Ed Cutrell manages the Technology for Emerging Markets group at Microsoft Research India. He is a cognitive psychologist with a background in cognitive neuroscience and has been working in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) for more than a decade.

Ed's research concerns the exploration and measurement of human interactions with information technology. Over the years, he has worked on a broad range of HCI topics, including input technologies, visual perception and graphics, intelligent notifications and disruptions, and interfaces for search and personal information management. His current research focuses on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD). In this work, he seeks to understand how people in the world's poor communities interact with information technologies and explores new ways for technology to support their socio-economic development.

Accepted & In Preparation (email for preprints or more information)

Ramachandran, D., Canny, J., Das, P.D. & Cutrell, E. (2010). Mobile-izing Health Workers in Rural India. To appear in Proceedings of CHI 2010, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Atlanta), ACM press.

Sambasivan, N., Cutrell, E., Toyama, K. & Nardi, B. (2010). Intermediated Technology Use in Developing Communities. To appear in Proceedings of CHI 2010, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Atlanta), ACM press.

Sambasivan, N., Cutrell, E. & Toyama, K. (2010). ViralVCD: Tracing Information-Diffusion Paths with Low Cost Media in Developing Communities. To appear in Proceedings of CHI 2010, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Atlanta), ACM press.

2009

Sambasivan, N., Rangaswammy, N., Cutrell, E., & Nardi, B. (2009). Ubicomp4D: Infrastructure and Interaction for International Development-- the Case of Urban Indian Slums. 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2009, (Orlando), ACM press, 155-164.

André, P., Cutrell, E., Tan, D.S. & Smith, G. (2009). Designing Novel Image Search Interfaces by Understanding Unique Characteristics and Usage. In Gulliksen & Oestreicher Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT '09, (Uppsala, Sweden 2009), Springer (for IFIP), 340-353.

Bergman, O., Tucker, S. Beyth-Marom, R. Cutrell, E. & Whittaker, S. (2009). It’s Not That Important: Demoting Personal Information of Low Subjective Importance Using GrayArea. In Proceedings of CHI 2009, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Boston), ACM press, 269-278.

Buscher, G., Cutrell, E. & Morris, M. (2009). What Do You See When You’re Surfing? Using Eye Tracking to Predict Salient Regions of Web Pages. In Proceedings of CHI 2009, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Boston), ACM press, 21-30.

Moraveji, N., Inkpen, K. Cutrell, E. & Balakrishnan, R. (2009). A Mischief of Mice: Examining Children’s Performance in Single Display Groupware Systems with 1 to 32 Mice. In Proceedings of CHI 2009, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Boston), ACM press, 2157-2166.

Teevan, J., Cutrell, E., Fisher, D., Drucker, S., Ramos, G., André, P. & Hu, C (2009). Visual Snippets: Summarizing Web Pages for Search and Revisitation. In Proceedings of CHI 2009, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Boston), ACM press, 2023-2032.

 2008

Baudisch, P., Zotov, A., Cutrell, E., & Hinckley, K.(2008). Starburst: a Target Expansion Algorithm for Non-Uniform Target Distributions. In Proceedings of AVI 2008, Napoli, Italy, May 28-30, pp. 129-137.

Wobbrock, J.O., Cutrell, E. Harada, S. & MacKenzie, I.S. (2008). An Error Model for Pointing Based on Fitts’ Law. In Proceedings of CHI 2008, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Florence, Italy), ACM press, 1613-1622.
Best of CHI Award

Alberts, A., Cutrell, E., & Duchowski, A. Course for CHI 2008: Augmenting Usability with Eye Movement Process Metrics: Hands-On Training. All-day course presented at CHI 2008. Student guide for course.

2007

Cutrell, E., & Guan, Z. (2007). What are you looking for? An eye-tracking study of information usage in Web Search. In Proceedings of CHI'07, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (San Jose, April 2007), ACM press, 407-416.
Best of CHI honorable mention

Guan, Z., & Cutrell, E. (2007). An Eye Tracking Study of the Effect of Target Rank on Web Search. In Proceedings of CHI'07, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (San Jose, April 2007), ACM press, 417-420.

Cutrell, E. & Guan, Z.(2007). An eye-tracking study of information usage in Web search: Variations in target position and contextual snippet length. Tech report for Microsoft Research, MSR-TR-2007-01

2006

Cutrell, E., Robbins, D.C., Dumais, S.T. & Sarin, R. (2006). Fast, Flexible Filtering with Phlat - Personal Search and Organization Made Easy. In Proceedings of CHI 2006, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Montréal, April 2006), ACM press, 261-270. Try Phlat!
Best of CHI honorable mention

Hinckley, K., Guimbretiere, F., Baudisch, P., Sarin, R., Agrawala, M., Cutrell, E. (2006). The Springboard: Multiple Modes in One Spring-loaded Control. In Proceedings of CHI 2006, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Montréal, April 2006), ACM press, 181-190.

Cutrell, E. & Dumais, S.T. (2006). Exploring Personal Information. In Communications of the ACM (Special Issue: Supporting Exploratory Search), 49(4), 50-51.

Cutrell, E., Dumais, S.T., & Teevan, J. (2006). Searching to Eliminate Personal Information Management. In Communications of the ACM (Special Issue: Personal Information Management), 49(1), 58-64.

