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2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
77
Citations
24125
World Ranking
1268
National Ranking
42

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2015 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Carl Gutwin is affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and conducts research primarily within the field of Computer Science. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Cognitive Neuroscience, Plant Science, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their research topics cover a range of areas such as Data Visualization and Analytics, Tactile and Sensory Interactions, Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts, Human-Automation Interaction and Safety, Interactive and Immersive Displays, Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology, and Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics.

Recent publications from Carl Gutwin include:

  • Multiple wheat genomes reveal global variation in modern breeding, 2020, Nature
  • Threats of a replication crisis in empirical computer science, 2020, Communications of the ACM
  • Probability Weighting in Interactive Decisions, 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Interactive Exploration of Genomic Conservation, 2020, Canada Human-Computer Communications Society
  • Visualization Tools for Genomic Conservation, 2022, Methods in molecular biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Carl Gutwin include:

  • Andy Cockburn (14 publications)
  • Venkat Bandi (5 publications)
  • Regan L. Mandryk (4 publications)
  • Stewart Dowding (4 publications)
  • Jorge Núñez Siri (3 publications)

Carl Gutwin commonly publishes in venues such as:

  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (5 publications)
  • International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (4 publications)
  • Canada Human-Computer Communications Society (3 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (3 publications)
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2 publications)

In recognition of their professional contributions, Carl Gutwin was named an ACM Distinguished Member in 2015.

Best Publications

  • A Descriptive Framework of Workspace Awareness for Real-Time Groupware

    Carl Gutwin;Saul Greenberg

  • KEA: practical automatic keyphrase extraction

    Ian H. Witten;Gordon W. Paynter;Eibe Frank;Carl Gutwin

  • Domain-specific keyphrase extraction

    Eibe Frank;Gordon W. Paynter;Ian H. Witten;Carl Gutwin

  • Group awareness in distributed software development

    Carl Gutwin;Reagan Penner;Kevin Schneider

  • Useful junk?: the effects of visual embellishment on comprehension and memorability of charts

    Scott Bateman;Regan L. Mandryk;Carl Gutwin;Aaron Genest

  • Design for individuals, design for groups: tradeoffs between power and workspace awareness

    Carl Gutwin;Saul Greenberg

  • Workspace Awareness in Real-Time Distributed Groupware: Framework, Widgets, and Evaluation

    Carl Gutwin;Saul Greenberg;Mark Roseman

  • Classes of graphs which approximate the complete Euclidean graph

    J. Mark Keil;Carl A. Gutwin

  • Task analysis for groupware usability evaluation: Modeling shared-workspace tasks with the mechanics of collaboration

    David Pinelle;Carl Gutwin;Saul Greenberg

  • The Importance of Awareness for Team Cognition in Distributed Collaboration

    Carl Gutwin;Saul Greenberg

  • Support for workspace awareness in educational groupware

    Carl Gutwin;Gwen Stark;Saul Greenberg

  • The effects of workspace awareness support on the usability of real-time distributed groupware

    Carl Gutwin;Saul Greenberg

  • A usability study of awareness widgets in a shared workspace groupware system

    Carl Gutwin;Mark Roseman;Saul Greenberg

  • Workspace awareness for groupware

    Carl Gutwin;Saul Greenberg

  • Calibration games: making calibration tasks enjoyable by adding motivating game elements

    David R. Flatla;Carl Gutwin;Lennart E. Nacke;Scott Bateman

  • A predictive model of menu performance

    Andy Cockburn;Carl Gutwin;Saul Greenberg

  • The mechanics of collaboration: developing low cost usability evaluation methods for shared workspaces

    C. Gutwin;S. Greenberg

  • Seeing things in the clouds: the effect of visual features on tag cloud selections

    Scott Bateman;Carl Gutwin;Miguel Nacenta

  • Effects of awareness support on groupware usability

    Carl Gutwin;Saul Greenberg

  • Wedge: clutter-free visualization of off-screen locations

    Sean Gustafson;Patrick Baudisch;Carl Gutwin;Pourang Irani

Frequent Co-Authors

Andy Cockburn
Andy Cockburn University of Canterbury
Saul Greenberg
Saul Greenberg University of Calgary
Regan L. Mandryk
Regan L. Mandryk University of Victoria
Sriram Subramanian
Sriram Subramanian University College London
Pourang Irani
Pourang Irani University of Manitoba
Jeremy Birnholtz
Jeremy Birnholtz Northwestern University
Sheelagh Carpendale
Sheelagh Carpendale Simon Fraser University
Ian H. Witten
Ian H. Witten University of Waikato
Eibe Frank
Eibe Frank University of Waikato
Philippe Palanque
Philippe Palanque Paul Sabatier University

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