Alex Arthur, Research Programmer

Alex Arthur is a research programmer working with multimodal technology. He creates tools for supporting research and development of next-generation multimodal interfaces for complex collaborative tasks. To facilitate exploratory research on computer-assisted collaborative multimodal interaction, he has helped to develop and use a suite of applications to record, encode, playback, and annotate multimodal data during group meetings involving a simulated computer assistant. Alex has an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh and a B.S. in Computer Science from Western Washington University.

Publications include:

Arthur, A., Lunsford, R., Wesson, M., & Oviatt, S. Prototyping Novel Collaborative Multimodal Systems: Simulation, Data Collection and Analysis Tools for the Next Decade. In press, ICMI 2006.

Lunsford, R., Oviatt, S., & Arthur, A. Toward open-microphone engagement for multiparty field interactions. In press, ICMI 2006.

Oviatt, S.L., Arthur, A.M., & Cohen, J. Quiet interfaces that help students think. In Proceedings of Nineteenth Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software Technology (UIST '06), 2006 (New York, NY). ACM: in press.

Kaiser, E., Barthelmess, P., Arthur, A. Multimodal Play Back of Collaborative Multiparty Corpora. Workshop Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2005), Oct. 7, 2005, Trento, Italy.