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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Chris Harrison is a researcher affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields, primarily within Computer Science and Neuroscience, with a focus on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Human-Computer Interaction, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The scientist's research topics cover:

  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Interactive and Immersive Displays
  • Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
  • Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
  • Augmented Reality Applications
  • Teleoperation and Haptic Systems
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access

Among the recent publications by Chris Harrison are:

  • "Mouth Haptics in VR using a Headset Ultrasound Phased Array," 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • "SAMoSA," 2022, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • "ControllerPose: Inside-Out Body Capture with VR Controller Cameras," 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • "FarOut Touch: Extending the Range of ad hoc Touch Sensing with Depth Cameras," 2021, Symposium on Spatial User Interaction
  • "ElectriPop: Low-Cost, Shape-Changing Displays Using Electrostatically Inflated Mylar Sheets," 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Chris Harrison include:

  • Karan Ahuja
  • Vivian Shen
  • Craig Shultz
  • Mayank Goel
  • Vimal Mollyn

The primary venues where this researcher has published are:

  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • Symposium on Spatial User Interaction
  • Australasian Psychiatry
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Chris Harrison received the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Skinput: appropriating the body as an input surface

    Chris Harrison;Desney Tan;Dan Morris

  • TeslaTouch: electrovibration for touch surfaces

    Olivier Bau;Ivan Poupyrev;Ali Israr;Chris Harrison

  • OmniTouch: wearable multitouch interaction everywhere

    Chris Harrison;Hrvoje Benko;Andrew D. Wilson

  • Touché: enhancing touch interaction on humans, screens, liquids, and everyday objects

    Munehiko Sato;Ivan Poupyrev;Chris Harrison

  • Abracadabra: wireless, high-precision, and unpowered finger input for very small mobile devices

    Chris Harrison;Scott E. Hudson

  • Tomo: Wearable, Low-Cost Electrical Impedance Tomography for Hand Gesture Recognition

    Yang Zhang;Chris Harrison

  • TapSense: enhancing finger interaction on touch surfaces

    Chris Harrison;Julia Schwarz;Scott E. Hudson

  • ViBand: High-Fidelity Bio-Acoustic Sensing Using Commodity Smartwatch Accelerometers

    Gierad Laput;Robert Xiao;Chris Harrison

  • ZoomBoard: a diminutive qwerty soft keyboard using iterative zooming for ultra-small devices

    Stephen Oney;Chris Harrison;Amy Ogan;Jason Wiese

  • Providing dynamically changeable physical buttons on a visual display

    Chris Harrison;Scott E. Hudson

  • Scratch input: creating large, inexpensive, unpowered and mobile finger input surfaces

    Chris Harrison;Scott E. Hudson

  • Expanding the input expressivity of smartwatches with mechanical pan, twist, tilt and click

    Robert Xiao;Gierad Laput;Chris Harrison

  • Unlocking the expressivity of point lights

    Chris Harrison;John Horstman;Gary Hsieh;Scott Hudson

  • Synthetic Sensors: Towards General-Purpose Sensing

    Gierad Laput;Yang Zhang;Chris Harrison

  • Rethinking the progress bar

    Chris Harrison;Brian Amento;Stacey Kuznetsov;Robert Bell

  • SkinTrack: Using the Body as an Electrical Waveguide for Continuous Finger Tracking on the Skin

    Yang Zhang;Junhan Zhou;Gierad Laput;Chris Harrison

  • Skin buttons: cheap, small, low-powered and clickable fixed-icon laser projectors

    Gierad Laput;Robert Xiao;Xiang 'Anthony' Chen;Scott E. Hudson

  • Faster progress bars: manipulating perceived duration with visual augmentations

    Chris Harrison;Zhiquan Yeo;Scott E. Hudson

  • Electrick: Low-Cost Touch Sensing Using Electric Field Tomography

    Yang Zhang;Gierad Laput;Chris Harrison

  • Lean and zoom: proximity-aware user interface and content magnification

    Chris Harrison;Anind K. Dey

  • CollaboraTV: making television viewing social again

    Mukesh Nathan;Chris Harrison;Svetlana Yarosh;Loren Terveen

  • 3D Printing Pneumatic Device Controls with Variable Activation Force Capabilities

    Marynel Vázquez;Eric Brockmeyer;Ruta Desai;Chris Harrison

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott E. Hudson
Scott E. Hudson Carnegie Mellon University
Ivan Poupyrev
Ivan Poupyrev Google (United States)
Brian Amento
Brian Amento AT&T (United States)
Jennifer Mankoff
Jennifer Mankoff University of Washington
Jeffrey P. Bigham
Jeffrey P. Bigham Carnegie Mellon University
Paul Henry Dietz
Paul Henry Dietz Misapplied Sciences, Inc.
Anind K. Dey
Anind K. Dey University of Washington
Dan Morris
Dan Morris Google (United States)
Hrvoje Benko
Hrvoje Benko Facebook (United States)
Alanson P. Sample
Alanson P. Sample University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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