I am a member of the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at Microsoft Research.
My interests include sensing of all types, computer vision, computer-human interaction, gesture recognition, machine learning, hardware devices and ubiquitous computing.I did my PhD at the MIT Media Lab, where I explored gesture recognition from video and other sensors in a machine learning framework. I received a BA in Computer Science at Cornell in 1993. I grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania.
This page was last edited on 08/07/2008.
October 2007 co-chairing Tabletop 2007 with Cliff Forlines.
May 2007 Microsoft Surface launches
March 2007 Channel 9 video of depth-sensing camera demo at TechFest
November 2006 Scoble PodTech video showing some gesture work.
October 2005 Short writeup of PlayAnywhere on TRN.
March 2005 MSR TechFest coverage: Seattle PI mention and photo of TouchLight. Seattle PI reporter Todd Bishop also blogs PlayAnywhere. TouchLight in DataQuest Magazine (India). Rick Rashid shows TouchLight and PlayAnywhere at O'Reilly ETech. TouchLight is accepted to SIGGRAPH 2005 Emerging Technologies venue.
August 2004 See me demoing TouchLight, a novel touch screen technology. It says Stewart Tansley, but trust me, that's me. Channel9 is devoted to connecting developers with Microsoft developers.
July 2004 I appear in a short promotional video for Microsoft and Microsoft Research.
April 2004 A short article on my research on Microsoft Research's site.
April 2004 I was recently featured in a cover story in Northwest Airlines' in-flight magazine.
March 2004 Nuria Oliver and I recently developed an installation for the Microsoft Museum, titled 'The Art of Gesture'. The installation uses some computer vision techniques related to GWindows.
November 2003 Managing Intellectual Property Magazine
April 2003 Seattle PI, ExtremeTech, CNET, CNET video
RFID on interactive surfaces: SurfaceFusion video (MPEG4)
Depth sensing video cameras: Micromotocross demo video
$1 Gesture Recognizer with Jacob O. Wobbrock and Yang Li
PlayTogether video
PlayAnywhere Bluetooth Photo Sync video
PlayAnywhere video
TouchLight video
WorldCursor video
Benko, H., Wilson, A., and R. Balakrishnan. Sphere: Multi-Touch Interactions on a Spherical Display. UIST 2008 (to appear).
Olwal, A., and A. Wilson. SurfaceFusion: Unobtrusive Tracking of Everyday Objects in Tangible User Interfaces. Graphics Interface, 2008. pdf
Wilson, A. Depth-Sensing Video Cameras for 3D Tangible Tabletop Interaction. Tabletop 2007: The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems, 2007. pdf
Wobbrock, J., A. Wilson, and Y. Li. Gestures without Libraries, Toolkits or Training: A $1 Recognizer for User Interface Prototypes. UIST, 2007 pdf
Wilson, A., and R. Sarin. BlueTable: Connecting Wireless Mobile Devices on Interactive Surfaces Using Vision-Based Handshaking. Graphics Interface, 2007. pdf
Wilson, A., and D. C. Robbins. PlayTogether: Playing Games across Multiple Interactive Tabletops. IUI Workshop on Tangible Play: Research and Design for Tangible and Tabletop Games, 2006. pdf
Baudisch, P., M. Sinclair, and A. Wilson. Soap: A Pointing Device That Works in Mid-Air, UIST, 2006. pdf
Wilson, A. Robust Vision-Based Detection of Pinching for One and Two-Handed Gesture Input, UIST, 2006. pdf
Benko, H., A. Wilson, and P. Baudisch. Precise Selection Techniques for Multi-Touch Screens, CHI, 2006. pdf
Wilson, A., and M. Agrawala. Text Entry Using a Dual Joystick Game Controller, CHI, 2006. pdf
Wilson, A. PlayAnywhere: A Compact Tabletop Computer Vision System, Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2005. pdf
Wilson, A., and E. Cutrell. FlowMouse: A Computer Vision-Based Pointing and Gesture Input Device, Interact, 2005 pdf.
Wilson, A., and N. Oliver. Multimodal Sensing for Explicit and Implicit Interaction, HCI International, 2005 pdf.
