, Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (Workshop on Public, Community, and Situated Displays: Design, Use, and Interaction Around Shared Information Displays), November 16-20, 2002, New Orleans, USA.
    
    
14. Anastasi R., Tandavanitj N., Flintham M., Crabtree A., Adams M., Row-Farr J., Iddon J., Benford S., Hemmings T., Izadi S. and I. Taylor, “Can You See Me Now? A Citywide Mixed-Reality Gaming Experience” Equator Technical Report, University of Nottingham, 2002.
    
    
15. Izadi S., Fraser M., Benford S., Flintham M., Greenhalgh C., Rodden T. and H. Schnädelbach, “Citywide: Supporting Interactive Digital Experiences”. In Mobile HCI 2001, Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices, France, 2001, pages 41-46.
    
    
16. Greenhalgh C., Izadi S., Rodden T., Benford S., “The EQUIP Platform: Bringing Together Physical and Virtual Worlds”. Technical Report, University of Nottingham, 2001.
    
    
17. Izadi S., Benford S., Cheverst K., Coutinho P., Flintham M., Fraser M., Greenhalgh C., Mitchell K. and T. Rodden “A Citywide Mixed Reality Performance: Initial Findings”. In Workshop of Moving Between the Physical and Digital: Exploring and Developing New Forms of Mixed Reality User Experience, Porto, Portugal, 2001.
    
    
18. Greenhalgh C., Benford S., Rodden T., Anastasi R., Taylor I., Flintham M., Izadi S., Chandler P., Koleva B. and H. Schnädelbach, “Augmenting Reality Through Coordinated Use of Diverse Interfaces”. Equator Technical Report, University of Nottingham, 2001.

Patents

• EMBEDDED SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM
• TOUCH SENSING USING SHADOW AND REFLECTIVE MODES
• COMMUNICATION WITH A TOUCH SCREEN
• MOTION TRIGGERED INTERACTION AND DATA TRANSFER BETWEEN DEVICES
• INFRARED SENSOR INTEGRATED IN A TOUCH PANEL
• ACCURATE MULTI-TOUCH DETECTION FOR TOP-DOWN CAMERA SYSTEMS
• INTERACTIVE DISPLAY
• ADD SCREEN ARCHITECTURE
• INTELLIGENT MAIL MONITORING
• ENCODING OF SYMBOL TABLE IN AN EXECUTABLE
• A HOME ARCHIVING SYSTEM FOR PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL FAMILY MEMORABILIA
• METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UNIFYING COMPONENT METADATA.
• METHODS, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR CONFIGURING COMPONENTS IN NETWORKED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS
• METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY DELIVERING SERVICE PROFILES TO CLIENTS
• SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING COMPONENTS ON ARBITRARY NETWORKS TO COMMUNICATE
• SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION
• METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HANDLING DATA
• METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UNIFYING COMPONENT METADATA
• SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING COMPONENT CAPABILITIES
• SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SECURE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
• METHODS, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ABSTRACT APPLICATIONS/COMPONENTS IN A UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

Microsoft Research Cambridge
Computer Mediated Living Group