Desney Tan

9.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
113 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Desney Tan is a scholar working on Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Desney Tan has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Human-Computer Interaction, 35 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 31 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Desney Tan's work include Interactive and Immersive Displays (35 papers), Tactile and Sensory Interactions (17 papers) and Personal Information Management and User Behavior (16 papers). Desney Tan is often cited by papers focused on Interactive and Immersive Displays (35 papers), Tactile and Sensory Interactions (17 papers) and Personal Information Management and User Behavior (16 papers). Desney Tan collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Desney Tan's co-authors include Dan Morris, Mary Czerwinski, Shwetak Patel, Chris Harrison, T. Scott Saponas, Ashish Kapoor, Anton Nijholt, Daniel Morris, George G. Robertson and Sidhant Gupta and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, Communications of the ACM and ACM Transactions on Graphics.

In The Last Decade

Desney Tan

109 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

Skinput 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 2016 100 200 300 400

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Desney Tan United States 47 3.4k 2.3k 2.0k 665 664 113 6.4k
Hans Gellersen United Kingdom 51 5.4k 1.6× 2.6k 1.1× 3.4k 1.7× 509 0.8× 809 1.2× 269 8.8k
Chris Harrison United States 49 5.3k 1.6× 4.2k 1.8× 1.9k 1.0× 992 1.5× 774 1.2× 152 7.4k
Scott E. Hudson United States 58 6.1k 1.8× 3.2k 1.4× 2.9k 1.5× 734 1.1× 543 0.8× 262 10.4k
Andreas Bulling Germany 50 5.9k 1.8× 2.4k 1.0× 3.2k 1.6× 679 1.0× 284 0.4× 213 8.9k
Jun Rekimoto Japan 44 5.3k 1.6× 2.8k 1.2× 3.1k 1.6× 716 1.1× 387 0.6× 264 7.3k
Sriram Subramanian United Kingdom 39 2.8k 0.8× 2.4k 1.0× 1.0k 0.5× 1.6k 2.5× 552 0.8× 214 6.5k
Antti Oulasvirta Finland 46 4.1k 1.2× 1.6k 0.7× 2.1k 1.1× 224 0.3× 333 0.5× 264 8.2k
Tanzeem Choudhury United States 49 1.4k 0.4× 906 0.4× 2.8k 1.4× 670 1.0× 1.5k 2.2× 140 9.3k
Patrick Baudisch Germany 57 6.9k 2.1× 4.3k 1.9× 3.1k 1.6× 566 0.9× 177 0.3× 193 9.0k
Andrew D. Wilson United States 47 6.8k 2.0× 3.8k 1.6× 4.2k 2.1× 401 0.6× 194 0.3× 146 8.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Desney Tan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Desney Tan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Desney Tan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Desney Tan 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 Desney Tan. Desney Tan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Amershi, Saleema, James Fogarty, Ashish Kapoor, & Desney Tan. (2016). Overview-Based Examples Selection in Mixed-Initiative Interactive Concept Learning.
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Wander, Jeremiah, Dan Morris, & Desney Tan. (2015). Aurora – A Noninvasive, Wrist-worn Device for Ambulatory Hemodynamic Monitoring. Circulation. 132. 1 indexed citations
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Tan, Desney, Bo Begole, & Wendy A. Kellogg. (2011). CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Human Factors in Computing Systems. 3 indexed citations
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Hayes, Gillian R. & Desney Tan. (2010). Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare. Human Factors in Computing Systems. 9 indexed citations
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Wilcox, Lauren, et al.. (2010). Designing patient-centric information displays for hospitals. PubMed. 2010. 2123–2132. 78 indexed citations
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Kapoor, Ashish, Bongshin Lee, Desney Tan, & Eric Horvitz. (2010). Interactive optimization for steering machine classification. 1343–1352. 94 indexed citations
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Tan, Desney, Dan Morris, & T. Scott Saponas. (2010). Interfaces on the go. XRDS Crossroads The ACM Magazine for Students. 16(4). 30–34. 7 indexed citations
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Skeels, Meredith M. & Desney Tan. (2010). Identifying opportunities for inpatient-centric technology. 580–589. 32 indexed citations
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Wilcox, Lauren, et al.. (2010). Physician Attitudes about Patient-Facing Information Displays at an Urban Emergency Department.. PubMed. 2010. 887–91. 7 indexed citations
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Grimes, David B., Desney Tan, Scott E. Hudson, Pradeep Shenoy, & Rajesh P. N. Rao. (2008). Feasibility and pragmatics of classifying working memory load with an electroencephalograph. 835–844. 136 indexed citations
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Baudisch, Patrick, Desney Tan, Drew Steedly, et al.. (2007). AN EXPLORATION OF USER INTERFACE DESIGNS FOR REAL-TIME PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPHY. AJIS. Australasian journal of information systems/AJIS. Australian journal of information systems/Australian journal of information systems. 5 indexed citations
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Tan, Desney, et al.. (2005). Spy-Resistant Keyboard: Towards More Secure Password Entry on Publicly Observable Touch Screens. 70(3). 155–161. 4 indexed citations
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Robertson, George, Mary Czerwinski, Patrick Baudisch, et al.. (2005). Large Display User Experience. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 17 indexed citations
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Baudisch, Patrick, Desney Tan, Drew Steedly, et al.. (2005). Panoramic viewfinder: providing a real-time preview to help users avoid flaws in panoramic pictures. 1–10. 23 indexed citations
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Tan, Desney, et al.. (2005). Spy-resistant keyboard: more secure password entry on public touch screen displays. 1–10. 49 indexed citations
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Tan, Desney & Mary Czerwinski. (2003). Effects of Visual Separation and Physical Discontinuities when Distributing Information across Multiple Displays.. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. 35. 252–255. 50 indexed citations
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Tan, Desney, Darren Gergle, Peter Scupelli, & Randy Pausch. (2003). With Similar Visual Angles, Larger Displays Improve Performance on Spatial Tasks. Human Factors in Computing Systems. 217–224. 4 indexed citations
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Tan, Desney, Darren Gergle, Peter Scupelli, & Randy Pausch. (2003). With similar visual angles, larger displays improve spatial performance. 5 indexed citations
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Tan, Desney & Randy Pausch. (2002). Pre-emptive shadows. 682–683. 14 indexed citations
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Tan, Desney. (1965). The effect of elastic deformation on the Fermi surface of copper. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids. 26(10). 1623–1624. 1 indexed citations

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