Steven Feiner

Steven Feiner (PhD, Brown) is Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, where he directs the Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab, and co-directs the Columbia Vision and Graphics Center. Prof. Feiner is coauthor of Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice and of Introduction to Computer Graphics, received an ONR Young Investigator Award, and together with his students, has won best paper awards at ACM UIST, ACM CHI, ACM VRST, and IEEE ISMAR.

Prof. Feiner has a long history of research in augmented reality (AR). He created an AR window manager that combined desktop and head-worn displays in 1991, and pioneered the design of knowledge-based AR systems for maintenance and AR for construction. In 1996, he and his students developed the first mobile AR system using a backpack computer with see-through head-worn and opaque hand-held displays, tracked with differential (later RTK) GPS and orientation trackers. They later demonstrated prototype AR guides for tourists, multimedia news documentaries embedded in the user’s surroundings, an AR restaurant guide, and a variety of other applications. Their current AR research addresses software infrastructure and interaction techniques across a broad range of task domains, both indoors and outdoors.

Over the past five years, Prof. Feiner has been general chair or co-chair for ACM VRST 2008 (15th Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology), INTETAIN 2008 (Second International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment), and ACM UIST 2004 (17th Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology); and doctoral symposium chair for ACM UIST 2009 and 2010.