Harold Thimbleby

5.6k total citations
214 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Harold Thimbleby is a scholar working on Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Harold Thimbleby has authored 214 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Human-Computer Interaction, 33 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 27 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Harold Thimbleby's work include Usability and User Interface Design (64 papers), Healthcare Technology and Patient Monitoring (27 papers) and Interactive and Immersive Displays (22 papers). Harold Thimbleby is often cited by papers focused on Usability and User Interface Design (64 papers), Healthcare Technology and Patient Monitoring (27 papers) and Interactive and Immersive Displays (22 papers). Harold Thimbleby collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand. Harold Thimbleby's co-authors include Paul Cairns, George Buchanan, Matt Jones, Michael D. Harrison, Ann Blandford, Jennifer Pearson, Anne Adams, Gary Marsden, Michael J. Pazzani and Sarah Farrant and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Communications of the ACM and BMJ.

In The Last Decade

Harold Thimbleby

203 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Harold Thimbleby 864 585 479 452 367 214 2.9k
James Miller 620 0.7× 689 1.2× 385 0.8× 182 0.4× 237 0.6× 30 2.7k
Stephen Draper 978 1.1× 555 0.9× 430 0.9× 286 0.6× 366 1.0× 79 3.7k
Clayton Lewis 1.2k 1.4× 754 1.3× 624 1.3× 399 0.9× 352 1.0× 99 3.0k
Andrew Monk 1.5k 1.7× 369 0.6× 446 0.9× 320 0.7× 646 1.8× 149 4.5k
Peter G. Polson 1.3k 1.5× 815 1.4× 949 2.0× 495 1.1× 308 0.8× 106 3.6k
Bonnie E. John 1.7k 1.9× 976 1.7× 942 2.0× 686 1.5× 275 0.7× 124 3.7k
William B. Rouse 231 0.3× 574 1.0× 1.1k 2.2× 283 0.6× 342 0.9× 264 5.9k
James Miller 813 0.9× 1.7k 2.9× 727 1.5× 296 0.7× 397 1.1× 145 5.6k
Mark Rouncefield 1.5k 1.7× 1.1k 1.9× 710 1.5× 291 0.6× 1.1k 2.9× 196 4.4k
Rolf Molich 1.5k 1.8× 893 1.5× 307 0.6× 440 1.0× 461 1.3× 31 2.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Harold Thimbleby

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Harold Thimbleby

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All Works

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Magrabi, Farah, Ibrahim Habli, Mark Sujan, et al.. (2019). Why is it so difficult to govern mobile apps in healthcare?. BMJ Health & Care Informatics. 26(1). e100006–e100006. 36 indexed citations
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Thimbleby, Harold & Paul Cairns. (2017). Interactive numerals. Royal Society Open Science. 4(4). 160903–160903. 4 indexed citations
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Masci, Paolo, et al.. (2015). PVSio-web 2.0: Joining PVS to Human-Computer Interaction. 3 indexed citations
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Thimbleby, Harold, et al.. (2014). Human-Computer Interaction and the Formal Certification and Assurance of Medical Devices: The CHI+MED Project. 5 indexed citations
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Thimbleby, Harold, et al.. (2013). Using Medical Device Logs for Improving Medical Device Design. 56–65. 6 indexed citations
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Pearson, Jennifer, George Buchanan, & Harold Thimbleby. (2009). Improving annotations in digital documents. Lecture notes in computer science. 1 indexed citations
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Cairns, Paul, Paul Cairns, Paul Cairns, et al.. (2008). Research Methods for Human-Computer Interaction. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 236 indexed citations
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Cairns, Paul, et al.. (2004). Evaluating a Novel Calculator Interface. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations
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Nevalainen, Olli, T. Raita, & Harold Thimbleby. (2003). Appendix - An Improved Insert Sort Algorithms. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations
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Blandford, Ann, et al.. (2003). UNDERSTANDING INTERACTION TRAPS. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations
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Thimbleby, Harold. (2001). The computer science of everyday things. 23(5). 3–12. 1 indexed citations
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Duquenoy, Penny & Harold Thimbleby. (1999). Justice and design. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. 281–286. 11 indexed citations
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Theng, Yin Leng & Harold Thimbleby. (1998). HyperAT : Addressing Usability Issues In Web Authoring.. WebNet.
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Thimbleby, Harold, Brid O’Conaill, & Peter J. Thomas. (1997). People and computers XII : proceedings of HCI '97. Springer eBooks. 12 indexed citations
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Thimbleby, Harold. (1995). Treat people like computers?: designing usable systems for special people. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 283–295. 2 indexed citations
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Thimbleby, Harold & Peter B. Ladkin. (1995). A Proper Explanation When You Need One.. 107–118. 7 indexed citations
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Greenberg, Saul & Harold Thimbleby. (1991). THE WEAK SCIENCE OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION. PRISM (University of Calgary). 11 indexed citations
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Harrison, Michael D. & Harold Thimbleby. (1990). Formal methods in human-computer interaction. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 104 indexed citations
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Thimbleby, Harold. (1988). Modes, WYSIWYG and the von Neumann bottleneck. Formal Methods. 6 indexed citations
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Thimbleby, Harold, et al.. (1986). The TIN: An Approach to Powerful and Cheap User Interfaces.. ICCC. 238–241. 1 indexed citations

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