Sharon Oviatt

Sharon Oviatt is well known for her extensive work in human-centered interface design, multimodal and mobile interfaces, communications interfaces, and educational interfaces. In 2014, Sharon was recipient of the Inaugural ICMI Sustained Accomplishment Award for her seminal achievements in interface design. She has been recipient of a National Science Foundation Special Creativity Award for pioneering work on mobile multimodal interfaces, recipient of the Ina Coolbrith Award (first place), and she is a member of CHI Academy and an ACM Fellow. She has published over 160 scientific articles in a wide range of venues. She is Associate Editor of the main journals and edited book collections in the field of human interfaces, including the journals Human Computer Interaction, Transactions on Intelligent Interactive Systems (TiS), and the Human-Computer Interaction Handbook. She was Founding Chair of the Advisory Board for the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), which became an annual ACM-sponsored international conference series under her guidance. She also founded Incaa Designs (http://www.incaadesigns.org/), a nonprofit that researches, designs, and evaluates the impact of innovative new educational interfaces. Her book on The Design of Future Educational Interfaces (Routledge Press) was published in spring of 2013. The Paradigm Shift to Multimodality in Contemporary Computer Interfaces (co-authored with P. Cohen) was published in 2015. Her latest books include The Handbook of Multimodal Multisensor Interfaces, volumes 1-3, co-edited with B. Schuller, P. Cohen, G. Potamianos, A. Krueger, and D. Sonntag (ACM books).

Sharon is Professor of HCI and Creative Technologies at Monash University in Melbourne Australia, where she is leading a new program and research initiatives in human-centered interfaces.