Faculty profile

Alfred Kobsa

Professor Emeritus

DEGREE:

Ph.D. 1985, University of Vienna and Technical University of Vienna, Austria

RESEARCH AREAS:

Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Human Computer Interaction
Medical Informatics
Ubiquitous Computing

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Dr. Kobsa's research lies in the areas of user modeling and personalized systems (with applications in the areas of information environments, expert finders, and user interfaces for disabled and elderly people), privacy, and in information visualization. He is the editor of "User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research", edited several books and authored numerous publications in the areas of user-adaptive systems, human-computer interaction and knowledge representation.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

E-mail: kobsa@uci.edu
Office:
Phone: (949) 485-5020
Fax: (484) 762-6644
Website: www.ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/