Bill Verplank

Q: What Schools Are Affiliated With Bill Verplank

Bill Verplank is affiliated with the following schools: California College of the Arts, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bill Verplank's Degrees

PhD Computer Science Stanford University
Masters Electrical Engineering Stanford University

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Why Is Bill Verplank Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, William "Bill" Lawrence Verplank is a designer and researcher who focuses on interactions between humans and computers. He is one of the pioneers of interaction design, a field of design that focuses on users and technology, and a term he helped coin in the 1980s. He was previously a visiting scholar at Stanford University's CCRMA and was involved in Stanford's d.school. He also teaches and lectures internationally on interaction design.

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Bill Verplank's Published Works

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Published Works

Designing the STAR User Interface (1987) (579)
The Xerox Star: a retrospective (1989) (316)
Human factors testing in the design of Xerox's 8010 “Star” office workstation (1983) (177)
Actors, hairdos & videotape—informance design (1994) (159)
Haptic techniques for media control (2001) (97)
Scanned Synthesis (2000) (79)
In search of metaphors for tangible user intefaces (2000) (75)
The PLANK: Designing a simple Haptic Controller (2002) (66)
A Course on Controllers (2001) (46)
Designing the Star user interface (1982) (1989) (43)
Springs and Constraints for 3D Drawing (1998) (41)
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction (2015) (39)
Teaching embodied interaction design practice (2005) (32)
Evaluating haptics and 3D stereo displays using Fitts' law (2004) (26)
A Physically Intuitive Haptic Drumstick (2007) (23)
Microcontrollers in Music HCI Instruction - Reflections on our Switch to the Atmel AVR Platform (2003) (22)
Graphic invention for user interfaces: an experimental course in user-interface design (1987) (18)
Haptic Music Exercises (2005) (18)
Can Haptics Make New Music ? - Fader and Plank Demos (2011) (13)
Graduate education in human-computer interaction (2005) (9)
Motors, Music and Motion (2015) (8)
Panel: teaching tangible interaction design (2000) (7)
Physical Interaction Design for Music (2003) (5)
TEI 2013 studio: motors and music (2013) (3)
TEI 2015 chairs' welcome (2015) (2)
The Poetry of Strange Connections: An Interview with Bill Verplank (2019) (1)
Interaction Design Sketchbook by Bill Verplank (2003) (1)
Hand tools or head tools? (panel session) (1990) (0)
Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS 2002, London, England, UK, June 25-28, 2002 (2002) (0)

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Bill Verplank?

Bill Verplank is affiliated with the following schools: