Daniel C. Robbins


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goals

I want to make the world a better place through more joyful and inclusive design.
education
Brown University: Fine Arts BA, 87-91

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

publications

TapGlance: Designing a Unified Smartphone interface for Personal Information ManagementDaniel C. RobbinsPIM 2008
TapGlance: Designing a Unified Smartphone InterfaceRobbins, D. C., Lee, B., Fernandez, R.,Designing Interactive Systems 2008
Play Together: Playing Games across Multiple Interactive TabletopsWilson, 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 SearchAmy K. Karlson, George Robertson, Daniel C. Robbins, Mary Czerwinski, Greg SmithProceedings of SIGCHI 2006
Fast, Flexible Filtering with Phlat — Personal Search and Organization Made EasyCutrell, E., Robbins, D. C., Dumais, S. T., and Sarin R.Proceedings of SIGCHI 2006
TaskZones: A Task Manager for Multiple-Monitor SystemsD. R. Hutchings, M. Czerwinski, D. Robbins, G. Robertson, G. Smith, and B. MeyersUIST 2005
Large Display User ExperienceRobertson, 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 SegmentationDaniel C. Robbins, Edward Cutrell, Raman Sarin, Eric HorvitzProceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
Scalable Fabric: flexible task managementGeorge Robertson, Eric Horvitz, Mary Czerwinski, Patrick Baudisch, Dugald Ralph Hutchings, Brian Meyers, Daniel Robbins, Greg SmithProceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
GroupBar: The TaskBar EvolvedSmith, 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 SystemsBaudisch, 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-useSusan Dumais, Edward Cutrell, JJ Cadiz, Gavin Jancke, Raman Sarin, Daniel C. RobbinsProceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
Scope: Providing awareness of multiple notifications at a glanceVan Dantzich, M., Robbins, D., Horvitz, E. & Czerwinski, M.Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
Visualizing Patterns: Polyarchy visualization: visualizing multiple intersecting hierarchiesGeorge Robertson, Kim Cameron, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel RobbinsProceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems
Animated Visualization of Multiple Intersecting HierarchiesGeorge Robertson, Kim Cameron, Mary Czerwinski, & Daniel RobbinsJournal of Information Visualization
The Task Gallery: a 3D window managerGeorge Robertson, Maarten van Dantzich, Daniel Robbins, Mary Czerwinski, Ken Hinckley, Kirsten Risden, David Thiel, Vadim GorokhovskyProceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems
Data mountain: using spatial memory for document managementGeorge Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, Kevin Larson, Daniel C. Robbins, David Thiel, Maarten van DantzichProceedings of the 11th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
The New EasyLiving Project at Microsoft ResearchSteve Shafer, John Krumm, Barry Brumitt, Brian Meyers, Mary Czerwinski, and Daniel RobbinsJoint 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 widgetsRobert C. Zeleznik, Kenneth P. Herndon, Daniel C. Robbins, Nate Huang, Tom Meyer, Noah Parker, John F. HughesProceedings of the 20th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Interactive shadowsKenneth P. Herndon, Robert C. Zeleznik, Daniel C. Robbins, D. Brookshire Conner, Scott S. Snibbe, Andries van DamProceedings of the 5th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Using deformations to explore 3D widget designScott S. Snibbe, Kenneth P. Herndon, Daniel C. Robbins, D. Brookshire Conner, Andries van DamACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics
Three-dimensional widgetsBrookshire D. Conner, Scott S. Snibbe, Kenneth P. Herndon, Daniel C. Robbins, Robert C. Zeleznik, Andries van DamProceedings of the 1992 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics

skills

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