Tessa Lau

2.8k total citations
56 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Tessa Lau is a scholar working on Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Tessa Lau has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Information Systems, 19 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 15 papers in Information Systems and Management. Recurrent topics in Tessa Lau's work include Software Engineering Research (18 papers), Personal Information Management and User Behavior (13 papers) and Web Data Mining and Analysis (12 papers). Tessa Lau is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (18 papers), Personal Information Management and User Behavior (13 papers) and Web Data Mining and Analysis (12 papers). Tessa Lau collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and Argentina. Tessa Lau's co-authors include Daniel S. Weld, Jeffrey Nichols, Eben M. Haber, Pedro Domingos, Allen Cypher, Tara Matthews, Gilly Leshed, Nicholas Kushmerick, James Lin and Lawrence D. Bergman and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, Computer and Machine Learning.

In The Last Decade

Tessa Lau

54 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tessa Lau United States 24 750 543 327 319 309 56 1.7k
Allen Cypher United States 17 634 0.8× 590 1.1× 242 0.7× 469 1.5× 530 1.7× 42 1.9k
Joel Brandt United States 21 828 1.1× 389 0.7× 186 0.6× 269 0.8× 723 2.3× 44 1.8k
Maristella Matera Italy 18 731 1.0× 288 0.5× 87 0.3× 259 0.8× 160 0.5× 116 1.4k
Prasun Dewan United States 20 690 0.9× 399 0.7× 213 0.7× 81 0.3× 140 0.5× 117 1.4k
David Maulsby Canada 12 320 0.4× 531 1.0× 83 0.3× 218 0.7× 161 0.5× 31 1.2k
David Kurlander United States 16 284 0.4× 425 0.8× 84 0.3× 211 0.7× 142 0.5× 23 1.2k
Greg Little United States 20 772 1.0× 1.0k 1.9× 230 0.7× 115 0.4× 1.8k 5.7× 28 2.9k
David Canfield Smith United States 14 216 0.3× 321 0.6× 170 0.5× 158 0.5× 298 1.0× 33 1.2k
Marc H. Brown United States 19 686 0.9× 564 1.0× 122 0.4× 323 1.0× 650 2.1× 46 2.4k
Silvia Abrahão Spain 21 1.1k 1.5× 428 0.8× 118 0.4× 440 1.4× 103 0.3× 111 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Tessa Lau

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tessa Lau

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tessa Lau

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

All Works

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Sefcik, Justine S., Justin Huang, Pamela Z. Cacchione, et al.. (2017). Evaluating older adults' interaction with a mobile assistive robot. 840–847. 20 indexed citations
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Johnson, Michelle J., et al.. (2017). Task and Design Requirements for an Affordable Mobile Service Robot for Elder Care in an All-Inclusive Care for Elders Assisted-Living Setting. International Journal of Social Robotics. 12(5). 989–1008. 25 indexed citations
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Benotti, Luciana, et al.. (2014). Interpreting Natural Language Instructions Using Language, Vision, and Behavior. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems. 4(3). 1–22. 4 indexed citations
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Lasecki, Walter S., et al.. (2012). Crowd-based recognition of web interaction patterns. 99–100. 3 indexed citations
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Mahmud, Jalal, Allen Cypher, Eben M. Haber, & Tessa Lau. (2012). Design and industrial evaluation of a tool supporting semi-automated website testing. Software Testing Verification and Reliability. 24(1). 61–82. 14 indexed citations
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Mahmud, Jalal, et al.. (2011). Find this for me. 3–12. 1 indexed citations
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Lau, Tessa, Clemens Drews, & Jeffrey Nichols. (2009). Interpreting written how-to instructions. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1433–1438. 25 indexed citations
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Lau, Tessa. (2009). Why Programming by Demonstration Systems Fail: Lessons Learned for Usable AI. AI Magazine. 30(4). 65–67. 35 indexed citations
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Castelli, Vittorio, et al.. (2009). Sheepdog, parallel collaborative programming-by-demonstration. Knowledge-Based Systems. 23(2). 94–109. 4 indexed citations
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Cypher, Allen, Tessa Lau, Jeffrey Nichols, & Mira Dontcheva. (2009). Workshop on end user programming for the web. 4779–4782. 1 indexed citations
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Leshed, Gilly, Eben M. Haber, Tara Matthews, & Tessa Lau. (2008). CoScripter. 1719–1728. 222 indexed citations
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Nichols, Jeffrey & Tessa Lau. (2008). Mobilization by demonstration. 149–158. 35 indexed citations
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Farrell, Stephen, Tessa Lau, Stefan Nusser, Eric Wilcox, & Michael Müller. (2007). Socially augmenting employee profiles with people-tagging. 91–100. 55 indexed citations
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Leshed, Gilly, Eben M. Haber, Tessa Lau, & Allen Cypher. (2007). CoScripter: Sharing 'How-to' Knowledge in the Enterprise. 3 indexed citations
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Kushmerick, Nicholas, et al.. (2006). Activity-centric email: a machine learning approach. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1634–1637. 10 indexed citations
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Bergman, Lawrence D., et al.. (2003). MORE for less. 69–76. 19 indexed citations
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Lau, Tessa, Steven A. Wolfman, & Daniel S. Weld. (2001). Programming by demonstration using version space algebra DRAFT to appear in Machine Learning. 2 indexed citations
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Wolfman, Steven A., Tessa Lau, Pedro Domingos, & Daniel S. Weld. (2001). Mixed initiative interfaces for learning tasks. 167–174. 20 indexed citations
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Lau, Tessa, Pedro Domingos, & Daniel S. Weld. (2000). Version Space Algebra and its Application to Programming by Demonstration. International Conference on Machine Learning. 527–534. 63 indexed citations

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