Sean Follmer

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
97 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Sean Follmer is a scholar working on Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Neuroscience and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean Follmer has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Human-Computer Interaction, 59 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 33 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sean Follmer's work include Tactile and Sensory Interactions (55 papers), Interactive and Immersive Displays (46 papers) and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (16 papers). Sean Follmer is often cited by papers focused on Tactile and Sensory Interactions (55 papers), Interactive and Immersive Displays (46 papers) and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (16 papers). Sean Follmer collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Sean Follmer's co-authors include Hiroshi Ishii, Alex Olwal, Daniel Leithinger, Inrak Choi, Parastoo Abtahi, Lawrence H. Kim, Eric J. Gonzalez, Elliot W. Hawkes, Alexa Siu and Ken Nakagaki and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics and Science Robotics.

In The Last Decade

Sean Follmer

95 papers receiving 4.1k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sean Follmer United States	37	2.8k	2.2k	1.5k	803	771	97	4.2k
Christian Holz Switzerland	37	3.4k 1.2×	2.5k 1.2×	759 0.5×	1.3k 1.6×	446 0.6×	141	4.6k
Anatole Lécuyer France	39	2.4k 0.9×	3.4k 1.6×	790 0.5×	657 0.8×	325 0.4×	192	5.0k
Chris Harrison United States	49	5.3k 1.9×	4.2k 2.0×	583 0.4×	1.9k 2.4×	992 1.3×	152	7.4k
Jürgen Steimle Germany	34	2.5k 0.9×	2.0k 0.9×	571 0.4×	638 0.8×	954 1.2×	123	3.4k
Jun Rekimoto Japan	44	5.3k 1.9×	2.8k 1.3×	720 0.5×	3.1k 3.9×	716 0.9×	264	7.3k
Michitaka Hirose Japan	31	2.0k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	588 0.4×	712 0.9×	289 0.4×	302	3.5k
Jan Borchers Germany	30	2.3k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	314 0.2×	1.2k 1.4×	255 0.3×	227	3.7k
Tovi Grossman Canada	45	4.0k 1.4×	2.0k 1.0×	484 0.3×	2.4k 3.0×	158 0.2×	177	6.3k
Hrvoje Benko United States	44	5.5k 2.0×	3.6k 1.7×	1.0k 0.7×	2.8k 3.5×	197 0.3×	130	6.6k
Ravin Balakrishnan Canada	57	7.0k 2.5×	4.7k 2.2×	528 0.4×	3.4k 4.2×	348 0.5×	154	9.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean Follmer

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

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Bailenson, Jeremy N., et al.. (2025). Audio Personas: Augmenting Social Perception via Body-Anchored Audio Cues. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 32(6). 1–34.

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Follmer, Sean, et al.. (2024). A Multi-Stable Curved Line Shape Display. 9696–9703. 1 indexed citations

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O’Modhrain, Sile, et al.. (2024). Tangible Stats: An Embodied and Multimodal Platform for Teaching Data and Statistics to Blind and Low Vision Students. 1–9. 3 indexed citations

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Ritchie, Jacob, et al.. (2023). Beyond the Artifact: Power as a Lens for Creativity Support Tools. 1–15. 31 indexed citations

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Follmer, Sean, et al.. (2023). Electroadhesive Auxetics as Programmable Layer Jamming Skins for Formable Crust Shape Displays. 9 indexed citations

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Siu, Alexa, et al.. (2020). PantoGuide: A Haptic and Audio Guidance System To Support Tactile Graphics Exploration. 1–4. 14 indexed citations

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Park, Sanghyeon, Daniel Drew, Sean Follmer, & Juan Rivas-Davila. (2020). Lightweight High Voltage Generator for Untethered Electroadhesive Perching of Micro Air Vehicles. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 5(3). 4485–4492. 27 indexed citations

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Gonzalez, Eric J. & Sean Follmer. (2019). Investigating the Detection of Bimanual Haptic Retargeting in Virtual Reality. 1–5. 37 indexed citations

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Kim, Lawrence H. & Sean Follmer. (2019). SwarmHaptics. 1–13. 40 indexed citations

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Goc, Mathieu Le, Charles Périn, Sean Follmer, Jean‐Daniel Fekete, & Pierre Dragicevic. (2018). Dynamic Composite Data Physicalization Using Wheeled Micro-Robots. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 25(1). 737–747. 39 indexed citations

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

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Nakagaki, Ken, Artem Dementyev, Sean Follmer, Joseph A. Paradiso, & Hiroshi Ishii. (2016). ChainFORM. 87–96. 53 indexed citations

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Kim, Lawrence H., et al.. (2016). Haptic Edge Display for Mobile Tactile Interaction. 3706–3716. 79 indexed citations

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Choi, Inrak & Sean Follmer. (2016). Wolverine. 117–119. 50 indexed citations

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Nakagaki, Ken, Sean Follmer, & Hiroshi Ishii. (2015). LineFORM. 333–339. 75 indexed citations

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Yao, Lining, et al.. (2013). PneUI. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 13–22. 263 indexed citations

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Mellis, David A., Sean Follmer, Björn Hartmann, Leah Buechley, & Mark D. Gross. (2013). FAB at CHI. 3307–3310. 33 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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Follmer, Sean, Micah K. Johnson, Edward H. Adelson, & Hiroshi Ishii. (2011). deForm. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 527–536. 30 indexed citations

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Hartmann, Björn, et al.. (2010). d.note. 493–502. 22 indexed citations

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