Shumin Zhai is a Human-Computer Interaction research scientist at Google Inc. From 1996 to 2011 he worked at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He is interested in both foundational research of user interfaces and practical product and service innovations. He originated and led the ShapeWriter project that pioneered the touch screen gesture keyboard paradigm. He has published over 100 research papers and received 30 patents. He is active in the academic community and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. He has been a visiting professor and lectured at universities in the US, Europe and China. He is a Fellow of the ACM and a Member of the CHI Academy.
His external web page is at www.shuminzhai.com.
“A Comparative Evaluation of Finger and Pen Stroke Gestures”, Huawei Tu, Xiangshi Ren, Shumin Zhai, ACM CHI 2012 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (to appear).
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“Smart Phone Use by Non-Mobile Business Users”, Patti Bao, Jeffrey Pierce, Stephen Whittaker, Shumin Zhai, MobileHCI 2011, pp. 445-454.
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“Understanding information preview in mobile email processing”, Kimberly A. Weaver, Huahai Yang, Shumin Zhai, Mobile HCI, 2011, pp. 303-312.
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