Dr. Eric Lee

Alumnus

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Eric completed his PhD on software frameworks for interactive audio and video at the Media Computing Group under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jan Borchers in 2007. To find out what he did next, check out our alumni page.

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 looked 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

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2008

Thorsten Karrer, Malte Weiss, Eric Lee and Jan Borchers. DRAGON: A Direct Manipulation Interface for Frame-Accurate In-Scene Video Navigation. In CHI '08: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 247–250, ACM Press, Florence, Italy, April 2008.

2007

Eric Lee, Thorsten Karrer and Jan Borchers. An Analysis of Startup and Dynamic Latency in Phase Vocoder-Based Time-Stretching Algorithms. In ICMC '07: Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, pages 73–80,Copenhagen, Denmark, August 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.

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. A Semantic Time Framework for Interactive Media Systems. PhD Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, June 2007.

Eric Lee, Thorsten Karrer and Jan Borchers. Improving Interfaces for Navigating Continuous Audio Timelines. In CHI '07: Workshop on Supporting Non-Professional Users in the New Media Landscape, Misc, San Jose, USA, April 2007.

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, ACM Press, San Jose, USA, April 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, ACM Press, San Jose, USA, April 2007.

Jan Buchholz, Eric Lee and Jan Borchers. coJIVE: A System to Support Collaborative Jazz Improvisation. TechReport, number AIB-2007-04, Mar 2007.

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.

Thorsten Karrer, Eric Lee and Jan Borchers. PhaVoRIT: A Phase Vocoder for Real-Time Interactive Time-Stretching. In ICMC '06: Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, pages 708–715,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 CHI '06: Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 259–262, ACM Press, Montréal, Canada, April 2006.

Eric Lee, Thorsten Karrer and Jan Borchers. Toward a Framework for Interactive Systems to Conduct Digital Audio and Video Streams. In Computer Music Journal, pages 21–36, number 1, March 2006.

Eric Lee, Henning Kiel and Jan Borchers. Scrolling Through Time: Improving Interfaces for Searching and Navigating Continuous Audio Timelines. TechReport, number AIB-2006-17, Dec 2006.

2005

Eric Lee. Designing Time-Based Interactions With Multimedia. In ACM Multimedia Doctoral Symposium, pages 1037 – 1038, ACM Press, Orchard, Singapore, November 2005.

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.

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.

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, ACM Press, Portland, Oregon, April 2005.

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.

Eric Lee and Jan Borchers. Designing Interactions With Time-based Media. In CHI 2004 Workshop on Time Design,Vienna, Austria, April 2004.

Jan Borchers, Eric Lee, Wolfgang Samminger and Max Mühlhäuser. Personal Orchestra: A real-time audio/video system for interactive conducting. In ACM Multimedia Systems Journal Special Issue on Multimedia Software Engineering, pages 458–465, ACM Press, number 5, 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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