Desney S. Tan

Desney S. Tan has been a Researcher in the Visualization and Interaction Group at Microsoft Research since 2004. He also holds an affiliate faculty appointment in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. His research interests include human-computer interaction and brain-computer interfaces. Specifically, he spends most of his time understanding and building applications for large displays, multiple device systems, as well as wearable brain imaging devices. However, he has worked on projects in many other domains. He received B.S. degree in computer engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1996, after which he spent a couple of years building bridges and blowing things up in the Singapore Armed Forces. He later returned to Carnegie Mellon University, where he worked with Randy Pausch in his Stage 3 Research Group and earned his Ph.D. degree in computer science in 2004.

Biography Updated on 10 May 2007

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Physically large displays improve performance on spatial tasks
    ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 71–99, 2006
  2. FacetMap: A Scalable Search and Browse Visualization
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 797–804, 2006
  3. Large Displays Enhance Optical Flow Cues and Narrow the Gender Gap in 3-D Virtual Navigation
    Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 318–333, 2006
  4. The Large-Display User Experience
    IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 44–51, 2005
  5. Developing a generic augmented-reality interface
    Computer, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 44–50, 2002