T. Scott Saponas
http://research.microsoft.com/~ssaponasssaponas [at] microsoft.com
Alumni
Computer Science & Engineering
@saponas
I am a Researcher in the
Computational User Experiences (CUE) group
within the VIBE area at Microsoft Research.
I recently completed my PhD in the Computer Science
& Engineering department at the University
of Washington where I was advised by
Professor James Landay and
Dr. Desney Tan.
My general research interests are Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and
Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp). More specifically, I tend to spend most of my
time exploring off-desktop interfaces including Physiological Computing and
"Natural User Interfaces."
In my dissertation work, I created new human-computer interfaces by exploring
techniques to harness the untapped bandwidth of the human body for physiological
interfaces to computing. The focus of my work in this area has been
muscle-computer interfaces.
This work has led to conference publications at
CHI '08,
UIST '09,
Tabletop '09,
and CHI '10
as well as an invited article at
XRDS Magazine.
Projects
Publications
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Making Muscle-Computer Interfaces More Practical T. Scott Saponas, Desney Tan, Dan Morris, Jim Turner and James A. Landay Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010. CHI Note (PDF) |
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Enhancing Input On and Above the Interactive Surface with Muscle Sensing Hrvoje Benko, T. Scott Saponas, Dan Morris and Desney Tan ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, 2009. Full Paper (PDF) |
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Enabling Always-Available Input with Muscle-Computer Interfaces T. Scott Saponas, Desney Tan, Dan Morris, Ravin Balakrishnan, Jim Turner and James A. Landay Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2009. Full Paper (PDF) |
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Optically Sensing Tongue Gestures for Computer Input T. Scott Saponas, Daniel Kelly, Babak A Parviz and Desney Tan Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2009. Tech Note (PDF) |
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VoiceLabel: Using Speech to Label Mobile Sensor Data Susumu (丞) Harada (原田), Jonathan Lester, Kayur Patel, T. Scott Saponas, James Fogarty, James A. Landay and Jacob O. Wobbrock International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 2008. Full Paper (PDF) |
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Demonstrating the Feasibility of Using Forearm Electromyography for Muscle-Computer Interfaces T. Scott Saponas, Desney Tan, Dan Morris and Ravin Balakrishnan Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. Full Paper (PDF) |
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iLearn on the iPhone: Real-Time Human Activity Classification on Commodity Mobile Phones T. Scott Saponas, Jonathan Lester, Jon E. Froehlich, James Fogarty and James A. Landay CSE Technical Report , 2008. Technical Report (PDF) |
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VoicePen: Augmenting Pen Input with Simultaneous Non-Linguistic Vocalization Susumu (丞) Harada (原田), T. Scott Saponas and James A. Landay International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 2007. Full Paper (PDF) |
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SketchWizard: Wizard of Oz Prototyping of Pen-Based User Interfaces Richard C. Davis, T. Scott Saponas, Michael Shilman and James A. Landay Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2007. Full Paper (PDF) |
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Devices That Tell On You: Privacy Trends in Consumer Ubiquitous Computing T. Scott Saponas, Jonathan Lester, Carl Hartung, Sameer Agarwal and Tadayoshi Kohno USENIX Security, 2007. Paper (PDF) |
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UbiqStack: a taxonomy for a ubiquitous computing software stack Martin Modahl, Bikash Agarwalla, T. Scott Saponas, Gregory Abowd and Umakishore Ramachandran Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2006. Journal Article |
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External representations in ubiquitous computing design and the implications for design tools Steven Dow, T. Scott Saponas, Yang Li and James A. Landay Designing Interactive Systems, 2006. Paper (PDF) |
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The impact of pre-patterns on the design of digital home applications T. Scott Saponas, Madhu Prabaker, Gregory Abowd and James A. Landay Designing Interactive Systems, 2006. Paper (PDF) |
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Digital Simplicity: Usable Personal Ubicomp James A. Landay, Genevieve Bell and T. Scott Saponas International Forum: 'Less is more - Simple Computing in an Age of Complexity', 2005. Paper (PDF) |
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Toward a standard ubiquitous computing framework Martin Modahl, Bikash Agarwalla, T. Scott Saponas, Matthew Wollenetz, Umakishore Ramachandran and Gregory Abowd International Workshop on Mddleware for Pervasive and Ad-hoc Computing, 2004. Paper (PDF) |