A.J. Brush

A.J. Brush
SENIOR RESEARCHER
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Projects | Publications | Interns | Professional Activities | Press

My research area is Human-Computer Interaction with a focus on Ubiquitous Computing and Computer Supported Cooperative Work.  I study and build technology for homes and families.  My current focus is home automation as a member of the HomeOS project. I have studied home heatingmobile context-aware applications for activity recognition and location sharing, reducing email overload, interacting with technology beyond the desktop, and annotations for asynchronous collaboration. I am a Senior Member of the ACM and was honored to receive a Borg Early Career Award in 2010.  I am helping organize the HomeSys 2013 workshop at UbiComp 2013 and the co-general chair of UbiComp 2014. I am also a board member of CRA-W, a group that works to increase the number of women in computing.

At Microsoft Research, I am a member of the Computational User Experiences (CUE) group. I graduated summa cum laude from Williams College in 1996 with a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in Sept 2002 and I have been at Microsoft Research since 2004.  My CV and biography have more details. 

Publications

Interns Supervised

  • Jason Wiese, Summer 2012 (with Scott Saponas) Human activity inference
  • Ryder Ziola, Summer 2011 (with Scott Saponas) Human activity inference
  • Hong Lu, Summer 2010 (with Bodhi Priyantha, Jie Liu, Amy Karlson) Speech recognition for mobile devices
  • Shah Amini, Summer 2010  (with John Krumm, Amy Karlson, Jaime Teevan) Mobile search with destination prediction
  • Andres Neyem, Summer 2009 (with Ranveer Chandra) Proximity sensing
  • Lana Yarosh, Summer 2009 (with Kori Inkpen)  Free play over video by children
  • Junius Gunaratne, Spring 2009  Sharing during mobile calls
  • Marshini Chetty, Summer 2008  Home computer power management
  • Adrienne Andrew, Spring 2008, (with Amy Karlson) Mobile micronote capture using voice and ink
  • Serge Egelman, Winter 2008, (with Kori Inkpen)  Account management on home computers
  • Kate Everitt, Summer 2007, (with Merrie Morris) Linking paper and digital documents
  • Andrea Grimes, Summer 2006,  Life scheduling and home/work calendar management
  • Kimberly Tee, Summer 2006, Spring 2007,  Communication and Sharing between extended family members 
  • Carman Neustaedter, Summer 2004, Summer 2005,  LINC, an inkable family calendar

Invited Talks & Recent Professional Activities

Steering and Organizing Committees

Program Committees

Selected Press

Computational User Experience Group

Ubiquitous Computing

CSCW

CRA-W

Join me at the HomeSys 2013 workshop, Sept 9th 2013 at UbiComp2013.