Daniel Wigdor is a Canadian computer scientist, entrepreneur, investor, expert witness and author.
Among his authored works are his publications in academic journals, including IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics[2] as well as a book titled Brave NUI World: Designing Natural User Interfaces for Touch and Gesture.
[1] Wigdor co-founded Iota Wireless in 2003, focusing on text-entry techniques for mobile phones, and worked there until 2010.
Moreover, in 2018, he co-founded Chatham Labs to conduct research on developing operating systems and platforms for ubiquitous computing.
[8] Wigdor began his academic journey in 1998, joining the University of Toronto as an undergraduate, where he graduated in 2002, before completing his Masters in 2004 and PhD in 2008.
[1] In 2011, Wigdor collaborated with Dennis Wixon to publish the book Brave NUI World: Designing Natural User Interfaces for Touch and Gesture.
In 2003, he introduced TiltText, an innovative, language-independent technique for text entry on mobile phones, offering a potential improvement in typing speed despite its higher error rate, positioning it among the fastest known methods for this purpose.
[13] His 2018 joint study with Z Lu and others presented findings from a mixed methods study on live streaming practices in China, including an online survey of 527 users and interviews with 14 active users, revealing insights into content categories, viewer engagement, reward systems, fan group-chat dynamics, and desires for deeper interaction mechanisms among both viewers and streamers.