Rich Gossweiler

Rich Gossweiler is a research scientist with Google whose area of expertise is in system and interaction design. He is currently researching new search models, user experiences and collaborative applications for Google. He has worked extensively with [http://www.almaden.ibm.com/ IBM ARC] , Xerox PARC and NASA where he worked at NASA Ames participating in the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission.

Education

Gossweiler graduated from the College of William and Mary, majoring in Computer Science and minoring in mathematics. He received both his Masters Degree and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, focusing on perceptual psychology and computer science in relation to 3D graphics. He was Randy Pausch's first Ph.D. student.

Career

While at Silicon Graphics Inc., Gossweiler helped engineer the CosmoWorlds project, and contributed to the VRML standards. While at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company) Xerox PARC] , Gossweiler worked on [http://www.richgossweiler.com/projects/BookPlex/index.html the BookPlex] , an interactive 3D system for reading and exploring books by getting recommendations based on what you have read. Later, while working at IBM’s Almaden Research Center, in the User Experience Group, Gossweiler co-invented an internet-based collaboration tool, [http://www.richgossweiler.com/projects/BlueBoard/index.html BlueBoard] . As a Senior Software Engineer for AdSpace Networks, Gossweiler worked on the CoolSign Network, which was a digital asset management system that could remotely control changing content and send them to display locations.

Gossweiler then went to work at NASA Ames. His previous work on the [http://www.richgossweiler.com/projects/BlueBoard/index.html BlueBoard] was a basis for the interactive touchscreens he developed for the [http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission] .

Gossweiler's work at HP labs included [http://www.richgossweiler.com/projects/Media2Go/index.html Media2Go] , which allowed users to download various media, such as images and video, to their cell phones via specific hot spots. He also worked on [http://www.richgossweiler.com/projects/Plog/index.html Plog] , a system designed to allow users to send a real-time photo "story" to their friends via their cell phone cameras. The [http://www.richgossweiler.com/projects/CustomTV/index.html CustomTV] project was designed to enable the creation of a customized television experience, including creating channels that the system would then fill with content it deemed to be fitting.

Gossweiler now works at Google, researching user experiences and collaborative applications

Projects

* [http://www.richgossweiler.com/projects/ContextFrames/index.html Context Frames: Creating an Inexpensive Social Network]
* [http://www.richgossweiler.com/projects/CustomTV/index.html CustomTV: Creating TV Your Way]
* [http://www.richgossweiler.com/projects/Plog/index.html Plog: Infinite Film and Immediate Sharing using a Mobile Phone]
* [http://www.richgossweiler.com/projects/Media2Go/index.html Media2Go: transmitting different levels of content from digital signs to cell phones (circa 2002)]
* [http://www.richgossweiler.com/projects/MERBoard/index.html MERBoard: A Multidisciplinary Approach To Designing a Collaboration Space for a Mars Mission]
* [http://www.richgossweiler.com/projects/BlueBoard/index.html Blueboard Project: Globally Connected, Interactive Displays for Meeting Rooms]

External links

* [http://www.richgossweiler.com/ personal page]
* [http://www.richgossweiler.com/aboutMe/bio/index.html Gossweiler's Biography]