UTEP CS Bio Sketches: Nigel Ward

Nigel Ward
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
The University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, Texas, 79968-0518
email: nigelward at acm dot org
Phone: 915 - 747-6827
Fax: 915 - 747-5030

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Nigel Ward earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley in 1991 for work on improving the quality of Japanese-English machine translation. His bachelors degree is from the University of Michigan.
Before joining UTEP he served for 10 years on the Engineering faculty at the University of Tokyo, becoming the first non-Japanese to be given tenure in over 100 years. At Tokyo he was co-director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory.
His primary research area is real-time responsiveness in spoken dialog systems. Building from empirical studies of human communication practices, including such subtleties as the uses of uh-huh and um, he is developing ways to make interactions with spoken dialog systems less error prone, less cognitively demanding, more efficient, and more satisfying for users. He and his students are also prototyping other new forms of human-computer interaction. At UTEP he is part of the Interactive Systems Group.

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			Nigel Ward Associate Professor Department of Computer Science The University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, Texas, 79968-0518 email: nigelward at acm dot org Phone: 915 - 747-6827 Fax: 915 - 747-5030 Nigel Ward's Home Page

	Nigel Ward earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley in 1991 for work on improving the quality of Japanese-English machine translation. His bachelors degree is from the University of Michigan.
	Before joining UTEP he served for 10 years on the Engineering faculty at the University of Tokyo, becoming the first non-Japanese to be given tenure in over 100 years. At Tokyo he was co-director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory.
	His primary research area is real-time responsiveness in spoken dialog systems. Building from empirical studies of human communication practices, including such subtleties as the uses of uh-huh and um, he is developing ways to make interactions with spoken dialog systems less error prone, less cognitively demanding, more efficient, and more satisfying for users. He and his students are also prototyping other new forms of human-computer interaction. At UTEP he is part of the Interactive Systems Group.