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e: tonyt @ ucalgary.ca
o: Math Sciences 680B		I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary.

My research interests are situated in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) -- the study of how people work together using technology -- with a twist of Ubiquitous Computing -- technology in everyday scenarios. My current research investigates the integration of mobile devices in large display environments, exploration into personal informatics, and telecommunication technologies for collaborative work.

I am a proud member of the Extremely Tall and Extremely Short HCI Researchers Club. If you haven't met me, I am a very very tall guy. Really.

I am currently recruiting undergrad researchers and MSc candidates. See the Minions page for more information.

Recent Work (March 21, 2012)

Dillman, K., MacLeod, H., Ledo, D., Aseniero, B. A., Boring, S. and Tang, A. (to appear). OneSpace: Seeing Oneself in a Shared Mirror for Play and Learning. To Appear in Demo program in GRAND 2013.

Ledo, D., Aseniero, B. A., Greenberg, S., Boring, S., and Tang, A. (to appear). OneSpace: Shared Depth-Corrected Video Interaction. To Appear in Extended Abstracts of CHI 2013.

MacLeod, H., and Tang, A. (to appear). Towards Personal Informatics Tools for Chronic Illness Management. To Appear in GRAND 2013. (conference - Acceptance 53% - 36/68).

MacLeod, H., Tang, A., and Carpendale, S. (to appear). Personal Informatics in Chronic Illness Management. To Appear in Graphics Interface 2013. (conference - Acceptance 38% - 16/42).

MacLeod, H., and Tang, A. (to appear). Shared Displays to Facilitate Discussions Surrounding Patient Data. To Appear in CHI 2013 Workshop on Patient-Client Communication, organized by Rupa Patel, Lauren Wilcox, Anthony Back, Mary Czerwinski, Eric Horvitz, Paul Gorman, and Wanda Pratt.

Tang, R., and Tang, A. (to appear). In-place Annotation of Physical Objects with Pico-Projectors. To Appear in GRAND 2013. (conference - Acceptance 53% - 36/68).

Weigel, M., Boring, S., Steimel, J., Tang, A., and Greenberg, S. (to appear). From Focus to Context and Back: Combining Mobile Projectors and Stationary Displays. To Appear in GRAND 2013. (conference - Acceptance 53% - 36/68).

Genest, A., Gutwin, C., Tang, A., Kalyn, M., and Ivkovic. Z. (2013). KinectArms: a Toolkit for Capturing and Displaying Arm Embodiments in Distributed Tabletop Groupware. In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2013), pp: 157-166. (conference) - Acceptance (139/390 - 35.5%).

Isenberg, P., Isenberg, T., Hesselmann, T., Lee, B., von Zadow, U., and Tang, A. Data Visualization on Interactive Surfaces: A Research Agenda. (2013). IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 33 (2), 16-24, March-April 2013, doi:10.1109/MCG.2013.24

Neustaedter, C., Tang, A., and Judge, T. (2013). Creating Scalable Location-Based Games: Lessons from Geocaching. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 17 (2), 335-349.

Yarosh, S., Tang, A., Mokashi, S., and Abowd, G. D. (to appear). "Almost Touching:" Parent-Child Remote Communication Using the ShareTable System. In Proceedings of CSCW 2013, pp: 181-192. (conference) - Acceptance (139/390 - 35.5%).


Boring, S., Ledo, D., Chen, X. 'A.', Tang, A., Marquardt, N., and Greenberg, S. (2012). The Fat Thumb: Using the Thumb's Contact Size for Single-Handed Mobile Interaction. In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2012). (conference - Acceptance 54/212 - 25%). pp: 39-48.

Chen, X. 'A', Carpendale, S., Tang, A., Boring, S., and Greenberg, S. (2012). Spalendar: Spatially Visualizing Group’s Calendar Activities as a Public Interactive Display. In Ext. Proceedings of 11th International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interface (AVI 2012). (conference)

Chen, X. 'A.', Marquardt, N., Tang, A., Boring, S., and Greenberg, S. (2012). Extending a Mobile Device's Interaction Space through Body-Centric Interaction. In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2012). (conference - Acceptance 54/212 - 25%). pp: 151-160.

Grevet, C., Tang, A., and Mynatt, E. (2012). Eating Alone Together: New Forms of Commensality. In Proceedings of International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP 2012). pp: 103-106. (conference - Acceptance 24/94 - 25.5%).

MacLeod, H. and Tang, A. (2012). Understanding Personal Informatics Needs of Individuals with Chronic Health Conditions. In the Poster Programme of WISH 2012 - Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH 2012). (workshop)

Seyed, T., Burns, C., Sousa, M. C., Maurer, F., and Tang, A. (2012). Eliciting Usable Gestures for Multi-Display Environments. In Proceedings of ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2012 (ITS 2012). pp: 41-50. (conference - Acceptance: 30/103 - 29%)

Recent Fun (July 1, 2012)

"Dream Team" at SalmonFest 2012. We won shirts!