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. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

. He 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 or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part of ...

, 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: University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, and the University of Co ...

in 1986. 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 prestigious ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, ACM UIST conference. He was elected to the

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in 2006, and 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

. Along with Robert Xiao and

Chris Harrison Christopher Bryan Harrison (born July 26, 1971) is an American television and game show host, best known for his role as the host of the ABC reality television dating show '' The Bachelor'' from 2002 to 2021. He also hosted its spin-offs ''The ...

, colleagues at CMU, he developed

Lumitrack Lumitrack is a motion capture technology developed by Robert Xiao, Chris Harrison and Scott Hudson at Carnegie Mellon University. It combines projectors and sensors to provide high-fidelity motion-tracking. These types of sensors are used in vide ...

, a motion tracking technology which is currently used in video game controllers and in the film industry.

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External links

Scott Hudson's websiteHuman-Computer Interaction Institute
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