About me
Research Staff Member
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Hawthorne)
Dr Shari Trewin is an HCI researcher at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York. Her long standing research focus has been in supporting technology users with physical, sensory or cognitive impairments. Shari has been working with people with disabilities since 1989. As part of the Accessibility Research Group, she has looked at accessibility in virtual worlds (PowerUp), Web browsing (Web Adaptation Technology and accessibilityWorks), physical control of technology (Steady Clicks, Keyboard Optimizer and Dynamic Keyboard), preferences, and personalization. She is collaborating with researchers at the University of Dundee, Scotland, and the University of Miami in an examination of the technology requirements of older workers. She recently joined the Software Productivity Group where she hopes to blend her interests in users with her background in artificial intelligence and parallel programming into something useful.
Shari served as Program Chair of the Universal Remote Console" suite of standards for remote control of devices and services. These five standards, now published as ISO standards, allow people to use a personal device as an alternative to the built-in user interfaces of network accessible products such as household devices, public access devices, or web services. The URC standards were developed by the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards Technical Committee V2 (INCITS V2). The standards are ANSI INCITS 389-2005 to 393-2005.
Shari joined IBM in 2000 from the University of Edinburgh, where she focused on intelligent tutoring systems for music education. Her Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence at Edinburgh consisted of a dynamic diagnostic model of the keyboard configuration requirements of users. She received the Best Student Paper Award for her Ph.D. research entitled "A model of keyboard configuration requirements" at the 1998 ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies.
Last updated 13 Jun 2008