Technology

FRANK BENTLEY
Principal Staff Research Scientist, Experiences Research

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Frank Bentley is a principal staff research scientist in the Public Safety Multimedia area of research for the Motorola Applied Research Center. Bentley studies how people interact with new communications technology and is involved in all aspects of research projects from early ethnographic-style research through to design, prototyping, field trials, and commercialization. His research interests lie in the areas of ambient interfaces, mobile computing, and social media.

More recent projects at Motorola include the TuVista Service, a social sports system which delivers multi-angle sports replays to fans' mobile devices within 30 seconds of a play. Other recent work has focused on Ambient Communications and creating systems that allow people to passively share contextual information with close friends and family. These systems helped to bring people closer together and aided in planning communication and coordinating in person get-togethers. This work culminated in Contacts 3.0, a new mobile phonebook that combines communication history with online social network updates.

Bentley holds MEng and S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His specialty area is in Artificial Intelligence. Bentley also teaches a multi-disciplinary class called "Communicating with Mobile Technology" in the spring semester at MIT.

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Selected Publications and Invited Papers

"The Use of Mobile Social Presence," Frank Bentley, Crysta Metcalf, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol 8, No 4, October-December 2009.

"TuVista: Meeting the Multimedia Needs of Mobile Sports Fans," Frank Bentley, Mike Groble, Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2009, Beijing, China, October 2009.

"Sharing Motion Information with Close Family and Friends," Frank Bentley, Crysta Metcalf, Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2007), San Jose, California, USA, 2007.

"Personal vs. Commercial Content: The Similarities Between Consumer Use of Photos and Music," Frank Bentley, Gunnar Harboe, Crysta Metcalf, Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. April 2006.

"Perceptive Presence," Frank Bentley, Konrad Tollmar, David Demirdjian, Kimberle Koile, Trevor Darrell, Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE, Vol 23, Issue 5, September-October 2003, pages 26-36.