Network Investigator: Ron Baecker

Contact Information

• Director, Technologies for Aging Gracefully lab (TAGlab) and Bell Chair in Human-Computer Interaction and Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto
• 1.416.978.6983 (voice)
• 1.416.978.5634 (fax)
• mailto:[email protected]
• http://kmdi.utoronto.ca/rmb

GRAND Projects

• Accessibility of New Media for Disabled, Elderly, and Vulnerable Individuals
• Gaming for Physical Fitness

Biography

Ronald Baecker is Professor of Computer Science, Bell Universities Laboratories Chair in Human-Computer Interaction, and Founder, Founding Director, Chief Scientist, and Interim Director of the Knowledge Media Design Institute at the University of Toronto. He is also Affiliate Scientist with the Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit of Baycrest (formerly, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care), Adjunct Scientist with Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, and Principal Investigator of the $5.5M Canada-wide NSERC Network for Effective Collaboration Technologies through Advanced Research (NECTAR). He has been named one of the 60 Pioneers of Computer Graphics by ACM SIGGRAPH, has been elected to the CHI Academy by ACM SIGCHI, and has been given the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award.

His B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. are from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Baecker is an active researcher, lecturer, and consultant on human-computer interaction and user interface design, software visualization, multimedia, computer-supported cooperative work and learning, the Internet, and entrepreneurship and strategic planning in the software industry. He has published over 125 papers and articles on topics in these areas. He is the author or co-author of four books, two published videos, and two patents, and has started three software companies, two of which he led as CEO.