Arvind Satyanarayan
Hi, I'm Arvind Satyanarayan.

I'm a first year Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, with the Human-Computer Interaction group.

I recently graduated from the University of California, San Diego, with a B.S. in Computer Science. I was advised by Jim Hollan and, as part of my senior honors thesis, I explored how multiple users could naturally interact with wall-sized displays.

Also, at Revelle College, I helped establish an internship program and served as a member of student government, a Resident Advisor, an Orientation Leader and as an undergraduate representative on a number of campus-wide committees.

A while back, I developed plugins and wrote articles for Movable Type, and helped fork Melody.

Papers & Posters

Multiple overlays controlled via a touchscreen

Using Overlays to Support Collaborative Interaction with Display Walls

Arvind Satyanarayan, Nadir Weibel and James D. Hollan. Proc. IUI '12 · Video

Large-scale display walls, and the high-resolution visualizations they support, promise to become ubiquitous. Natural interaction with them, especially in collaborative environments, is increasingly important and yet remains an on-going challenge. Part of the problem is a resolution mismatch between low-resolution input devices and high-resolution display walls. In addition, enabling concurrent use by multiple users is difficult. In this paper, we present an overlay interface element superimposed on wall-display applications to help constrain interaction, focus attention on subsections of a display wall, and facilitate collaborative multi-user workflow.

Projects

  = research   = 20% time

Clustering Visualization of Web Designs »

The web is a huge repository of diverse designs. This visualization helps identify design trends and provides a very visual way of exploring the design space for inspiration. Works best in Safari.

Gmail Extra-Wide Widescreen View »

A GreaseMonkey script that hides the right-hand message sidebar in Gmail for an extra-wide widescreen view.

Fork it on github →

CGLX Overlay »

Part of my honours thesis/research project. I investigated the effectiveness of an overlay interface to support collaborative, multi-user interaction on wall-sized displays.

Custom Fields »

Movable Type plugin to create fields to store additional metadata with each blog entry. This plugin was acquired by Six Apart and bundled as part of Movable Type Pro.

Gmail Date Quicksearch »

A GreaseMonkey script that adds links to Gmail's sidebar for quick filtering on date ranges (e.g. "Today", "Yesterday", "This Week", "Last Week" etc.).

Fork it on github →

Privacy »

Movable Type plugin to protect blog entries with a password or via 3rd party authentication (e.g. OpenID).

No longer actively maintained.

Fork it on github →

 

More Movable Type plugins can be found here.

To fork them, or other code I've written, check out my github account.