Dr. David McGee manages the development of the Adapx state-of-the-art multimodal interaction systems, along with digital pen and paper product development. David graduated from Washington State University with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. Working with co-founder Cohen, he later received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland.

David spent 20 years working at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), which is one of nine U.S. Department of Energy multiprogram national laboratories. Before leaving PNNL to help found Natural Interaction Systems with Philip Cohen, David was the chief scientist and technical lead of the Rich Interaction Environments research area, which specialized in designing and developing advanced interactive systems.

David is currently the principal investigator of a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract in DARPA’s Information Exploitation Office. In DARPA’s Information Processing Technologies Office, David is also the principal investigator on a Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract and the Department of Defense ASSIST Program. David has one patent, and more than twenty journal and peer-reviewed articles. 

Publications include:

Cohen, P.R., McGee, D.R., (2004). "Tangible Multimodal Interfaces for Safety-Critical Applications” in Special Issue on Multimodal Interaction, Communications of the ACM, 47(1), pp. 41-46.

McGee, D.R., Cohen, P.R., Wesson, R.M., and Horman, S. (2002) Comparing paper and tangible, multimodal tools. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'02): Minneapolis, MI, Apr. 20-25, pp. 407-414.

McGee, D. R., Cohen, P. R. (2001). Creating tangible interfaces by augmenting physical objects with multimodal language. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2001): Santa Fe, NM, Jan. 14-17, pp. 113-120.

McGee, D.R., Cohen, P.R., and Wu, L. (2000). Something from nothing: Augmenting a paper-based work practice with multimodal interaction. In Proceedings of the Designing Augmented Reality Environments Conference (DARE’00): Elsinore, Denmark, Apr. 12-14, pp. 71-80.

McGee, D.R., Cohen, P.R., and Oviatt, S.L. (1998). Confirmation in multimodal systems. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (COLING-ACL '98): Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Aug. 10-14, pp. 823-829.