http://research.microsoft.com/~desney
desney [at] cs.washington.edu
Affiliate Faculty
Microsoft Research, Computer Science & Engineering
My research interests include Human-Computer Interaction and Brain-Computer Interfaces. Specifically, I spend most of my time understanding and building applications for large displays, multiple device systems, as well as wearable brain imaging devices. However, I am a somewhat schizophrenic researcher and have worked on projects in many other domains.
I received my Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1996, after which I spent a couple of years building bridges and blowing things up in the Singapore Armed Forces. I later returned to Carnegie Mellon University, where I worked with Randy Pausch in his Stage 3 Research Group and earned my PhD in Computer Science in 2004. In 2007, I was honored as one of MIT Technology Review's Young Innovators Under 35 for my work in brain-computer interfaces.
Muscle-Computer Interfaces
Publications:
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James Fogarty,
Desney Tan,
Ashish Kapoor and
Simon Winder.
CueFlik: Interactive Concept Learning in Image Search.
CHI 2008. -
T. Scott Saponas,
Desney Tan,
Dan Morris and
Ravin Balakrishnan.
Demonstrating the Feasibility of Using Forearm Electromyography for Muscle-Computer Interfaces.
CHI 2008. -
David Grimes,
Desney Tan,
Scott Hudson,
Pradeep Shenoy and
Rajesh Rao.
Feasibility and Pragmatics of Classifying Working Memory Load with an Electroencephalograph.
CHI 2008. -
Pradeep Shenoy and
Desney Tan.
Human-Aided Computing: Utilizing Implicit Human Processing to Classify Images.
CHI 2008. -
Krzysztof Z Gajos,
Katherine Everitt,
Desney Tan,
Mary Czerwinski and
Daniel S. Weld.
Predictability and Accuracy in Adaptive User Interfaces.
CHI 2008.
