Rahul Nair

 

 

 

 

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I am a technology geek looking for various ways to make "cool" technology useful to actual users. A problem solver by nature and enjoy nothing more than creating practical and innovative solutions to everyday problems. I have significant experience in not only designing interfaces but also in building and deploying them in both group and solo efforts. For more information about my projects and background please view my resume below or visit my projects page

Resume
Journal/Magazine
  • Mor Naaman and Rahul Nair. ZoneTag's Collaborative Tag Suggestions: What is This Person Doing in My Phone?. IEEE Multimedia, vol.15 (3), pp. 34-40, July-Sept. 2008. (pdf)

Full Papers
  • Naaman, M., Nair, R. and Kaplun, V. Photos on the Go: A Mobile Application Case Study. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 1739-1748. (pdf)

  • Kennedy, L., Naaman, M., Ahern, S., Nair, R., and Rattenbury, T. (2007). How Flickr Helps us Make Sense of the World: Context and Content in Community-Contributed Media Collections. In Proceedings of 15th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2007). ACM, New York, NY, 631-640. (pdf)

  • Ahern, S., Naaman, M., Nair, R., and Yang, J. H. World Explorer: Visualizing Aggregate Data from Unstructured Text in Geo-Referenced Collections. In proceedings, Seventh ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, (JCDL 07), June 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ACM Press (2007). 1-10.Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award. (pdf, Slideshare)

  • Ahern, S., Eckles, D., Good, N. S., King, S., Naaman, M., and Nair, R. Over-Exposed? Privacy Patterns and Considerations in Online and Mobile Photo Sharing. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems (CHI 2007), San Jose, CA, USA, 2007. ACM Press (2007). 357--366. (pdf)

  • Nair, R., Shiroor, K. and Godfrey, J. BuzzTrans: Evaluation of a Translating Instant Messenger Client. In Proceedings of IHCI 2004. (pdf)

Short Papers, Posters and Demos
  • Hwang, A., Ahern, S., King, S., Naaman, M., Nair, R., and Yang, J. 2007. Zurfer: mobile multimedia access in spatial, social and topical context. In Proceedings of the 15th international Conference on Multimedia (Augsburg, Germany, September 25 - 29, 2007). MULTIMEDIA '07. ACM, New York, NY, 557-560.

  • Ahern, S., King, S., Naaman, M., and Nair, R. Summarization of Online Image Collections via Implicit Feedback (Poster). In The Sixteenth International World-Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), May 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada. (pdf)

  • Ahern, S., King, S., Naaman, M., Nair, R., and Yang, J. H. ZoneTag: Rich, Community-supported Context-Aware Media Capture and Annotation. In the Mobile Spatial Interaction workshop (MSI) at the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems (CHI 2007), San Jose, CA, USA, 2007. (pdf, Poster)

  • Ahern, S., Davis, M., King, S., Naaman, M. and Nair, R. Reliable, User-Contributed GSM Cell-Tower Positioning Using Context-Aware Photos. (Poster) In Proceedings of the Poster Session at the Eighth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2006; Orange County, USA). (pdf, Poster)

  • Ahern, S., Good, N., King, S., Naaman, M. and Nair, R. Privacy Decisions for Location-Tagged Media (Poster). In Proceedings of the Poster Session at the Eighth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2006; Orange County, USA). (pdf, Poster)

  • Nair, R., Reid, N. and Davis M. (2005) Photo LOI: Browsing Multi-User Photo Collections (Technical Demonstration). In: Proceedings of 13th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2005; Singapore). ACM Press (2005). 223-224. (pdf, Poster)

  • Davis, M., Canny, J., Van House, N., Good, N., King, S., Nair, R., Burgener, C., Rinehart, B., Strickland, R., Campbell, G., Fisher, S., and Reid, N. MMM2: Mobile Media Metadata for Media Sharing" (Video). In: Proceedings of 13th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2005; Singapore). ACM Press (2005). 267-268. FXPAL Best Demo Video Award. (pdf)

  • Nair, R. and Davis, M. Bluetooth Pooling to Enrich Co-Presence Information (Poster). In Proceedings of the Poster Session at the Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2005; Tokyo, Japan). (pdf, Poster)

  • Nair, R., Voida, S. and Mynatt, E.D. Frequency-based detection of task switches". In Proceedings of the 19th British HCI Group Annual Conference (HCI 2005; Edinburgh, Scotland). Springer-Verlag (2005), Vol 2. 94-99. (pdf, Slideshare)

  • Nair, R. (2004) Calculation of an Aggregated Level of Interest Function for Recorded Events" (short paper). In Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia (MM 2004; New York, USA). ACM Press (2004), 272-275. (pdf)

Talks
  • 11-June-2007. Ricoh Innovations, Inc. What’s in a place? Adventures with Location-Aware Media. (Slideshare)

  • 28-April-2007. Future of Mobile Spatial Interaction (Panel). Mobile Spatial Interaction workshop (MSI) at the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems (CHI 2007), San Jose, CA, USA, 2007.