Sensors and Devices Group
Publications
2012
- Nicolas Villar, James Scott, Steve Hodges, Kerry Hammil, and Colin Miller, .NET Gadgeteer: A Platform for Custom Devices, in Proceedings of Pervasive 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, June 2012
- Steve Hodges, Nicolas Villar, James Scott, and Albrecht Schmidt, A New Era for Ubicomp Development, in IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 11, no. 1, IEEE Computer Society, January 2012
2011
- Richard A. Newcombe, Shahram Izadi, Otmar Hilliges, David Molyneaux, David Kim, Andrew J. Davison, Pushmeet Kohli, Jamie Shotton, Steve Hodges, and Andrew Fitzgibbon, KinectFusion: Real-Time Dense Surface Mapping and Tracking, in IEEE ISMAR, IEEE, October 2011
- Shahram Izadi, David Kim, Otmar Hilliges, David Molyneaux, Richard Newcombe, Pushmeet Kohli, Jamie Shotton, Steve Hodges, Dustin Freeman, Andrew Davison, and Andrew Fitzgibbon, KinectFusion: Real-time 3D Reconstruction and Interaction Using a Moving Depth Camera, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, October 2011
- James Scott, A.J. Bernheim Brush, John Krumm, Brian Meyers, Mike Hazas, Steve Hodges, and Nicolas Villar, PreHeat: Controlling Home Heating Using Occupancy Prediction, in Proceedings of UbiComp 2011, ACM, September 2011
- Mike Hazas, Adrian Friday, and James Scott, Look Back before Leaping Forward: Four Decades of Domestic-Energy Inquiry, in IEEE Pervasive Computing, IEEE Computer Society, January 2011
2010
- A. J. Bernheim Brush, John Krumm, and James Scott, Exploring End User Preferences for Location Obfuscation, Location-Based Services, and the Value of Location, in Proceedings of UbiComp 2010, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., September 2010
- James Scott, Shahram Izadi, Leila Sadat Rezai, Dominika Ruszkowski, Xiaojun Bi, and Ravin Balakrishnan, RearType: Text Entry Using Keys on the Back of a Device, in Proceedings of MobileHCI 2010, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., September 2010
- A. J. Bernheim Brush, Amy K. Karlson, James Scott, Raman Sarin, Andy Jacobs, Barry Bond, Oscar Murillo, Galen Hunt, Mike Sinclair, Kerry Hammil, and Steven Levi, User Experiences with Activity-Based Navigation on Mobile Devices, in Proceedings of MobileHCI 2010, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., September 2010
- Steve Hodges and Nicolas Villar, The Hardware Is Not a Given, in To appear in IEEE Computer, IEEE, August 2010
- James Scott, John Krumm, Brian Meyers, A. J. Brush, and Ashish Kapoor, Home Heating Using GPS-Based Arrival Prediction, in Proceedings of Pervasive 2010 Workshop on Energy Awareness and Conservation through Pervasive Applications, Microsoft Research, May 2010
- Xing-Dong Yang, Edward Mak, David McCallum, Pourang Irani, Xiang Cao, and Shahram Izadi, LensMouse: augmenting the mouse with an interactive touch display, in Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2010
- Florian Block, Hans Gellersen, and Nicolas Villar, Touch-display keyboards: transforming keyboards into interactive surfaces, in Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2010
- Daniela Petrelli, Nicolas Villar, Vaiva Kalnikaite, Lina Dib, and Steve Whittaker, FM radio: family interplay with sonic mementos, in Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2010
- Nicolai Marquardt, Alex S. Taylor, Nicolas Villar, and Saul Greenberg, Rethinking RFID: awareness and control for interaction with RFID systems, in Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2010
- Philip Tuddenham, David Kirk, and Shahram Izadi, Graspables revisited: multi-touch vs. tangible input for tabletop displays in acquisition and manipulation tasks, in Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2010
- Nicolai Marquardt, Alex S. Taylor, Nicolas Villar, and Saul Greenberg, Visible and controllable RFID tags, in Proceedings of the 28th of the international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2010
- Xiang Cao, Nicolas Villar, and Shahram Izadi, Comparing user performance with single-finger, whole-hand, and hybrid pointing devices, in Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2010
- Dave Kirk, Shahram Izadi, Abigail Sellen, Stuart Taylor, Richard Banks, and Otmar Hilliges, Opening Up the Family Archive, in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW 2010), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., February 2010
- O. Hilliges, A. Butz, S. Izadi, and A. Wilson, Interaction on the Tabletop: Bringing the Physical to the Digital, in Tabletops - Horizontal Interactive Displays, Springer Verlag, 2010
- Nicolas Villar and Steve Hodges, The Peppermill: a human-powered user interface device, in Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., January 2010
2009
