Dr. Alan Wexelblat

Publications

Books, Book Chapters

• Wexelblat, Alan. "Results from the Footprints Project," in Designing Information Spaces: The Social Navigation Approach, Höök, Benyon & Munroe (eds.) Springer, 2002.
• Wexelblat, Alan. "An Auteur in the Age of the Internet: JMS, Babylon 5, and the Net," in Hop on Pop: the Pleasures and Politics of Popular Culture, Jenkins, McPherson & Shattuc (eds.), Duke University Press, 2002.
• Wexelblat, Alan. "Communities through Time: Using History for Social Navigation," in Community Computing and Support Systems, Toru Ishida (ed.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1519, Springer-Verlag, 1998.
• Wexelblat, Alan. "Research Challenges in Gesture: Open Issues and Unsolved Problems," in Gesture and Sign Language in Human-Computer Interaction, Wachsmuth & Froelich (eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 1371, Springer-Verlag, 1998.
• Wexelblat, Alan. "How is the National Information Infrastructure like a Prison?" in The Future of the Internet, Charles Cozic (ed.), Greenhaven Press, 1997.
• Wexelblat, Alan. A Feature-Based Approach to Continuous-Gesture Analysis SM. Thesis, MIT Program in Media Arts and Sciences, approved May 1994.
• Wexelblat, Alan (ed.) Virtual Reality: Applications and Explorations, Academic Press Professional, hardcover July 1993, paperback July 1994, CD-ROM July 1995.
• Wexelblat, Alan. "The Reality of Cooperation," in Virtual Reality: Applications and Explorations, Wexelblat (ed.), Academic Press Professional, July 1993.
• Wexelblat, Alan. "Giving Meaning to Place: Semantic Dimensions," in Cyberspace, Michael Benedikt (ed.), MIT Press, 1991.

Refereed Publications

• Wexelblat, Alan & Pattie Maes. "Footprints: History-Rich Tools for Information Foraging," CHI'99 Proceedings, ACM Press, 1999.
• Wexelblat, Alan. "History-Based Tools for Navigation," Proceedings of the 32nd Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS-32), IEEE Computer Society Press, 1999.
• Wexelblat, Alan. "Communities through Time: Using History for Social Navigation", Communityware'98, the First Kyoto Conference on Communityware, Kyoto, 1998.
• Wexelblat, Alan. "History-Rich Tools for Social Navigation", CHI'98 Summary, ACM Press, 1998.
• Wexelblat, Alan & Pattie Maes. "Using History to Assist Information Browsing", RIAO'97: Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval on the Internet, Montreal, 1997.
• Wexelblat, Alan. "Analysis of Natural Gestures at the User Interface", ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ToCHI), September, 1995.
• Wexelblat, Alan. "Gesture in Intelligent Interfaces," IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vancouver CA, October 1995.
• Wexelblat, Alan. "Natural Gesture in Virtual Environments", ACM Virtual Reality Systems and Technologies (VRST'94), August 1994.
• Wexelblat, Alan. "The Design and Implementation of an Explicitly Moded Interface for Business Professionals", ACM interactions, Vol1#4.
• Fairchild, Kim, Greg Meredith and Alan Wexelblat. "A Metaphorically Organized Interface Environment for the Development of Large Systems by Teams of Designers", Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Computers & Writing.
• Fairchild, Kim, Greg Meredith and Alan Wexelblat. "A Formal Structure for Automatic Icons", Interacting With Computers, Vol. 1, Issue 2.
• Fairchild, Kim, Greg Meredith and Alan Wexelblat. "The Tourist Artificial Reality", CHI'89 Proceedings, Austin, TX, ACM Press.
• Greening, Dan and Alan Wexelblat. "Experiences with Cooperative Moderation of a USENET Newsgroup", Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Applied Computing (WAC'89).

Invited Talks, Courses

• Wexelblat, Alan. "Gesture in the Age of the Invisible Computer", keynote talk given at Gesture Workshop'97, Bielefeld, Germany, 1997.
• Maes, Pattie & Alan Wexelblat. "Interface Agents", tutorial presented at CHI'96 conference, Vancouver, CA.
• Wexelblat, Alan & Cavazza, Marc (organizers). Gesture at the User Interface, workshop held at CHI'95, May 1995.
• Wexelblat, Alan. "Cahn't Get They-ah from Heah," invited talk presented at the Pratt School of Architecture Symposium on New Technologies, New York, April 1995.
• Wexelblat, Alan. "Building CSCW Interfaces", tutorial presented at CSCW'92 conference, Toronto, October 1992.
• Wexelblat, Alan. "Building Collaborative Interfaces", tutorial presented at CHI'91 & CHI'92.
• Wexelblat, Alan & Chris Fry. "The Human Factors of Virtual Reality", invited talk presented to the Northeastern Chapter of the Human Factors Society, November, 1991.
• Wexelblat, Alan. "A Day in the Life, Year 2000: Visualization", invited talk presented at Eastern Communications Forum (ECF'90), May, 1990.
• Fairchild, Kim & Alan Wexelblat. "Artificial Realities: The Future of User Interfaces", invited paper presented at USICON'88, February 1988.

Other Publications

• Wexelblat, Alan. "Don't Make That Face: A Report on Anthropomorphizing an Interface, " in Intelligent Environments, Coen (ed.), AAAI Technical Report SS-98-02, AAAI Press, 1998.
• Wexelblat, Alan. "An Environment for Aiding Information-Browsing Tasks", AAAI Spring Symposium on Acquisition, Learning & Demonstration: Automating Tasks for Users, Gil, Birmingham, Cypher & Pazzani (eds.), AAAI Press, 1996.
• Wexelblat, Alan. "Telling the Travel Story", AAAI Spring Symposium on Believable Agents, Bates, Maes & Hayes-Roth, (eds.), AAAI Press, 1995.
• Wexelblat, Alan. "Groups Without Groupware", Proceedings of The ECSCW'91 Developers' Workshop, Amsterdam, October, 1991.
• Wexelblat, Alan & Kim Fairchild. "Method and System for Generating Dynamic, Interactive Visual Representations of Information Structures Within a Computer", US. Patent Number 5,021,976 granted 6/4/91 (first application 11/14/88).
• Wexelblat, Alan. "Automatic Icons: Representations for Semantic Spaces", Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Conference on Cyberspace, Santa Cruz, May 1991.
• Wexelblat, Alan. "Up Two and Over One: The Semantics of Dimension", Proceedings of the First Cyberspace Conference, Austin, TX. May, 1990.
• Fairchild, Kim and Alan Wexelblat. "Navigation Through Cyberspace", MCC Technical Report STP-161-89, April 1989.
• Fairchild, Gibbs, Janssen and Wexelblat. "A System for Technology Transfer via Demonstration", Transferring Software Engineering Tool Technology , 1988.
• Wexelblat, Alan. "Report on Scenario Technology", MCC Technical Report STP-039-87, April 1987.