Home Page for Kellogg Booth
Kellogg S. Booth is a Professor of Computer Science and the former
Director of the
Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre at the University of
British Columbia.
He has worked in the fields of computer graphics and
human-computer interaction since 1968.
Prior to UBC, he was a faculty member in the Department of Computer
Science at the University of Waterloo (1977-1990), and before that a staff
member at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1968-1976).
Research interests include
human-computer interaction, visualization, computer graphics,
user interface design, and analysis of algorithms.
He is involved in a number of interdisciplinary research projects at
UBC and elsewhere.
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Professor of
Computer Science
at UBC
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Member of the
Imager
Laboratory for Graphics, Visualization, & Human-Computer Interaction
at UBC
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Member of
ICICS,
the Institute for Computing, Information & Cognitive Systems at UBC
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Director of
MAGIC,
the Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre at UBC (1990-2002)
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Fellow of
ASI,
the British Columbia Advanced Systems Institute (1992-2004)
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Distinguished member of
ACM,
the Association for Computer Machinery
(Alternate biographical information is available
here.)
Undergraduate and graduate
thesis supervision
is by arrangement. You can see a list of the students and
abstracts
of previous bachelor's, master's and doctoral students theses.
Please read about my research interests
before enquiring about supervision.
This year I am teaching the following course(s).
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CPSC 260
Object-Oriented Program Design
(Jan-Apr 2010)
Note: If you are a student who is trying to register for
this course in either Term 1 or Term 2, please be advised that I
am not allowed to sign students into the course. If you
are not able to register, you need to talk to an undergraduate
advisor in Computer Science about the problem. There are various
restrictions on registration that the advisors will understand.
The listed prerequisite is APSC 160, but if you have had CPSC 111
or an equivalent course you can register for CPSC 260. Don't even think of
trying to register if you do not have the prerequisite.
I teach these other courses from time to time, but not very recently.
UBC students interested in computer graphics, visualization,
or human-computer
interaction may wish to consider one or more of the
following courses that are offered various terms.
Contact individual instructors for additional information concerning
the courses, including course syllabi, days and times, and course
prerequistes.
A masters-level
specialization in HCI
is now available as part of a master's degree in one of the
participating academic units.
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Almost all of my research is in the field of Human-Computer Interaction
(HCI).
Current areas of research interest include
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Collaboration technology
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Educational technology
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Structured annotation techniques for co-authored documents
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Selected areas of computer graphics and virtual and augmented
reality
A list of possible
thesis topics
topics is a snapshot of my current interests. Supervision is always
conditional on a mutually agreed upon research topic.
GRAND is a new network of centres of
excellence. Much of my research for the next five years will be related
to GRAND.
NECTAR was a research network
funded by NSERC that focused on collaborative technology.
Much of my research over the past five years was
centred on NECTAR projects and most of the graduate students I
supervised were affiliated with NECTAR. I am still actively
working on a number of projects related to collaboration technology,
especially tools for supporting collaboration on large, wall-sized
displays and tabletop displays. Students interested in
research opportunities in this area should contact me.
The
EVHL Enhanced Virtual Hand Laboratory
was a multi-year interdisciplinary research project at
Simon Fraser University that examined a number of aspects of
augments and virtual reality, as well as hand-based interaction
techniques. I still have on-going interest in applying the results
of that research, and more recent work in the field, to analyze and
extend current interaction techniques,
especially for table top and wall-mounted displays for collaborative
systems where augmented reality techniques are employed to integrate
physical objects with virtual objects.
Most of the students I supervise participate in the
IDRG the Interaction Design Reading Group that meets weekly to discuss
research topics in HCI and related areas.
A fairly complete list of my publications
and summary of research activity is contained in my
CV.
These are some links that I have found interesting or fun.
"Any problem in computing can be solved by adding another level of indirection."
-- David Wheeler, according to Roger Needham, according to
Butler
Lampson et al.
"Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire."
-- William Butler Yeats
"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize."
-- Tom Lehrer
"On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away."
-- Tom Lehrer
"I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."
-- Lawrence Peter Berra
"No one goes there anymore because it's too crowded."
-- Lawrence Peter Berra
"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not."
-- Lawrence Peter Berra
"Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed."
-- William Jennings Bryan
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
-- Frank Zappa
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