- Shahram Izadi, Steve Hodges, Alex Butler, Darren West, Alban Rrustemi, Mike Molloy, and William Buxton, ThinSight: a thin form-factor interactive surface technology, in Communications of the ACM , vol. 52, no. 12, pp. 90-98, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., December 2009
- Jonathan Hook, Stuart Taylor, Alex Butler, Nicolas Villar, and Shahram Izadi, A Reconfigurable Ferromagnetic Input Device, in Proceeding of UIST 2009, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 4 October 2009
- Otmar Hilliges, Shahram Izadi, Andrew D. Wilson, Steve Hodges, Armando Garcia-Mendoza, and Andreas Butz, Interactions in the Air: Adding Further Depth to Interactive Tabletops , in Proceedings of 22nd ACM Symposium on User Interface and Software Technologies (ACM UIST 2009), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., October 2009
- Nicolas Villar, Shahram Izadi, Dan Rosenfeld, Hrvoje Benko, John Helmes, Jonathan Westhues, Steve Hodges, Eyal Ofek, Alex Butler, Xiang Cao, and Billy Chen, Mouse 2.0: Multi-touch meets the mouse., in Proceedings of UIST 2009, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. p. 33-42. UIST 2009 Best Paper Award., Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., October 2009
- David H. Nguyen, Gabriela Marcu, Gillian R. Hayes, Khai N. Truong, James Scott, Marc Langheinrich, and Christof Roduner, Encountering SenseCam: Personal Recording Technologies in Everyday Life, in Proceedings of UbiComp 2009, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., September 2009
- David Kirk, Abigail Sellen, Stuart Taylor, Nicolas Villar, and Shahram Izadi, Putting the Physical into the Digital:Issues in Designing Hybrid Interactive Surfaces, in In Proceedings of BCS HCI 2009, Cambridge University Press, 1 September 2009
- James Scott, Lorna M. Brown, and Mike Molloy, Mobile Device Interaction with Force Sensing, in Proceedings of Pervasive 2009, LNCS 5538, Springer Verlag, May 2009
- Yuvraj Agarwal, Steve Hodges, Ranveer Chandra, James Scott, Victor Bahl, and Rajesh Gupta, Somniloquy: Augmenting Network Interfaces to Reduce PC Energy Usage, in Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI), USENIX, 22 April 2009
- Otmar Hilliges and David Kirk, Getting Sidetracked: Display Design and Occasioning Photo-Talk with the Photohelix, in Proceedings of the 27th International CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2009
- A.J. Bernheim Brush, Brian R. Meyers, James Scott, and Gina Venolia, Exploring Awareness Needs and Information Display Preferences Between Coworkers, in CHI 2009 Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2009
- Nicolas Villar, Shahram Izadi, Mike Fraser, and Steve Benford, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2009, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., February 2009
- Aaron Quigley, Sriram Subramanian, and Shahram Izadi, Special issue on interaction with coupled and public displays, in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 549-550, Springer Verlag, 2009
2008
- Shahram Izadi, Steve Hodges, Stuart Taylor, Dan Rosenfeld, Nicolas Villar, Alex Butler, and Jonathan Westhues, Going Beyond the Display: A Surface Technology with an Electronically Switchable Diffuser, in ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '08), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 19 October 2008
- Otmar Hilliges, David Kim, and Shahram Izadi, Creating malleable interactive surfaces using liquid displacement sensing, in Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human Computer Systems (TABLETOP 2008), IEEE, October 2008
- Alex Butler, Shahram Izadi, and Steve Hodges, SideSight: multi-"touch" interaction around small devices, in Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '08), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., October 2008
- Shahram Izadi, Alex Butler, Steve Hodges, Darren West, Malcolm Hall, Bill Buxton, and Mike Molloy, Experiences with building a thin form-factor touch and tangible tabletop, in Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TableTop 08), IEEE, October 2008
- Andrew D. Wilson, Shahram Izadi, Otmar Hilliges, Armando Garcia-Mendoza, and David Kirk, Bringing physics to the surface, in Proceedings of the 21st annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (ACM UIST 2008) , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., October 2008
- Nicolas Villar, Flying Low: A Minimalist Wearable Computer , in Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2008), Seoul, South Korea, September 21-24, 2008., Springer Verlag, September 2008
- Richard Harper, tim regan, Shahram Izadi, Kharsim Al Mosawi, Mark Rouncefield, and Simon Rubens, Trafficking: design for the viral exchange of TV content on mobile phones, no. MSR-TR-2008-88, June 2008
- Ignas Budvytis, James Scott, and Alex Butler, Compass-based Automatic Picture Taking using SenseCam, in Adjunct Proceedings of Pervasive 2008, Springer Verlag, May 2008
