Dr. Jason Alexander – Publications

2017

Everitt, A. and Alexander, J. PolySurface: A Design Approach for Rapid Prototyping of Shape-Changing Displays Using Semi-Solid Surfaces. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '17), pgs. 1283–1294, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, ACM: 2017.

Sturdee, M., Coulton, P. and Alexander, J. Using Design Fiction to Inform Shape-Changing Interface Design and Use. In European Academy of Design Conference (EAD '17), Rome, Italy: 2017.

Hur, Y., Sturdee, M., Bruns, M., Markopoulos, P. and Alexander, J. Fiction and Physicality: A Designerly Approach Towards Complexities of Emerging Technologies. In European Academy of Design Conference (EAD '17), Rome, Italy: 2017.

Blaney, A., Dunn, N., Alexander, J., Richards, D., Rennie, A. and Anwar, J. Directing Self-assembly to Grow Adaptive Physical Structures. In International Journal of Rapid Manufacturing, 6 (2/3): 114–133, 2017.

Taher, F., Jansen, Y., Woodruff, J., Hardy, J., Hornbæk, K. and Alexander, J. Investigating the Use of a Dynamic Physical Bar Chart for Data Exploration and Presentation. In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 31 (1): 451–460, 2017.

2016

Pfeuffer, K., Alexander, J. and Gellersen, H. GazeArchers: Playing with Individual and Shared Attention in a Two-Player Look & Shoot Tabletop Game. In 15th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM '16), pgs. 213–216, Rovaniemi, Finland, ACM: 2016.

Taher, F., Vidler, J. and Alexander, J. A Characterization of Actuation Techniques for Generating Movement in Shape-Changing Interfaces. In International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction: 1–14, 2016.

Zhang, Y., Pfeuffer, K., Chong, M. Ki, Alexander, J., Bulling, A. and Gellersen, H. Look Together: Using Gaze for Assisting Co-located Collaborative Search. In Personal and Ubiquitous Computing: 1–14, 2016.

Clinch, S., Alexander, J. and Gehring, S. A Survey of Pervasive Displays for Information Presentation. In IEEE Pervasive Computing, 15 (3): 14–22, 2016.

Simeone, A. L., Bulling, A., Alexander, J. and Gellersen, H. Three-Point Interaction: Combining Bi-manual Direct Touch with Gaze. In Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '16), pgs. 168–175, Bari, Italy, ACM: 2016.

Everitt, A., Taher, F. and Alexander, J. ShapeCanvas: An Exploration of Shape-Changing Content Generation by Members of the Public. In Proceedings of the 34rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16), pgs. 2778–2782, San Jose, CA, USA, ACM: 2016.

Pfeuffer, K., Alexander, J. and Gellersen, H. Partially-indirect Bimanual Input with Gaze, Pen, and Touch for Pan, Zoom, and Ink Interaction. In Proceedings of the 34rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16), pgs. 2845–2856, San Jose, CA, USA, ACM: 2016.

2015

Sturdee, M., Hardy, J., Dunn, N. and Alexander, J. A Public Ideation of Shape-Changing Applications. In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Interactive Tabletops & Surfaces (ITS '15), pgs. 219–228, Madeira, Portugal, ACM: 2015.

Weichel, C., Hardy, J., Alexander, J. and Gellersen, H. ReForm: Integrating Physical and Digital Design through Bidirectional Fabrication. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology (UIST '15), pgs. 93–102, Charlotte, NC, USA, ACM: 2015.

Pfeuffer, K., Alexander, J., Chong, M. Ki, Zhang, Y. and Gellersen, H. Gaze-Shifting: Direct-Indirect Input with Pen and Touch Modulated by Gaze. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology (UIST '15), pgs. 373–383, Charlotte, NC, USA, ACM: 2015.
Honourable Mention Award

Woodruff, J. and Alexander, J. MultiLog: A Tool for the Control and Output Merging of Multiple Logging Applications. In Behavior Research Methods: 1–12, 2015.

Velloso, E., Fleming, A., Alexander, J. and Gellersen, H. Gaze-Supported Gaming: MAGIC Techniques for First Person Shooters. In Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY '15), pgs. 343–347, London, United Kingdom, ACM: 2015.

Velloso, E., Schmidt, D., Alexander, J., Gellersen, H. and Bulling, A. The Feet in Human--Computer Interaction: A Survey of Foot-Based Interaction. In ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 48 (2): 1–35, 2015.

Pfeuffer, K., Alexander, J. and Gellersen, H. Gaze+touch vs. Touch: What’s the Trade-off When Using Gaze to Extend Touch to Remote Displays?. In Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2015, pgs. 349–367, Springer International Publishing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9297, 2015.

Velloso, E., Turner, J., Alexander, J., Bulling, A. and Gellersen, H. An Empirical Investigation of Gaze Selection in Mid-Air Gestural 3D Manipulation. In Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2015, pgs. 315–330, Springer International Publishing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9297, 2015.

