Walter Bender

10.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Walter Bender is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Social Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Walter Bender has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 13 papers in Social Psychology and 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Walter Bender's work include Multimedia Communication and Technology (6 papers), Team Dynamics and Performance (5 papers) and Color perception and design (5 papers). Walter Bender is often cited by papers focused on Multimedia Communication and Technology (6 papers), Team Dynamics and Performance (5 papers) and Color perception and design (5 papers). Walter Bender collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Chile. Walter Bender's co-authors include Daniel Gruhl, Norishige Morimoto, Joan Morris DiMicco, M. Massey, Deb Roy, Seymour Papert, Carol Strohecker, Tod Machover, Rosalind W. Picard and Cynthia Breazeal and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications and Human-Computer Interaction.

In The Last Decade

Walter Bender

51 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Techniques for data hiding

1996 1.9k citations Walter Bender, Daniel Gruhl et al. IBM Systems Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Walter Bender United States	18	2.7k	394	388	238	201	56	3.5k
Nathalie Henry Riche United States	32	2.4k 0.9×	706 1.8×	302 0.8×	231 1.0×	97 0.5×	69	3.4k
Christopher Collins Canada	28	1.5k 0.5×	779 2.0×	367 0.9×	397 1.7×	54 0.3×	92	2.4k
Wolfgang Effelsberg Germany	28	1.9k 0.7×	278 0.7×	875 2.3×	316 1.3×	32 0.2×	245	3.8k
Robert Kosara United States	28	1.8k 0.7×	692 1.8×	315 0.8×	185 0.8×	68 0.3×	73	2.5k
Mira Dontcheva United States	34	2.0k 0.7×	762 1.9×	188 0.5×	886 3.7×	83 0.4×	76	3.8k
Petra Isenberg France	33	2.6k 1.0×	601 1.5×	249 0.6×	265 1.1×	117 0.6×	83	3.4k
Benjamin Bach United Kingdom	26	1.6k 0.6×	406 1.0×	222 0.6×	89 0.4×	43 0.2×	78	2.2k
Pierre Dragicevic France	27	1.6k 0.6×	480 1.2×	306 0.8×	93 0.4×	93 0.5×	59	2.4k
Andreas Girgensohn United States	27	1.4k 0.5×	227 0.6×	408 1.1×	224 0.9×	67 0.3×	96	2.1k
Mark Claypool United States	29	1.4k 0.5×	550 1.4×	402 1.0×	1.2k 4.9×	58 0.3×	168	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Walter Bender

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Fields of papers citing papers by Walter Bender

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Walter Bender

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

All Works

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McMinn, David, et al.. (2025). Using artificial intelligence to expedite and enhance plain language summary abstract writing of scientific content. JAMIA Open. 8(2). ooaf023–ooaf023. 1 indexed citations

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Bender, Walter. (2017). The Sugar Learning Platform: Affordances for Computational Thinking. Revista de Educación a Distancia (RED). 4 indexed citations

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Bender, Walter. (2017). La plataforma de aprendizaje Sugar: affordances educativas para el pensamiento computacional. Revista de Educación a Distancia (RED). 1. 2 indexed citations

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Bender, Walter, et al.. (2015). Sensores Tortuga 2.0: Cómo el hardware y software abiertos pueden empoderar a las comunidades de aprendizaje Turtle. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1–39.

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Bender, Walter, et al.. (2015). Sensores Tortuga 2.0: Cómo el hardware y software abiertos pueden empoderar a las comunidades de aprendizaje. Revista de Educación a Distancia (RED). 1 indexed citations

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Bender, Walter, et al.. (2012). Making Learning Visible. Mind Brain and Education. 6(4). 227–241. 26 indexed citations

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DiMicco, Joan Morris, et al.. (2007). The impact of increased awareness while face-to-face. Human-Computer Interaction. 22(1). 47–96. 98 indexed citations

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Bender, Walter. (2005). Galiläer, Lutz: Pädagogische Qualität. Perspektiven der Qualitätsdiskurse über Schule, Soziale Arbeit und Erwachsenenbildung. 2005. Rezension. 86–87. 1 indexed citations

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Bender, Walter, et al.. (2005). Salient stills. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications. 1(1). 16–36. 22 indexed citations

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Bender, Walter. (2004). Lernen und Handeln - Thesen aus subjektorientierter Sicht. 249–255. 2 indexed citations

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Smith, Brian, et al.. (2004). Closed Caption, Open Source. BT Technology Journal. 22(4). 151–159. 7 indexed citations

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Bender, Walter. (2004). The Seven Secrets of the Media Lab. BT Technology Journal. 22(4). 0–0. 2 indexed citations

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DiMicco, Joan Morris & Walter Bender. (2004). Second messenger. 1 indexed citations

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Bender, Walter, et al.. (2000). Things that talk: Using sound for device-to-device and device-to-human communication. IBM Systems Journal. 39(3.4). 530–546. 53 indexed citations

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Massey, M. & Walter Bender. (1996). Salient stills: Process and practice. IBM Systems Journal. 35(3.4). 557–573. 69 indexed citations

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Bender, Walter, et al.. (1996). Techniques for data hiding. IBM Systems Journal. 35(3.4). 313–336. 1896 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bender, Walter. (1996). Technology and the news: what we don't know. IEEE Multimedia. 3(3). 73–77.

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Bender, Walter, et al.. (1995). Salient video stills: content and context preserved. MIT Press eBooks. 213–231. 43 indexed citations

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Bender, Walter, et al.. (1993). <title>Context-sensitive multimedia</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1785. 122–132. 3 indexed citations

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Bender, Walter, et al.. (1991). Newspace: Mass Media and Personal Computing.. 28(7). 329–348. 19 indexed citations

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