Media Computing Group: Eric Lee

Eric Lee M. Sc. Research Assistant Office location:   n/a Office hours:   n/a See my basic schedule. Telephone:   n/a Email:   eric(at)cs.rwth-aachen.de

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As of October 1, 2007, I am now working full-time at Apple, Inc. in Cupertino, California. Interested in interning at Apple? Check out Apple's intern page. Feel free to email me if you have any questions.

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I am a 4th year Doctorate student at the Media Computing Group under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jan Borchers. My research interests lie in the area of multimedia systems design where time plays a key role in the interaction. Some of the key issues I am currently looking at include representing time in the user interface and designing frameworks for time-based multimedia processing. Some of the projects I am or have been involved with:

• Semantic Time
• DiMaß - Direct Manipulation Audio Scrubbing and Skimming
• Personal Orchestra
  • You're the Conductor
  • Maestro!
• Regensburg Experience
• coJIVE: Collaborative Jazz Improvisation Environment
• Interactive Video Cubism

Diploma/Masters Thesis students that I have supervised (in order of graduation):
Ingo Grüll, Jan Buchholz, Jonathan Klein, Thorsten Karrer, Marius Wolf, Urs Enke, Georgianna Farmaki, Saskia Dedenbach (in progress), Henning Kiel (in progress)

My personal projects/software can be found on my personal homepage at mac.com.

You can also view my LinkedIn profile.

Mini CV: Eric graduated with a Bachelor's (B.A.Sc) degree in Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia in Canada. He worked for Sony Electronics in Los Angeles, USA for two years before returning to academia, obtaining a Masters (M.Sc.) degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2003. He has held previous internship positions at Sony Corporation's research headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, and MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates in Richmond, Canada. Most recently, he was at Apple Computer in Cupertino, California, working on QuickTime and Core Audio. Eric practices and teaches Sun-style Taiji (Tai Chi) in his spare time. See the International Sun Tai Chi Association official website for more information. More information about Eric can be found on his personal homepage at mac.com.

Professional Activities

• Member, IEEE (1999 - present)
• NIME 2005 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression - Webmaster.
• CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Interactivity Venue Co-Chair.
• CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Interactivity Venue Co-Chair.

Talks

• "Personal Orchestra." Informatikdienste Forum - Mac to the Future, ETH Zürich, December 3, 2004.

Publications

( denotes a major peer-reviewed publication).

2008

Thorsten Karrer, Malte Weiss, Eric Lee, and Jan Borchers. DRAGON: A Direct Manipulation Interface for Frame-Accurate In-Scene Video Navigation. In Proceedings of the CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Florence, Italy, April 2008. ACM Press. Best CHI 2008 Note Award, .

2007

	Eric Lee, Thorsten Karrer, and Jan Borchers. An Analysis of Startup and Dynamic Latency in Phase Vocoder-Based Time-Stretching Algorithms. In Proceedings of the ICMC 2007 International Computer Music Conference, volume 2, pages 73-80, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2007. .
	Eric Lee. A Semantic Time Framework for Interactive Media Systems. In WWDC 2007 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (Scientific Poster Session), San Francisco, USA, June 2007. .
	Eric Lee, Marius Wolf, Yvonne Jansen, and Jan Borchers. REXband: A Multi-User Interactive Exhibit for Exploring Medieval Music. In NIME 2007 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, pages 172-177, New York, USA, June 2007. .
	Eric Lee, Urs Enke, Jan Borchers, and Leo de Jong. Towards Rhythmic Analysis of Human Motion using Acceleration-Onset Times. In NIME 2007 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, pages 136-141, New York, USA, June 2007. .
	Marius Wolf, Eric Lee, and Jan Borchers. Education, Entertainment and Authenticity: Lessons Learned from Designing an Interactive Exhibit about Medieval Music. In Extended Abstracts of CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 1887-1892, San Jose, USA, April 2007. ACM Press. .
	Eric Lee. Towards a Quantitative Analysis of Audio Scrolling Interfaces. In Extended Abstracts of CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 2213-2218, San Jose, USA, April 2007. ACM Press. .
	Eric Lee, Thorsten Karrer, and Jan Borchers. Improving Interfaces for Navigating Continuous Audio Timelines. In CHI 2007 Workshop on Supporting Non-Professional Users in the New Media Landscape, San Jose, USA, April 2007. .
	Jan Buchholz, Eric Lee, and Jan Borchers. coJIVE: A System to Support Collaborative Jazz Improvisation. Technical Report AIB-2007-04, RWTH Aachen University, Mar 2007. .

