1. Shumin Zhai is known for his research specifically on input devices and interaction methods, swipe-gesture-based touchscreen keyboards, eye-tracking interfaces, and models of human performance in human-computer interaction.
14 Facts About Shumin Zhai
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Shumin Zhai's studies have contributed to both foundational models and understandings of HCI and practical user interface designs and flagship products.
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Shumin Zhai previously worked at IBM where he invented the ShapeWriter text entry method for smartphones, which is a predecessor to the modern Swype keyboard.
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Dr Shumin Zhai is currently a principal scientist at Google where he leads and directs research, design, and development of human-device input methods and haptics systems.
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From 2001 to 2007, Dr Shumin Zhai was a visiting adjunct professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at Linkoping University, where he supervised graduate research.
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Shumin Zhai was a consultant at Autodesk in 1995 before joining IBM Almaden Research Center in 1996.
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From 2009 to 2015, Dr Shumin Zhai was the editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.
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From 2011 till present, Dr Shumin Zhai has been working at Google as a principal scientist, where he leads and directs research, design, and development of human-device input methods and haptics systems.
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Notably, Dr Shumin Zhai led the design of Active Edge, a headline feature of Google Pixel 2, which enables the user to reach Google Assistant faster and more intuitively using a gentle device squeeze rather than the touch screen.
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Shumin Zhai has published over 200 research papers and received 30 patents.
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Dr Shumin Zhai started working on multiple degrees of freedom input during his graduate years at the University of Toronto.
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Shumin Zhai investigated people's ability to coordinate multiple degrees of freedom, based on three ways of quantification: simultaneous time-on-target, error correlation, and efficiency.
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Dr Shumin Zhai has been involved in two applications about eye-tracking augmented user interfaces, MAGIC pointing and RealTourist.
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Dr Shumin Zhai is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and a member of the CHI Academy.