Xiaojun Bi


Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
40 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5S 2E4

Phone: (416)805-9888

Email: xiaojun at dgp.toronto.edu


| Brief Biography | Research | Publications | CV (pdf) | TA Positions |


Brief Biography

Xiaojun Bi is a PhD candidate in Dynamic Graphics Project (DGP) laboratory of Department of Computer Science at University of Toronto under the supervision of Prof. Ravin Balakrishnan. Concurrently, he is a part-time consulting researcher at ShapeWriter Inc. working with Dr. Shumin Zhai. Mr Bi earned his master degree from Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University supervised by Prof. Shi Yuanchun in 2006, and bachelor degree from Department of Automation at the same university in 2003. He won the First Place in Chinese National Mathematics Olympics in 1999 in his local province(top 1 among 250,000 students), recruited by Tsinghua University with National Entrance Examination waived.

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Research

Xiaojun Bi's research interest lies in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). He has several publications at SigCHI and UIST focusing on interactions with large displays and pen-based interaction techniques.  His research interest also includes quantitative modelling, text entry on mobile devices and other topics relevant to human-computer interaction.

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Publications

[5]. Xiaojun Bi, Ravin Balakrishnan. (2009) "Comparing Usage of a Large High-Resolution Display to Single or Dual Desktop Displays for Daily Work". Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference  on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2009), p1005~p1014. (PDF)

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[4]. Xiaojun Bi, Tomer Moscovich, Gonzalo Ramos, Ravin Balakrishnan, Ken Hinckley. (2008) "An Exploration of Pen Rolling for Pen-based Interaction". Proceedings of UIST 2008, Monterey, CA,  October 19-22, 2008, p191~p200 (PDF) (VIDEO)

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[3]. Xiaojun Bi, Yuanchun Shi, Xiaojie Chen (2006) ˇ°uPen: A Smart Pen-liked Device for Facilitating Interaction on Large Displaysˇ±, TableTop'06, Australia,January, p160~p168.  (PDF)

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[2]. Xiaojun Bi, Yuanchun Shi, Xiaojie Chen, (2005) ˇ°uPen: Laser-based, Personalized, Multi-User Interaction on Large Displaysˇ±, ACM MuliMedia'05, Singapore , November 2005, p1049~p1050.  (PDF)

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[1]. Xiaojun Bi, Yuanchun Shi, Xiaojie Chen, (2005) ˇ°Facilitating Interaction with Large Displays in Smart Spacesˇ±, Soc-EUSAI'05, France , Grenoble . October, 2005. p105~p110 (PDF)

          

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TA Positions

2009 Winter: CSC148 Introduction to Computer Science

2008 Fall:  CSC180 Introduction to Computer Programming

2007 Fall:  CSC108H Introduction to Computer Programming

2007 Winter:  CSC148 Introduction to Computer Science

2006 Fall:  CSC318 "The Design of Interactive computational Media"

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Last modified 10/04, 2009

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