Kent Wittenburg

MERL Headquarters
Vice President & Director
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1986

Phone: (617) 621 7580
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After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, Kent Wittenburg worked at the Microcoelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Bellcore, and Verizon/GTE laboratories before joining MERL. His research has encompassed a variety  of  Human-Computer Interaction technologies including rapid serial visual presentation, multidimensional information visualization, visual languages for diagrams, and natural language. He managed groups in natural language interfaces and internet technologies prior to joining MERL as group manager of speech and HCI. Kent become director of MERL's Cambridge Systems Lab in 2002 and then director of MERL's Technology Lab at its inception in 2003.

Publications:

Wittenburg, K., "Voice Search While Driving: Is it Safe?", Voice Search Conference, March 2009 (Voice Search 2009, TR2009-005)

Wittenburg, K.; Lanning, T.; Leigh, D.; Ryall, K., "Visualizing Antenna Design Spaces", International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), ISBN: 0-978-60558-141-5, pp. 83-90, May 2008 (ACM Press, TR2008-017)

Shubin, H.; Divakaran, A.; Wittenburg, K.; Peker, K.A.; Radhakrishnan, R., "Assessment of End-User Response to Sports Highlights Extraction for Personal Video Recorders", SPIE Conference Multimedia Content Access Algorithms and Systems, Vol. 6506, January 2007 (SPIE Proceedings, TR2007-118)

Wittenburg, K.; Lanning, T.; Schwenke, D.; Shubin, H.; Vetro, A., "The Prospects for Unrestricted Speech Input for TV Content Search", ACM Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), May 2006 (AVI 2006, TR2006-045)

Esenther, A.; Wittenburg, K., "Multi-User Multi-Touch Games on DiamondTouch with the FTFlash Toolkit", Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN), November 2005 (INTETAIN 2005, TR2005-105)

Forlines, C.; Schmidt-Nielsen, B.; Raj, B.; Wittenburg, K.; Wolf, P., "A Comparison between Spoken Queries and Menu-based Interfaces for In-Car Digital Music Selection", IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), September 2005 (INTERACT 2005, TR2005-020)

Divakaran, A.; Forlines, C.; Lanning, T.; Shipman, S.; Wittenburg, K., "Augmenting Fast-Forward and Rewind for Personal Digital Video Recorders", IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 43-44, January 2005 (IEEE Xplore, TR2004-136)

Dietz, P.H.; Raskar, R.; Mihelic-Booth, S.; van Baar, J.; Wittenburg, K.B.; Knep B., "Multi-Projectors and Implicit Interaction in Persuasive Public Displays", Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), ISBN: 1-58113-867-9, pp. 209-217, May 2004 (ACM Press, TR2004-021)

Divi, V.; Forlines, C.; van Gemert, J.V.; Raj, B.; Schmidt-Nielsen, B.; Wittenburg, K.; Woelfel, J.; Wolf, P.; Zhang, F., "A Speech-In List-Out Approach to Spoken User Interfaces", Human Language Technology Conference, May 2004 (HLT 2004, TR2004-023)

Wittenburg, K.B.; Forlines, C.; Lanning, T.; Esenther, A.W.; Harada, S.; Miyachi, T., "Rapid Serial Visual Presentation Techniques for Consumer Digital Video Devices", ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), ISBN: 1-58113-636-6, pp. 115-124, November 2003 (ACM Press, TR2003-019)

Wittenburg, K., Lanning, T., Forlines, C.; Esenther, A., "Rapid Serial Visual Presentation Techniques for Visualizing a 3rd Data Dimension", International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), June 2003 (HCI International 2003, TR2003-020)

Wittenburg, K., "Reseach on Public, Community and Situated Displays at MERL Cambridge", Public, Community and Situated Displays Workshop (CSCW), November 2002 (CSCW 2002, TR2002-045)

Quigley, A.; Leigh, D.L.; Lesh, N.B.; Marks, J.W.; Ryall, K.; Wittenburg, K.B., "Semi-Automatic Antenna Design via Sampling and Visualization", IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, Vol. 2, pp. 342-345, June 2002 (IEEE Xplore, TR2002-002)

