Roel Vertegaal is an interaction designer and scientist working in the area of Human-Computer Interaction. He is the director of the Human Media Lab and Professor at Queen's University's School of Computing. He is best known for his pioneering work on flexible and paper computers, with systems such as PaperWindows (2004), PaperPhone (2010) and PaperTab (2012). He is also known for inventing ubiquitous eye input, such as Samsung's Smart Pause technologies, and BitDrones, one of the first programmable matter user interfaces. He has developed eyeBox, the first eye contact sensor, premiered in 2003 by Diane Sawyer at ABC Good Morning America. He edited a special issue of Communications of the ACM on Attentive User Interfaces, showing how groups of computers could use human social cues for considerate notification. Amongst these was an early iPhone that used eye tracking electronic glasses to determine whether users were in a conversation, mobile Smart Pause and Smart Scroll (adopted in Samsung's Galaxy S4) and many more.Faculty of Technology & Engineering
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