2006

	Eric Lee, Henning Kiel, and Jan Borchers. Scrolling Through Time: Improving Interfaces for Searching and Navigating Continuous Audio Timelines. Technical Report AIB-2006-17, RWTH Aachen University, Dec 2006. .
	Thorsten Karrer, Eric Lee, and Jan Borchers. PhaVoRIT: A Phase Vocoder for Real-Time Interactive Time-Stretching. In Proceedings of the ICMC 2006 International Computer Music Conference, pages 708-715, New Orleans, USA, November 2006. .
	Eric Lee and Jan Borchers. Semantic Time: Representing Time and Temporal Transformations for Digital Audio in Interactive Computer Music Systems. In Proceedings of the ICMC 2006 International Computer Music Conference, pages 204-211, New Orleans, USA, November 2006. .
	Eric Lee and Jan Borchers. DiMaß: A Technique for Audio Scrubbing and Skimming using Direct Manipulation. In AMCMM 2006 Audio and Music Computing for Multimedia Workshop (in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2006), pages 107-114, Santa Barbara, USA, October 2006. .
	Eric Lee and Jan Borchers. DiMaß: Audio Scrubbing and Skimming with Continuous, High-Fidelity Feedback. In WWDC 2006 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (Scientific Poster Session), San Francisco, USA, August 2006. .
	Eric Lee, Ingo Grüll, Henning Kiel, and Jan Borchers. conga: A Framework for Adaptive Conducting Gesture Analysis. In NIME 2006 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, pages 260-265, Paris, France, June 2006. .
	Eric Lee, Henning Kiel, Saskia Dedenbach, Ingo Gruell, Thorsten Karrer, Marius Wolf, and Jan Borchers. iSymphony: An Adaptive Interactive Orchestral Conducting System for Conducting Digital Audio and Video Streams. In Extended Abstracts of CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 259 - 262, Montréal, Canada, April 2006. ACM Press. .
	Eric Lee, Thorsten Karrer, and Jan Borchers. Toward a Framework for Interactive Systems to Conduct Digital Audio and Video Streams. Computer Music Journal, 30(1):21-36, Spring 2006. The video for this article appears in the Computer Music Journal Sound and Video Anthology 29(4), 2005, .

2005

	Eric Lee. Designing Time-Based Interactions With Multimedia. In ACM Multimedia Doctoral Symposium, pages 1037 - 1038, Orchard, Singapore, November 2005. ACM Press. .
	Laszlo Bardos, Stefan Korinek, Eric Lee, and Jan Borchers. Bangarama: Creating Music With Headbanging. In NIME 2005 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, pages 180-183, Vancouver, Canada, May 2005. NIME. .
	Eric Lee and Jan Borchers. The Role of Time in Engineering Computer Music Systems. In NIME 2005 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, pages 204-207, Vancouver, Canada, May 2005. NIME. .
	Eric Lee, Marius Wolf, and Jan Borchers. Improving orchestral conducting systems in public spaces: examining the temporal characteristics and conceptual models of conducting gestures. In Proceedings of the CHI 2005 conference on Human factors in computing systems, pages 731-740, Portland, Oregon, April 2005. ACM, ACM Press. .

2004

	Eric Lee, Teresa Marrin Nakra, and Jan Borchers. You're the Conductor: A Realistic Interactive Conducting System for Children. In NIME 2004 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, pages 68-73, Hamamatsu, Japan, June 2004. NIME. .
	Eric Lee and Jan Borchers. Designing Interactions With Time-based Media. In CHI 2004 Workshop on Time Design, Vienna, Austria, April 2004. Workshop position paper, .
	Jan Borchers, Eric Lee, Wolfgang Samminger, and Max Mühlhäuser. Personal Orchestra: A real-time audio/video system for interactive conducting. ACM Multimedia Systems Journal Special Issue on Multimedia Software Engineering, 9(5):458-465, March 2004. .

2000

Sid Fels, Eric Lee, and Kenji Mase. Techniques for Interactive Cubism. In Proceeedings of the ACM Conference on Multimedia, pages 368-370, October 2000. .

Other Stuff

My render of a Dodge Viper and Lamborghini Diablo on the Stanford Quad using image-based lighting appears in the book Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation by Matt Pharr and Greg Humphreys. Be sure to check out the gallery.

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