Bruce Tsuji

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Background: I hold a BSc from Trent and an MA from Waterloo. I have about 25 years experience in user interface design, usability testing, product management, sales, business development, and marketing. Some of the technologies with which I am comfortable include telephony, voice applications, voice recognition, wireless, business intelligence, data mining, customer relationship management, and network security. I am a co-inventor on a total of seven US and Canadian patents and my products have received kudos including PC Week Labs Product of the Year and Consumer Electronics Association Product of the Year.

Currently: I am honoured to be the first recipient of the Cognos PhD scholarship. I am also a CITO (Computer and Information Technology Ontario) intern, a recipient of CITO’s Research Excellence Scholarship, and a CITO mentor for gifted high school students in the Shad Valley program. My research is concerned with the spatial cognition of maps and graphs. In particular, I am fascinated by the differences in spatial cognition exhibited by people who are visually impaired versus those with their vision intact. Building upon that interest, I am leading an inter-disciplinary group investigating multi-modal maps for the Cybercartography and the New Economy project funded by SSHRC. I have also published some tactile maps of the Carleton University campus and I am trying to develop an inexpensive and infrastructure-free way to make signs “talk” using camera cell phones. I serve on Carleton University’s Psychology Department Ethics Committee and I have recently co-authored a book chapter on Interactive Mapping for People Who Are Visually Impaired to be published later this year.

Personal Interests: I like to golf, bike, ski, scuba, canoe, kayak, climb, and drink good wine with good food and with even better friends. I’m also a member of the Canterbury High School Council where my son is involved with the strings program.

Contact me at:  btsuji at connect dot carleton dot ca

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