Jimmy Lin

Research Staff Member
IBM Almaden Research Center

Ph.D.
Computer Science

Advisor: James Landay

Jimmy's research interests are in human-computer interaction, visual languages, and discovering better methods for designing and developing user interfaces and software.

Projects

Previous Projects

Publications

Damask

• James Lin and James A. Landay. "Damask: A Tool for Early-Stage Design and Prototyping of Multi-Device User Interfaces." In Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (2002 International Workshop on Visual Computing), San Francisco, CA, September 26-28, 2002, pp. 573-580.
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DENIM

• James A. Landay, Jason I. Hong, Scott R. Klemmer, James Lin, and Mark W. Newman. "Informal PUIs: No Recognition Required." In Proceedings of AAAI 2002 Spring Symposium (Sketch Understanding Workshop). Stanford, CA, 2002.
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• James Lin, Michael Thomsen, and James A. Landay, "A Visual Language for Sketching Large and Complex Interactive Designs." In CHI Letters: Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2002, 2002. 4(1): pp. 307-314.
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• Jason I. Hong, Francis C. Li, James Lin, and James A. Landay, "End-User Perceptions of Formal and Informal Representations of Web Sites." In Extended Abstracts of Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI 2001, Seattle, WA, March 31-April 5, 2001, pp. 385-386.
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• James Lin, Mark W. Newman, Jason I. Hong, James A. Landay, "DENIM: An Informal Tool for Early Stage Web Site Design." Video poster in Extended Abstracts of Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI 2001, Seattle, WA, March 31-April 5, 2001, pp. 205-206.
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• James Lin, Mark W. Newman, Jason I. Hong, and James A. Landay, "DENIM: Finding a Tighter Fit Between Tools and Practice for Web Site Design." In CHI Letters: Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2000, 2000. 2(1): pp. 510-517.
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• James Lin, "A Visual Language for a Sketch-Based UI Prototyping Tool." In Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI 99 Extended Abstracts, Pittsburgh, PA, May 15-20, 1999, pp. 298-299.
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Design Patterns for Ubiquitous Computing

• Eric S. Chung, Jason I. Hong, James Lin, Madhu K. Prabaker, and James A. Landay, "Development and Evaluation of Emerging Design Patterns for Ubiquitous Computing." To appear in the Proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems: DIS 2004, Cambridge, MA, August 1–4, 2004.

Papier-Mâché

• Scott R. Klemmer, Jack Li, James Lin, and James A. Landay, "Papier-Mâché: Toolkit Support for Tangible Input." To appear in CHI 2004: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI Letters, 6(1).

Cha-Cha

• Michael Chen, Marti Hearst, Jason Hong, and James Lin, "Cha-Cha: A System for Organizing Intranet Search Results." In the Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS) , Boulder, CO, October 11-14, 1999.
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NotePals

• Richard C. Davis, James A. Landay, Victor Chen, Jonathan Huang, Rebecca B. Lee, Francis Li, James Lin, Charles B. Morrey III, Ben Schleimer, Morgan N. Price, and Bill N. Schilit, "NotePals: Lightweight Note Sharing by the Group, for the Group." In Proceedings of Human Factors in Computer Systems: CHI 99, Pittsburgh, PA, May 15-20, 1999, pp. 338-345.
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• James A. Landay, Richard C. Davis, Victor Chen, Jonathan Huang, Rebecca B. Lee, Francis Li, James Lin, Charles B. Morrey III, and Ben Schleimer, "NotePals: Sharing and Synchronizing Handwritten Notes with Multimedia Documents." In Handheld CSCW Workshop: CSCW 98, Seattle, WA, Nov. 14, 1998.
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