Author: Desney S. Tan
Since 2004, Desney has been a Researcher in the Visualization and Interaction Group at Microsoft Research. His research interests include Human-Computer Interaction and Brain-Computer Interfaces. Specifically, he spends most of his time understanding and building applications for large displays, multiple device systems, as well as wearable brain imaging devices. However, he is a somewhat schizophrenic researcher and has worked on projects in many other domains. Desney received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1996, after which he spent a couple of years building bridges and blowing things up in the Singapore Armed Forces. He later returned to Carnegie Mellon University, where he worked with Randy Pausch in his Stage 3 Research Group and earned his PhD in Computer Science in 2004.
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Productive Colleagues
- Margaret M. Burnett
- Ravin Balakrishnan
- Scott E. Hudson
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Tan, Desney S., Gergle, Darren, Mandryk, Regan L., Inkpen, Kori, Kellar, Melanie, Hawkey, Kirstie, Czerwinski, Mary (2008): Using job-shop scheduling tasks for evaluating collocated collaboration. In Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 12 (3) pp. 255-267. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00779-007-0154-3
Tan, Desney S., Gergle, Darren, Scupelli, Peter, Pausch, Randy (2006): Physically large displays improve performance on spatial tasks. In ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 13 (1) pp. 71-99. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1143518.1143521
Robertson, George G., Czerwinski, Mary, Baudisch, Patrick, Meyers, Brian, Robbins, Daniel C., Smith, Greg, Tan, Desney S. (2005): The Large-Display User Experience. In IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 25 (4) pp. 44-51. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCG.2005.88
Tan, Desney S., Gergle, Darren, Scupelli, Peter, Pausch, Randy (2004): Physically large displays improve path integration in 3D virtual navigation tasks. In: Dykstra-Erickson, Elizabeth, Tscheligi, Manfred (eds.) Proceedings of ACM CHI 2004 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 24-29, 2004, Vienna, Austria. pp. 439-446. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/985692.985748
Tan, Desney S., Czerwinski, Mary, Robertson, George G. (2003): Women go with the (optical) flow. In: Cockton, Gilbert, Korhonen, Panu (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2003 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 5-10, 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. pp. 209-215.
Tan, Desney S., Gergle, Darren, Scupelli, Peter, Pausch, Randy (2003): With similar visual angles, larger displays improve spatial performance. In: Cockton, Gilbert, Korhonen, Panu (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2003 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 5-10, 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. pp. 217-224.
Czerwinski, Mary, Tan, Desney S., Robertson, George G. (2002): Women take a wider view. In: Terveen, Loren (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2002 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 20-25, 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota. pp. 195-202.
Poupyrev, Ivan, Tan, Desney S., Billinghurst, Mark, Kato, Hirokazu, Regenbrecht, Holger, Tetsutani, Nobuji (2002): Developing a Generic Augmented-Reality Interface. In IEEE Computer, 35 (3) pp. 44-50. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/mags/co/2002/03/r3044abs.htm
Tan, Desney S., Robertson, George G., Czerwinski, Mary (2001): Exploring 3D Navigation: Combining Speed-COupled Flying with Orbiting. In: Beaudouin-Lafon, Michel, Jacob, Robert J. K. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2001 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference March 31 - April 5, 2001, Seattle, Washington, USA. pp. 418-425. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/chi/365024/p418-tan/p418-tan.pdf
Matthews, Tara, Czerwinski, Mary, Robertson, George G., Tan, Desney S. (2006): Clipping lists and change borders: improving multitasking efficiency with peripheral infor. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2006, . pp. 989-998. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1124772.1124920
Hinckley, Ken, Zhao, Shengdong, Sarin, Raman, Baudisch, Patrick, Cutrell, Edward, Shilman, Michael, Tan, Desney S. (2007): InkSeine: In Situ search for active note taking. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2007, . pp. 251-260. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1240624.1240666
Brush, A. J. Bernheim, Meyers, Brian R., Tan, Desney S., Czerwinski, Mary (2007): Understanding memory triggers for task tracking. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2007, . pp. 947-950. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1240624.1240768
Lee, Johnny Chung, Tan, Desney S. (2006): Using a low-cost electroencephalograph for task classification in HCI research. In: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology , 2006, . pp. 81-90. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1166253.1166268
Baudisch, Patrick, Tan, Desney S., Collomb, Maxime, Robbins, Dan, Hinckley, Ken, Agrawala, Maneesh, Zhao, Shengdong, Ramos, Gonzalo (2006): Phosphor: explaining transitions in the user interface using afterglow effects. In: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology , 2006, . pp. 169-178. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1166253.1166280
Shilman, Michael, Tan, Desney S., Simard, Patrice (2006): CueTIP: a mixed-initiative interface for correcting handwriting errors. In: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology , 2006, . pp. 323-332. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1166253.1166304
Poupyrev, Ivan, Tan, Desney S., Billinghurst, Mark, Kato, H., Regenbrecht, H., Tetsutani, N. (2001): Tiles: A Mixed Reality Authoring Interface. In: Proceedings of IFIP INTERACT01: Human-Computer Interaction , 2001, Tokyo, Japan. pp. 334-341.
Tan, Desney S., Czerwinski, Mary (2003): Effects of Visual Separation and Physical Discontinuities when Distributing Information ac. In: Proceedings of IFIP INTERACT03: Human-Computer Interaction , 2003, Zurich, Switzerland. pp. 252.
