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41
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6567
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8892
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Jeffrey Nichols publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jeffrey Nichols sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 147 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Jeffrey Nichols D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jeffrey Nichols sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 41 D-Index — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - ACM Distinguished Member
  • 2013 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Jeffrey Nichols is affiliated with Apple in the United States. Their research focuses on computer science with an emphasis on information systems, artificial intelligence, human factors and ergonomics, computer science applications, and human-computer interaction.

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • Where Is This Tweet From? Inferring Home Locations of Twitter Users, 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Alert Now or Never: Understanding and Predicting Notification Preferences of Smartphone Users, 2022, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
  • Towards Complete Icon Labeling in Mobile Applications, 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • When Will You Answer This? Estimating Response Time in Twitter, 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Computational Approaches for Understanding, Generating, and Adapting User Interfaces, 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jeffrey Nichols include:

  • Amanda Swearngin
  • Eldon Schoop
  • Jeffrey P. Bigham
  • Jason Wu
  • Ruijia Cheng

Publication venues where the scientist has regularly contributed are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Caring for the Ages
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
  • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Jeffrey Nichols has authored a book titled Artificial Intelligence for Human Computer Interaction: A Modern Approach, published by Springer Nature in 2021.

Main research topics include:

  • Digital Accessibility for Disabilities
  • Software Engineering Research
  • Web Data Mining and Analysis
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
  • Speech and Dialogue Systems
  • Mobile and Web Applications

Among professional recognitions, Jeffrey Nichols has been named an ACM Distinguished Member in 2020 and an ACM Senior Member in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Generating remote control interfaces for complex appliances

    Jeffrey Nichols;Brad A. Myers;Michael Higgins;Joseph Hughes

  • Rico: A Mobile App Dataset for Building Data-Driven Design Applications

    Biplab Deka;Zifeng Huang;Chad Franzen;Joshua Hibschman

  • Interacting at a distance: measuring the performance of laser pointers and other devices

    Brad A. Myers;Rishi Bhatnagar;Jeffrey Nichols;Choon Hong Peck

  • Summarizing sporting events using twitter

    Jeffrey Nichols;Jalal Mahmud;Clemens Drews

  • Home Location Identification of Twitter Users

    Jalal Mahmud;Jeffrey Nichols;Clemens Drews

  • Where Is This Tweet From? Inferring Home Locations of Twitter Users.

    Jalal Mahmud;Jeffrey Nichols;Clemens Drews

  • End-user programming of mashups with vegemite

    James Lin;Jeffrey Wong;Jeffrey Nichols;Allen Cypher

  • Chorus: a crowd-powered conversational assistant

    Walter S. Lasecki;Rachel Wesley;Jeffrey Nichols;Anand Kulkarni

  • Understanding individuals' personal values from social media word use

    Jilin Chen;Gary Hsieh;Jalal U. Mahmud;Jeffrey Nichols

  • Controlling Home and Office Appliances with Smart Phones

    J. Nichols;B.A. Myers

  • UNIFORM: automatically generating consistent remote control user interfaces

    Jeffrey Nichols;Brad A. Myers;Brandon Rothrock

  • Huddle: automatically generating interfaces for systems of multiple connected appliances

    Jeffrey Nichols;Brandon Rothrock;Duen Horng Chau;Brad A. Myers

  • Screen Recognition: Creating Accessibility Metadata for Mobile Applications from Pixels

    Xiaoyi Zhang;Lilian de Greef;Amanda Swearngin;Samuel White

  • Taking handheld devices to the next level

    B.A. Myers;J. Nichols;J.O. Wobbrock;R.C. Miller

  • Who will retweet this?: Automatically Identifying and Engaging Strangers on Twitter to Spread Information

    Kyumin Lee;Jalal Mahmud;Jilin Chen;Michelle Zhou

  • Swire: Sketch-based User Interface Retrieval

    Forrest Huang;John F. Canny;Jeffrey Nichols

  • Using handhelds to help people with motor impairments

    Brad A. Myers;Jacob O. Wobbrock;Sunny Yang;Brian Yeung

  • User Interfaces that Span Hand-Held and Fixed Devices

    Brad Myers;Jeffrey Nichols;Robert Miller

  • Improving automatic interface generation with smart templates

    Jeffrey Nichols;Brad A. Myers;Kevin Litwack

  • Screen Parsing: Towards Reverse Engineering of UI Models from Screenshots

    Jason Wu;Xiaoyi Zhang;Jeff Nichols;Jeffrey P Bigham

  • No Code Required: Giving Users Tools to Transform the Web

    Allen Cypher;Mira Dontcheva;Tessa Lau;Jeffrey Nichols

Frequent Co-Authors

Brad A. Myers
Brad A. Myers Carnegie Mellon University
Michelle X. Zhou
Michelle X. Zhou IBM (United States)
Jeffrey P. Bigham
Jeffrey P. Bigham Carnegie Mellon University
Fabio Paternò
Fabio Paternò National Research Council (CNR)
Nimrod Megiddo
Nimrod Megiddo IBM (United States)
Jacob O. Wobbrock
Jacob O. Wobbrock University of Washington
Yang Li
Yang Li Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Roni Rosenfeld
Roni Rosenfeld Carnegie Mellon University
Elizabeth F. Churchill
Elizabeth F. Churchill Google (United States)

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