Joe Tullio

 

Motorola Labs

1295 E. Algonquin Road, 2nd Fl.

Schaumburg, IL 60196

 

jtullio at acm.org

http://www.joetullio.com/

 

 

Research Interests

My projects share a common theme in that they examine the adoption issues and practices resulting from the introduction of new technologies in real-world settings. In the past, I have worked in domains such as medical robotics, intelligent groupware tools, and interactive television, often with interdisciplinary teams consisting of technologists, social scientists, and domain experts. I am skilled in the use of formative ethnographic techniques to define a research problem, and have the technical background to design and develop prototypes suitable for deployment. I can then use both qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods to validate the prototype in the field, suggest design guidelines for future prototypes, and contribute to the body of knowledge in human-computer interaction.

 

Education

May2005

Ph.D., Computer Science

College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

Thesis title: Exploring the Design and Use of Forecasting Groupware Applications with an Augmented Shared Calendar

Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Mynatt

Dec1995

B.S. Computer Science

School of Engineering and Applied Science,

University of Virginia

 

Research Experience

August2006-Present

Senior Research Engineer

Motorola Labs

May2005 to June2006

Postdoctoral Fellow

Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Investigated how users come to understand the operation of intelligent, context-aware systems as they interact with them in everyday settings.

Sep1998 to May2005

Research Assistant

College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Mynatt 

Explored the use of intelligent systems to forecast the future state of users in groupware applications.

May2001 – Aug2001

Summer Intern

Accenture Technology Labs

Manager: Joe McCarthy

Developed tools for community awareness using peripheral displays.

May2000 – Aug2000

Summer Intern

Intel Microprocessor Research Labs

Manager: Ticky Thakkar

Worked on a speech user interface to a context-aware mobile messaging system for an internal venture.

Jun1999 – Aug1999

Summer Intern

Microsoft Research

Mentor: Eric Horvitz

Worked on the Attentional Systems Project within the Adaptive Systems and Interaction (ASI) Group.

Apr1996 – Nov1997

User Interface Research

Neurosurgical Visualization Lab, University of Virginia

Designed and implemented the user interface to a surgical telementoring system. System allows a neurosurgeon to remotely operate a robotically-transported surgical microscope and communicate with the Operating Room team.

Feb1995 – Dec1995

Interactive Graphics Research

Neurosurgical Visualization Lab, University of Virginia

Developed experimental software for testing the interactive manipulation of 3-D models using 3-D input techniques. Performed experiments using this software that led to published work in ACM UIST, 1997.

 

Professional Experience

Oct2004 – June2005

Finder/Writer

Technology Review Magazine

Identified and reported on new and interesting research in the field of HCI.

Nov1997 – Aug1998

Software Developer

Varian Medical Systems

Developed a large component of a shipped Windows 95/NT application for computerized planning of prostate cancer therapy.

Feb1994 – July1994

Software Developer

Taurus Technologies, Inc.

Designed the X-Windows GUI for the console of a fossil power plant simulator using Motif and Tcl/Tk.  Wrote database conversion utilities, archiving tools, and help systems for simulators.

 

Publications

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

[J.2]

Harboe, Harboe, G., Huang, E., Massey, N., Metcalf, C., Romano, G. and Tullio, J. (2009) Getting to Know Social Television: One Team's Discoveries from Library to Living Room, Social Interactive Television: Immersive Shared Experiences and Perspectives, Cesar, P., Geerts, D., and Chorianopolous, K., eds., IGI Global.

[J.1]

Harboe, G., Metcalf, C., Tullio, J., Massey, N., Romano, G., Huang, E., and Bentley, F. (2008) Examining Presence and Lightweight Messaging in a Social Television Experience. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 4(4), October 2008.

 

Conference Full Papers

[C.12]

Tullio, J., Huang, E., Wheatley, D., Zhang, H., Guerrero, C., and Tamdoo, A. (2010) Experience, Adjustment, and Engagement: The Role of Video in Law Enforcement, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2010).

[C.11]

Lee, Y.S., Tullio, J., Narasimhan, N., Kaushik, P., Englesma, J.R., and Basapur, S. (2009) Investigating the Potential of In-Home Devices for Improving Medication Adherence. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2009.

[C.10]

Huang, E., Harboe, G., Tullio, J., Novak, A., Massey, N., Metcalf, C., and Romano, G. (2009) Social Television Comes Home: A Field Study of Communication Choices and Practices in TV-Based Text and Voice Chat, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2009).

[C.9]

Harboe, G., Metcalf, C., Bentley, F., Tullio, J., Massey, N., and Romano, G. (2008) Ambient Social TV: Drawing People into a Shared Experience. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008).

