Bruce H. Thomas

Author: Bruce H. Thomas

Prof. Bruce H. Thomas Ph.D.

Director Wearable Computer Lab

School of Computer and Information Science

The University of South Australia Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Australia

phone: 61 8 8302 3464

mobile 0408 828 942

fax: 61 8 8302 3381

Bruce.Thomas@unisa.edu.au

Publications

Publication period start: 2003
Number of co-authors: 56

Co-authors

Number of publications with favourite co-authors
Hannah Slay
5
Ben Avery
6
Wayne Piekarski
27

Productive Colleagues

Most productive colleagues in number of publications
Wayne Piekarski
33
Masahiko Inami
47
Robert Biddle
48

Publications

Lee, Wonwoo, Kruger, Antonio, Thomas, Bruce H., Wagner, Daniel, Pulli, Kari, Woo, Woontack (2010): International Symposium on Ubiquitous Virtual Reality 2009. In IEEE Pervasive Computing, 9 (2) pp. 78-80. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MPRV.2010.35

Thomas, Bruce H., Sandor, Christian (2009): What Wearable Augmented Reality Can Do for You. In IEEE Pervasive Computing, 8 (2) pp. 8-11. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MPRV.2009.38

Piekarski, Wayne, Thomas, Bruce H. (2009): Through-Walls Collaboration. In IEEE Pervasive Computing, 8 (3) pp. 42-49. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MPRV.2009.59

Thomas, Bruce H., Quirchmayr, Gerald, Piekarski, Wayne (2003): Through-Walls Communication for Medical Emergency Services. In International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 16 (3) pp. 477-496. https://www.leaonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/S15327590IJHC1603_6

Toney, Aaron, Mulley, Barrie, Thomas, Bruce H., Piekarski, Wayne (2003): Social weight: designing to minimise the social consequences arising from technology use b. In Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 7 (5) pp. 309-320. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00779-003-0245-8

Thomas, Bruce H., Demczuk, V. (2002): Which animation effects improve indirect manipulation?. In Interacting with Computers, 14 (3) pp. 211-229.

Thomas, Bruce H., Close, Benjamin, Donoghue, John, Squires, John, Bondi, Phillip De, Piekarski, Wayne (2002): First Person Indoor/Outdoor Augmented Reality Application: ARQuake. In Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 6 (1) pp. 75-86. https://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&issn=1617-4917&volume=6&issue=1&spage=75

Thomas, Bruce H., Grimmer, Karen, Zucco, Joanne, Milanese, Steve (2002): Where Does the Mouse Go? An Investigation into the Placement of a Body-Attached TouchPad M. In Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 6 (2) pp. 97-112. https://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&issn=1617-4917&volume=6&issue=2&spage=97

Piekarski, Wayne, Thomas, Bruce H. (2002): ARQuake: the outdoor augmented reality gaming system. In Communications of the ACM, 45 (1) pp. 36-38. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/502269.502291

Thomas, Bruce H., Piekarski, Wayne (2002): Glove Based User Interaction Techniques for Augmented Reality in an Outdoor Environment. In Virtual Reality, 6 (3) pp. 167-180. https://www.springerlink.com/index/10.1007/s100550200017

Thomas, Bruce H., Calder, Paul (2001): Applying cartoon animation techniques to graphical user interfaces. In ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 8 (3) pp. 198-222. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/502907.502909

Thomas, Bruce H., Calder, Paul (1995): Animating Direct Manipulation Interfaces. In: Robertson, George G. (eds.) Proceedings of the 8th annual ACM symposium on User interface and software technology November 15 - 17, 1995, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. pp. 3-12. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/uist/215585/p3-thomas/p3-thomas.pdf

Thomas, Bruce H. (2001): Using Augmented Reality to Support Collaboration in an Outdoor Environment. In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction , 2001, . pp. 743-747.

Piekarski, W., Thomas, Bruce H. (2003): ThumbsUp: Integrated Command and Pointer Interactions for Mobile Outdoor Augmented Reality. In: Stephanidis, Constantine (eds.) Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction June 22-27, 2003, Crete, Greece. pp. 1223-1227.

