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Björn Ulf Hartmann
Gates Computer Science 3B, Room 376
Stanford,CA 94305-9035
bjoernatstanforddotedu
 
 
RESEARCH INTERESTS     Human-Computer Interaction, Tangible User Interfaces, User Interface Tools, Gesture and Posture, Embodied Conversational Agents, Intellectual Property Law for Scholars and Musicians
 
EDUCATION     STANFORD UNIVERSITY  Palo Alto, CA
PhD student in Computer Science since September 2004.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   Philadelphia, PA
Master of Science in Engineering degree in Computer and Information Science, December 2002.

Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree in Digital Media Design, Summa cum Laude, December 2002.

Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication, Summa cum Laude, with minor in Fine Arts, December 2002.
 
EMPLOYMENT     01/2004--09/2004
IUT MONTREUIL, UNIVERSITY OF PARIS-8 (Montreuil, France)
Research Engineer
Developed and implemented a framework to enable emotional displays and personality in nonverbal gesturing behavior of Embodied Conversational Agents.

01/2003--12/2003
CONTEXTERRIOR MEDIA (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Principal
Managed graphic design, distribution, and promotion of indepenent niche record label. Planned, designed, programmed online label textone.org.

06/2001--08/2001
UNIVERSITY OF ROME "LA SAPIENZA" (Rome, Italy)
Research Assistant
Developed and implemented a system to procedurally generate gestural animation for embodied agents according to the MPEG4 Body Animation Parameter standard.
 
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS     J.Carlile, B.Hartmann. Oroboro: A Collaborative Controller with Interpersonal Haptic Feedback, Demonstration, Proceedings of NIME 2005, Vancouver, May 2005. (pdf)

B. Hartmann, M. Mancini, C. Pelachaud, Implementing Expressive Gesture Synthesis for Embodied Conversational Agents, Gesture Workshop 2005, Valoria, France, May 2005. (pdf)

B. Hartmann, M. Mancini, C. Pelachaud, Towards Affective Agent Action: Modelling Expressive ECA Gestures IUI 2005 Workshop on Affective Interaction, San Diego, CA, January 2005. (pdf)

B. Hartmann, M. Mancini, C. Pelachaud, Formational parameters and adaptive prototype instantiation for MPEG-4 compliant gesture synthesis, Computer Animation, Geneva, June 2002. (pdf)
 
UNREFEREED PUBLICATIONS     B. Hartmann. Netlabels and the Adoption of Creative Commons Licensing in the Online Electronic Music Community Book chapter in 'International Commons at the Digital Age'. Paris, Romillat, 2004. (html) (pdf)
 
RELEVANT
COURSEWORK		     Computer Graphics; Computer Vision/Machine Perception; Visualization; Virtual World Design; Artificial Intelligence; Programming Languages and Techniques Iⅈ Computer Architecture; Introduction to Algorithms; Theory of Computation; Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science; Calculus II&III; Physics; Visual Communication; Communication Behavior; Communication Research; The Information Age; Graphic Design & Typography.
 
COMPUTER
SKILLS		     C/C++, Java, some Assembly,
OpenGL, HTML, PHP, CFML, SQL,
Maple, Matlab, 3D modeling/animation packages, digital audio editing.
 
PROJECT
WORK		    
Undergraduate Senior Project:
"3D Animation Plug-in development for Maya"
    Adapted the EMOTE animation model for effort and shape, developed by Diane Chi, Monica Costa, Liwei Zhao, and Dr. Norm Badler at the University of Pennsylvania's HMS center, as a plug-in for Alias|Wavefront's Maya package.
 
Independent Study:
"Subdivision Algorithms for Curves and Surfaces"
    Implemented the approximation of complex shapes in 2D and 3D computer graphics by using subdivision algorithms.
 
Term project:
"Mideo - Computer vision-controlled musical composition and conducting application"
    Applied computer vision algorithms to analyze captured video data and thus control a simultaneous music playback through MIDI messages.
 
Term paper:
"Evaluating Personal Intelligent Software Agents"
    Discussed potential negative effects of the introduction and diffusion of adaptive, autonomous computer programs from a social sciences perspective.
 
TEACHING EXPERIENCE     Course Assistant,
"Phenomenological Foundations of Cognition, Language, and Computation"
Stanford University, Spring Quarter 2005.
     
    Teaching Assistant,
"Special Topics in Robotics and Computer Animation "
University of Pennsylvania, Fall Semester 2002
Instructed undergraduates on mathematical foundations of animation and dynamics simulation; developed and expanded C++ programming assignments.
     
    Teaching Assistant, "Virtual World Design"
University of Pennsylvania, Spring Semester 2001
Instructed undergraduates on development of real-time, interactive 3D environments.
     
   

Software Tutor, "Digital Imaging"
University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2001 and Spring 2002 Semesters
Developed and led software tutorials on Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and QuarkXPress.
 
CONFERENCES     Paper reviewer for ADS, AAMAS, SIGGRAPH, CASA, SCA 2004; GMOD 2005, GI 2005, UIST 2005.

Presentation on motion capture for embodied conversational agents at 11th journée Vicon at University of Rennes-2, France, 2004.

Invited speaker on online compensation systems - Freebitflows conference, Vienna, 2004.

Panelist at German Creative Commons license launch - Wizards of OS conference, Berlin, 2004.

Presentation+Poster: "Enabling Emotional Displays in ECAs through Expressivity Control" at HUMAINE Workshop on Theories and Models of Emotion, Geneva, 2004.

Poster: "Expressivity Control for ECA Behavior Synthesis" at Symposium for Computer Animation, Grenoble, 2004.
 
HONORS     Dean's List 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-00, 2000-01, 2001-02.
Phi Beta Kappa.
Stanford School of Engineering Fellowship 2005.
 
ORGANIZATIONS     Member ACM SIGCHI, Electronic Frontier Foundation.
 
PERSONAL     Fluent in German; Interested in Art History, Graphic Design and Electronic Music; Co-founder of and recording artist on independent record label. See artist biography.