Bruce Thomas
From WCL
- Position: Lab Director
- Period in lab: 1998 - Present
- Current Projects: I have my hand in most of them
- Specialities: Wearable Computers, Tabletop, Augmented Reality, User Interaction
- Website: http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/people/bht
- Email: mailto:Bruce.Thomas@unisa.edu.au
I am the current the Director of the Wearable Computer Laboratory at the University of South Australia.
I am currently a NICTA Fellow, CTO A-Rage Pty Ltd, and visiting Scholar with the Human Interaction
Technology Laboratory,
University of Washington. I am the inventor of the first outdoor augmented reality game ARQuake.
My current research interests include: wearable computers, user interfaces, augmented reality,
virtual reality, CSCW, and tabletop display interfaces.
My academic qualifications include the following:
1) B.A. in Physics, George Washington University;
2) M.S. in Computer Science, University of Virginia with a thesis titled: Pipeline Pyramids in Dynamic Scenes; and
3) Ph.D. in Computer Science, Flinders University with a thesis titled: Animating Direct Manipulation in Human Computer Interfaces
My experience includes working at the School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia since 1990. I have run my own computer consultancy company. I was a Computer Scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (A major US government laboratory for the Department of Commerce.), and a software engineer for the Computer Sciences Corporation and the General Electric Company.