Richter, Jan, Thomas, Bruce H., Sugimoto, Maki, Inami, Masahiko (2007): Remote active tangible interactions. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction , 2007, . pp. 39-42. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1226969.1226977

Toney, Aaron, Thomas, Bruce H. (2006): Applying reach in direct manipulation user interfaces. In: Kjeldskov, Jesper, Paay, Jane (eds.) Proceedings of OZCHI06, the CHISIG Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction , 2006, . pp. 393-396. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1228175.1228255

Piekarski, Wayne, Thomas, Bruce H. (2001): Tinmith-evo5 -- An Architecture for Supporting Mobile Augmented Reality Environments. In: 4th International Symposium on Augmented Reality ISAR 2001 29-30 October, 2001, New York, NY, USA. pp. 177-178. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/isar/2001/1375/00/13750177abs.htm

King, Gary R., Piekarski, Wayne, Thomas, Bruce H. (2005): ARVino - Outdoor Augmented Reality Visualisation of Viticulture GIS Data. In: Fourth IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality ISMAR 2005 5-8 October, 2005, Vienna, Austria. pp. 52-55. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ISMAR.2005.14

Piekarski, Wayne, Avery, Ben, Thomas, Bruce H., Malbezin, Pierre (2003): Hybrid Indoor and Outdoor Tracking for Mobile 3D Mixed Reality. In: 2003 IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality ISMAR 2003 7-10 October, 2003, Tokyo, Japan. pp. 266-267. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/ismar/2003/2006/00/20060266abs.htm

Piekarski, Wayne, Smith, Ross, Thomas, Bruce H. (2004): Designing Backpacks for High Fidelity Mobile Outdoor Augmented Reality. In: 3rd IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality ISMAR 2004 2-5 November, 2004, Arlington, VA, USA. pp. 280-281. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ISMAR.2004.26

Piekarski, Wayne, Thomas, Bruce H. (2002): Bread Crumbs: A Technique for Modelling Large Outdoor Ground Features. In: 2002 IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality ISMAR 2002 30 September-1 October, 2002, Darmstadt, Germany. pp. 269-270. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/ismar/2002/1781/00/17810269abs.htm

Piekarski, Wayne, Thomas, Bruce H. (2002): Bread Crumbs: A Technique for Modelling Large Outdoor Ground Features. In: 2002 IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality ISMAR 2002 30 September-1 October, 2002, Darmstadt, Germany. pp. 321. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/ismar/2002/1781/00/17810321abs.htm

Piekarski, Wayne, Thomas, Bruce H. (2003): An Object-Oriented Software Architecture for 3D Mixed Reality Application. In: 2003 IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality ISMAR 2003 7-10 October, 2003, Tokyo, Japan. pp. 247-. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/ismar/2003/2006/00/20060247abs.htm

Piekarski, Wayne, Thomas, Bruce H. (2003): Tinmith-Mobile Outdoor Augmented Reality Modelling Demonstration. In: 2003 IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality ISMAR 2003 7-10 October, 2003, Tokyo, Japan. pp. 317-318. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/ismar/2003/2006/00/20060317abs.htm

Piekarski, Wayne, Thomas, Bruce H. (2004): Augmented Reality Working Planes: A Foundation for Action and Construction at a Distance. In: 3rd IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality ISMAR 2004 2-5 November, 2004, Arlington, VA, USA. pp. 162-171. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ISMAR.2004.17

Stafford, Aaron, Piekarski, Wayne, Thomas, Bruce H. (2006): Implementation of god-like interaction techniques for supporting collaboration between out. In: Fifth IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality - ISMAR 2006 October 22-25, 2006, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. pp. 165-172. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISMAR.2006.297809

Thomas, Bruce H. (2006): Evaluation of three input techniques for selection and annotation of physical objects thro. In: Fifth IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality - ISMAR 2006 October 22-25, 2006, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. pp. 33-36. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISMAR.2006.297791

Chen, Fang, Eades, Peter, Epps, Julien, Lichman, Serge, Close, Benjamin, Hutterer, Peter, Takatsuka, Masa, Thomas, Bruce H., Wu, Mike (2006): ViCAT: Visualisation and Interaction on a Collaborative Access Table. In: First IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems Tabletop 2006 5-7 January, 2006, Adelaide, Australia. pp. 59-62. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TABLETOP.2006.36