- Lucia Terrenghi, David Kirk, Hendrik Richter, Sebastian Kramer, Otmar Hilliges, and Andreas Butz, Physical Handles at the Interactive Surface: Exploring Tangibility and its Benefits, in Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., May 2008
- James Scott, Challenges for Privacy with Ubiquitous Sensor Logging, in Proceedings of the Pervasive 2008 Workshop on Security and Privacy Issues in Mobile Phone Use, Springer Verlag, March 2008
- Yuvraj Agarwal, Steve Hodges, James Scott, Ranveer Chandra, Victor Bahl, and Rajesh Gupta, Somniloquy: Maintaining network connectivity while your computer sleeps, no. MSR-TR-2008-42, March 2008
- William Gaver, Andy Boucher, Andy Law, Sarah Pennington, John Bowers, Jacob Beaver, Jan Humble, Tobie Kerridge, Nicolas Villar, and Alex Wilkie, Threshold devices: looking out from the home, in Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, Florence, Italy, April 5-10, 2008, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2008
- Rui José, Nuno Otero, Shahram Izadi, and Richard Harper, Instant Places: Using Bluetooth for Situated Interaction in Public Displays, in Pervasive Computing, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 52-57, IEEE, 2008
- Nishkam Ravi, James Scott, Lu Han, and Liviu Iftode, Context-aware Battery Management for Mobile Phones, in Proceedings of the Sixth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2008), IEEE, 2008
2007
- Stuart Taylor, Shahram Izadi, Kursat Ozenc, and Richard Harper, VideoPlay: Playful and Social Editing of Video using Tangible Objects and Multi-touch Interaction, in IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TABLETOP '07), IEEE, 10 October 2007
- Ankur Agarwal, Shahram Izadi, Manmohan Chandraker, and Andrew Blake, High Precision Multi-touch Sensing on Surfaces using Overhead Cameras, in Second IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (Tabletop 2007), IEEE, October 2007
- Steve Hodges, Shahram Izadi, Alex Butler, Alban Rrustemi, and Bill Buxton, ThinSight: versatile multi-touch sensing for thin form-factor displays, in UIST '07: Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, Newport, Rhode Island, USA, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York, NY, USA, October 2007
- Alex S. Taylor, R. Harper, Laurel Swan, Shahram Izadi, Abigail Sellen, and Mark Perry, Homes that make us smart, in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 383-393, Springer Verlag, June 2007
- Steve Hodges, Alan Thorne, Hugo Mallinson, and Christian Floerkemeier, Assessing and Optimizing the Range of UHF RFID to Enable Real-World Pervasive Computing Applications, in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2007), Springer Verlag, May 2007
- A. Bilgen and S. Izadi, Using Cellphones to Interact with Public Displays from a Distance, in Adjunct Proceedings of Pervasive Computing, 5th International Conference (PERVASIVE 2007), Springer Verlag, May 2007
- Lucia Terrenghi, David Kirk, Abigail Sellen, and Shahram Izadi, Affordances for Manipulation of Physical versus Digital Media on Interactive Surfaces, in Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2007
- Hugo Mallison, Steve Hodges, and Alan Thorne, A System to Test the Performance of RFID-Tagged Objects, in Proceedings of the 2007 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet Workshops (SAINTW'07), IEEE Computer Society, 2007
- Emma Berry, Narinder Kapur, Lyndsay Williams, Steve Hodges, Peter Watson, Gavin Smyth, James Srinivasan, Reg Smith, Barbara Wilson, and Ken Wood, The use of a wearable camera, SenseCam, as a pictorial diary to improve autobiographical memory in a patient with limbic encephalitis: A preliminary report, in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, vol. 17, no. 4/5, pp. 582-601, 2007
- Steve Hodges, Shahram Izadi, Alex Butler, and Alban Rrustemi, ThinSight: A new interaction technology for ubicomp, in In Adjunct proceedings of 9th international Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, 2007
- Shahram Izadi, Steve Hodges, Alex Butler, Alban Rrustemi, and Bill Buxton, ThinSight: integrated optical multi-touch sensing through thin form-factor displays, in EDT '07: Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on Emerging displays technologies, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2007
- Desney Tan, Mary Czerwinski, Gordon Bell, Emma Berry, Jim Gemmell, Steve Hodges, Narinder Kapur, Brian Meyers, Nuria Oliver, George Robertson, and Ken Wood, Save Everything: Supporting Human Memory with a Personal Digital Lifetime Store, in Personal Information Management: Challenges and Opportunities (eds. William Jones and Jaime Teevan), 2007
- Shahram Izadi, Ankur Agarwal, Antonio Criminisi, John Winn, Andrew Blake, and Andrew Fitzgibbon, C-Slate: A Multi-Touch and Object Recognition System for Remote Collaboration using Horizontal Surfaces, in Proceedings of the Second Annual IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (Tabletop 2007), IEEE, 2007