Velloso, E., Alexander, J., Bulling, A. and Gellersen, H. Interactions Under the Desk: A Characterisation of Foot Movements for Input in a Seated Position. In Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2015, pgs. 384–401, Springer International Publishing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9296, 2015.

Jones, R., Clinch, S., Alexander, J., Davies, N. and Mikusz, M. ENGAGE: Early Insights in Measuring Multi-Device Engagements. In Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis '15), pgs. 31–37, Saarbruecken, Germany, ACM: 2015.

Weichel, C., Alexander, J., Karnik, A. and Gellersen, H. Connected Tools in Digital Design. In IEEE Pervasive Computing, 14 (2): 18–21, 2015.

Weichel, C., Hardy, J. and Alexander, J. Shape Display Shader Language (SDSL): A New Programming Model for Shape Changing Displays. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '15), pgs. 1121–1126, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ACM: 2015.

Hardy, J., Weichel, C., Taher, F., Vidler, J. and Alexander, J. ShapeClip: Towards Rapid Prototyping with Shape-Changing Displays for Designers. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15), pgs. 19–28, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ACM: 2015.

Taher, F., Hardy, J., Karnik, A., Weichel, C., Jansen, Y., Hornbæk, K. and Alexander, J. Exploring Interactions with Physically Dynamic Bar Charts. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15), pgs. 3237–3246, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ACM: 2015.

Media: BBC News The Conversation Gizmodo Science Daily Mashable Architect Magazine Stuff Lancaster University

Jansen, Y., Dragicevic, P., Isenberg, P., Alexander, J., Karnik, A., Kildal, J., Subramanian, S. and Hornbæk, K. Opportunities and Challenges for Data Physicalization. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15), pgs. 3227–3236, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ACM: 2015.

Turner, J., Alexander, J., Bulling, A. and Gellersen, H. Gaze+RST: Integrating Gaze and Multitouch for Remote Rotate-Scale-Translate Tasks. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15), pgs. 4179–4188, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ACM: 2015.

Weichel, C., Alexander, J., Karnik, A. and Gellersen, H. SPATA: Spatio-Tangible Tools for Fabrication-Aware Design. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '15), pgs. 189–196, Stanford, California, USA, ACM: 2015.
Best Paper Award.

Media: HackADay 3DPrint.com

2014

Taher, F., Alexander, J., Hardy, J. and Velloso, E. An Empirical Characterization of Touch-Gesture Input-Force on Mobile Devices. In Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS '14), pgs. 195–204, Dresden, Germany, ACM: 2014.

Alexander, J., Hardy, J. and Wattam, S. Characterising the Physicality of Everyday Buttons. In Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS '14), pgs. 205–208, Dresden, Germany, ACM: 2014.

Pfeuffer, K., Alexander, J., Chong, M-K. and Gellersen, H. Gaze-touch: Combining Gaze with Multi-touch for Interaction on the Same Surface. In Proceedings of the User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST '14), pgs. 509–518, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, ACM: 2014.

Dimitriadis, P. and Alexander, J. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Physical Shape-Change for In-pocket Mobile Device Notifications. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14), pgs. 2589–2592, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ACM: 2014.

Craggs, B., Scott, M. K. and Alexander, J. ThumbReels: Query Sensitive Web Video Previews Based on Temporal, Crowdsourced, Semantic Tagging. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14), pgs. 1217–1220, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ACM: 2014.

Pucihar, K. C., Coulton, P. and Alexander, J. The Use of Surrounding Visual Context in Handheld AR: Device vs. User Perspective Rendering. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14), pgs. 197–206, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ACM: 2014.

Simeone, A. L., Velloso, E., Alexander, J. and Gellersen, H. Feet Movement in Desktop 3D Interaction. In Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI '14), pgs. 71–74, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, IEEE: 2014.

Turner, J., Bulling, A., Alexander, J. and Gellersen, H. Cross-Device Gaze-Supported Point-to-Point Content Transfer. In Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA '14), pgs. 19–26, Safety Harbor, Florida, USA, ACM: 2014.

2013

Turner, J., Bulling, A., Alexander, J. and Gellersen, H. Eye Drop: An Interaction Concept for Gaze-supported Point-to-point Content Transfer. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM '13), pgs. 1–4, Luleå, Sweden, ACM: 2013.

Media: New Scientist

Pucihar, K. C., Coulton, P. and Alexander, J. Evaluating Dual-View Perceptual Issues in Handheld Augmented Reality: Device vs. User Perspective Rendering. In Proceedings 15th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '13), pgs. 381–388, ACM: 2013.

Turner, J., Alexander, J., Bulling, A., Schmidt, D. and Gellersen, H. Eye Pull, Eye Push: Moving Objects between Large Screens and Personal Devices with Gaze and Touch. In Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2013, pgs. 170-186, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8118, 2013.

Pucihar, K. C., Coulton, P. and Alexander, J. Creating a Stereoscopic Magic-lens to Improve Depth Perception in Handheld Augmented Reality. In Demonstrations of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI Demos '13), pgs. 448–451, Munich, Germany, ACM: 2013.

Hardy, J., Ellis, C., Alexander, J. and Davies, N. Ubi Displays: A Toolkit for the Rapid Creation of Interactive Projected Displays. In The International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (demonstration) (PerDis '13), Mountain View, CA, USA: 2013.

2012

Hardy, J. and Alexander, J. Toolkit Support for Interactive Projected Displays. In 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM '12), pgs. 1–10, Ulm, Germany, ACM: 2012.
Best Paper Award

Alexander, J., Lucero, A. and Subramanian, S. Tilt Displays: Designing Display Surfaces with Multi-axis Tilting and Actuation. In Proceedings of the 14th international Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI '12), pgs. 161–170, San Francisco, CA, USA, ACM: 2012.

Marshall, M., Carter, T., Alexander, J. and Subramanian, S. Ultra-tangibles: Creating Movable Tangible Objects on Interactive Tables. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '12), pgs. 2185–2188, Austin, Texas, USA, ACM: 2012.

Media: Wired Magazine.

Alexander, J., Han, T., Judd, W., Irani, P. and Subramanian, S. Putting your Best Foot Forward: Investigating Real-world Mappings for Foot-based Gestures. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '12), pgs. 1229–1238, Austin, Texas, USA, ACM: 2012.

2011

Han, T., Alexander, J., Karnik, A., Irani, P. and Subramanian, S. Kick: Investigating the use of Kick Gestures for Mobile Interactions. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI '11), pgs. 29–32, Stockholm, Sweden, ACM: 2011.

Media: New Scientist, British Council.

Alexander, J., Marshall, M. T. and Subramanian, S. Adding Haptic Feedback to Mobile TV. In Extended Abstracts of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '11), pgs. 1975–1980, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ACM: 2011.

2010

Montero, C. S., Alexander, J., Marshall, M. T. and Subramanian, S. Would You Do That? Understanding Social Acceptance of Gestural Interfaces. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI '10), pgs. 275–278, Lisbon, Portugal, ACM: 2010.

Aliakseyeu, D., Subramanian, S. and Alexander, J. Supporting Atomic User Actions on the Table. In Tabletops -- Horizontal Interactive Displays, pgs. 223–247, Springer London, Human-Computer Interaction Series , 2010.

Jones, E., Alexander, J., Andreou, A., Irani, P. and Subramanian, S. GesText: Accelerometer-Based Gestural Text-Entry Systems. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '10), pgs. 2173–2182, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, ACM: 2010.

2009

Alexander, J. Understanding and Improving Navigation Within Electronic Documents. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Canterbury, 2009.

Bell, T., Alexander, J., Freeman, I. and Grimley, M. Computer Science Unplugged: School Students doing Real Computing Without Computers. In New Zealand Journal of Applied Computing and Information Technology, 13 (1): 20–29, 2009.

Alexander, J., Cockburn, A., Fitchett, S., Gutwin, C. and Greenberg, S. Revisiting Read Wear: Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of a Footprints Scrollbar. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '09), pgs. 1665–1674, Boston, MA, USA, ACM: 2009.

2008

Bell, T., Alexander, J., Freeman, I. and Grimley, M. Computer Science Without Computers: New Outreach Methods From Old Tricks. In Conference of the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications (NACCQ '08), pgs. 127–133, Auckland, New Zealand: 2008.
Best Invited Paper at the NACCQ Conference 2008

Alexander, J. and Cockburn, A. An Empirical Characterisation of Electronic Document Navigation. In Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI '08), pgs. 123–130, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Canadian Information Processing Society: 2008.
A.J. Sweeney Award for Best Student Paper at GI 2008

Alexander, J., Cockburn, A. and Lobb, R. AppMonitor: A Tool for Recording User Actions in Unmodified Windows Applications. In Behavior Research Methods, 40 (2): 413–421, 2008.

Alexander, J. and Cockburn, A. Characterising Electronic Document Use, Reuse, Coverage and Multi-Document Interaction. In New Zealand Computer Science Research Student Conference (NZCSRSC '08), pgs. 1–8: 2008.

2007

Wingkvist, A. and Alexander, J. Was it Pod Worthy? A Preparatory Plan for Evaluating Podcasting in Higher Education. In New Zealand Computer Science Research Student Conference (NZCSRSC '07): 2007.

Cockburn, A., Kristensson, P. O., Alexander, J. and Zhai, S. Hard Lessons: Effort-Inducing Interfaces Benefit Spatial Learning. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '07), pgs. 1571–1580, San Jose, California, USA, ACM: 2007.

2006

Cockburn, A., Gutwin, C. and Alexander, J. Faster Document Navigation with Space-Filling Thumbnails. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '06), pgs. 1–10, Montréal, Québec, Canada, ACM: 2006.