Anind Dey

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Anind Dey
Anind Dey

Anind Dey is computer scientist and a pioneer in the field of context-aware computing. He is currently an assistant professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a Ph.D. in computer science in 2000 and an M.S. in aerospace engineering in 1995 from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests lie at the intersection of human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing, focusing on how to make novel technologies more usable and useful. In particular, he builds tools that make it easier to build useful ubiquitous computing applications and supporting end users in controlling their ubiquitous computing systems.

He is the inventor of the Context Toolkit along with his advisor Gregory Abowd. He is widely cited for having defined context as "any information that can be used to characterise the situation of entities." (2001)

[edit] Biography

Anind Dey was born in Canada and retains Canadian citizenship but lives and works in Pittsburgh. Dey received a Bachelors of Applied Science in Computer Engineering from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada in 1993. He received a Masters of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1995.[citation needed] He received a 2nd Masters of Science and a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Georgia Tech in 2000. For his dissertation, he researched programming support for building context-aware applications: The Context Toolkit. He was a member of the Future Computing Environments research group in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. Gregory Abowd was his advisor. He was a Senior Researcher at Intel Research Berkeley from 2001-2004, where his title was Ubicomp Software Architect. At the same time, he was an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley, where he was a member of GUIR, the Group for User Interface Research.[citation needed]

His research interests are feedback and control in ubiquitous computing, context-aware computing, toolkits and end-user programming environments, sensor-rich environments, information overload, ambient displays, privacy, human-computer interaction.

[edit] Selected Publications

  • Dey, A.K., Mankoff, J. Designing mediation for context-aware applications. Transaction of Computer-Human Interaction special issue on Sensor-Based Interactions.
  • Dey, A.K., Salber, D. Abowd, G.D. A Conceptual Framework and a Toolkit for Supporting the Rapid Prototyping of Context-Aware Applications, anchor article of a special issue on Context-Aware Computing. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Journal, Vol. 16 (2-4), 2001, pp. 97-166.
  • Dey, A.K. Understanding and Using Context. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal, Vol. 5 (1), 2001, pp. 4-7.
  • Abowd, G.D., Dey, A.K., Brotherton, J., Orr, R.J. Context-awareness in Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing Virtual Reality Society International Journal, Vol. 3, 1999, pp. 200-211.
  • Dey, A.K., Abowd, G.D., Wood, A. CyberDesk: A Framework for Providing Self–Integrating Context–Aware Services. Knowledge Based Systems, Vol. 11 (1), September 1998, pp. 3-13.