- Barry Brown, Alex Taylor, Shahram Izadi, Abigail Sellen, Joseph Jofish’ Kaye, and Rachel Eardley, Locating family values: A field trial of the Whereabouts Clock, in Proceedings of Ubicomp 2007, Springer-Verlag, 2007
2006
- Alex S. Taylor, Laurel Swan, Rachel Eardley, Steve Hodges, Tim Regan, Abigail Sellen, and K. R. Wood, Augmenting refrigerator magnets: why less is sometimes more, in Proceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York, NY, October 2006
- Steve Hodges, Lyndsay Williams, Emma Berry, Shahram Izadi, James Srinivasan, Alex Butler, Gavin Smyth, Narinder Kapur, and Ken Wood, SenseCam: A Retrospective Memory Aid, in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2006), Springer Verlag, September 2006
- A. Taylor, S. Izadi, L. Swan, B. Buxton, and R. Harper, Building Bowls for Miscellaneous Media, in Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Physicality (Physicality 2006), July 2006
- Abigail Sellen, Richard Harper, Rachel Eardley, S. Izadi, Tim Regan, Alex S. Taylor, and Kenneth R. Wood, HomeNote: Supporting Situated messaging in the home, in Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW '06), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., Banff, Canada, 2006
- Shahram Izadi and Steve Hodges, wasp: a platform for prototyping ubiquitous computing devices, in Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges for Ubiquitous Computing, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2006
- Rachel Eardley, Laurel Swan, Abigail Sellen, Alex Taylor, steve hodges, Ken Wood, and Lyndsay Williams, Designing Augmented Refrigerator Magnets, Springer-Verlag, January 2006
- Hugo Mallinson, Steve Hodges, and Alan Thorne, Determining a Better Metric for RFID Performance in Environments with varying Noise Levels, in 12th IEEE International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics, IEEE, 2006
- Abigail Sellen, Rachel Eardley, Shahram Izadi, and Richard Harper, The whereabouts clock: early testing of a situated awareness device, in CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2006
- E. Berry, M. Conway, C. Moulin, H. Williams, S. Hodges, L. Williams, K. Wood, and G. Smith, Stimulating episodic memory: Initial explorations using SenseCam, in Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society. 47th Annual Meeting, Oxford University Press, 2006
2005
- L. Swan, S. Izadi, A. Taylor, R. Harper, and A. Sellen, Rethinking the "Smart" Home, in Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Environments, IEEE, June 2005
- Paul Duff, Michael McCarthy, Angus Clark, Henk Muller, Cliff Randell, Shahram Izadi, Andy Boucher, Andy Law, Sarah Pennington, and Richard Swinford, A New Method for Auto-calibrated Object Tracking, in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2005), Springer Verlag, 2005
2004
- Mike Hazas, James Scott, and John Krumm, Location-Aware Computing Comes of Age, in IEEE Computer, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 95–97, IEEE, February 2004
Talks
2008
- Steve Hodges, Research in the Sensors and Devices Group, Microsoft Research, 19 November 2008
- Steve Hodges, Surface Computing and Beyond: More Expressive Interaction, Microsoft Research, 18 November 2008
- Steve Hodges, Surface computing: The post-PC experience, Microsoft Research, 8 October 2008
2007
- Steve Hodges, Casting a wider net: New applications for wireless sensing, Microsoft Research, 18 October 2007
- Steve Hodges, Group overview and ThinSight, Microsoft Research, 12 October 2007
- Steve Hodges, Group overview and various projects, Microsoft Research, 12 October 2007
- Emma Berry and Georgina Browne, SenseCam: a wearable camera can help improve autobiographical memory in patients with Alzheimer's disease, Microsoft Research, September 2007
- Georgina Browne, SenseCam and memory rehabilitation, Microsoft Research, July 2007
- Emma Berry, SenseCam and memory rehabilitation, Microsoft Research, July 2007
- Georgina Browne, Stimulating episodic memory using SenseCam, Microsoft Research, June 2007
- Emma Berry, Using SenseCam, a wearable camera, to alleviate autobiographical memory loss, Microsoft Research, March 2007
2006
- Emma Berry, The use of a wearable camera, SenseCam, as a pictorial diary to improve autobiographical memory in a patient with severe memory impairment, Microsoft Research, December 2006
- Steve Hodges, SenseCam, wireless sensors and RFID, Microsoft Research, 14 November 2006
- Emma Berry, Sensecam as an aid for autobiographical memory in an amnesic patient and other applications, Microsoft Research, July 2006
2005
- Steve Hodges and Richard Harper, Just what you need: Simplifying electronic devices, Microsoft Research, 27 April 2005
2004
- Steve Hodges, Track and trace for the global supply chain using RFID, Microsoft Research, 3 November 2004
Sensors and Devices
Careers
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