[C.8]

Tullio, J. and Mynatt, E. (2007) Use and Implications of a Shared, Forecasting Calendar. Proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (Interact 2007).

[C.7]

Tullio, J., Dey, A.K., Chalecki, J., and Fogarty, J. (2007) How it Works: A Field Study of Non-Technical Users Interacting with an Intelligent System. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2007).

[C.6]

Tullio, J., Goecks, J., Mynatt, E., Nguyen, D.  (2002) Augmenting Shared Personal Calendars.  Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2002).

[C.5]

MacIntyre, B., Mynatt, E., Voida, S., Hansen, K. M., Tullio, J., Corso, G. (2001) Support For Multitasking and Background Awareness Using Interactive Peripheral Displays. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2001).

[C.4]

Mynatt, E. and Tullio, J. (2001) Inferring Calendar Event Attendance.  Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2001).

[C.3]

Downs, J.H., Graves, B., Shi, M., Tullio, J., Aylor, B. F., Gates, R. G. and Kassell, N. (1998) IRNS: A System for Telerobotic Surgical Mentoring. IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, pp. 182-186.

[C.2]

Hinckley, K., Tullio, J., Pausch, R., Proffitt, D., and Kassell, N. (1997) Usability Analysis of 3D Rotation Techniques, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 1997).

[C.1]

Graves, S., Tullio, J., Shi, M., and Downs, J.H. (1997) An Integrated Remote Neurosurgical System, First International Joint Conference CVRMed-MRCAS '97.

 

Conference Short Papers, Posters, and Doctoral Consortia

[c.3]

Tullio, J. and Harboe, G. (2008) Investigating the Use of Voice and Text Chat in a Social Television System, European Interactive TV Conference (EuroITV 2008).

[c.2]

Tullio, J.  (2003) Augmenting Groupware with Intelligence. ACM UIST 2003 Conference Companion (Doctoral Consortium).

[c.1]

Huang, E., Tullio, J., Costa, T., McCarthy, J. (2002) Promoting Awareness of Work Activities Through Peripheral Displays. CHI 2002 Extended Abstracts.

 

Workshops

[W.4]

Dey, A. and Tullio, J. (2008) Adding Intelligibility to Machine Learning-Based Interactive Systems, CHI 2008 Workshop on Usable AI, Florence, Italy.

[W.3]

Bentley, F., Tullio, J., Metcalf, C., Harry, D., and Massey, N. (2007) A Time to Glance: Studying the use of Mobile Ambient Information, Pervasive 2007 Workshop on Ambient Information Systems, Toronto.

[W.2]

Tullio, J. and Mynatt, E.  (2003) Managing Persona in Groupware Augmented

With Intelligent User Interfaces, In Proceedings of the 2003 Human-Computer Interaction Consortium (Boaster), Winter Park, CO.

[W.1]

McCarthy, J., Costa, T., Huang, E., and Tullio, J.  (2001) Defragmenting the Organization: Disseminating Community Knowledge through Peripheral Displays.  ECSCW 2001 Workshop on Community Knowledge, Bonn, Germany.

 

Theses

[TH.2]

Tullio, J.  (2005) Exploring the Design and Use of Forecasting Groupware Applications with an Augmented Shared Calendar, Ph.D. Thesis, Dr. Elizabeth Mynatt (Advisor), College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology.

[TH.1]

Tullio, J. (1995) A Comparison of Spatial Input to Alternative Methods in 3-D Object Manipulation.   Undergraduate Thesis, University of Virginia.

 

Other

[O.2]

Jensen, C., Tullio, J., Potts, C., and Mynatt, E.D. (2005) STRAP: A Structured Analysis Framework for Privacy, GVU Technical Report #GIT-GVU-05-02.

[O.1]

Nguyen, D.H., Tullio, J., Drewes, T. and Mynatt, E.D.  (2000) Dynamic Door Displays.  GVU Technical Report #GIT-GVU-00-30.

 

Inventions/Patents

[P.2]

Displaying Television Status Information on an Ambient Display (Bentley, F., Harboe, G., Massey, N., Metcalf, C., Romano, G., Tullio, J.) U.S. Patent Application # 11/77817, Filed June 29, 2007.

[P.1]

Method for Coordinating Activity Within a Shared Media Experience (Massey, N., and Tullio, J.) U.S. Patent Application #11/965096, Filed December 27, 2007.

 

Honors/Awards

 

Professional Societies

 

Professional Activities

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Reviewer

 

Conference Committees

 

Student Volunteer