Julian Lepinski

My name is Julian, and I’m a writer, researcher and Engineer. I am currently a PhD student at the University of Toronto, working with Daniel Wigdor. I’m also co-founder of and interaction lead for Debacle Software, developer of the award-winning iPhone and Android photography app Pano.

Academic
Lepinski, G. J., Vertegaal, R. (January 2011) Cloth displays: interacting with drapable textile screens ACM TEI 2011, Funchal, Portugal.

Lepinski, G. J., Grossman, T., Fitzmaurice, G. (April 2010) The Design and Evaluation of Multitouch Marking Menus, ACM CHI 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Lepinski, G. J. (May 2009) The Design and Implementation of a Cloth-Based Computing Interface, with Applications, Master’s Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Lepinski, G. J., Vertegaal, R. (August 2008) Unused Information: Detecting and Applying Eye Contact Data in Computerized Healthcare Systems, 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Lepinski, G. J., Vertegaal, R. (January 2008) Using Eye Contact and Contextual Speech Recognition for Hands-Free Surgical Charting, Pervasive Health Conference and Workshops, Tampere, Finland.

Lepinski, G. J., Vertegaal, R. (September 2007) Using Face Position for Low Cost Input, Long Range and Oculomotor Impaired Users, In Proceedings of COGAIN, Leicester, UK.

Patents
Multitouch Marking Menus and Directional Chording Gestures.
George Fitzmaurice, Tovi Grossman, Julian Lepinski.
Patent pending, filed 2010.

Other
Have you heard of The Smashing Pumpkins? For a year I worked as a writer for them, conducting interviews, digging up history and so on.