Recent Projects
Brain-Computer Interfaces
We are working on making brain sensing technologies accessible and useful to able-bodied computer users, i.e. the mass consumer market. Our work in
this area includes modeling cognitive state for the purposes of interface evaluation and adaptive interfaces, but also developing novel use of the
technology to decode and use implicit cognitive processing to perform useful tasks such as image classification.
Muscle-Computer Interfaces
Muscle-computer interfaces directly sense and decode human muscular activity rather than relying on physical actuation or perceptible user actions. We
believe that this is the first step towards tapping into the vast amount of information contained within the human physiology.
Interactive Machine Learning
We have projects in various domains that explore and exploit the dynamic interaction of human users with computational techniques such as machine
learning. Examples include CueTIP, a mixed-initiative interface for correcting handwriting recognition errors, as well as CueFlik, a system that
interactively reranks image search results based on visual properties of examples provided.
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Accepted and In Preparation
<p class="pubtitle">Demonstrating the Feasibility of Using Forearm Electromyography for Muscle-Computer Interfaces</p>
<p class="pubauthor">T Scott Saponas, Desney S Tan, Dan Morris, Ravin Balakrishnan</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2008) CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems</p>
<p class="pubtitle">Feasibility and Pragmatics of Classifying Working Memory Load with an Electroencephalograph</p>
<p class="pubauthor">David Grimes, Desney S Tan, Scott Hudson, Pradeep Shenoy, Rajesh Rao</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2008) CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems</p>
<p class="pubtitle">Human-Aided Computing: Utilizing Implicit Human Processing to Classify Images</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Pradeep Shenoy, Desney S Tan</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2008) CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems</p>
<p class="pubtitle">CueFlik: Interactive Concept Learning in Image Search</p>
<p class="pubauthor">James Fogarty, Desney S Tan, Ashish Kapoor, Simon Winder<p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2008) CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems</p>
<p class="pubtitle">IMPROMPTU: A New Interaction Framework for Supporting Collaboration in Multiple Display Environments and its Field Evaluation
for CO-located Software Development</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Jacob Biehl, William Baker, Brain Bailey, Desney S Tan, Kori Inkpen, Mary Czerwinski</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2008) CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems</p>
<p class="pubtitle">Predictability and Accuracy in Adaptive User Interfaces</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Krzysztof Gajos, Katherine Everitt, Desney S Tan, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel Weld</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2008) Extended Abstracts of CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems</p>
<p class="pubtitle">Brain-Computer Interfaces for Human-Computer Interaction and Games</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Anton Nijholt, Desney S Tan, Brendan Allison, Jose del R Millan, Bernhard Graimann, Melody Moore Jackson</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2008) Workshop at CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems</p>
2007
<p class="pubtitle">AdaptiviTree: Adaptive Tree Visualization for Tournament-Style Brackets</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Desney S Tan, Greg Smith, Bongshin Lee, George G. Robertson</p>
<p class="pubcitation">IEEE InfoVis 2007, pp.1113-1120</p>
<p class="pubtitle">Supporting Human Memory with a Personal Digital Lifetime Store</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Desney S Tan, Mary Czerwinski, Gordon Bell, Emma Berry, Jim Gemmell, Steve Hodges, Narinder Kapur, Brian Meyers, Nuria
Oliver, George Robertson, Ken Wood</p>
<p class="pubcitation">Personal Information Management: Challenges and Opportunities (eds. William Jones and Jaime Teevan), University of
Washington Press</p>
<p class="pubtitle">New Frontiers in Desktop Task Management</p>
<p class="pubauthor">George Robertson, Greg Smith, Patrick Baudisch, Mary Czerwinski, Eric Horvitz, Brian Meyers, Daniel Robbins, Desney S
Tan</p>
<p class="pubcitation">Beyond the Desktop Metaphor: Designing Integrated Digital Work Environments (eds. Victor Kaptelinn and Mary Czerwinski),
MIT Press</p>
<p class="pubtitle">Using Job-Shop Scheduling Tasks for Evaluating Collocated Communication</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Desney S Tan, Darren Gergle, Regan Mandryk, Kori Inkpen, Melanie Kellar, Kirstie Hawkey, Mary Czerwinski</p>
<p class="pubcitation">Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (Special Issue on User-Centered Design and Evaluation of Services for HumanHuman Communication and Collaboration)</p>