2005

Wilson, A. & Cutrell, E.  (2005). FlowMouse: A Computer Vision-based Pointing and Gesture Input Device. In Francesca Costabile, M. & Paternò, F. (Eds.), Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT '05, (Rome, September 2005), Springer (for IFIP), 565-578.

Baudisch, P., Cutrell, E., Hinckley, K., & Eversole, A. (2005). Snap-and-go: Helping users align objects without the modality of traditional snapping. In Proceedings of CHI '05, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Portland, April 2005), ACM press, 301-310.

2004

Baudisch, P., Cutrell, E., Hinckley, K., & Gruen, R. (2004). Mouse ether: Accelerating the acquisition of targets across multi-monitor displays. In Extended Abstracts of CHI '04, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Vienna, April 2004), ACM press, 1379-1382.

Robbins, D.C., Cutrell, E., Sarin, R., & Horvitz, E. (2004).  Advancing interaction: ZoneZoom: Map navigation for smartphones with recursive view segmentation. In Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces (AVI '04), (Gallipoli, May 2004), ACM press, 231-234.

Dumais, S., Cutrell, E., Sarin, R., & Horvitz, E. (2004). Implicit Queries (IQ) for contextualized Search. In Poster Session in Proceedings of SIGIR '04, (Sheffield, UK, July 2004), ACM press, 594.

2003

Dumais, S., Cutrell, E., Cadiz, J.J., Jancke, G., Sarin, R., & Robbins, D.C. (2003). Stuff I've Seen: A System for Personal Information Retrieval and Re-Use. Proceedings of SIGIR 2003 (Toronto, July 2003).

Baudisch, P., Cutrell, E., Robbins, D., Czerwinski, M., Tandler, P., Bederson, B., & Zierlinger, A. (2003). Drag-and-Pop and Drag-and-Pick: Techniques for accssing remote screen conten on touch- and pen-operated systems. In Rauterberg,M., Menozzi, M, & Wesson, J. (Eds.), Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT '03, (Zürich, September 2003), IOS Press (for IFIP), 57-64.

Baudisch, P., Cutrell, E., & Robertson, G. (2003). High-density cursor: A visualization technique that helps users keep track of fast-moving mouse cursors.  In Rauterberg,M., Menozzi, M, & Wesson, J. (Eds.), Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT '03, (Zürich, September 2003), IOS Press (for IFIP), 236-243.

McLoone, H., Hinckley, K. & Cutrell, E. (2003). Bimanual Interaction on the Microsoft Office Keyboard. In Rauterberg,M., Menozzi, M, & Wesson, J. (Eds.), Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT '03, (Zürich, September 2003), IOS Press (for IFIP), 49-56.

Ringel, M., Cutrell, E., Dumais, S., & Horvitz, E. (2003). Milestones in Time: The Value of Landmarks in Retrieving Information from Personal Stores. In Rauterberg,M., Menozzi, M, & Wesson, J. (Eds.), Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT '03, (Zürich, September 2003), IOS Press (for IFIP), 184-191.

2002

Hinckley, K., Cutrell, E., Bathiche, S., & Muss, T. (2002). Quantitative Analysis of Scrolling Techniques. In Proceedings of CHI '02, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Minneapolis, April 2002), ACM press, 65-72.

2001

Czerwinski, M., Horvitz, E. & Cutrell, E. (2001). Subjective Duration Assessment: An Implicit Probe for Software Usability. In Proceedings of IHM-HCI 2001 Conference, Volume 2, (September, 2001, Lille, France), p. 167-170.

Cutrell, E., Czerwinski, M. & Horvitz, E. (2001). Notification, Disruption and Memory: Effects of Messaging Interruptions on Memory and Performance. In Hirose, Michitaka (Ed.), Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT '01, (Tokyo, July 9-13), IOS Press (for IFIP), 263-269.

LeeTiernan, S., Cutrell, E., & Czerwinski, M., Hoffman, H. (2001). Effective Notification Systems Depend on User Trust. In Hirose, Michitaka (Ed.), Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT '01, (Tokyo, July 9-13), IOS Press (for IFIP), 684-685.

Rademacher, P., Lengyel, J., Cutrell, E., & Whitted, T. (2001). Measuring the perception of visual realism in images. To appear in proceedings of the 12th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, London.

Dumais, S.T., Cutrell, E. and Chen, H. (2001). Optimizing search by showing results in context.  In Proceedings of CHI '01, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Seattle, April 2001), ACM press, 277-284.

2000

Dumais, S.T., Cutrell, E. and Chen, H. (2000).  Classified displays of web search results. Invited presentation at ASIS&T SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, Nov 12, 2000, pp. 87-90.

Czerwinski, M., Cutrell, E. & Horvitz, E. (2000). Instant Messaging and Interruption: Influence of Task Type on Performance. In Paris, C., Ozkan, N., Howard, S. and Lu, S. (Ed's.), OZCHI 2000 Conference Proceedings, (Sydney, Australia, Dec. 4-8), 356-361.

Czerwinski, M., Cutrell, E. & Horvitz, E. (2000). Instant Messaging: Effects of Relevance and Time. In S. Turner, P. Turner (Eds), People and Computers XIV: Proceedings of HCI 2000, Vol. 2, British Computer Society, 71-76.

Cutrell, E., Czerwinski, M. & Horvitz, E. (2000). Effects of Instant Messaging Interruptions on Computing Tasks. In Extended Abstracts of CHI ’2000, Human Factors in Computing Systems, (The Hague, April 1-6, 2000), ACM press, 99-100.