William Buxton

10.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
102 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

William Buxton is a scholar working on Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Neuroscience and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, William Buxton has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Human-Computer Interaction, 31 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 29 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in William Buxton's work include Interactive and Immersive Displays (36 papers), Usability and User Interface Design (32 papers) and Tactile and Sensory Interactions (28 papers). William Buxton is often cited by papers focused on Interactive and Immersive Displays (36 papers), Usability and User Interface Design (32 papers) and Tactile and Sensory Interactions (28 papers). William Buxton collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. William Buxton's co-authors include George Fitzmaurice, Gordon Kurtenbach, I. Scott MacKenzie, Abigail Sellen, Hiroshi Ishii, Ronald M. Baecker, Eric A. Bier, Maureen Stone, Ken Pier and Tony DeRose and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, The Canadian Journal of Sociology and Computer Graphics Forum.

In The Last Decade

William Buxton

94 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

Toolglass and magic lenses 1993 2026 2004 2015 1993 1995 250 500 750

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Buxton Canada 41 4.8k 2.4k 2.3k 519 491 102 6.5k
Randy Pausch United States 41 3.7k 0.8× 1.3k 0.5× 2.5k 1.1× 499 1.0× 231 0.5× 112 7.4k
George Fitzmaurice Canada 46 4.4k 0.9× 2.1k 0.9× 3.1k 1.3× 500 1.0× 356 0.7× 145 6.7k
Tovi Grossman Canada 45 4.0k 0.8× 2.0k 0.8× 2.4k 1.1× 545 1.1× 301 0.6× 177 6.3k
Ravin Balakrishnan Canada 57 7.0k 1.5× 4.7k 1.9× 3.4k 1.5× 306 0.6× 338 0.7× 154 9.2k
Desney Tan United States 47 3.4k 0.7× 2.3k 1.0× 2.0k 0.9× 592 1.1× 422 0.9× 113 6.4k
Daniel Wigdor Canada 44 4.1k 0.9× 2.3k 0.9× 1.9k 0.8× 261 0.5× 438 0.9× 131 5.6k
Ken Hinckley United States 44 4.5k 0.9× 2.7k 1.1× 2.3k 1.0× 199 0.4× 348 0.7× 106 5.4k
Andy Cockburn New Zealand 39 2.8k 0.6× 1.4k 0.6× 1.6k 0.7× 381 0.7× 639 1.3× 160 4.8k
Scott E. Hudson United States 58 6.1k 1.3× 3.2k 1.3× 2.9k 1.3× 1.0k 1.9× 1.1k 2.3× 262 10.4k
Shumin Zhai United States 51 6.4k 1.3× 4.7k 1.9× 1.9k 0.8× 351 0.7× 273 0.6× 151 7.8k

Countries citing papers authored by William Buxton

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Buxton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Buxton

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brudy, Frederik, David Ledo, Michel Pahud, et al.. (2020). SurfaceFleet: Exploring Distributed Interactions Unbounded from Device, Application, User, and Time. 7–21. 14 indexed citations
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Buxton, William, et al.. (2006). Getting the Right Design and the Design Right: Testing Many Is Better Than One. Human Factors in Computing Systems. 20 indexed citations
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Buxton, William. (2001). Less is more (more is less). McGraw-Hill, Inc. eBooks. 145–179. 38 indexed citations
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Baecker, Ronald M., Jonathan Grudin, William Buxton, & Saul Greenberg. (1995). Human-computer interaction: toward the year 2000. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc. eBooks. 134 indexed citations
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Baecker, Ronald M., Jonathan Grudin, William Buxton, & Saul Greenberg. (1995). Research frontiers in human-computer interaction. Human-Computer Interaction. 739–740. 1 indexed citations
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Baecker, Ronald M., Jonathan Grudin, William Buxton, & Saul Greenberg. (1995). Considering work contexts in design. Human-Computer Interaction. 9(2). 187–196. 1 indexed citations
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Gujar, Anuj, et al.. (1995). Talking your way around a conference: a speech interface for remote equipment control. Conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research. 26. 2 indexed citations
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Baecker, Ronald M., Jonathan Grudin, William Buxton, & Saul Greenberg. (1995). Development tools. Human-Computer Interaction. 313–321. 13 indexed citations
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Baecker, Ronald M., Jonathan Grudin, William Buxton, & Saul Greenberg. (1995). Design and evaluation. Human-Computer Interaction. 73–91. 130 indexed citations
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Zhai, Shumin, William Buxton, & Paul Milgram. (1994). The “Silk Cursor”. 459–464. 128 indexed citations
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Brown, Edward, et al.. (1990). Windows on tablets as a means of achieving virtual input devices. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. 675–681. 9 indexed citations
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Buxton, William. (1990). A three-state model of graphical input. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. 449–456. 133 indexed citations
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Baecker, Ron & William Buxton. (1987). Human-computer interaction: a multidisciplinary approach. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc. eBooks. 44 indexed citations
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Buxton, William, et al.. (1987). Communicating with sound. Human-Computer Interaction. 420–425. 14 indexed citations
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Buxton, William, et al.. (1985). Music Synthesis by Simulation Using a General-Purpose Signal Processing System. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 1985. 1 indexed citations
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Buxton, William, et al.. (1980). On the Specification of Scope in Interactive Score Editors. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 1980. 2 indexed citations
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Buxton, William, et al.. (1980). A Microprocessor-based Conducting System. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 1980. 2 indexed citations
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Buxton, William, et al.. (1979). A Computer-Based System for the Performance of Electroacoustic Music. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. 2 indexed citations
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Buxton, William, et al.. (1978). An Overview of the Structured Sound Synthesis Project. International Computer Music Conference. 1978(10). 1116–1123. 2 indexed citations
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Reeves, William T., et al.. (1978). Ludwig: an Example of Interactive Computer Graphics in a Score Editor. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 1978. 6 indexed citations

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