Lead Scientist
Joined Soar Technology in 2001 upon completing his Master's degree in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on the use of agent-based systems for information visualization of, and human interaction with, complex knowledge-rich environments including C4ISR, data fusion, and military simulation. Mr. Zaientz also is interested in human internal, external and shared knowledge representations. He has over eight years of experience in Human Computer Interaction, analyzing, designing and implementing applications and application interfaces for a wide range of industries, including financial, legal, insurance, commercial, scientific, DoD, NASA, and the intelligence services. He has managed over $2M in R&D contracts and is currently Principle Investigator for the BINAH (Battlespace Information Notification through Adaptive Heuristics) project. BINAH is a data fusion pipeline and display testbed that reasons about warfighter context for dynamic display configuration.
He has participated in numerous projects exploring mechanisms for configuring, collaborating with, displaying, and interpreting intelligent agent and cognitive model behavior. He is a member of the Association for Computer Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction, Association for Computer Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics, the Cognitive Science Society, and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. He is the current Chair for the ACM SIGCHI local chapter MOCHI (Michigan, Ohio, Computer Human Interaction). He is the HCI Sector Lead at Soar Tech.
Zaientz, J., Beard, J., Crossman, J., Wessling, J., Hamel, L. and Hawkins, R., (2006) "An adaptive information fusion display framework," Air Force 2006 Information Challenges Workshop, Clinton, NY.
Zaientz, J., DeKoven, E., Piegdon, N., Wood, S. and Huber, M., (2006) "Using GOMS and Bayesian plan recognition to develop recognition models of operator behavior," Enabling Technologies for Simulation Science X: Proceedings of the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium 2006, Vol. 6227, Dawn A Trevisani (Ed.); Orlando, FL: SPIE Press.
Zaientz, J. and Beard, J., (2006) "Using knowledge-based interface design techniques to support visual analytics," 2006 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Intelligent User Interfaces for Intelligence Analysis, Sydney, Australia.
Wood, S. and Zaientz, J., (2005) "An intelligent control framework for command and control of unmanned systems," Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 5804, Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology VII.
Zaientz, J., Holt, L., Wood, S., Healey, C., St. Amant, R. and Strater, L., (2005) "Enhancing decision-making by explicitly training battlefield vizualization skills," Proceedings of the 2005 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), Orlando, FL: National Training Systems Association.
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