James D. Hollan

Author: James D. Hollan

James D. Hollan is Professor of Cognitive Science and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego. In collaboration with Professor Edwin Hutchins, he directs the Distributed Cognition and Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at UCSD.

His research explores the cognitive consequences of computationally-based media. The goal is to understand the cognitive and computational characteristics of dynamic interactive representations as the basis for effective system design. His current work focuses on cognitive ethnography, computer-mediated communication, distributed cognition, human-computer interaction, information visualization, multiscale software, and tools for analysis of video data.

His current research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Intel, Nissan, and the University of California's Digital Media Innovation program. Recently completed research has been funded by Darpa, Intel, NSF, and Sony.

After completing a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology at the University of Florida and a postdoctoral fellowship in artificial intelligence at Stanford University, Hollan was on the research faculty at the University of California, San Diego for a decade. Along with Edwin Hutchins and Donald Norman, he led the Intelligent Systems Group in the Institute for Cognitive Science at UCSD and the Future Technologies Group at NPRDC. Hollan left UCSD to become Director of the MCC Human Interface Laboratory and subsequently established the Computer Graphics and Interactive Media Research Group at Bellcore. In 1993, he moved to the University of New Mexico as Chair of the Computer Science Department. In 1997, Hollan returned to UCSD as Professor of Cognitive Science.

Publications

Publication period start: 2011
Number of co-authors: 66

Co-authors

Number of publications with favourite co-authors
Benjamin B. Bederson
8
Anne Marie Piper
8
Nadir Weibel
8

Productive Colleagues

Most productive colleagues in number of publications
Jakob Nielsen
109
Scott E. Hudson
113
John M. Carroll
209

Publications

Hollan, James D. (2010): Multiscale zooming interfaces: a brief personal perspective on the design of cognitively c. In Interactions, 17 (6) pp. 71-74. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1897239.1897255

Liao, Chunyuan, Guimbretiere, Francois, Hinckley, Ken, Hollan, James D. (2007): Papiercraft: A gesture-based command system for interactive paper. In ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 14 (4) pp. 18. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1314683.1314686

Hollan, James D., Hutchins, Edwin, Kirsh, David (2000): Distributed Cognition: Toward a New Foundation for Human-Computer Interaction Research. In ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 7 (2) pp. 174-196. https://acm.org/pubs/articles/journals/tochi/2000-7-2/p174-hollan/p174-hollan.pdf

Hightower, Ron R., Ring, Laura T., Helfman, J. I., Bederson, Benjamin B., Hollan, James D. (1998): PadPrints: Graphical Multiscale Web Histories. In: Mynatt, Elizabeth D., Jacob, Robert J. K. (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology November 01 - 04, 1998, San Francisco, California, United States. pp. 121-122. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/uist/288392/p121-hightower/p121-hightower.pdf

Hightower, Ron R., Ring, Laura T., Helfman, J. I., Bederson, Benjamin B., Hollan, James D. (1998): Graphical Multiscale Web Histories: A Study of PadPrints. In: Hypertext 98 - Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia June 20-24, 1998, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. pp. 58-65. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/hypertext/276627/p58-hightower/p58-hightower.pdf

Druin, Allison, Stewart, Jason, Proft, David, Bederson, Benjamin B., Hollan, James D. (1997): KidPad: A Design Collaboration Between Children, Technologists, and Educators. In: Pemberton, Steven (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 97 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference March 22-27, 1997, Atlanta, Georgia. pp. 463-470. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/chi/258549/p463-druin/p463-druin.pdf

Bederson, Benjamin B., Hollan, James D., Druin, Allison, Stewart, Jason, Rogers, David, Proft, David (1996): Local Tools: An Alternative to Tool Palettes. In: Kurlander, David, Brown, Marc, Rao, Ramana (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology November 06 - 08, 1996, Seattle, Washington, United States. pp. 169-170. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/uist/237091/p169-bederson/p169-bederson.pdf

Bederson, Benjamin B., Hollan, James D., Perlin, Ken, Meyer, Jonathan, Bacon, David, Furnas, George W. (1996): Pad++: A Zoomable Graphical Sketchpad For Exploring Alternate Interface Physics. In J. Vis. Lang. Comput., 7 (1) pp. 3-32.

Bederson, Benjamin B., Hollan, James D. (1994): Pad++: A Zooming Graphical Interface for Exploring Alternate Interface Physics. In: Szekely, Pedro (eds.) Proceedings of the 7th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology November 02 - 04, 1994, Marina del Rey, California, United States. pp. 17-26.

Bederson, Benjamin B., Hollan, James D. (1994): Pad++: A Zooming Graphical Interface for Exploring Alternate Interface Physics. In: Szekely, Pedro (eds.) Proceedings of the 7th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology November 02 - 04, 1994, Marina del Rey, California, United States. pp. 17-26. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/uist/192426/p17-bederson/p17-bederson.pdf

Bederson, Benjamin B., Stead, Larry, Hollan, James D. (1994): Pad++: Advances in Multiscale Interfaces. In: Szekely, Pedro (eds.) Proceedings of the 7th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology November 02 - 04, 1994, Marina del Rey, California, United States. pp. --.

