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T. Scott Saponas
I am a PhD candidate in the Computer Science & Engineering department at the University of Washington advised by Professor James Landay and Dr. Desney Tan. My research interests include Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), and Physiological Computing. In my current work, I create 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 dissertation research is muscle-computer interfaces. This work has led to conference publications at CHI '08, UIST '09, Tabletop '09, and CHI '10.
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contact information
ssaponas@cs.washington.edu
office: CSE 318
lab: CSE 605
Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
Box 352350
Seattle, WA 98195-2350
I am completing my PhD in June 2010 and am seeking an academic or industrial research
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Jan 15th, 2009
On Tuesday, April 13th at 11:30 AM, I will be presenting our note Making Muscle-Computer Interfaces More Practical in the Brains and Brawn session 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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.