John Karat

Ph.D

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John Karat is an internationally recognized researcher in the field of human-computer interaction. Over his career with IBM Development (1982-1987) and Research (1987-current) he has worked on the development of guidelines and principles for user interface design (including the chairing committees for the development of ANSI and ISO standards), researched and advised on design collaboration, researched and developed speech-based systems (including the design of IBM’s large vocabulary desktop speech recognition system), researched and designed electronic medical record systems for Kaiser Colorado Region and Barnes Hospital in St Louis), and information search and unstructured knowledge management, entertainment applications, personalization. John is currently involved in research on privacy and information system policy management. At IBM Research, he has been a researcher, project leader, and manager. John is currently co-leader of the IBM Privacy Research Institute, researcher on a project to enable end-to-end management of privacy policies in natural language, and project leader for an open collaborative research (OCR) initiative in privacy and security policy management with Carnegie Mellon and Purdue Universities. He has been awarded several patents (addressing speech recognition interfaces, and general help systems) and received a number of internal IBM awards for invention achievement and other contributions. Recent publications have been in the areas of speech user interfaces (best paper award at the 1999 IFIP INTERACT conference), personalization (including an edited book “Designing Personalized User Experiences in eCommerce” published by Kluwer), and development of a policy management workbench for privacy (Best paper nominee at ACM SIGCHI 2006). John has served ACM in a number of ways. He has been a member of the SIGCHI Extended Executive Committee since 1994, serving to expand its international base. From 1995 to 1998, he was a member of the Board of Directors for the ACM and IEEE/CS FOCUS organization (Federation on Computing in the United States) established to represent the US in the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). John was the US representative to the IFIP Technical Committee on Human-Computer Interaction (TC13 from 1991 to 1998), the ACM representative to this organization from 1998 through 2006, and Chair of TC13 from 2001 to 2004. In this period he helped organize the first international HCI conferences in China (2002), India (2004), and Brazil (2007). He contributed to the expansion of the HCI field to bring design into a more prominent role – organizing an early workshop on the topic, and editing a book (“Taking software design seriously” published by Academic Press in 1991. John helped establish the successful ACM conference Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) in 1995 and chaired the conference in 2000. As a leading researcher in HCI, John has published over 60 articles in professional and technical journals, delivered keynote addresses at international conferences (most recently Asia Pacific CHI in Beijing in 2002 and India International Conference on HCI in Bangalore in 2004), taught courses, edited a book on software design techniques, and has authored numerous chapters in recently published books. Throughout his career he has balanced contributions to his employers with contribution to the professional community. He served as chair of national (ANSI 200) and international user interface standards development committees (ISO TC 159), on the editorial board for 3 Journals (International Journal of Cognitive Ergonomics, Universal Access in the Information Society, and Interactions) and as editor of one (Behaviour and Information Technology), has held executive positions in several professional societies, and is currently co-editor-in-chief of the Springer book series in human-computer-interaction.

 

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Publications by John Karat

» 2006 «

Karat, Clare-Marie, Karat, John, Brodie, Carolyn and Feng, Jinjuan (2006): Evaluating interfaces for privacy policy rule authoring. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2006. pp. 83-92. Available online

Sutcliffe, Alistair, Karat, John, Bodker, Suzanne and Gaver, Bill (2006): Can we measure quality in design and do we need to?. In: Proceedings of DIS06: Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, & Techniques 2006. pp. 119-121. Available online

Brodie, Carolyn A., Karat, Clare-Marie and Karat, John (2006): An empirical study of natural language parsing of privacy policy rules using the SPARCLE policy workbench. In: Proceedings of the 2006 Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security 2006. pp. 8-19. Available online

» 2005 «

Karat, John, Karat, Clare-Marie, Brodie, Carolyn and Feng, Jinjuan (2005): Privacy in information technology: Designing to enable privacy policy management in organizations. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 63 (1) pp. 153-174

Patil, S., Alpert, S. R., Karat, John and Wolf, Catherine G. (2005): "THAT's What I Was Looking for": Comparing User-Rated Relevance with Search Engine Rankings. In: Proceedings of IFIP INTERACT05: Human-Computer Interaction 2005. pp. 117-129. Available online

Karat, John, Karat, Clare-Marie, Brodie, C. and Feng, J. (2005): Designing Natural Language and Structured Entry Methods for Privacy Policy Authoring. In: Proceedings of IFIP INTERACT05: Human-Computer Interaction 2005. pp. 671-684. Available online

Brodie, Carolyn, Karat, Clare-Marie, Karat, John and Feng, Jinjuan (2005): Usable security and privacy: a case study of developing privacy management tools. In: Proceedings of the 2005 Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security 2005. pp. 35-43. Available online

» 2004 «

Karat, Clare-Marie, Blom, Jan O. and Karat, John (eds.) (2004): Designing Personalized User Experiences in eCommerce. Springer-Verlag
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» 2001 «

Karat, Clare-Marie, Pinhanez, C., Karat, John, Arora, R. and Vergo, J. (2001): Less Clicking, More Watching: Results of the Iterative Design and Evaluation of Entertaining Web Experiences. In: Proceedings of IFIP INTERACT01: Human-Computer Interaction 2001, Tokyo, Japan. pp. 455-463.

» 1999 «

Karat, Clare-Marie, Halverson, Christine, Karat, John and Horn, Daniel (1999): Patterns of Entry and Correction in Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Systems. In: Altom, Mark W. and Williams, Marian G. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 99 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference May 15-20, 1999, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. pp. 568-575. Available online

» 1998 «

Karat, Clare-Marie, Lund, Arnold, Coutaz, Joëlle and Karat, John (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 98 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 18-23, 1998, Los Angeles, California.

