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Ravin Balakrishnan

Ravin Balakrishnan

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Computer Science
Canada
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
84
Citations
21383
World Ranking
870
National Ranking
29

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
  • 2007 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Ravin Balakrishnan is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Computer Science and Engineering. Their work spans several subfields including Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Neuroscience, Control and Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Their research encompasses a range of topics such as Interactive and Immersive Displays, Tactile and Sensory Interactions, Hand Gesture Recognition Systems, Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts, Human Motion and Animation, Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization, and Robotic Path Planning Algorithms.

Recent publications demonstrate a focus on human-computer interaction and virtual reality technologies. These papers include:

  • "ASTEROIDS: Exploring Swarms of Mini-Telepresence Robots for Physical Skill Demonstration" (2022) - presented at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • "Disambiguation Techniques for Freehand Object Manipulations in Virtual Reality" (2020) - presented at the 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)
  • "StarHopper: A Touch Interface for Remote Object-Centric Drone Navigation" (2020) - published through Singapore Management University Institutional Knowledge (InK)
  • "Disambiguation Techniques for Freehand Object Manipulations in Virtual Reality" (2020) - also presented at the 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)
  • "A conversation with CHCCS 2020 achievement award winner Ravin Balakrishnan" (2020) - published by Canada Human-Computer Communications Society

Frequent collaborators in their work include Tovi Grossman, Jiannan Li, Di Laura Chen, Maurício Sousa, and Li Chu.

Typical publication venues for their research encompass:

  • 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Singapore Management University Institutional Knowledge (InK) (Singapore Management University)
  • Canada Human-Computer Communications Society

Balakrishnan was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2007. This distinction highlights their standing within their field.

Best Publications

  • Interactive public ambient displays: transitioning from implicit to explicit, public to personal, interaction with multiple users

    Daniel Vogel;Ravin Balakrishnan

  • The bubble cursor: enhancing target acquisition by dynamic resizing of the cursor's activation area

    Tovi Grossman;Ravin Balakrishnan

  • Multi-finger and whole hand gestural interaction techniques for multi-user tabletop displays

    Mike Wu;Ravin Balakrishnan

  • Distant freehand pointing and clicking on very large, high resolution displays

    Daniel Vogel;Ravin Balakrishnan

  • Direct-touch vs. mouse input for tabletop displays

    Clifton Forlines;Daniel Wigdor;Chia Shen;Ravin Balakrishnan

  • Keepin' it real: pushing the desktop metaphor with physics, piles and the pen

    Anand Agarawala;Ravin Balakrishnan

  • Pressure widgets

    Gonzalo Ramos;Matthew Boulos;Ravin Balakrishnan

  • Enabling always-available input with muscle-computer interfaces

    T. Scott Saponas;Desney S. Tan;Dan Morris;Ravin Balakrishnan

  • ILoveSketch: as-natural-as-possible sketching system for creating 3d curve models

    Seok-Hyung Bae;Ravin Balakrishnan;Karan Singh

  • The Impact of Control-Display Gain on User Performance in Pointing Tasks

    Géry Casiez;Daniel Vogel;Ravin Balakrishnan;Andy Cockburn

  • Reaching for objects in VR displays: lag and frame rate

    Colin Ware;Ravin Balakrishnan

  • System for organizing and visualizing display objects

    Anand Agarawala;Ravin Balakrishnan

  • Multi-finger gestural interaction with 3D volumetric displays

    Tovi Grossman;Daniel Wigdor;Ravin Balakrishnan

  • Demonstrating the feasibility of using forearm electromyography for muscle-computer interfaces

    T Scott Saponas;Desney S. Tan;Dan Morris;Ravin Balakrishnan

  • TiltText: using tilt for text input to mobile phones

    Daniel Wigdor;Ravin Balakrishnan

  • Hover widgets: using the tracking state to extend the capabilities of pen-operated devices

    Tovi Grossman;Ken Hinckley;Patrick Baudisch;Maneesh Agrawala

  • Acquisition of expanding targets

    Michael McGuffin;Ravin Balakrishnan

  • The design and evaluation of selection techniques for 3D volumetric displays

    Tovi Grossman;Ravin Balakrishnan

  • Gesture registration, relaxation, and reuse for multi-point direct-touch surfaces

    M. Wu;Chia Shen;K. Ryall;C. Forlines

  • Beating Fitts' law: virtual enhancements for pointing facilitation

    Ravin Balakrishnan

  • Sphere: multi-touch interactions on a spherical display

    Hrvoje Benko;Andrew D. Wilson;Ravin Balakrishnan

Frequent Co-Authors

Tovi Grossman
Tovi Grossman University of Toronto
Karan Singh
Karan Singh University of Toronto
Clifton Forlines
Clifton Forlines Draper Labs
Gordon Kurtenbach
Gordon Kurtenbach Autodesk (United States)
George Fitzmaurice
George Fitzmaurice Autodesk (United States)
Chia Shen
Chia Shen Harvard University
Fanny Chevalier
Fanny Chevalier University of Toronto
Jeremy Birnholtz
Jeremy Birnholtz Northwestern University
Ken Hinckley
Ken Hinckley Microsoft (United States)
Patrick Baudisch
Patrick Baudisch Hasso Plattner Institute

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