<p class="pubtitle">InkSeine: In Situ Search for Active Note Taking</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Ken Hinckley, Shen Zhao, Raman Sarin, Patrick Baudisch, Ed Cutrell, Michael Shilman, Desney S Tan</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2007) CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 251-260</p>
<p class="pubtitle">An Evaluation of Extended Validation and Picture-in-Picture Phishing Attacks</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Collin Jackson, Dan Simon, Desney S Tan, Adam Barth</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2007) Usable Security</p>
<p class="pubtitle">Understanding Memory Triggers for Task Tracking</p>
<p class="pubauthor">AJ Brush, Brian Meyers, Desney S Tan, Mary Czerwinski</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2007) Extended Abstracts at CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 947-950.</p>
<p class="pubtitle">Health-OS: A Position Paper</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Darko Kirovski, Nuria Oliver, Mike Sinclair, Desney S Tan</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2007) Poster at the 1st International Workshop on Systems and Networking Support for Healthcare and Assisted Living
Environments (HealthNet07)</p>
<p class="pubtitle">Playing with your Brain: Brain-Computer Interfaces and Games</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Anton Nijholt, Desney S Tan</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2007) Organizing paper for Brainplay Workshop at Advances in Computer Entertainment 2007</p>
2006
PS: I’d be perfectly fine if everything 2006 and before were tucked away on a different page linked by “more…” link, since we technically did
not exist before then, but it’d be great to get all pubs done by the three of us at MSR on the group page somewhere.
<p class="pubtitle">FacetMap: A Scalable Search and Browse Visualization</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Greg Smith, Mary Czerwinski, Brian Meyers, Daniel Robbins, George Robertson, Desney S Tan</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2006) IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 12(5), pp. 797-804</p>
<p class="pubtitle">An Exploration of User Interface Designs for Real-time Panoramic Photography</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Patrick Baudisch, Desney S Tan, Drew Steedly, Eric Rudolph, Matt Uyttendaele, Chris Pal, Richard Szeliski</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2006) Australian Journal of Information Systems, 13(2), pp. 151-166</p>
<p class="pubtitle">Large Displays Enhance Optical Flow Cues and Narrow the Gender Gap in 3D Virtual Navigation</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Desney S Tan, Mary Czerwinski, George Robertson</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2006) Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 48(2), pp.318-333</p>
<p class="pubtitle">Physically Large Displays Improve Performance on Spatial Tasks</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Desney S Tan, Darren Gergle, Peter Scupelli, Randy Pausch</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2006) ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 13(1), pp. 71-99</p>
<p class="pubtitle">Using a Low-Cost Electroencephalograph for Task Classification in HCI Research</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Johnny C Lee, Desney S Tan</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2006) 19th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pp. 81-90</p>
<p class="pubtitle">CueTIP: A mixed-Initiative Interface for Correcting Handwriting Errors</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Michael Shilman, Desney S Tan, Patrice Simard</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2006) 19th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pp. 323-332</p>
<p class="pubtitle">Phosphor: Explaining Transitions in the User Interface using Afterglow Effects</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Patrick Baudisch, Desney S Tan, Maxime Collomb, Dan Robbins, Ken Hinckley, Maneesh Agrawala, Shengdong Zhao, Gonzalo
Ramos</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2006) 19th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pp. 169-178</p>
<p class="pubtitle">Tumble! Splat! Helping Users Access and Manipulate Occluded Content in 2D Drawings</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Gonzalo Ramos, George Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, Desney S Tan, Patrick Baudisch, Ken Hinckley, Maneesh Agrawala,
Daniel Robbins</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2006) Advanced Visual Interfaces 2006, pp. 428-435</p>
<p class="pubtitle">Exploring the Design Space for Adaptive Graphical User Interfaces</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Krzysztof Gajos, Mary Czerwinski, Desney S Tan, Daniel Weld</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2006) Advanced Visual Interfaces 2006, pp. 201-208</p>