Hill, William C., Hollan, James D. (1994): History-Enriched Digital Objects: Prototypes and Policy Issues. In The Information Society, 10 (2) pp. . https://www.indiana.edu/~tisj/readers/abstracts/10/10-2%20Hill.html

Hill, Will, Hollan, James D., Wroblewski, Dave, McCandless, Tim (1992): Edit Wear and Read Wear. In: Bauersfeld, Penny, Bennett, John, Lynch, Gene (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 92 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference June 3-7, 1992, Monterey, California. pp. 3-9. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/chi/142750/p3-hill/p3-hill.pdf

Hollan, James D., Stornetta, Scott (1992): Beyond Being There. In: Bauersfeld, Penny, Bennett, John, Lynch, Gene (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 92 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference June 3-7, 1992, Monterey, California. pp. 119-125. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/chi/142750/p119-hollan/p119-hollan.pdf

Hill, William C., Hollan, James D. (1992): Pointing and Visualization. In: Bauersfeld, Penny, Bennett, John, Lynch, Gene (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 92 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference June 3-7, 1992, Monterey, California. pp. 665-666. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/chi/142750/p665-hill/p665-hill.pdf

Brothers, L., Hollan, James D., Nielsen, Jakob, Stornetta, Scott, Abney, Steve, Furnas, George W., Littman, Michael (1992): Supporting Informal Communication via Ephemeral Interest Groups. In: Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work November 01 - 04, 1992, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. pp. 84-90. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/cscw/143457/p84-brothers/p84-brothers.pdf

Curtis, Bill, Kuntz, Roy, Curtis, Bill, Hollan, James D., Mountford, S. Joy, Collier, George (1991): Retrospective on the MCC Human Interface Laboratory. In: Robertson, Scott P., Olson, Gary M., Olson, Judith S. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 91 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 28 - June 5, 1991, New Orleans, Louisiana. pp. 373-376. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/chi/108844/p373-curtis/p373-curtis.pdf

Hollan, James D., Curtis, Bill (1989): CHI Research at MCC. In: Bice, Ken, Lewis, Clayton H. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 89 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 30 - June 4, 1989, Austin, Texas. pp. 147-149.

Hutchins, Edwin, Hollan, James D., Norman, Don (1985): Direct Manipulation Interfaces. In Human-Computer Interaction, 1 (4) pp. 311-338.

Foley, James D., Beaudouin-Lafon, Michel, Grudin, Jonathan, Hollan, James D., Hudson, Scott E., Olson, Judy, Verplank, Bill (2005): Graduate education in human-computer interaction. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2005, . pp. 2113-2114. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1056808.1057112

Hollan, James D., Stornetta, Scott (2000): Asynchronous Negotiated Access. In: Proceedings of the HCI00 Conference on People and Computers XIV , 2000, . pp. 17-26.

Sohn, Timothy, Li, Kevin A., Griswold, William G., Hollan, James D. (2008): A diary study of mobile information needs. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008, . pp. 433-442. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1357054.1357125

Becvar, L. Amaya, Hollan, James D. (2007): Transparency and technology appropriation: social impacts of a video blogging system in de. In: GROUP07: International Conference on Supporting Group Work , 2007, . pp. 311-320. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1316624.1316672

Piper, Anne Marie, Hollan, James D. (2008): Supporting medical conversations between deaf and hearing individuals with tabletop displa. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW08 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work , 2008, . pp. 147-156. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1460563.1460587

Weiss, Malte, Wagner, Julie, Jansen, Yvonne, Jennings, Roger, Khoshabeh, Ramsin, Hollan, James D., Borchers, Jan (2009): SLAP widgets: bridging the gap between virtual and physical controls on tabletops. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2009, . pp. 481-490. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1518701.1518779

Piper, Anne Marie, Hollan, James D. (2009): Tabletop displays for small group study: affordances of paper and digital materials. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2009, . pp. 1227-1236. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1518701.1518885

Weiss, Malte, Jennings, Roger, Khoshabeh, Ramsin, Borchers, Jan, Wagner, Julie, Jansen, Yvonne, Hollan, James D. (2009): SLAP widgets: bridging the gap between virtual and physical controls on tabletops. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2009, . pp. 3229-3234. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1520340.1520462

Khoshabeh, Ramsin, Hollan, James D. (2009): Spatio-temporal interest points for video analysis. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2009, . pp. 3455-3460. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1520340.1520502

