During her distinguished career, Dr. Sharon Oviatt has worked in both Psychology and Computer Science departments, as well as the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International. Her research focuses on human-computer interaction, spoken, pen-based and multimodal interfaces, user modeling and high-performance systems, and mobile and highly interactive systems. Sharon is an active member of the international HCI, speech, and multimodal communities, and has published over 100 scientific articles in a wide range of venues. Her work has been supported primarily by NSF, DARPA, and corporate sources. She was general chair of the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI) in 2003, and is founding chair of ICMI’s Advisory Board. In 2000, she received an NSF Special Extension for Creativity Award for pioneering work on the development of high-performance mobile multimodal interfaces. Sharon received her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Toronto.

Publications include:

Oviatt, S.L. Human-centered design meets cognitive load theory: Designing interfaces that help people think, Proceedings of the Conference on ACM Multimedia ‘06, special session on “Human-Centered Multimedia Systems”, ACM: New York, N.Y., 2006, in press.

Oviatt, S.L. Multimodal interfaces, Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction (revised edition), (ed. by J. Jacko & A. Sears), Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc: Mahwah, New Jersey, to appear in 2006.

Oviatt, S.L., Arthur, A. & Cohen, J. Quiet interfaces that help students think, Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software Technology (UIST’06), CHI Letters, ACM: New York, N.Y., 2006, in press.

Oviatt, S.L. Breaking the robustness barrier: Recent progress on the design of robust multimodal systems, Advances in Computers (ed. by M. Zelkowitz), Academic Press, 2002, vol. 56, 305-341

Oviatt, S.L. Multimodal interactive maps: Designing for human performance, Human-Computer Interaction, 1997, 12, 93-129 (special issue on "Multimodal Interfaces").