I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto.

I received my Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I later returned to Georgia Tech to earn my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the College of Computing there. For my dissertation, I researched programming support for building applications that automatically capture details from live experiences and provide access to those records at a later time. I was a member of Dr. Gregory Abowd's Ubicomp (Ubiquitous Computing) Research Group at Georgia Tech.

More information can be found in my curriculum vitae (full CV or 3-page CV).

My research interests include human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing. Specifically, I focus on the design and development of ubicomp applications and then the evaluation of these systems' impact on daily life.

Currently, I am interested in 1) the development and evaluation of assistive technologies and 2) how to design ubiquitous computing systems to encourage or support the user in performing environment friendly actions.

Check out the Toronto Ubicomp Research Group's Website for more information about the research described above & more!

• Massimi, M., Truong, K.N., Dearman, D., Hayes, G.R. Understanding Recording Technologies in Everyday Life. In IEEE Pervasive Computing, Volume 9(3), pp. 64-71, July-September 2010. doi:10.1109/MPRV.2009.89
• Li, F.C.Y., Dearman, D., Truong, K.N. Leveraging Proprioception to Make Mobile Phones More Accessible to Users with Visual Impairments. (Accepted; To appear) In the Proceedings of ASSETS 2010: The 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (October 25-27, Orlando, FL), 2010.
• Scott, J., Dearman, D., Yatani, K., Truong, K.N. Sensing Foot Gestures from the Pocket. (Accepted; To appear) In the Proceedings of UIST 2010: The 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (October 3-6, New York, NY), 2010. [18.4% acceptance rate]
• Dearman, D., Truong, K.N. Identifying the Activities Supported by Locations Using Community-Authored Content. (Accepted; To appear) In the Proceedings of UBICOMP 2010: The 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (September 26-29, Copenhagen, Denmark), 2010. [19.3% acceptance rate]
• Truong, K.N., Kientz, J.A., Sohn, T., Rosenzweig, A.C., Fonville, A., Smith, T. TCBI: The Design and Evaluation of a Task-Centered Battery Interface. (Accepted; To appear) In the Proceedings of UBICOMP 2010: The 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (September 26-29, Copenhagen, Denmark), 2010. [19.3% acceptance rate]
• Chung, E., Jensen, C., Yatani, K., Kuechler, V., Truong, K.N. Drawing and sketching in Open Source design. (Accepted; To appear) In the Proceedings of VL/HCC 2010: The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (September 21-25, Leganés-Madrid, Spain), 2010. [29.5% acceptance rate]
• Su, J., Rosenzweig, A., Goel, A., de Lara, E., Truong, K.N. Timbremap: Enabling the Visually-Impaired to Use Maps on Touch-Enabled Devices. (Accepted; To appear) In the Proceedings of MobileHCI 2010: The 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (September 7-10, Lisbon, Portugal), 2010. [20% acceptance rate]
• Ho, J.T., Dearman, D., Truong, K.N. Improving Users’ Security Choices on Home Wireless Networks. In the Proceedings of SOUPS 2010: The 6th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (July 14-16, Redmond, WA), 2010, Article No. 12. [25% acceptance rate]
• Dearman, D., Truong, K.N. Why Users of Yahoo! Answers Do Not Answer Questions. In the Proceedings of CHI 2010: The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (April 10-15, Atlanta, GA) 2010, pp. 329-332. [22% acceptance rate]
• Cheng, K.G., Ernesto, F.,Ovalle-Bahamón, R., Truong, K.N. Social and Cultural Barriers to Accepting Mobile Devices for Collection of Health Data in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare 2010 at CHI 2010 (April 11, Atlanta, GA), pp. 21-24, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-98262-848-5

• CSC2526-Fall 2009: Autism & Technology
• CSC428/CSC2514-Fall 2009: Human-Computer Interaction
• CSC318-Fall 2009: The Design of Interactive Computational Media

• David Dearman, Ph.D. student (2006-present)
• Koji Yatani, Ph.D. student (2006-present)
• Frank Li, M.Sc. student (2009-present)
• Alyssa Rosenzweig, M.Sc. student (2009-present)
• Nikola Banovic, M.Sc. student (Fall 2010-present)

• Papers Co-Chair, Ubicomp 2010
• Program Committee Member, Pervasive 2010
• Program Committee Member, Ubicomp 2009
• Program Committee Member, Mobisys 2009
• Steering Committee Member, Pervasive conference series