KMDI - Knowledge Media Design Institute

Knowledge media are building blocks of a knowledge society

KMDI
University of Toronto
Bahen Centre for IT
40 St. George Street
7th Floor
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M5S 2E4

p/f: 416-978-KMDI (5634)

FACULTY
	Ronald M. Baecker (Ph.D., M.I.T.) Professor Department of Computer Science Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty of Management Bell University Laboratories Chair in Human-Computer Interaction Chief Scientist and Founder, Knowledge Media Design Institute Phone: 416-978-6983 Fax: 416-978-5634 Email: rmb@kmdi.utoronto.ca Web: http://www.kmdi.toronto.edu/rmb/
Biography Ronald Baecker is an active researcher, lecturer, and consultant on human-computer interaction and user interface design, cognitive prostheses, software visualization, multimedia, computer-supported cooperative work and learning, and software entrepreneurship. His current entrepreneurial venture is a virtual non-profit foundation within the University of Toronto to distribute and support the open source ePresence Interactive Media webcasting and archiving system (http://epresence.tv). Baecker is also Affiliate Scientist with the Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit of the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, and is the Principal Investigator of the CDN$5.5M Canada-wide NSERC Network for Effective Collaboration Technologies through Advanced Research (NECTAR) (http://www.nectar-research.net/) Keywords: Human-computer interaction and user interface design.