Technical Reports:
TR2006-085	GSI Demo: Multiuser Gesture/Speech Interaction over Digital Tables by Wrapping Single User Applications
TR2006-022	Very Fast Subarray Position Calculation for Minimizing Sidelobes in Sparse Linear Phased Arrays
TR2005-139	Audio Analysis for Surveillance Applications
TR2005-119	Multi-User Interface and Interactions on Direct-Touch Horizontal Surfaces: Collaborative Tabletop Research at MERL
TR2005-064	Sidelobe Minimizaton of Uniformly-Excited Sparse Linear Arrays using Exhaustive Search and Visual Browsing
TR2005-015	QueryLines: Approximate Query for Visual Browsing
TR2004-115	A Unified Framework for Video Summarization, Browsing and Retrieval
TR2004-064	A New Multi-Path Selection Scheme for Video Streaming on Overlay Networks
TR2004-057	Exhaustive Generation and Visual Browsing for Radiation Patterns of Linear Array Antennas
TR2004-026	Visualization & User-Modeling for Browsing Personal Photo Libraries
TR2003-125	DiamondTouch: A Multi-User Touch Technology
TR2003-115	An Extended Framework for Adaptive Playback-Based Video Summarization
TR2003-089	A Content-Based Browsing System for a HDD and/or Recordable-DVD Personal Video Recorder
TR2003-049	UbiTable: Impromptu Face-to-Face Collaboration on Horizontal Interactive Surfaces
TR2003-016	FGS Enhancement Layer Truncation with Minimized Intra-Frame Quality Variation
TR2003-010	Multi-path Transport of FGS Video
TR2003-004	Personal Digital Historian: Story Sharing Around the Table
TR2002-052	PDH: A Human-Centric Interface for Image Libraries
TR2002-044	Adaptive Pre-stored Video Streaming with End System Multicast
TR2002-039	Multidimensional Visualization for Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems
TR2002-006	A Visual Interface for Multi-person Exploration of Personal Databases
TR2002-001	Visualization Techniques for Circular Tabletop Interfaces
TR2001-028	Visualization & Layout for Personal Photo Libraries
TR2001-007	Adaptive-Weighted Packet Scheduling for Premium Service
TR2000-041	RT-CRM: Real-Time Channel-Based Reflective Memory
TR2000-018	CReMeS: A CORBA Compliant Reflective Memory based Real-time Communication Service
TR2000-016	Human-Guided Simple Search
TR1999-021	User Level Scheduling of Communicating Real-Time Tasks
TR1998-017	Real-Time Communicating Tasks on COTS-based Distributed Platforms: Task Models and End-to-End Scheduling
TR1998-015	Graph Multidrawing: Finding Nice Drawings Without Defining Nice
TR1998-002	Using Windows NT for Real-Time Applications: Experimental Observations and Recommendations
TR1997-022	Implementation and Performance of MidART
TR1997-015	An Interactive Constraint-Based System for Drawing Graphs
TR1997-012	Design Gallery Browsers Based on 2D and 3D Graph Drawing (Demo)
TR1997-001	RT-CRM: Real-Time Channel-based Reflective Memory
TR1996-031	Multimedia Capabilities in Distributed Real-Time Applications
TR1996-023	An Interactive System for Drawing Graphs
TR1996-015	Tutorial: On ATM Support for Distributed Real-Time Applications
TR1996-010a	Middleware for Distributed Industrial Real-Time Systems on ATM Networks
TR1996-001a	On ATM Support for Distributed Real-Time Applications
TR1995-009	Digital Audio and Video in Industrial Systems
TR1995-005	A Reliable, Adaptive Network Protocol for Video Transport
TR1994-021	Semi-Automatic Delineation of Regions in Floor Plans
TR1994-017a	A General Purpose Queue Architecture for an ATM Switch
TR1994-014	A Unified Traffic Control Scheme for ATM Networks
TR1993-007	Real-Time Communication in ATM Networks