William Gaver

16.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
99 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

William Gaver is a scholar working on Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, William Gaver has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Human-Computer Interaction, 14 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 12 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in William Gaver's work include Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (63 papers), Interactive and Immersive Displays (28 papers) and Usability and User Interface Design (22 papers). William Gaver is often cited by papers focused on Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (63 papers), Interactive and Immersive Displays (28 papers) and Usability and User Interface Design (22 papers). William Gaver collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Denmark. William Gaver's co-authors include Elena Pacenti, T. C. Dunne, Steve Benford, Andy Boucher, Phoebe Sengers, Jeffrey S. Bowers, Sarah Pennington, Brendan Walker, Randall B. Smith and Tim O’Shea and has published in prestigious journals such as Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Cognition & Emotion and International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.

In The Last Decade

William Gaver

96 papers receiving 8.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Design: Cultural probes

1999 1.4k citations William Gaver et al. interactions profile →
Ambiguity as a resource for design

2003 862 citations William Gaver et al. profile →
What should we expect from research through design?

2012 655 citations William Gaver profile →
What in the World Do We Hear?: An Ecological Approach to Auditory Event Perception

1993 571 citations William Gaver profile →
Staying open to interpretation

2006 430 citations William Gaver et al. profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by William Gaver

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Gaver

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Gaver

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

All Works

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Research Products and Time: When, For How Long, And Then What? 2025 ·IT University Of Copenhagen (IT University of Copenhagen) ·Arne Berger, Stephan Hildebrandt, (unknown), William Odom, Tom Jenkins, James Pierce, David Chatting, Doenja Oogjes, Sara Nabil, Andy Boucher, William Gaver	0
2	Is it Art, is it HCI? Exploring Tensions Between Practice and Research 2023 ·Chalmers Research (Chalmers University of Technology) ·Makayla Lewis, Miriam Sturdee, (unknown), (unknown), Sarah Fdili Alaoui, (unknown), William Gaver, Eli Blevis, Lian Loke	6
3	‘URBAN & SUBURBAN NATURE INTERACTIONS’, IMPACTS AND SERENDIPITOUS NARRATIVES OF THE MY NATUREWATCH PROJECT 2020 ·Proceedings of the Design Society DESIGN Conference ·Robert Phillips, R. Anderson, (unknown), William Gaver, Andy Boucher	1
4	The Things of Design Research 2017 ·IT University Of Copenhagen (IT University of Copenhagen) ·Tom Jenkins, Kristina Andersen, William Gaver, William Odom, James Pierce, Anna Vallgårda	8
5	Attending to Objects as Outcomes of Design Research 2016 ·IT University Of Copenhagen (IT University of Copenhagen) ·Tom Jenkins, Kristina Andersen, William Gaver, William Odom, James Pierce, Anna Vallgårda	12
6	Experimental Thinking / Design Practices 2015 ·Goldsmiths (University of London) ·William Gaver, Mike Michael, Tobie Kerridge, (unknown), (unknown), Alex Wilkie, Jennifer Gabrys, Andy Boucher	2
7	What should we expect from research through design? breakdown → 2012 ·William Gaver	655
8	The photostroller 2011 ·Goldsmiths (University of London) ·William Gaver, Andy Boucher, Jeffrey S. Bowers, Mark Blythe, Nadine Jarvis, David Cameron, Tobie Kerridge, Alex Wilkie, (unknown), Peter Wright	61
9	Design documentaries 2006 ·(unknown), William Gaver, (unknown)	58
10	The history tablecloth 2006 ·Goldsmiths (University of London) ·William Gaver, Jeffrey S. Bowers, Andy Boucher, (unknown), Sarah Pennington, (unknown)	102
11	Developing the drift table 2006 ·interactions ·Andy Boucher, William Gaver	15
12	Evaluating the Double-Deck Desk 2003 ·Goldsmiths (University of London) ·William Gaver, Andy Boucher, (unknown)	4
13	Proceedings of the 4th conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques 2002 ·(unknown), Alistair Sutcliffe, Wendy E. Mackay, (unknown), William Gaver	5
14	Interaction relabelling and extreme characters 2000 ·J.P. Djajadiningrat, William Gaver, (unknown)	193
15	Feather, Scent, and Shaker: Supporting Simple Intimacy 1996 ·(unknown), William Gaver	151
16	ENO 1994 ·Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, William Gaver	14
17	One is not enough 1993 ·William Gaver, Abigail Sellen, Christian Heath, Paul Luff	182
18	Effective sounds in complex systems 1991 ·William Gaver, Randall B. Smith, Tim O’Shea	217
19	Auditory Icons 1987 ·ACM SIGCHI Bulletin ·William Gaver	28
20	Auditory Icons: Using Sound in Computer Interfaces 1986 ·Human-Computer Interaction ·William Gaver	421

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