Wilson, A. TouchLight: An Imaging Touch Screen and Display for Gesture-Based Interaction, International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 2004. pdf
Paek, T, M. Agrawala, S. Basu, S. Drucker, T. Kristjansson, R. Logan, K. Toyama, and A. Wilson. Toward Universal Mobile Interaction for Shared Displays, Proceedings of CSCW, 2004. pdf
Wilson, A., and N. Oliver. GWindows: Robust Stereo Vision for Gesture-Based Control of Windows, International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 2003. pdf
Wilson, A. Wireless User Interface Devices for Connected Intelligent Environments, Ubicomp 2003 Workshop on Multi-Device Interfaces for Ubiquitous Peripheral Interaction, 2003. pdf
Wilson, A. and H. Pham. Pointing in Intelligent Environments with the WorldCursor, Interact, 2003. pdf
Wilson, A. and N. Oliver. GWindows: Towards Robust Perception-Based UI, First IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition for Human Computer Interaction, 2003. pdf
Wilson, A. and S. Shafer. XWand: UI for Intelligent Spaces, CHI, 2003. pdf
Wilson, A. Adaptive Models for Gesture Recognition, PhD Thesis, MIT, September 2000. pdf
Wilson, A. and A. Bobick. Realtime Online Adaptive Gesture Recognition, Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Barcelona, Spain, September 2000. pdf
Pinhanez, C., J. Davis, S. Intille, M. Johnson, A. Wilson, A. Bobick, and B. Blumberg. Physically Interactive Story Environments, IBM Systems Journal, 29 (3/4), 2000, pp. 438-455. pdf
Bobick, A., S. Intille, J. Davis, F. Baird, C. Pinhanez, L. Campbell, Y. Ivanov, A. Schutte, and A. Wilson. The KidsRoom (sidebar), Communications of the ACM Special Issue on Perceptual User Interfaces, 43(3), 2000. pdf
Wilson, A., and A. Bobick. Using Hidden Markov Models to Model and Recognize Gesture Under Variation, International Journal on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence Special Issue on Hidden Markov Models in Computer Vision, 2000. pdf
Wilson, A., and A. Bobick. Parametric Hidden Markov Models for Gesture Recognition, in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 21, No. 9, 1999. pdf
Bobick, A., S. Intille, J. Davis, F. Baird, C. Pinhanez, L. Campbell, Y. Ivanov, A. Schutte, and A. Wilson. The KidsRoom: A Perceptually-Based Interactive and Immersive Story Environment, Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, Vol. 8, No. 4, August 1999. pdf
Wilson, A. Luxomatic: Computer Vision for Puppeteering, MIT Media Laboratory Perceptual Computing Section Technical Report, 1999. pdf
Wilson, A. and A. Bobick. Realtime Online Adaptive Gesture Recognition, International Workshop on Recognition, Analysis, and Tracking of Faces and Gestures in Real-Time Systems, Corfu, Greece, September, 1999. pdf
Johnson, M., A. Wilson, C. Kline, B. Blumberg and A. Bobick. Sympathetic Interfaces: Using a Plush Toy to Direct Synthetic Characters, SIGCHI, 1999. pdf
Wilson, A. and A. Bobick. Nonlinear PHMMs for the Interpretation of Parameterized Gesture, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1998. pdf
Wilson, A. and A. Bobick. Recognition and Interpretation of Parametric Gesture, International Conference on Computer Vision, Bombay, 1998. pdf
Bobick, A., and A. Wilson. State-based Recognition of Gesture, in M. Shah and R. Jain (editors), Motion-Based Recognition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
Bobick, A., and A. Wilson. A State-Based Approach to the Representation and Recognition of Gesture, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 19, No. 12, 1997. pdf
Wilson, A., J. Cassell, and A. Bobick. Temporal Classification of Natural Gesture and Application to Video Coding, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1997. pdf
Wilson, A., A. Bobick and J. Cassell. Recovering the Temporal Structure of Natural Gesture, Second International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Killington, 1996. pdf
Wilson, A., and A. Bobick. Learning Visual Behavior for Gesture Analysis, IEEE International Symposium on Computer Vision, Coral Gables, 1995. pdf
Bobick, A, and A. Wilson. A State-Based Technique for the Summarization and Recognition of Gesture, International Conference on Computer Vision, Cambridge, 1995. pdf
Wilson, A., and A. Bobick. Configuration States for the Representation and Recognition of Gesture, International Workshop on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Zurich, 1995. pdf
Wilson, A. Learning Visual Behavior for Gesture Analysis, MS Thesis, MIT, 1995.
Wilson, A. TouchLight: An Imaging Touch Screen and Display for Gesture-Based Interaction, Siggraph 2005 Emerging Technologies, 2005.
Wilson, A. A Demonstration of TouchLight, an Imaging Touch Screen and Display for Gesture-Based Interaction, UIST Demonstration, 2004. pdf
Wilson, A. WorldCursor: Pointing in Intelligent Environments with a Tele-operated Laser Pointer, UIST Demonstration, 2003. pdf
Wilson, A., and S. Shafer. Demonstration of the XWand Interface for Intelligent Spaces, UIST Demonstration, 2002. pdf
Blumberg, B., M. Johnson, M. Hlavac, C. Kline, K. Russel, B. Tomlinson, S. Yoon, A. Wilson, T. Marrin, J. Paradiso, J. Wahl, Z. Teegarden, D. Stiehl. Swamped! Using Plush Toys to Direct Autonomous Animated Characters, ACM SIGGRAPH 1998 Enhanced Realities, Orlando, 1998.
Azarbayejani, A., C. Wren, A. Wilson, D. Becker, N. Oliver, D. Roy, F. Sparacino, F. Berard, A. Pentland. Smart Spaces, ACM SIGGRAPH 1996 Digital Bayou, New Orleans, 1996.
Tabletop 2007 co-chair
UIST 2007 demo co-chair
ACM Multimedia 2007 program committee
ICMI 2007 program committee
Ubicomp 2007 program committee
UIST 2006 program committee, demo co-chair
ICMI 2006 sponsorship chair
UIST 2005 program committee, demo co-chair
UIST 2004 program committee
ICMI 2004 treasurer
ICMI 2003 student volunteer coordinator