Hutterer, Peter, Close, Benjamin, Thomas, Bruce H. (2006): Supporting Mixed Presence Groupware in Tabletop Applications. In: First IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems Tabletop 2006 5-7 January, 2006, Adelaide, Australia. pp. 63-70. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TABLETOP.2006.30

Toney, Aaron, Thomas, Bruce H. (2006): Considering Reach in Tangible and Table Top Design. In: First IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems Tabletop 2006 5-7 January, 2006, Adelaide, Australia. pp. 57-58. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TABLETOP.2006.9

Cooper, Nicholas, Keatley, Aaron, Dahlquist, Maria, Mann, Simon, Slay, Hannah, Zucco, Joanne, Smith, Ross, Thomas, Bruce H. (2004): Augmented Reality Chinese Checkers. In: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology June 3-5, 2004, Singapore. pp. 117-126. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1067343.1067357

Heinrich, Marko, Thomas, Bruce H., Mueller, Stefan, Sandor, Christian (2008): An augmented reality weather system. In: Inakage, Masa, Cheok, Adrian David (eds.) Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology - ACE 2008 December 3-5, 2008, Yokohama, Japan. pp. 170-173. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1501750.1501790

Furuhira, Akihiro, Marais, Wynand, Thomas, Bruce H. (2008): Supporting remote tangible robotic entertainment. In: Inakage, Masa, Cheok, Adrian David (eds.) Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology - ACE 2008 December 3-5, 2008, Yokohama, Japan. pp. 412. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1501750.1501862

Slay, Hannah, Thomas, Bruce H., Vernik, Rudi, Piekarski, Wayne (2004): A Rapidly Adaptive Collaborative Ubiquitous Computing Environment to Allow Passive Detecti. In: Masoodian, Masood, Jones, Steve, Rogers, Bill (eds.) Computer Human Interaction 6th Asia Pacific Conference - APCHI 2004 June 29 - July 2, 2004, Rotorua, New Zealand. pp. 420-430. https://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/3101/31010420.htm

Thomas, Bruce H. (1998): Warping to Enhance 3D User Interfaces. In: Third Asian Pacific Computer and Human Interaction July 15-17, 1998, Kangawa, Japan. pp. 169-175. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/apchi/1998/8347/00/83470169abs.htm

Smith, Ross T., Thomas, Bruce H., Piekarski, Wayne (2008): Digital foam interaction techniques for 3D modeling. In: Feiner, Steven K., Thalmann, Daniel, Guitton, Pascal, Frohlich, Bernd, Kruijff, Ernst, Hachet, Martin (eds.) VRST 2008 - Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology October 27-29, 2008, Bordeaux, France. pp. 61-68. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1450579.1450592

Biddle, Robert, Thomas, Bruce H. (eds.) AUIC2003 - User Interfaces 2003 - Fourth Australasian User Interface Conference February, 2003, Adelaide, South Australia.

Avery, Ben, Thomas, Bruce H., Velikovsky, Joe, Piekarski, Wayne (2005): Outdoor Augmented Reality Gaming on Five Dollars a Day. In: Billinghurst, Mark, Cockburn, Andy (eds.) AUIC 2005 - User Interfaces 2005 - Sixth Australasian User Interface Conference January-February, 2005, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. pp. 79-88. https://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV40Avery.pdf

Davies, Matthew L., Thomas, Bruce H. (2001): An Animated 3D Manipulator for Distributed Collaborative Window-Based Applications. In: AUIC 2001 - 2nd Australasian User Interface Conference 29 January - 1 February, 2001, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. pp. 116-123. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/auic/2001/0969/00/09690116abs.htm

Slay, Hannah, Thomas, Bruce H. (2006): Evaluation of a universal interaction and control device for use within multiple heterogen. In: Piekarski, Wayne (eds.) AUIC 2006 - User Interfaces 2006 - 7th Australasian User Interface Conference January 16-19, 2006, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. pp. 129-136. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1151758.1151777

Hutterer, Peter, Smith, Mark T., Thomas, Bruce H., Piekarski, Wayne, Ankcorn, John (2005): Lightweight User Interfaces for Watch Based Displays. In: Billinghurst, Mark, Cockburn, Andy (eds.) AUIC 2005 - User Interfaces 2005 - Sixth Australasian User Interface Conference January-February, 2005, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. pp. 89-98. https://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV40Hutterer.pdf

