Aleks Oniszczak Most recent: User Researcher for Microsoft Surface Currently available for employment Products I worked on while at Microsoft Microsoft Surface User Researcher Microsoft Surface Lagoon [Part of Windows 7] User Researcher Microsoft Surface Collage [Part of Windows 7] User Researcher Microsoft Surface Globe [Part of Windows 7] User Researcher MSc Thesis May 2008: Text Input and Object Selection for Touch and Stylus-based Mobile Devices [York University] Improving on the mobile phone keypad, Graffiti stylus input and the ubiquitous laptop touchpad Published Papers: The Tactile Touchpad [CHI] A significantly higher throughput pointing device is introduced A Comparison of Three Selection Techniques for Touchpads [CHI] The Tactile Touchpad significantly betters standard touchpad techniques Unipad: Single Stroke Text Entry With Language-based Acceleration [NordiChi] Improving upon mobile text entry A comparison of two input methods for keypads on mobile devices [NordiCHI] The RollPad mobile phone text entry method is introduced Rollpad Demo: Tactile Touchpad Demo: Hardware Creations: MacQuarium A broken Apple Macintosh's new life as an aquarium Autonomous Robot Hunts light, follows lines and doesn't fall off tables Volunteering: Nordichi Finland Conference in Human Computer Interaction Graphics Interface Halifax Conference in Graphics and Human Computer Interaction CHI Atlanta Conference in Human Computer Interaction CHI Los Angeles Conference in Human Computer Interaction CHI Pittsburgh Conference in Human Computer Interaction CHI Fort Lauderdale Conference in Human Computer Interaction UIST Banff Conference in User Interfaces Fashion Cares 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 , 2005, 2006 Fundraising charity

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