April Slayden Mitchell

Biography

April is a Principal Scientist in HP's Services and Solutions Research Lab. Her key technical areas and domains of expertise are in the research, design, and implementation of global enterprise collaboration solutions including mobile user experiences and social video communication.  Since joining HP Labs in 2002, April has worked on multiple projects including BiReality telepresence, the DJammer music manipulation device, and HP Halo video collaboration where she led the design for the original user interface. She received a best-paper award for her research on mobile video behavior, and she co-created and led the experience design for the Gabble video conversation site. She is currently the principal investigator for HP Labs Compass enterprise social collaboration demonstrator. 

Research interests

• Global Collaboration
• Mobile User Experiences
• Technology for Education
• User Interaction Design

Publications

<Selected Publications>    

• ICASSP 2012. Smart Compositing: A Real-Time Content-Adaptive Blending Method for Remote Visual Collaboration.
• Social Properties of Mobile Video. In A. C. Roibas, A. Marcus, & R. Sala (Eds.), Mobile TV: Customizing Content and Experience. Springer Books.  
• The Halo B2B Studio. In S. Harrison (Ed.), Media Space 20+ Years of Mediated Life (pp. 357-368). Springer Books.  
• ACM CHI 2007 Consuming Video on Mobile Devices Winner of Best Paper Award   
• IEEE Hot Mobile 2007 "My iPod is my Pacifier:" An Investigation on the Everyday Practices of Mobile Video Consumption
• Usability Security 2007 Improving Usability by Adding Security to a Video Conferencing Collaboration System
• ACM CHI 2005 The DJammer: "Air Scratching" and Freeing the DJ to Join the Party
• ACM Multimedia 2004 BiReality: Mutually Immersive Mobile Telepresence

Patents

5

Professional activities

• Program Committee, MobiGAME 2012 (ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Mobile Gaming)
• Workshop Organizer, MobileHCI 2012 (ACH SIGCHI International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services - Interacting with Sound workshop)
• Steering Committee, HotMobile (Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications)
• Program Committee, MobiCASE 2012 (International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services)
• Program Committee, ISWC 08 (12th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers)
• Workshop & BOF Organizaer, GHC 2007 (Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing)