Publications

Coming Soon to a Conference Near You!

• Tang, A., Pahud, M., Inkpen, K. M., Benko, H., Tang, J. C., and Buxton, W. (to appear). Three's Company: Understanding Communication Channels in Three-way Distributed Collaboration. To Appear in Proceedings of CSCW 2010. (conference - Acceptance: 58/288 - 20%; '''Best Paper Nominee'''))

• Wong, N., Tang, A., Livingston, I., Gutwin, C., and Mandryk, R. (to appear). Character Sharing in World of Warcraft. To Appear in Proceedings of ECSCW 2009.

Journal Papers

• Miyaoku, K., Tang, A., and Fels, S. (2007). C-Band: A Ring Tag System Using a Color Pattern Code. Information Processing Society of Japan Transactions on Database, Vol. 48, No. 3, March, pp: 1361-1371. (journal, in Japanese)

• Jeffrey, P., Blackstock, M., Finke, M., Tang, A., Lea R., Deutscher, M., Miyaoku, K. (2007). Chasing the Fugitive on Campus: Designing a Location-based Game for Collaborative Play¹. Loading…, Vol 1, No. 1. (journal)

• Tang, A., Boyle, M. and Greenberg, S. (2005). Display and Presence Disparity in Mixed Presence Groupware². Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 37, No. 2, May, pp: 71-88. (journal)

Conference Papers

• Tang, A., Lanir, J., Greenberg, S., and Fels, S. (2009). Supporting Transitions in Work: Informing Large Display Application Design by Understanding Whiteboard Use. In Proceedings of GROUP 2009. (May 10-13, 2009, Sanibel Island, USA). ACM Press. pp: 149-158. (conference - Acceptance: 40/110 - 36%)

• Finke, M., Tang, A., Leung, R. & Blackstock, M. (2008). Lessons Learned: Game Design for Large Public Displays. In Proceedings of the 3rd international Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts (DIMEA 2008). (September 10-12, Athens, Greece). ACM Press. pp: 26-33. (conference - Acceptance: 59/77 - 77%)

• Isenberg, P., Tang, A., and Carpendale, M. S. T. (2008). Exploratory Study of Visual Information Analysis. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2008). (April 5-10, Florence, Italy). ACM Press. pp: 1217-1226. (conference - Acceptance: 157/714 - 22%)

• Lanir, J., Booth, K. S. & Tang, A. (2008). MultiPresenter: A Presentation System for (Very) Large Display Spaces. In Proceedings of the 16th international Conference on Multimedia (MULTIMEDIA 2008). (October 27 - November 1, 2008, Vancouver, Canada). ACM Press. (conference - Acceptance: 56/280: 20%)

• Tang, A., Finke, M., Blackstock, M., Leung, R., Deutscher, M., and Lea, R. (2008). Designing for Bystanders: Reflections on Building a Public Digital Forum. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2008). (April 5-10, Florence, Italy). ACM Press. pp: 879-882.(conference - Acceptance: 61/340 - 18%)

• Tang, A., Greenberg, S., and Fels, S. (2008). Exploring Video Streams using Slit-Tear Visualizations. In Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2008). (May 28-30, Napoli, Italy). ACM Press. pp: 191-198. (conference - Acceptance: 32/117 - 27%)

• Miyaoku, K., Tang, A., and Fels, S. (2007). C-Band: A Flexible Ring Tag System for Camera-Based User Interface³. In Proceedings of HCI International 2007 (HCII 2007). (July 22-27, Beijing, China). Springer LNCS 4563. pp: 320-328. (conference - Acceptance: 34%)

• Shoemaker, G., Tang, A., and Booth, K. S. (2007). Shadow Reaching: A New Perspective on Interaction for Large Wall Displays. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software Technology (UIST 2007). (October 7-10, Newport, RI, USA). pp: 53-56. (conference - Acceptance: 24/129 - 19%)

• Fels, S., Hausch, R., and Tang, A. (2006). Investigation of Haptic Feedback in the Driver Seat. In Proceedings of 9th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2006). (September 17-20, Toronto, Canada). pp: 584-589. (conference - Acceptance: 286/424 - 68%)

• Siu, N., Iverson, L., and Tang, A. (2006). Going with the Flow: Email Awareness and Task Management. In Proceedings of 2006 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2006). (November 4-8, Banff, Alberta). pp: 441-450. ACM Press. (conference - Acceptance: 47/212 - 22%)

• Tang, A., Neustaedter, C., and Greenberg, S. (2006). VideoArms: Embodiments for Mixed Presence Groupware. In Proceedings of the 20th British HCI Group Annual Conference (HCI 2006). (September 11-15, Queen Mary, University of London). pp: 85-102. (conference - Acceptance: 13/53 - 25%)

• Tang, A., Tory, M., Po, B., Neumann, P., and Carpendale, M. S. T. (2006). Collaborative Coupling over Tabletop Displays. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2006). (April 24-27, Montreal, Quebec). pp: 1181-1190. ACM Press. (conference - Acceptance: 118/508 - 23%)

