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goals

Make the world a better place through more joyful and inclusive design.

education

Brown University: Fine Arts BA, 87-91

publications

Dynamic List at: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/r/Robbins:Daniel_C=.html
TapGlance: Designing a Unified Smartphone interface for Personal Information Management Daniel C. Robbins PIM 2008
TapGlance: Designing a Unified Smartphone Interface Robbins, D. C., Lee, B., Fernandez, R., Designing Interactive Systems 2008
Play Together: Playing Games across Multiple Interactive Tabletops Wilson, A.D., Robbins, D.C. Intelligent User Interfaces Conference 2007
Phosphor: Explaining Transitions in the User Interface Using Afterglow Effects. Baudisch, P., Tan, D., Collomb, M., Robbins, D., Hinckley, K., Agrawala, M., Zhao, S., and Ramos, G. To appear in UIST 2006
FaThumb: A Facet-based Interface for Mobile Search Amy K. Karlson, George Robertson, Daniel C. Robbins, Mary Czerwinski, Greg Smith Proceedings of SIGCHI 2006
Fast, Flexible Filtering with Phlat — Personal Search and Organization Made Easy Cutrell, E., Robbins, D. C., Dumais, S. T., and Sarin R. Proceedings of SIGCHI 2006
TaskZones: A Task Manager for Multiple-Monitor Systems D. R. Hutchings, M. Czerwinski, D. Robbins, G. Robertson, G. Smith, and B. Meyers UIST 2005
Large Display User Experience Robertson, G., Czerwinski, M., Baudisch, P., Meyers, B., Robbins, D., Smith, G., Tan, D. IEEE Computer Graphics & Application, Special Issue on Large Displays
ZoneZoom: Map Navigation for Smartphones with Recursive View Segmentation Daniel C. Robbins, Edward Cutrell, Raman Sarin, Eric Horvitz Proceedings Advanced Visual Interfaces 2004
Scalable Fabric: flexible task management George Robertson, Eric Horvitz, Mary Czerwinski, Patrick Baudisch, Dugald Ralph Hutchings, Brian Meyers, Daniel Robbins, Greg Smith Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
GroupBar: The TaskBar Evolved Smith, G., Baudisch, P., Robertson, G., Czerwinski, M., Meyers, B., Robbins, D., Horvitz, E., and Andrews, D. Proceedings of OZCHI 2003
Drag-and-Pop and Drag-and-Pick: Techniques for Accessing Remote Screen Content on Touch- and Pen-operated Systems Baudisch, P., Cutrell, E., Robbins, D., Czerwinski, M., Tandler, P. Bederson, B., and Zierlinger, A. Proceedings of Interact 2003
Human interaction: Stuff I've seen: a system for personal information retrieval and re-use Susan Dumais, Edward Cutrell, JJ Cadiz, Gavin Jancke, Raman Sarin, Daniel C. Robbins Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
Scope: Providing awareness of multiple notifications at a glance Van Dantzich, M., Robbins, D., Horvitz, E. & Czerwinski, M. Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
Visualizing Patterns: Polyarchy visualization: visualizing multiple intersecting hierarchies George Robertson, Kim Cameron, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel Robbins Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems
Animated Visualization of Multiple Intersecting Hierarchies George Robertson, Kim Cameron, Mary Czerwinski, & Daniel Robbins Journal of Information Visualization
The Task Gallery: a 3D window manager George Robertson, Maarten van Dantzich, Daniel Robbins, Mary Czerwinski, Ken Hinckley, Kirsten Risden, David Thiel, Vadim Gorokhovsky SIGCHI 2000
Data mountain: using spatial memory for document management George Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, Kevin Larson, Daniel C. Robbins, David Thiel, Maarten van Dantzich Proceedings of the 11th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
The New EasyLiving Project at Microsoft Research Steve Shafer, John Krumm, Barry Brumitt, Brian Meyers, Mary Czerwinski, and Daniel Robbins Joint DARPA/NIST Smart Spaces Workshop
Czerwinski, M., Larson, K., & Robbins, D. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society's 42nd Annual Meeting
An interactive 3D toolkit for constructing 3D widgets Robert C. Zeleznik, Kenneth P. Herndon, Daniel C. Robbins, Nate Huang, Tom Meyer, Noah Parker, John F. Hughes Proceedings of the 20th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Interactive shadows Kenneth P. Herndon, Robert C. Zeleznik, Daniel C. Robbins, D. Brookshire Conner, Scott S. Snibbe, Andries van Dam Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Using deformations to explore 3D widget design Scott S. Snibbe, Kenneth P. Herndon, Daniel C. Robbins, D. Brookshire Conner, Andries van Dam ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics
Three-dimensional widgets Brookshire D. Conner, Scott S. Snibbe, Kenneth P. Herndon, Daniel C. Robbins, Robert C. Zeleznik, Andries van Dam Proceedings of the 1992 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics

 

patents

  • 31 Filed

  • 12 issued

work experience

See full project list at: http://research.microsoft.com/~dcr/work.htm

Microsoft: Microsoft Research, UI Designer, 96 – present

Microsoft: Advanced Authoring Tools, UI Designer, 95 – 96

  • Designed new "shells" for suite of multimedia authoring products and basic interaction techniques

Any Channel, 94 to 95: Level Designer for "Po'd" console video game

Avid Technology, 94: 3D UI Design Consulting for Video Editing

Autodesk, Inc. 94 to 95: 3D UI Design explorations

Brown University: Computer Graphics Group, UI Designer, 87 to 95

National Museum of Natural History, Exhibits Design Intern, Summer 84

National Museum of American Art, Exhibits Design Intern, Summer 82

skills

 

3DS Max, Flash, Photoshop, JavaScript, video-editing, wood-working, parenting