Avery, Ben, Piekarski, Wayne, Warren, James R., Thomas, Bruce H. (2006): Evaluation of user satisfaction and learnability for outdoor augmented reality gaming. In: Piekarski, Wayne (eds.) AUIC 2006 - User Interfaces 2006 - 7th Australasian User Interface Conference January 16-19, 2006, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. pp. 17-24. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1151758.1151759

Hutterer, Peter, Close, Benjamin, Thomas, Bruce H. (2006): TIDL: mixed presence groupware support for legacy and custom applications. In: Piekarski, Wayne (eds.) AUIC 2006 - User Interfaces 2006 - 7th Australasian User Interface Conference January 16-19, 2006, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. pp. 117-124. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1151758.1151775

Piekarski, Wayne, Thomas, Bruce H. (2002): The Tinmith System - Demonstrating New Techniques for Mobile Augmented Reality Modelling. In: Grundy, John C., Calder, Paul R. (eds.) AUIC2002 - User Interfaces 2002 - Third Australasian User Interface Conference January-February, 2002, Melbourne, Victoria. pp. 61-70. https://www.crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV7Piekarski.pdf

Slay, Hannah, Phillips, Matthew, Thomas, Bruce H., Vernik, Rudi (2003): Keg Master: a Graph-Aware Visual Editor for 3D Graphs. In: Biddle, Robert, Thomas, Bruce H. (eds.) AUIC2003 - User Interfaces 2003 - Fourth Australasian User Interface Conference February, 2003, Adelaide, South Australia. pp. 99-103. https://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV18Slay.pdf

Thomas, Bruce H., Demczuk, Victor (2000): Evaluation of Animation Effects to Improve Indirect Manipulation. In: AUIC 2000 - 1st Australasian User Interface Conference 31 January - 3 February, 2000, Canberra, Australia. pp. 110-117. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/auic/2000/0515/00/05150110abs.htm

Thomas, Bruce H., Slay, Hannah, Vernik, Rudi (2002): Tangible User Interaction Using Augmented Reality. In: Grundy, John C., Calder, Paul R. (eds.) AUIC2002 - User Interfaces 2002 - Third Australasian User Interface Conference January-February, 2002, Melbourne, Victoria. pp. 13-20. https://www.crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV7Slay.pdf

Cunningham, Andrew, Close, Ben, Thomas, Bruce H., Hutterer, Peter (2009): TableMouse: a novel multiuser tabletop pointing device. In: Proceedings of OZCHI09, the CHISIG Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction , 2009, . pp. 169-176. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1738826.1738854

Piekarski, Wayne, Avery, Ben, Thomas, Bruce H., Malbezin, Pierre (2004): Integrated Head and Hand Tracking for Indoor and Outdoor Augmented Reality. In: IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2004 VR 2004 27-31 March, 2004, Chicago, IL, USA. pp. 11-18. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VR.2004.45

Piekarski, Wayne, Avery, Ben, Thomas, Bruce H., Malbezin, Pierre (2004): Colorplate: Integrated Head and Hand Tracking for Indoor and Outdoor Augmented Reality. In: IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2004 VR 2004 27-31 March, 2004, Chicago, IL, USA. pp. 276. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/vr/2004/8415/00/84150276abs.htm

Piekarski, Wayne, Thomas, Bruce H. (2002): Tinmith-Hand: Unified User Interface Technology for Mobile Outdoor Augmented Reality and I. In: VR 2002 , 2002, . pp. 287-288. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/vr/2002/1492/00/14920287abs.htm

Stafford, Aaron, Piekarski, Wayne, Thomas, Bruce H. (2008): HOG on a WIM. In: IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2008 VR 2008 8-12 March, 2008, Reno, Nevada, USA. pp. 289-290. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/VR.2008.4480805

Avery, Ben, Sandor, Christian, Thomas, Bruce H. (2009): Improving Spatial Perception for Augmented Reality X-Ray Vision. In: IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2009 VR 2009 14-18 March, 2009, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA. pp. 79-82. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/VR.2009.4811002

Piekarski, Wayne, Thomas, Bruce H. (2003): Augmented reality user interfaces and techniques for outdoor modelling. In: SI3D 2003 , 2003, . pp. 225-226. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/641480.641526

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