Dan R. Olsen Jr. (born June 22, 1953) is an American

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who specialized in the fields of

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and information science. He worked in the computer science department of

Brigham Young University Brigham Young University (BYU) is a Private education, private research university in Provo, Utah, United States. It was founded in 1875 by religious leader Brigham Young and is the flagship university of the Church Educational System sponsore ...

from 1984 until his retirement in 2015, serving as chair of the department (1992–96), and also directed the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at

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(1996–98).

Education

Dan R. Olsen gained his Bachelor of Science (1976) and Master of Science (1978) in

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from

and his PhD in computer and information science from

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(1981).Dan R. Olsen Jr. - Vita
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'', Retrieved on 21 March 2018

Career and research

In 1981, Olsen became an assistant professor at

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. In 1984, he moved to

as an assistant professor, rising to associate professor (1986) and professor (1990). He served as Department Chair of Computer Science in 1992–96, and was the director of the Interactive Computing Everywhere) (ICE) Laboratory. During his career at Brigham Young, he also served as a professor and the inaugural director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at

(1996–98). He retired in 2015. His research was in the fields of

and information science.

Awards, honours and societies

Olsen was elected as fellow of the

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(ACM) in 2006 for his work on user interface technology.Kasper, Elizabeth
"BYU's Dan R. Olsen Jr. named fellow of national computing association"
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'', Provo, Utah, 18 January 2007. Retrieved on 21 March 2018. He was the inaugural editor of the society's journal, ''

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction ''ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on human–computer interaction. It was established in 1994 and is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Editors-in-chief ...

'' (TOCHI). He is a CHI Academy member and gained the CHI Lifetime Research Award in 2012.SIGCHI Awards", ''SIGCHI'', Retrieved on 21 March 2018
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Selected published works

Books

Building Interactive Systems: Principles for Human-Computer Interaction
(2009)
Developing user interfaces: ensuring usability through product & process
(1993)
User Interface Management Systems: Models and Algorithms
(1992)

Research articles

Laser pointer interaction
(CHI, 2001)
Interactive machine learning
(IUI, 2003)
Evaluating user interface systems research
(UIST, 2007)
SYNGRAPH: A graphical user interface generator
(ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, 1983)
Cross-modal interaction using XWeb
(UIST, 2000)
MIKE: the menu interaction kontrol environment
(ACM Transactions on Graphics, 1986)

References

External links

ACM Digital Library
{{DEFAULTSORT:Olsen, Dan 1953 births Living people Brigham Young University alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni Brigham Young University faculty American computer scientists American academic journal editors