Jim Hollan

Jim Hollan is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and codirector of the Distributed Cognition and Human-Computer Interaction Lab. He is a pioneer in bridging digital and physical worlds through multimodal interfaces, paper-digital integration, and activity-enriched computing. His collaborative research spans human-computer interaction, distributed cognition, and medical informatics.

• Research Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Distributed Cognition, Multimodal Interfaces, Paper-Digital Integration, Activity Tracking, Collaborative Interaction

Scientific Awards:

• SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award
• Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2021

Publication Trends: Recent work focuses on visualization psychology, audiovisual data analysis, computational notebooks, and 4D interaction models, often addressing cognitive consequences of technology, multimodal healthcare interfaces, and activity history mining.

• Students & Collaborators: Amaya Becvar Weddle (PhD, 2008), Gaston Cangiano (Ph.D., 2011), Anne Marie Piper (Ph.D., 2011), Adam Rule (Ph.D., 2018), Amy Rae Fox (Ph.D., 2022), Arvind Satyanarayan (Honors UCSD CS, Ph.D. Stanford 2017), and others across Cognitive Science, Computer Science, and Sociology.