Saul Greenberg (born 1954) is a

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, a Faculty Professor and

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at the

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. He was awarded

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ship in 2012 for contributions to

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and

ubiquitous computing Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering, hardware engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear seamlessly anytime and everywhere. In contrast to desktop computing, ubiquitous computing imp ...

Education

Greenberg was educated at the

where he received a

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in 1988 for research on command-driven interfaces supervised by Ian Witten.

Career and research

Greenberg's research interests are in

Human–computer interaction Human–computer interaction (HCI) is the process through which people operate and engage with computer systems. Research in HCI covers the design and the use of computer technology, which focuses on the interfaces between people (users) and comp ...

(HCI),

Ubiquitous computing Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering, hardware engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear seamlessly anytime and everywhere. In contrast to desktop computing, ubiquitous computing imp ...

and

Computer Supported Cooperative Work Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) is the study of how people utilize technology collaboratively, often towards a shared goal. CSCW addresses how computer systems can support collaborative activity and coordination. More specifically, the ...

Publications

His most cited publications include: * ''Real time groupware as a distributed system'' * ''Usability evaluation considered harmful (some of the time)'' *''A descriptive framework of workspace awareness for real-time groupware'' *''How people revisit web pages: empirical findings and implications for the design of history systems'' *''Phidgets: easy development of physical interfaces through physical widgets'' *''Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: toward the year 2000''Baecker, Ronald M., ed. Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: toward the year 2000. Elsevier, 2014.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Greenberg, Saul Living people Canadian computer scientists Academic staff of the University of Calgary 2012 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery 1954 births