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  • August 25th, 2010
    I was honored as one of Technology Review's 2010 Young Innovators Under 35. Check out Tom Simonite's profile of my work and me. Also, check out Rob Knies's writeup about the five Microsoft Researchers included in this year's TR35 .


  • August 20th, 2010
    I just physically turned in my dissertation. Check it out here. It is titled "Supporting Everyday Activities through Always-Available Mobile Computing"


  • May 13th, 2010
    After I complete my Ph.D. this summer, I will be starting as a Researcher in the Computational User Experiences (CUE) group within the VIBE group at Microsoft Research.


  • April 22nd, 2010
    The PLAY AS LIFE gaming blog caught up with me at CHI 2010 to talk about muscle-computer interfaces and gaming. Check out their interview with me.


  • March 2nd, 2010
    The New York Times Technology Blog, Gizmodo, Brier Dudley's Seattle Times Blog, TechCrunch, Xconomy, Seeking Alpha, gizmag and ars technica covered our presence at Microsoft Research's TechFest 2010. The Microsoft Research News Page also described our "Body Computing" work as a part of an article on "New, Natural User Interfaces."


  • Jan 15th, 2009
    In April, I will be presenting our note Making Muscle-Computer Interfaces More Practical at CHI 2010 in Atlanta, GA. This note builds on our previous work in muscle-computer interfaces by tackling the challenges of creating sensing hardware suitable for mobile and off-desktop environments, electrodes that can be put on quickly without adhesives or gel, and gesture recognition techniques that require no new training or calibration after re-donning a muscle-sensing armband.




  • October 28th, 2009
    Kate Greene of the MIT Technology Review wrote up an article about our work on Muscle-Computer Interfaces. She discusses our approach to muscle-sensing for computer input and our paper at UIST 2009.


  • October 26th, 2009
    Following Johhny Lee's post to his Procrastineering Blog about the video figure (shown below) from our paper at UIST 2009, the following websites picked up the story: ACM TechNews, Engadget, Gizmodo, Joystiq, Kotaku, LiveScience, Makezine, Popular Science, Slashdot, and TechRadar.



    For a longer clip of the Guitar Hero demo, here is a video of me playing Air Guitar Hero.

    All versions on YouTube: mine, CHI, and TechFlash.


  • September 25th, 2009
    We have a paper combining muscle sensing and the Microsoft Surface at the Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2009 conference. Check out our video to see our interaction techniques in action!


  • August 19th, 2009
    Our work on Muscle-Computer Interfaces was mentioned in an article in Forbes Magazine by Lee Gomes. His article describes the importance of the keyboard and mouse in our everyday lives and some of the alternative input approaches researchers have explored.


  • July 25th, 2009
    Come to UIST 2009 in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia and see me present our paper on Muscle-Computer Interfaces. In our latest work, we are exploring directly using muscles for input in situations (such as carrying objects) where normal physical input devices are inconvient or impossible to use.

    I will also be co-presenting a Tech Note on our new work prototyping new methods for Tongue-Computer Input.


  • August 18th, 2008
    Dr. Bill Crounse, senior director of worldwide health at Microsoft, stopped by Microsoft Research and interviewed several people, including me, about our current research. He wrote and spoke about our work on Muscle-Computer Input in his Health Blog and on Microsoft's Channel 10.


  • April 24th, 2008
    New Scientist and the blogosphere recently covered our work on Muscle-Computer Input.

  • Feb 1st, 2008
    On Tuesday April 8, come see me present my paper with Desney Tan, Dan Morris, & Ravin Balakrishnan on Muscle-Computer Interfaces at CHI in Florence, Italy. Check out the entire CHI Schedule.

  • Jan 31st, 2008
    I was selected as a 2008 Microsoft Research Fellow sponsored by Microsoft Research.

  • Jan 1st, 2007
    My recent work on the privacy properties of the Nike+iPod Sport Kit has appeared in several media outlets including NPR, CNN, FoxNews, BBC, LA Times, Seattle PI, & Wired.

Authored by T. Scott Saponas.