Bret Harsham

MERL Research / Technical Staff
Principal Technical Staff
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Phone: (617) 621-7526
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Bret Harsham joined MERL in January 2001 to pursue interests in speech user interfaces and speech-centric devices. Prior to joining MERL, Bret spent 3 1/2 years at Dragon Systems designing and implementing handheld and automotive speech products. Earlier, he was a principal architect of a Firewall and Virtual Private Network product. Bret's other technical interests include distributed architectures, knowledge representation and language theory.

Publications:

Weinberg, G.; Harsham, B., "Developing a Low-Cost Driving Simulator for the Evaluation of In-Vehicle Technologies", International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI), ISBN: 978-1-60558-571-0, pp. 51-54, September 2009 (ACM Portal, TR2009-064)

Schmidt-Nielsen, B.; Harsham, B.; Raj, B.; Forlines, C., "Speech-Based UI Design for the Automobile", Handbook of Research on User Interface Design and Evaluation for Mobile Technology, ISBN: 978-1-59904-871-0, Vol. 1, Chapter XV, pp. 237-252, February 2008 (Information Science Reference, TR2008-006)

*   Dietz, P.H.; Harsham, B.; Forlines, C.; Leigh, D; Yerazunis, W.; Shipman, S.; Schmidt-Nielsen, B.; Ryall, K., "DT Controls: Adding Indentity to Physical Interfaces", ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), ISBN: 1-59593-271-2, pp. 245-252, October 2005 (ACM Press, TR2005-069)