Quentin Jones

Quentin Jones is an Associate Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in the Department of Informatics. His research focuses on designing technologies to enhance social interactions, collective action, and collaborative processes through context-aware mobile systems, recommender systems, and human-computer interaction frameworks.

Quentin's work spans interdisciplinary domains including social computing, computer-mediated communication, and ubiquitous social computing. His research emphasizes the development of systems that support face-to-face interactions, group activity coordination, and social inference mechanisms. Key themes include leveraging location-aware technologies, social network applications, and machine-human computation integration.

Recent publications highlight his contributions to social interaction platforms, particularly in online dating interface design, collective action facilitation, and awareness systems for social coordination. These works often intersect with broader trends in mobile systems, social computing, and user-centered design.

Quentin has received multiple federal grants from the National Science Foundation to advance his research, including projects such as "Chance Encounters: Context-Aware Mobile Systems To Facilitate Synergistic Face-To-Face Interactions" and "Fostering Creativity in Ubiquitous Social Computing through Casual and Formal Interactions in Interdisciplinary Design Studios".