Alex Olwal

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
85 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Alex Olwal is a scholar working on Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Neuroscience and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Olwal has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Human-Computer Interaction, 45 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 40 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Alex Olwal's work include Interactive and Immersive Displays (56 papers), Tactile and Sensory Interactions (42 papers) and Augmented Reality Applications (30 papers). Alex Olwal is often cited by papers focused on Interactive and Immersive Displays (56 papers), Tactile and Sensory Interactions (42 papers) and Augmented Reality Applications (30 papers). Alex Olwal collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Japan. Alex Olwal's co-authors include Sean Follmer, Hiroshi Ishii, Daniel Leithinger, Steven Feiner, Jürgen Steimle, Hrvoje Benko, Patrick Parzer, Michael Haller, Heather Culbertson and Inrak Choi and has published in prestigious journals such as Computer, Journal of Vision and IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.

In The Last Decade

Alex Olwal

81 papers receiving 2.8k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alex Olwal United States	28	2.0k	1.4k	823	547	481	85	2.8k
Dan Morris United States	30	1.5k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	702 0.9×	321 0.6×	706 1.5×	77	3.3k
Christian Holz Switzerland	37	3.4k 1.7×	2.5k 1.7×	1.3k 1.5×	759 1.4×	446 0.9×	141	4.6k
Roel Vertegaal Canada	31	2.7k 1.3×	1.6k 1.1×	1.1k 1.4×	346 0.6×	156 0.3×	140	3.7k
Nicolai Marquardt United Kingdom	30	2.4k 1.2×	796 0.6×	1.2k 1.4×	186 0.3×	146 0.3×	106	3.3k
Mohamad Eid United Arab Emirates	25	794 0.4×	910 0.6×	295 0.4×	520 1.0×	201 0.4×	134	2.4k
Kai Kunze Japan	29	1.3k 0.6×	778 0.5×	940 1.1×	122 0.2×	360 0.7×	203	2.6k
Eduardo Velloso Australia	26	1.6k 0.8×	842 0.6×	757 0.9×	140 0.3×	126 0.3×	119	2.5k
Masahiko İnami Japan	33	2.3k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.4×	672 1.2×	495 1.0×	305	3.7k
Audrey Girouard Canada	23	1.5k 0.7×	935 0.7×	479 0.6×	173 0.3×	172 0.4×	104	2.0k
Yue Liu China	23	723 0.4×	566 0.4×	941 1.1×	118 0.2×	239 0.5×	265	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Alex Olwal

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alex Olwal

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex Olwal

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alex Olwal. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alex Olwal based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alex Olwal. Alex Olwal is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Qian, Xun, Mark B. Sherwood, Zheng Xu, et al.. (2025). InstructPipe: Generating Visual Blocks Pipelines with Human Instructions and LLMs. 1–22.

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Qian, Xun, Zheng Xu, Yinda Zhang, et al.. (2024). Experiencing InstructPipe: Building Multi-modal AI Pipelines via Prompting LLMs and Visual Programming. 1–5. 4 indexed citations

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Sinha, A. K., Chinmay Kulkarni, & Alex Olwal. (2024). Levels of Multimodal Interaction. 51–55. 1 indexed citations

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Du, Ruofei, Michelle Mohr Carney, Yinda Zhang, et al.. (2023). Rapsai: Accelerating Machine Learning Prototyping of Multimedia Applications through Visual Programming. 1–23. 18 indexed citations

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Du, Ruofei, et al.. (2023). Experiencing Visual Blocks for ML: Visual Prototyping of AI Pipelines. 1–3. 5 indexed citations

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Du, Ruofei, et al.. (2023). Experiencing Rapid Prototyping of Machine Learning Based Multimedia Applications in Rapsai. 1–4. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Xingyu, et al.. (2023). Experiencing Visual Captions: Augmented Communication with Real-time Visuals using Large Language Models. 1–4. 3 indexed citations

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Steimle, Jürgen, Joanna Bergström, Martin Weigel, et al.. (2017). On-Skin Interaction Using Body Landmarks. Computer. 50(10). 19–27. 22 indexed citations

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Sato, Munehiko, Rohan Puri, Alex Olwal, et al.. (2017). Zensei. 3972–3985. 24 indexed citations

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Yang, Junrui, et al.. (2017). shiftIO. 5075–5086. 25 indexed citations

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Lee, Jinha, et al.. (2013). SpaceTop. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 189–192. 60 indexed citations

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Leithinger, Daniel, et al.. (2013). Sublimate. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1441–1450. 60 indexed citations

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Drew, Trafton, Melissa L.‐H. Võ, Alex Olwal, et al.. (2013). Scanners and drillers: Characterizing expert visual search through volumetric images. Journal of Vision. 13(10). 3–3. 125 indexed citations

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Tollmar, Konrad, et al.. (2011). Mobile wellness. 761–763. 3 indexed citations

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Olwal, Alex, et al.. (2008). Rubbing and tapping for precise and rapid selection on touch-screen displays. 295–304. 73 indexed citations

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Olwal, Alex & Andrew D. Wilson. (2008). SurfaceFusion: unobtrusive tracking of everyday objects in tangible user interfaces. Graphics Interface. 235–242. 21 indexed citations

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Olwal, Alex, et al.. (2008). Spatial augmented reality on industrial CNC-machines. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6804. 680409–680409. 68 indexed citations

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Olwal, Alex, Stephen DiVerdi, Ismo Rakkolainen, & Tobias Höllerer. (2008). Consigalo: multi-user face-to-face interaction on immaterial displays. 8. 9 indexed citations

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Olwal, Alex, Hrvoje Benko, & Steven Feiner. (2003). SenseShapes: Using Statistical Geometry for Object Selection in a Multimodal Augmented Reality System. 300–301. 48 indexed citations

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Olwal, Alex & Steven Feiner. (2003). Using Prosodic Features of Speech and Audio Localization in Graphical User Interfaces. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University). 4 indexed citations

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