» 1997 «

Coble, Janette M., Karat, John and Kahn, Michael G. (1997): Maintaining a Focus on User Requirements Throughout the Development of Clinical Workstation Software. In: Pemberton, Steven (ed.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 97 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference March 22-27, 1997, Atlanta, Georgia. pp. 170-177. Available online

Wolf, Catherine G. and Karat, John (1997): Capturing What is Needed in Multi-User System Design: Observations from the Design of Three Healthcare Systems. In: Proceedings of DIS97: Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, & Techniques 1997. pp. 405-415. Available online

Karat, John and Karat, Clare-Marie (1997): Future Ethics. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 29 (1) pp. 4-6

» 1996 «

Karat, John (1996): User Centered Design: Quality or Quackery?. In Interactions, 3 (4) pp. 18-20

Karat, John and Karat, Clare-Marie (1996): Perspectives on Design and Internationalization. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 28 (1) pp. 39-40

» 1995 «

Karat, John and Dayton, Tom (1995): Practical Education for Improving Software Usability. In: Katz, Irvin R., Mack, Robert L., Marks, Linn, Rosson, Mary Beth and Nielsen, Jakob (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 95 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference May 7-11, 1995, Denver, Colorado. pp. 162-169. Available online

Danis, Catalina and Karat, John (1995): Technology-Driven Design of Speech Recognition Systems. In: Proceedings of DIS95: Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, & Techniques 1995. pp. 17-24.

Karat, John (1995): World-Wide CHI: `Issue Process' Featured at IFIP Congress '94. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 27 (2) pp. 11-14

» 1994 «

Karat, John (1994): International Perspectives: Joe's Diner, McDonald's, and SIGCHI. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 26 (2) pp. 4-5

» 1993 «

Maguire, M., Dillon, Andrew, Brooke, John, Gerven, Johan van, Bevan, Nigel, Paci, Anna Maria, Karat, John and Shackel, Brian (1993): Usability Measurement -- Its Practical Value to the Computer Industry. In: Ashlund, Stacey, Mullet, Kevin, Henderson, Austin, Hollnagel, Erik and White, Ted (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 93 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 24-29, 1993, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. pp. 145-148. Available online

Karat, John (1993): Defining Roles in International Communication within HCI. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 25 (1) pp. 8-9

Karat, John and Karat, Clare-Marie (1993): Understanding the International Community and Their Concerns. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 25 (2) p. 7

Karat, John (1993): IFIP's Technical Committee on Information Systems. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 25 (3) pp. 9-10

Dayton, Tom, Barr, Bob, Burke, Pamela A., Cohill, Andrew M., Day, Mary Carol, Dray, Susan M., Ehrlich, Kate, Fitzsimmons, Lynne Axel, Henneman, Richard L., Hornstein, Susan B., Karat, John and Kliger, Jill (1993): Skills Needed by User-Centered Design Practitioners in Real Software Development Environments: Report on the CHI'92 Workshop. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 25 (3) pp. 16-31

Karat, John and Karat, Clare-Marie (1993): A Human Interface Society Abroad. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 25 (4) p. 12

Karat, John and Bennett, John (1993): CSCW'92 Workshop Report: Understanding and Supporting Successful Group Work in Software Design. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 25 (4) pp. 51-56

» 1992 «

Karat, Clare-Marie and Karat, John (1992): Some Dialogue on Scenarios. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 24 (4) p. 7

» 1991 «

Karat, John (1991): International Perspectives: Some Thoughts on Differences between North American and European HCI. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 23 (4) pp. 9-10

Karat, John (ed.) (1991): Taking Software Design Seriously: Practical Techniques for Human-Computer Interaction Design. New York, Academic Press
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» 1990 «

Karat, John and Bennett, John (1990): Supporting Effective and Efficient Design Meetings. In: Diaper, Dan, Gilmore, David J., Cockton, Gilbert and Shackel, Brian (eds.) INTERACT 90 - 3rd IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction August 27-31, 1990, Cambridge, UK. pp. 365-370.

Karat, John and Dayton, Tom (1990): Taking Design Seriously: Exploring Techniques Useful in HCI Design. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 22 (2) pp. 26-33

» 1989 «

Butler, Keith A., Bennett, John, Polson, Peter G. and Karat, John (1989): Report on the Workshop on Analytical Models. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 20 (4) pp. 63-79

Karat, John (1989): The Relation of Psychological Theory to Human-Computer Interaction Standards. In: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 1989. pp. 582-588.

» 1987 «

Karat, John, Fowler, Richard and Gravelle, Mary (1987): Evaluating User Interface Complexity. In: Bullinger, Hans-Jorg and Shackel, Brian (eds.) INTERACT 87 - 2nd IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction September 1-4, 1987, Stuttgart, Germany. pp. 489-495.

Karat, John (1987): Evaluating User Interface Complexity. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 31st Annual Meeting 1987. pp. 566-570.

» 1986 «

Karat, John, McDonald, James E. and Anderson, Matt (1986): A Comparison of Menu Selection Techniques: Touch Panel, Mouse and Keyboard. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 25 (1) pp. 73-88

» 1984 «

Karat, John, McDonald, James E. and Anderson, Matt (1984): A Comparison of Selection Techniques: Touch Panel, Mouse and Keyboard. In: Shackel, Brian (ed.) INTERACT 84 - 1st IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction September 4-7, 1984, London, UK. pp. 189-193.

 

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