• Kruger, R., Carpendale, M.S.T, Scott, S. D., and Tang, A. (2005). Fluid Orientation on a Tabletop Display: Integrating Rotation and Translation. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2005). (April 2-7, Portland, Oregon). pp: 601-610. ACM Press. (conference - Acceptance: 93/371 - 25%)

• Tang, A., McLachlan, P., Lowe, K., Saka, C. R. and MacLean, K. (2005). Perceiving Ordinal Data Haptically Under Workload. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2005). (October 4-6, Trento, Italy). pp: 317-324. ACM Press. (conference - Acceptance: 24/97 - 25%; '''Best Paper Award''')

Conference Videos

• Tang, A., Greenberg, S., and Fels, S. (2009). Exploring Video Streams Using Slit-Tear Visualizations. In Proceedings of the 27th international Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2009). (April 4-9, 2009, Boston, USA). ACM Press. pp: 3509-3510. (draft video; conference - best research video nominee)

• Tang, A., Pattison, E. and Greenberg, S. (2005). DartMail: Digital Information Transfer through Physical Surrogates. (video) Video Proceedings of ECSCW - European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Sept 18-22, Paris). Video and 2-page summary, duration 4:39. (conference)

• Tang, A., Neustaedter, C. and Greenberg, S. (2004). VideoArms: Supporting Remote Embodiment in Groupware. (Google video) Video Proceedings of the ACM CSCW Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. (November 6-10, Chicago, Illinois). ACM Press. Video and abstract, duration 5:20. (conference)

Other Refereed Contributions

• Tang, A. (2006). Surface use in meeting room collaboration. In Conference Companion of the ACM CSCW Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. (November 4-8, Banff, Alberta, Canada). pp: 43-44. ACM Press. (doctoral colloquium poster, conference)

• Tang, A., Parker, J. K., Lanir, J., Booth, K. S. and Fels, S. (2006). Studying Collaborative Surface Use to Guide Large Display Interaction Design. In Conference Companion of the ACM CSCW Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. (November 4-8, Banff, Alberta, Canada). pp: 219-220. ACM Press. (interactive poster, conference)

Workshop Papers

• Tang, A. & Fels, S. (2008). Four Lessons from Traditional MDEs. ACM CSCW 2008 Workshop on Beyond the Laboratory: Supporting Authentic Collaboration with Multiple Displays. Organized by Biehl, J., Golovchinsky, G., and Lyons, K. (workshop)

• Tang, A., Finke, M., Blackstock, M., Leung, R., Deutscher, M., Tain, G., and Giesbrecht, C. (2008). Designing for Bystanders: Reflections on Building a Public Digital Forum⁴. ACM CHI 2008 Workshop on Designing and Evaluating Mobile Phone-based Interaction with Public Displays. Organized by Sas, C., and Dix, A. (workshop)

• Agarawala, A., Tang, A. and Greenberg, S. (2006). Browsing Pornography: An Interface Design Perspective. ACM CHI 2006 Workshop on Sexual Interactions. Organized by Brewer, J., Kaye, J., Williams, A., and Wyche S. (workshop)

• Tang, A. and Neustaedter, C. (2006). Visualizing Egocentric Relationships in Instant Messaging. ACM CHI 2006 Workshop on Social Visualization: Exploring Text, Audio and Video Interactions. Organized by Karahalios, K. and Viegas, F. (workshop)

• Tang, A. and Greenberg, S. (2005). Supporting Awareness in Mixed Presence Groupware. ACM CHI 2005 Workshop on Awareness systems: Known Results, Theory, Concepts and Future Challenges. Organized by Markopoulos, P., de Ruyter, B., and Mackay, W. April. (workshop)

Technical Reports

• Tang, A., Lanir, Y., Greenberg, S. & Fels, S. (2008). Uncovering Activity and Patterns in Video using Slit-Tear Visualizations. Report UBC CS Technical Report TR-2008-08, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4, July.

• Tang, A. and Fels, S. (2006). "What I Want, Where I Want:" Reference Material Use in Tabletop Work. UBC CS Technical Report TR-2006-05, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4, March.

• Tang, A., Kratt, D., Carpendale, S. and Dunning, A. (2003). Sensing and Visualising Physiological Arousal. (Google video) Report 2003-727-30, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4, July.

Footnotes

1. Previously: Jeffrey P., Blackstock, M., Deutscher, M., Lea, R., Miyaoku, K., and Tang, A. (2006). Chasing ''The Fugitive'' on Campus: Designing a Location-Based Game for Collaborative Play. Canadian Game Studies Association 2006 Symposium. (abstract, symposium)

2. Previously: Tang, A., Boyle, M. and Greenberg, S. (2004). Display and Presence Disparity in Mixed Presence Groupware. In Proceedings of the Fifth Australasian User Interface Conference, Volume 28 in the CRPIT Conferences in Research and Information Technology Series, (Dunedin, NZ - January), Australian Computer Society Inc., p73-82. (conference)

3. Previously: Miyaoku, K., Tang, A., and Fels, S. (2006). C-Band: A Flexible Color Ring Tag System. In Proceedings of Interaction 2006. (March 2-3, Tokyo, Japan). (conference, in Japanese). pp: 3-10.

4. Extended version of the short paper presented at CHI 2008, including detailed observations from the actual deployment.