Megan Hofmann

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 889 citations indexed

About

Megan Hofmann is a scholar working on Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Megan Hofmann has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 889 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Human-Computer Interaction, 9 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 9 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Megan Hofmann's work include Interactive and Immersive Displays (12 papers), Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (10 papers) and Tactile and Sensory Interactions (8 papers). Megan Hofmann is often cited by papers focused on Interactive and Immersive Displays (12 papers), Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (10 papers) and Tactile and Sensory Interactions (8 papers). Megan Hofmann collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Russia. Megan Hofmann's co-authors include Jennifer Mankoff, Scott E. Hudson, Amy Hurst, Erin Buehler, Cynthia L. Bennett, Devva Kasnitz, Abdullah Ali, Jeremy Chang, Shaun K. Kane and Stacy Branham and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction and Journal of Diabetes Research.

In The Last Decade

Megan Hofmann

34 papers receiving 874 citations

Hit Papers

Living Disability Theory:... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 40 80 120
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Living Disability Theory: Reflections on Access, Research, and Design
    2020 129 citations Megan Hofmann, Jennifer Mankoff et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Megan Hofmann United States 16 384 264 258 116 106 38 889
Erin Buehler United States 9 237 0.6× 196 0.7× 201 0.8× 54 0.5× 71 0.7× 17 540
Halley Profita United States 16 371 1.0× 93 0.4× 260 1.0× 84 0.7× 70 0.7× 29 675
Julio Abascal Spain 20 465 1.2× 191 0.7× 253 1.0× 29 0.3× 166 1.6× 94 1.2k
Ravi Kuber United States 19 370 1.0× 99 0.4× 401 1.6× 28 0.2× 97 0.9× 84 969
Giulia Barbareschi United Kingdom 14 154 0.4× 194 0.7× 88 0.3× 89 0.8× 64 0.6× 78 601
Tiago Guerreiro Portugal 21 681 1.8× 113 0.4× 689 2.7× 48 0.4× 81 0.8× 117 1.2k
Dhruv Jain United States 22 354 0.9× 79 0.3× 414 1.6× 21 0.2× 38 0.4× 59 1.1k
Hugo Nicolau Portugal 21 729 1.9× 105 0.4× 715 2.8× 18 0.2× 81 0.8× 84 1.1k
Stéphanie Buisine France 18 379 1.0× 33 0.1× 148 0.6× 35 0.3× 30 0.3× 61 938
Abigale Stangl United States 15 235 0.6× 109 0.4× 338 1.3× 11 0.1× 39 0.4× 33 659

Countries citing papers authored by Megan Hofmann

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Fields of papers citing papers by Megan Hofmann

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Megan Hofmann

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

All Works

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Hofmann, Megan, et al.. (2025). Curl Quantization for Automatic Placement of Knit Singularities. 1–10. 1 indexed citations
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Hofmann, Megan, et al.. (2024). Singular Foliations for Knit Graph Design. 1–11. 4 indexed citations
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Hofmann, Megan. (2024). KODA: Knit-program Optimization by Dependency Analysis. 1–15. 3 indexed citations
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Mack, Kelly, et al.. (2024). "It's like Goldilocks:" Bespoke Slides for Fluctuating Audience Access Needs. 1–15. 3 indexed citations
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Hofmann, Megan, et al.. (2023). OPTIMISM: Enabling Collaborative Implementation of Domain Specific Metaheuristic Optimization. 1–19. 2 indexed citations
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Hofmann, Megan, et al.. (2022). Maptimizer: Using Optimization to Tailor Tactile Maps to Users Needs. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1–15. 15 indexed citations
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Mack, Kelly, et al.. (2022). Rapid Convergence: The Outcomes of Making PPE During a Healthcare Crisis. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 30(1). 1–25. 2 indexed citations
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Hofmann, Megan, et al.. (2022). Making a Medical Maker's Playbook: An Ethnographic Study of Safety-Critical Collective Design by Makers in Response to COVID-19. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 6(CSCW1). 1–26. 6 indexed citations
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Mankoff, Jennifer, Anne Spencer Ross, Cynthia L. Bennett, et al.. (2020). 2019 Access SIGCHI report. ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing. 1–1. 2 indexed citations
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Hofmann, Megan, et al.. (2019). "Occupational Therapy is Making". 1–13. 62 indexed citations
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Hofmann, Megan, Lea Albaugh, Jessica K. Hodgins, et al.. (2019). KnitPicking Textures. 5–16. 57 indexed citations
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Hammer, Jessica, et al.. (2018). Understanding Gender Equity in Author Order Assignment. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 2(CSCW). 1–21. 13 indexed citations
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Hofmann, Megan, et al.. (2018). Greater than the Sum of its PARTs. 1–12. 40 indexed citations
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Hofmann, Megan & Chris Barker. (2016). On researching a health condition that the researcher has also experienced.. Qualitative Psychology. 4(2). 139–148. 1 indexed citations
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Buehler, Erin, et al.. (2016). Investigating the Implications of 3D Printing in Special Education. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing. 8(3). 1–28. 87 indexed citations
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Hofmann, Megan, Charlotte Dack, Chris Barker, & Elizabeth Murray. (2015). The Impact of an Internet-Based Self-Management Intervention (HeLP-Diabetes) on the Psychological Well-Being of Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: A Mixed-Method Cohort Study. Journal of Diabetes Research. 2016. 1–13. 28 indexed citations
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Buehler, Erin, Stacy Branham, Abdullah Ali, et al.. (2015). Sharing is Caring. 525–534. 145 indexed citations

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