Jeff Campbell integrates a natural science background with business experience and human-computer interaction research to bring practical solutions to real problems.

Research

His main research area is human-computer interaction -- how to design systems that are easier for people to use. Much of his research has focused on systems that help people work together  more effectively. He has developed and evaluated systems to allow multiple people to work on the same text document or diagram at the same time from multiple locations with each person seeing all changes as they are made. Closely related work has addressed improvements to the user interface for instant messaging. A number of research topics have emerged from his development of a data warehouse of ecological data.

Projects

Dr. Campbell was the director for the Research Experiences for Undergraduates Human-Computer Interaction site at UMBC sponsored by the National Science Foundation that concluded in Summer 2006. He has business-related projects from his consulting practice and from serving on the conference committee for a large academic conference. His systems projects and prototypes include the collaborative work systems described above, a number of systems to gather, analyze and visualize research data, and the database systems for ecological research. Applying good user interface design principles to support scientific research has been the core of these recent database and data mining projects. Effective information visualization is another key component.

Visualization of real-time hydrology data has been the objective for a current project in the Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education. He performed requirements analysis, investigated computing and display hardware options, designed an information processing architecture, prepared the Request for Proposal, led the proposal review and coordinated installation. He developed several proof of concept systems for Internet data retrieval and coordinated Geographic Information System (GIS) usage. He has submitted several research grant proposals based on these test systems and a related usability evaluation. The proposed research will address issues in supporting groups of people sharing access to the large, multi-display system.  Projects related to supporting citizen scientist programs are at an early stage of development.

Information Visualization Lab with array of eight 46" high definition displays showing varied GIS data layers and real- time weather information.

Publications

He has published papers in academic journals and at conferences. He has made a number of other presentations on ecological and computer systems topics to a variety of audiences.

Teaching

His teaching experience includes both higher education and professional development courses. Mentoring students is a core strength.

His resume is available in PDF format.

Revised: February 19, 2009
Copyright 2004-2008, Jeffrey D. Campbell