Bauer, Daniel, Hollan, James D. (2003): IRYS: a visualization tool for temporal analysis of multimodal interaction. In: Oviatt, Sharon L., Darrell, Trevor, Maybury, Mark T., Wahlster, Wolfgang (eds.) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces - ICMI 2003 November 5-7, 2003, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. pp. 285-288. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/958432.958484

Weiss, Malte, Wagner, Julie, Jennings, Roger, Jansen, Yvonne, Khoshabeh, Ramsin, Hollan, James D., Borchers, Jan (2009): SLAPbook: tangible widgets on multi-touch tables in groupware environments. In: Villar, Nicolas, Izadi, Shahram, Fraser, Mike, Benford, Steve (eds.) TEI 2009 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction February 16-18, 2009, Cambridge, UK. pp. 297-300. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1517664.1517725

Bauer, Daniel, Fastrez, Pierre, Hollan, James D. (2005): Spatial Tools for Managing Personal Information Collections. In: HICSS 2005 - 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 3-6 January, 2005, Big Island, HI, USA. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2005.551

Sit, Ryan Y., Hollan, James D., Griswold, William G. (2005): Digital Photos as Conversational Anchors. In: HICSS 2005 - 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 3-6 January, 2005, Big Island, HI, USA. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2005.203

Hill, William C., Hollan, James D. (1991): Deixis and the Future of Visualization Excellence. In: IEEE Visualization 1991 , 1991, . pp. 314-320.

Bauer, Daniel, Fastrez, Pierre, Hollan, James D. (2004): Computationally-Enriched \'Piles\' for Managing Digital Photo Collections. In: VL-HCC 2004 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 26-29 September, 2004, Rome, Italy. pp. 193-195. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2004.13

Li, Kevin A., Baudisch, Patrick, Griswold, William G., Hollan, James D. (2008): Tapping and rubbing: exploring new dimensions of tactile feedback with voice coil motors. In: Cousins, Steve B., Beaudouin-Lafon, Michel (eds.) Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology October 19-22, 2008, Monterey, CA, USA. pp. 181-190. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1449715.1449744

Piper, Anne Marie, Campbell, Ross, Hollan, James D. (2010): Exploring the accessibility and appeal of surface computing for older adult health care su. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2010 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2010, . pp. 907-916. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1753326.1753461

Piper, Anne Marie, Hollan, James D. (2009): Analyzing Multimodal Communication around a Shared Tabletop Display. In: Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work , 2009, . pp. 283-302. https://www.ecscw.org/2009/20-Piper%20and%20Hollan.pdf

Weibel, Nadir, Cowan, Lisa G., Pina, Laura R., Griswold, William G., Hollan, James D. (2010): Enabling social interactions through real-time sketch-based communication. In: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology , 2010, . pp. 405-406. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1866218.1866242

Weibel, Nadir, Piper, Anne Marie, Hollan, James D. (2010): HIPerPaper: introducing pen and paper interfaces for ultra-scale wall displays. In: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology , 2010, . pp. 407-408. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1866218.1866243

Weibel, Nadir, Piper, Anne Marie, Hollan, James D. (2010): Exploring pen and paper interaction with high-resolution wall displays. In: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology , 2010, . pp. 455-456. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1866218.1866268

Piper, Anne Marie, Weibel, Nadir, Hollan, James D. (2010): Introducing Multimodal Paper-Digital Interfaces for Speech-Language Therapy. In: Proceedings of ASSETS 2010, 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility October, 2010, Orlando, FL, USA.

Bauer, Daniel, Hollan, James D. (2003): IRYS: a visualization tool for temporal analysis of multimodal interaction. In: Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces , 2003, . pp. 285-288. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/958432.958484

Kaptelinin, Victor, Nardi, Bonnie A., Boedker, Susanne, Carroll, John M., Hollan, James D., Hutchins, Edwin, Winograd, Terry (2003): Post-cognitivist HCI: second-wave theories. In: Cockton, Gilbert, Korhonen, Panu (eds.) Extended abstracts of the 2003 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI 2003 April 5-10, 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. pp. 692-693. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/765891.765933

Fouse, Adam, Weibel, Nadir, Hutchins, Edwin, Hollan, James D. (2011): ChronoViz: a system for supporting navigation of time-coded data. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2011, . pp. 299-304. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979706

Steimle, Jürgen, Weibel, Nadir, Olberding, Simon, Mühlhäuser, Max, Hollan, James D. (2011): PLink: paper-based links for cross-media information spaces. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2011, . pp. 1969-1974. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979885

Piper, Anne Marie, Weibel, Nadir, Hollan, James D. (2012): A pen-based toolkit for authoring collaborative language activities. In: Companion Proceedings of ACM CSCW12 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work , 2012, . pp. 269-270. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2141512.2141597

Cowan, Lisa G., Weibel, Nadir, Pina, Laura R., Hollan, James D., Griswold, William G. (2011): Ubiquitous sketching for social media. In: Proceedings of 13th Conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services , 2011, . pp. 395-404. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2037373.2037433

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