Baudisch, Patrick, Tan, Desney S., Steedly, Drew, Rudolph, Eric, Uyttendaele, Matt, Pal, Chris, Szeliski, Richard (2005): Panoramic viewfinder: providing a real-time preview to help users avoid flaws in panoramic. In: Proceedings of OZCHI05, the CHISIG Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction , 2005, . pp. 1-10. https://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1108368.1108412
Tan, Desney S., Keyani, Pedram, Czerwinski, Mary (2005): Spy-resistant keyboard: more secure password entry on public touch screen displays. In: Proceedings of OZCHI05, the CHISIG Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction , 2005, . pp. 1-10. https://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1108368.1108393
Burnett, Margaret M., Costabile, Maria Francesca, Catarci, Tiziana, Ruyter, Boris de, Tan, Desney S., Czerwinski, Mary, Lund, Arnold (eds.) Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, CHI 2008 5-10 April, 2008, Florence, Italy.
Fogarty, James, Tan, Desney S., Kapoor, Ashish, Winder, Simon (2008): CueFlik: interactive concept learning in image search. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008, . pp. 29-38. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1357054.1357061
Saponas, T. Scott, Tan, Desney S., Morris, Dan, Balakrishnan, Ravin (2008): Demonstrating the feasibility of using forearm electromyography for muscle-computer interf. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008, . pp. 515-524. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1357054.1357138
Grimes, David, Tan, Desney S., Hudson, Scott E., Shenoy, Pradeep, Rao, Rajesh P. N. (2008): Feasibility and pragmatics of classifying working memory load with an electroencephalograp. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008, . pp. 835-844. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1357054.1357187
Shenoy, Pradeep, Tan, Desney S. (2008): Human-aided computing: utilizing implicit human processing to classify images. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008, . pp. 845-854. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1357054.1357188
Biehl, Jacob T., Baker, William T., Bailey, Brian P., Tan, Desney S., Inkpen, Kori, Czerwinski, Mary (2008): Impromptu: a new interaction framework for supporting collaboration in multiple display en. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008, . pp. 939-948. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1357054.1357200
Gajos, Krzysztof Z., Everitt, Katherine, Tan, Desney S., Czerwinski, Mary, Weld, Daniel S. (2008): Predictability and accuracy in adaptive user interfaces. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008, . pp. 1271-1274. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1357054.1357252
Nijholt, Anton, Tan, Desney S., Allison, Brendan, Milan, Jose del R., Graimann, Bernhard (2008): Brain-computer interfaces for HCI and games. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008, . pp. 3925-3928. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1358628.1358958
Talbot, Justin, Lee, Bongshin, Kapoor, Ashish, Tan, Desney S. (2009): EnsembleMatrix: interactive visualization to support machine learning with multiple classi. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2009, . pp. 1283-1292. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1518701.1518895
Lee, Bongshin, Smith, Greg, Robertson, George G., Czerwinski, Mary, Tan, Desney S. (2009): FacetLens: exposing trends and relationships to support sensemaking within faceted dataset. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2009, . pp. 1293-1302. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1518701.1518896
Nijholt, Anton, Tan, Desney S. (2007): Playing with your brain: brain-computer interfaces and games. In: Inakage, Masa, Lee, Newton, Tscheligi, Manfred, Bernhaupt, Regina, Natkin, Stéphane (eds.) Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology - ACE 2007 June 13-15, 2007, Salzburg, Austria. pp. 305-306. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1255047.1255140
Gajos, Krzysztof Z., Czerwinski, Mary, Tan, Desney S., Weld, Daniel S. (2006): Exploring the design space for adaptive graphical user interfaces. In: Celentano, Augusto (eds.) AVI 2006 - Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces May 23-26, 2006, Venezia, Italy. pp. 201-208. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1133265.1133306
Ramos, Gonzalo, Robertson, George G., Czerwinski, Mary, Tan, Desney S., Baudisch, Patrick, Hinckley, Ken, Agrawala, Maneesh (2006): Tumble! Splat! helping users access and manipulate occluded content in 2D drawings. In: Celentano, Augusto (eds.) AVI 2006 - Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces May 23-26, 2006, Venezia, Italy. pp. 428-435. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1133265.1133351
Seuken, Sven, Jain, Kamal, Tan, Desney S., Czerwinski, Mary (2010): Hidden markets: UI design for a P2P backup application. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2010 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2010, . pp. 315-324. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1753326.1753374
Saponas, T. Scott, Tan, Desney S., Morris, Dan, Turner, Jim, Landay, James A. (2010): Making muscle-computer interfaces more practical. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2010 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2010, . pp. 851-854. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1753326.1753451
Saponas, T. Scott, Tan, Desney S., Morris, Dan, Balakrishnan, Ravin, Turner, Jim, Landay, James A. (2009): Enabling always-available input with muscle-computer interfaces. In: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology , 2009, . pp. 167-176. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1622176.1622208
Saponas, T. Scott, Kelly, Daniel, Parviz, Babak A., Tan, Desney S. (2009): Optically sensing tongue gestures for computer input. In: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology , 2009, . pp. 177-180. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1622176.1622209
Hayes, Gillian R., Tan, Desney S., Wilcox, Lauren (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare 10-11 April, 2010, Atlanta, USA.
Cohn, Gabe, Morris, Daniel, Patel, Shwetak N., Tan, Desney S. (2011): Your noise is my command: sensing gestures using the body as an antenna. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2011, . pp. 791-800. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979058
Cohn, Gabe, Gupta, Sidhant, Lee, Tien-Jui, Morris, Dan, Smith, Joshua R., Reynolds, Matthew S., Tan, Desney S., Patel, Shwetak N. (2012): An ultra-low-power human body motion sensor using static electric field sensing. In: Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Uniquitous Computing , 2012, . pp. 99-102. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2370216.2370233