publications | Hemant Surale, PhD

Note about conference papers: in Human-Computer Interaction, top tier conferences are very selective with rigorous multi-stage review of full manuscripts creating high quality fully archival proceedings. So, conference proceedings are the preferred publication venue to have the greatest impact.

Note about venues: CHI (the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) and UIST (the ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology) are both recognized as very top tier HCI conferences (Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic both rank them as #1 and #3). The average acceptance rate for CHI is 23% and UIST 21%.

2025

Gesture and Audio-Haptic Guidance Techniques to Direct Conversations with Intelligent Voice Interfaces

Shwetha Rajaram, Hemant Bhaskar Surale, Codie McConkey, and 4 more authors

In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

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@inproceedings{rajaram2025gesturellm,
  title = {Gesture and Audio-Haptic Guidance Techniques to Direct Conversations with Intelligent Voice Interfaces},
  author = {Rajaram, Shwetha and Surale, Hemant Bhaskar and McConkey, Codie and Rognon, Carine and Mehta, Hrim and Glueck, Michael and Collins, Christopher},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  pages = {1--20},
  year = {2025},
}

2024

Gesture2Text: A Generalizable Decoder for Word-Gesture Keyboards in XR Through Trajectory Coarse Discretization and Pre-training

Junxiao Shen, Khadija Khaldi, Enmin Zhou, and 2 more authors

In Proceedings of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2024

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@inproceedings{shen2024Gesture2Text,
  author = {Shen, Junxiao and Khaldi, Khadija and Zhou, Enmin and Surale, Hemant Bhaskar and Karlson, Amy},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
  pages = {1--13},
  year = {2024},
}

RingGesture: A Ring-Based Mid-Air Gesture Typing System Powered by a Deep-Learning Word Prediction Framework

Junxiao Shen, Roger Boldu, Arpit Kalla, and 3 more authors

In Proceedings of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2024

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@inproceedings{shen2024RingGesture,
  title = {RingGesture: A Ring-Based Mid-Air Gesture Typing System Powered by a Deep-Learning Word Prediction Framework},
  author = {Shen, Junxiao and Boldu, Roger and Kalla, Arpit and Glueck, Michael and Surale, Hemant Bhaskar and Karlson, Amy},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
  pages = {1--13},
  year = {2024},
}

2023

STAR: Smartphone-analogous Typing in Augmented Reality

Taejun Kim, Amy Karlson, Aakar Gupta, and 6 more authors

In Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2023

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@inproceedings{kim2023star,
  title = {STAR: Smartphone-analogous Typing in Augmented Reality},
  author = {Kim, Taejun and Karlson, Amy and Gupta, Aakar and Grossman, Tovi and Wu, Jason and Abtahi, Parastoo and Collins, Christopher and Glueck, Michael and Surale, Hemant Bhaskar},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology},
  pages = {1--13},
  year = {2023},
}

Gaze-based Mode-Switching to Enhance Interaction with Menus on Tablets

Yanfei Hu Fleischhauer, Hemant Bhaskar Surale, Florian Alt, and 1 more author

In Proceedings of the 2023 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, 2023

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@inproceedings{hu2023gaze,
  title = {Gaze-based Mode-Switching to Enhance Interaction with Menus on Tablets},
  author = {Hu Fleischhauer, Yanfei and Surale, Hemant Bhaskar and Alt, Florian and Pfeuffer, Ken},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2023 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications},
  pages = {1--8},
  year = {2023},
}

2022

Arcall: Real-time ar communication using smartphones and smartglasses

Hemant Bhaskar Surale, Yu Jiang Tham, Brian A Smith, and 1 more author

In Augmented Humans 2022, 2022

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@incollection{surale2022arcall,
  title = {Arcall: Real-time ar communication using smartphones and smartglasses},
  author = {Surale, Hemant Bhaskar and Tham, Yu Jiang and Smith, Brian A and Vaish, Rajan},
  booktitle = {Augmented Humans 2022},
  pages = {46--57},
  year = {2022},
}

2021

Typealike: Near-Keyboard Hand Postures for Expanded Laptop Interaction

Nalin Chhibber, Hemant Bhaskar Surale, Fabrice Matulic, and 1 more author

Proceedings of the ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces, 2021

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@article{chhibber2021typealike,
  title = {Typealike: Near-Keyboard Hand Postures for Expanded Laptop Interaction},
  author = {Chhibber, Nalin and Surale, Hemant Bhaskar and Matulic, Fabrice and Vogel, Daniel},
  journal = {Proceedings of the ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces},
  volume = {5},
  number = {ISS},
  pages = {1--20},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {ACM New York, NY, USA},
  award_name = {Best Paper Honorable Mention Award},
}

2020

SurfaceFleet: Exploring Distributed Interactions Unbounded from Device, Application, User, and Time

Frederik Brudy, David Ledo, Michel Pahud, and 8 more authors

In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2020

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@inproceedings{brudy2020surfacefleet,
  title = {SurfaceFleet: Exploring Distributed Interactions Unbounded from Device, Application, User, and Time},
  author = {Brudy, Frederik and Ledo, David and Pahud, Michel and Henry Riche, Nathalie and Holz, Christian and Waghmare, Anand and Surale, Hemant Bhaskar and Peinado, Marcus and Zhang, Xiaokuan and Joyner, Shannon and others},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology},
  pages = {7--21},
  year = {2020},
}

Barehand Mode Switching in Touch and Mid-Air Interfaces

Hemant Surale

2020

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@article{surale2020barehand,
  title = {Barehand Mode Switching in Touch and Mid-Air Interfaces},
  author = {Surale, Hemant},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {University of Waterloo},
}

2019

Experimental analysis of barehand mid-air mode-switching techniques in virtual reality

Hemant Bhaskar Surale, Fabrice Matulic, and Daniel Vogel

In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems, 2019

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@inproceedings{surale2019experimental,
  title = {Experimental analysis of barehand mid-air mode-switching techniques in virtual reality},
  author = {Surale, Hemant Bhaskar and Matulic, Fabrice and Vogel, Daniel},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems},
  pages = {1--14},
  dimensions = {true},
  year = {2019},
  award_name = {Best Paper Honorable Mention Award},
}

Tabletinvr: Exploring the design space for using a multi-touch tablet in virtual reality

Hemant Bhaskar Surale, Aakar Gupta, Mark Hancock, and 1 more author

In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019

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@inproceedings{surale2019tabletinvr,
  title = {Tabletinvr: Exploring the design space for using a multi-touch tablet in virtual reality},
  author = {Surale, Hemant Bhaskar and Gupta, Aakar and Hancock, Mark and Vogel, Daniel},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  pages = {1--13},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3300243},
  year = {2019},
}

2018

Using Conformity to Probe Interaction Challenges in XR Collaboration

*Jeremy Hartmann, *Hemant Bhaskar Surale, Aakar Gupta, and 1 more author

arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.05235, 2018

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@article{hartmann2020using,
  title = {Using Conformity to Probe Interaction Challenges in XR Collaboration},
  author = {Hartmann, *Jeremy and Surale, *Hemant Bhaskar and Gupta, Aakar and Vogel, Daniel},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.05235},
  year = {2018},
}

2017

Experimental analysis of mode switching techniques in touch-based user interfaces

Hemant Bhaskar Surale, Fabrice Matulic, and Daniel Vogel

In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017

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@inproceedings{surale2017experimental,
  title = {Experimental analysis of mode switching techniques in touch-based user interfaces},
  author = {Surale, Hemant Bhaskar and Matulic, Fabrice and Vogel, Daniel},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  pages = {3267--3280},
  year = {2017},
}