Scott E. Hudson is a

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in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institu ...

Career

Hudson was previously an associate professor in the College of Computing at the

Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Georgia Tech, GT, and simply Tech or the Institute) is a public university, public research university and Institute of technology (United States), institute of technology in Atlanta, ...

, and prior to that, an assistant professor of

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at the

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. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science at the

University of Colorado The University of Colorado (CU) is a system of public universities in Colorado. It consists of four institutions: the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, the University of Colorado Denver, and the U ...

in 1986. He regularly serves on the ACM

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and

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conference program committees. He is also a founding associate editor for ''

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction ''ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on human–computer interaction. It was established in 1994 and is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Editors-in-chief ...

''. Hudson was the first and founding director of the PhD program in Human-Computer Interaction at

Research

Hudson has published over 150 papers and is the 17th most prolific author in the field.
"HCI Bibliography: Most Frequent Authors. URL retrieved 21 April 2008.
"ACM Author Page: Scott E. Hudson. URL retrieved 22 April 2008. He is the most published author at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, ACM UIST conference. Along with Robert Xiao and

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, colleagues at CMU, he developed Lumitrack, a motion tracking technology which is currently used in video game controllers and in the film industry.

Recognition

Hudson was elected to the

CHI Academy The SIGCHI Academy is a group of researchers honored by SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group in Computer–Human Interaction of the Association for Computing Machinery. Each year, 5–8 new members are elected for having made a significant, cumulative ...

in 2006. He was named as an

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, in the 2024 class of fellows, "for contributions in user interface software, interactive devices, and computational fabrication applied to HCI".

References

External links

Scott Hudson's websiteHuman-Computer Interaction Institute
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hudson, Scott American computer scientists Human–computer interaction researchers Living people Human-Computer Interaction Institute faculty Georgia Tech faculty University of Arizona faculty University of Colorado Boulder alumni Year of birth missing (living people) 2024 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery