Krzysztof Gajos

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Updates

August 28, 2008: Guardian has published an article on our SUPPLE system.

July 15, 2008: We have finally created a video illustrating some of SUPPLE's capabilities. See the High Definition version (12MB), a lower resolution version (7MB), or the YouTube version (lowest quality).


I have recently graduated from University of Washington. As of June 23, I am working with the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at Microsoft Research. In the fall of 2009, I will join the Harvard Computer Science faculty.

While at the University of Washington, I worked with my advisors, Dan Weld and Jake Wobbrock, on several projects, including SUPPLE, ANAULD, and SUPPLE++ in the area of automatically generating personalized adaptive interfaces.

In 2006, I was a co-organizer of the Workshop on the Many Faces of Consistency at CHI'06 in Montreal. The workshop focused on user interface consistency in multi-platform design. See the proceedings.

In the Fall of 2005 I was visiting faculty at the Ashesi University in Accra, Ghana, where I was teaching Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. In the winter of 2003 I was involved in starting a seminar on ubiquitous computing here at the University of Washington.

Before coming to the University of Washington, I spent seven years at MIT where I earned my Bachelors and Masters degrees, and where I also worked for two years as a research scientist managing the operations of the Intelligent Room Project, and coordinating some of the activities related to the Project Oxygen at the MIT AI Lab.

In my free time I often read, explore nearby mountains (latest hike: Mt. Teneriffe), travel, and do photography.

Currently, I am learning how to write Firefox extensions and I am finding that some parts of the process are very poorly documented so I have started a blog to document the process as I go through it.

