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Born in the USSR, Ivan Poupyrev is currently a Senior Researcher at Disney Research, Pittsburgh, a unit of Walt Disney Imagineering.
He designs and investigates user interfaces for future entertainment environments and digital lifestyles. In his research he is particularly interested in creating interfaces and technologies that can seamlessly blend digital and physical properties in devices and everyday objects. That includes developing novel tactile and haptic user interfaces, shape-changing and flexible computers, tangible and embodied interfaces as well as more traditional augmented and virtual reality interfaces. The results of his research have been presented at major international conferences, such as ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM CHI and ACM UIST, were reported in popular media and released on the market in various consumer products. He co-edited a special issue of Communication of ACM on Organic User Interfaces and his book on 3D user interfaces has been published by Addison-Wesley in 2004.
Ivan Poupyrev graduated from Moscow Airspace University with Masters in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science in 1992. While working on his doctorate degree at Hiroshima University, he stayed for three years as a Visiting Scientist at Human Interface Technology Laboratory, University of Washington working on virtual reality and 3D user interfaces. He defended his PhD in 1999 and joined Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Tokyo in 2001. He moved to Disney in 2009.
Ivan Poupyrev (c) 1994-2009, updated 11/10/2009