<p class="pubtitle">Clipping Lists and Change Borders: Improving Multitasking Efficiency with Peripheral Information Design</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Tara Matthews, Mary Czerwinski, George Robertson, Desney S Tan</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2006) CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 989-998</p>
<p class="pubtitle">Large Display Research Overview</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Mary Czerwinski, George Robertson, Brian Meyers, Greg Smith, Daniel Robbins, Desney S Tan</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2006) Extended Abstracts at CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 69-74</p>
2005
<p class="pubtitle">Large Display User Experience</p>
<p class="pubauthor">George Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, Patrick Baudisch, Brian Meyers, Dan Robbins, Greg Smith, Desney S Tan</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2005) IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 25(4), pp. 44-51</p>
<p class="pubtitle">Panoramic Viewfinder: Providing a Real-time Preview to Help Users Avoid Flaws in Panoramic Pictures</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Patrick Baudisch, Desney S Tan, Drew Steedly, Eric Rudolph, Matt Uyttendaele, Chris Pal, Richard Szeliski</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2005) OZCHI 2005 Conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of the Human Factors Society of
Australia</p>
Press
<p class="presstitle">Giving Back to the Machines</p>
<p class="presscitation">digit, 22 January 2007</p>
<p class="presstitle">Microsoft's Investigation into the Subconscious</p>
<p class="presscitation">MarketWatch from DowJones, 18 January 2008</p>
<p class="presstitle">The Year in Hardware</p>
<p class="presscitation">MIT Technology Review, 26 December 2007</p>
<p class="presstitle">I Spy with my AI, Something Beginning with T(hought)!</p>
<p class="presscitation">Information Technology Magazine, 1 October 2007</p>
<p class="presstitle">Work on Paralysis Shows Just How Hard it is to Read Minds</p>
<p class="presscitation">Wall Street Journal, 26 September 2007</p>
<p class="presstitle">Teaching Computers to Read Minds</p>
<p class="presscitation">MIT Technology Review, 15 August 2007</p>
<p class="presstitle">Human-Aided Computing: Microsoft Researchers are Trying to Harness Untapped Brain Power</p>
<p class="presscitation">MIT Technology Review, 22 June 2007</p>
<p class="presstitle">Computer Will Try to Adjust to Your Moods: This is your Brain Plugged In</p>
<p class="presscitation">Puget Sound Business Journal, 19 May 2006</p>
<p class="presstitle">Software Notebook: Helping Users Peer into the Minds of Users</p>
<p class="presscitation">Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 13 March 2006</p>
GREG SMITH
2007
<p class="pubtitle">FASTDash: A visual dashboard for fostering awareness in software teams</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Jacob Biehl, Mary Czerwinski, Greg Smith, George Robertson, Brian Bailey</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2007) CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems</p>
2006
<p class="pubtitle">FaThumb: A facet-based interface for mobile search</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Amy Karlson, George Robertson, Daniel Robbins, Mary Czerwinski, Greg Smith</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2006) CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems</p>
<p class="pubtitle">SWISH:Semantic Analysis of Window Titles and Switching History</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Nuria Oliver, Greg Smith, Chintan Thakkar, Arun Surendran</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2006) International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)</p>
2004
<p class="pubtitle">Display space usage and window management operation comparisons between single monitor and multiple monitor users</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Dugald Hutchings, Greg Smith, Brian Meyers, Mary Czerwinski, George Robertson</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2004) Advanced Visual Interfaces 2004, pp. 32-39</p>
<p class="pubtitle">Scalable Fabric: Flexible task management</p>
<p class="pubauthor">George Robertson, Eric Horvitz, Mary Czerwinski, Dugald Hutchings, Patrick Baudisch, Daniel Robbins, Greg Smith</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2004) Advanced Visual Interfaces 2004, pp. 85-89</p>
2003
<p class="pubtitle">GroupBar: The TaskBar Evolved</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Greg Smith, Patrick Bausdich, George Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, Brian Meyers, Daniel Robbins, Donna Andrews</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2003) OZCHI 2003 Conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of the Human Factors Society of
Australia</p>
<p class="pubtitle">Toward characterizing the productivity benefits of very large displays</p>
<p class="pubauthor">Mary Czerwinski, Greg Smith, Tim Regan, Brian Meyers, George Robertson, Gary Starkweather</p>
<p class="pubcitation">(2003) Human-Computer Interaction--INTERACT 2003</p>