Publications

Four representative papers are highlighted.
Krzysztof Z. Gajos. Automatically Generating Personalized User Interfaces. Ph.D. Dissertation. 2008.
Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Daniel S. Weld, and Jacob O. Wobbrock. Decision-Theoretic User Interface Generation. In Proceedings of AAAI'08, NECTAR paper track. Chicago, IL, USA. 2008.
Jacob O. Wobbrock and Krzysztof Z Gajos. Goal Crossing with Mice and Trackballs for People with Motor Impairments: Performance, Submovements, and Design Directions. In ACM Trans. Access. Comput. 1, 1 (May. 2008), pp. 1-37
Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Daniel S. Weld. Improving the performance of motor-impaired users with automatically-generated, ability-based interfaces. In Proceedings of CHI'08, Florence, Italy, 2008.[Best Paper Award]
Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Katherine Everitt, Mary Czerwinski, Desney S. Tan and Daniel S. Weld. Predictability and accuracy in adaptive user interfaces. In Proceedings of CHI'08. Florence, Italy, 2008. CHI Note.
Brian DeRenzi, Krzysztof Gajos, Tapan Parikh, Neal Lesh, Marc Mitchell, and Gaetano Borriello. Opportunities for Intelligent Interfaces Aiding Healthcare in Low-Income Regions. In Proceedings of IUI4DR - Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces for Developing Regions (at IUI'08). Canary Islands, Spain, 2008.
Jacob O. Wobbrock and Krzysztof Z Gajos. A comparison of area pointing and goal crossing for people with and without motor impairments. In Proceedings of ASSETS'07, Tempe, AZ, USA, 2007.
Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Daniel S. Weld. Automatically Generating User Interfaces Adapted To Users' Motor And Vision Capabilities. In Proceedings of UIST'07, Newport, RI, USA, 2007.
Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Jing Jing Long and Daniel S. Weld. Automatically Generating Custom User Interfaces for Users With Physical Disabilities In Proceedings of ASSETS'06, Portland, OR, 2006.
Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Mary Czerwinski, Desney S. Tan and Daniel S. Weld. Exploring the Design Space For Adaptive Graphical User Interfaces. In Proceedings of AVI'06, Venice, Italy, 2006.
Kai Richter, Jeffrey Nichols, Krzysztof Gajos and Ahmed Seffah (eds.) Proceedings of the CHI'06 Workshop on The Many Faces of Consistency in Cross Platform Design. CEUR Workshop Proceedings (ISSN 1613-0073) Vol. 198. Aachen, Germany, 2006.
Kai Richter, Jeffrey Nichols, Krzysztof Gajos and Ahmed Seffah The many faces of consistency in cross-platform design. In CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI '06. ACM, New York, NY, 1639-1642. 2006. (workshop abstract)
Krzysztof Gajos and Daniel S. Weld. Preference Elicitation for Interface Optimization. In Proceedings of UIST'05, Seattle, WA, USA, 2005
Krzysztof Gajos, David Christianson, Raphael Hoffmann, Tal Shaked, Kiera Henning, Jing Jing Long, and Daniel S. Weld. Fast And Robust Interface Generation for Ubiquitous Applications. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP'05). Tokyo, Japan, September 2005.
Krzysztof Gajos, Anthony Wu and Daniel S. Weld. Cross-Device Consistency in Automatically Generated User Interfaces. In Workshop on Multi-User and Ubiquitous User Interfaces (MU3I'05). San Diego, CA, 2005
Krzysztof Gajos, Raphael Hoffmann and Daniel S. Weld. Improving User Interface Personalization. In supplementary proceedings of UIST'04. Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2004
Donald J. Patterson, Lin Liao, Krzysztof Gajos, Michael Collier, Nik Livic, Katherine Olson, Shiaokai Wang, Dieter Fox and Henry Kautz. Opportunity Knocks: a System to Provide Cognitive Assistance with Transportation Services. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP'04). Nottingham, England, September 2004.
Krzysztof Gajos and Daniel S. Weld. SUPPLE: Automatically Generating User Interfaces. In proceedings of IUI'04. Funchal, Portugal, 2004
Daniel S. Weld, Corin Anderson, Pedro Domingos, Oren Etzioni, Krzysztof Gajos, Tessa Lau and Steve Wolfman. Automatically Personalizing User Interfaces. In proceedings of IJCAI-03. Acapulco, Mexico, 2003
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Tracy Hammond, Krzysztof Gajos, Randall Davis, Howard Shrobe. An Agent-Based System For Capturing And Indexing Software Design Meetings. Proceedings of the International Workshop On Agents in Design (WAID'02). Cambridge, MA, August 2002.
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Krzysztof Gajos, Harold Fox, and Howard Shrobe. End User Empowerment in Human Centered Pervasive Computing. Pervasive 2002, Zurich, Switzerland, 2002.
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Alice Oh, Harold Fox, Max Van Kleek, Aaron Adler, Krzysztof Gajos, Louis-Philippe Morency, and Trevor Darrell. Evaluating Look-to-Talk: A Gaze-Aware Interface in a Collaborative Environment. Proceedings of CHI 2002. Minneapolis, MN, 2002.
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Krzysztof Gajos and Ajay Kulkarni. FIRE: An Information Retrieval Interface For Intelligent Enviroments. Proceedings of International Workshop on Information Presentation and Natural Multimodal Dialogue (IPNMD 2001). Verona, Italy, 2001.
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Krzysztof Gajos. Rascal - a Resource Manager For Multi Agent Systems In Smart Spaces. In Proceedings of The Second International Workshop of Central and Eastern Europe on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS 2001), Cracow, Poland, 2001. Also available in Springer LNAI 2296.
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Krzysztof Gajos, Luke Weisman and Howard Shrobe. Design Principles For Resource Management Systems For Intelligent Spaces. In Proceedings of The Second International Workshop on Self-Adaptive Software (IWSAS 2001), Budapest, Hungary, 2001.
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Contact info:

Office:370 Allen Center
Email: kgajos at cs.washington.edu
Phone: +1-206-543-5143
Mailing address: University of Washington
CSE 101, Box 352350
Seattle, WA 98195
USA