Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

Alan W. Esenther

MERL Research / Technical Staff
Principal Member Research Staff
M.Sc., Boston University, 1993

Phone: (617) 621-7564
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Publications:

Nikovski, D.; Esenther, A., "Construction of Embedded Markov Decision Processes for Optimal Control of Non-Linear Systems with Continuous State Spaces", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (CDC-ECC), December 2011 (IEEE Xplore, TR2011-081)

Nikovski, D.; Esenther, A.; Baba, A., "Semi-Supervised Information Extraction from Variable-Length Web-Page Lists", International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), May 2009 (ICEIS 2009, TR2009-031)

Wigdor, D.; Penn, G.; Ryall, K.; Esenther, A.; Shen, C., "Living with a Tabletop: Analysis and Observations of Long Term Office Use of a Multi-Touch Table", IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-computer Systems, ISBN: 978-0-7695-2013-1, October 2007 (IEEE Explore, TR2007-076)

*   Forlines, C.; Esenther, A.; Shen, C.; Wigdor, D.; Ryall, K., "Multi-User, Multi-Display Interaction with a Single-User, Single-Display Geospatial Application", ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), ISBN: 1-59593-313-1, pp. 273-276, October 2006 (ACM Press, TR2006-083)

Ryall, K.; Esenther, A.; Forlines, C.; Shen, C.; Shipman, S.; Morris, M.R.; Everitt, K.; Vernier, F.D., "Identity-Differentiating Widgets for Multiuser Interactive Surfaces", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, ISSN: 0272-1716, Vol. 26, Issue 5, pp. 56-64, September 2006 (IEEE Xplore)

Shen, C.; Ryall, K.; Forlines, C.; Esenther, A.; Vernier, F.D.; Everitt, K.; Wu, M.; Wigdor, D.; Morris, M.R.; Hancock, M.; Tse, E., "Informing the Design of Direct-Touch Tabletops", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, ISSN: 0272-1716, Vol. 26, Issue 5, pp. 36-46, September 2006 (IEEE Xplore, TR2006-086)

Esenther, A.; Ryall, K., "RemoteDT: Support for Multi-Site Table Collaboration", International Conference on Collaboration Technologies (CollabTech), July 2006 (CollabTech 2006, TR2006-084)

Esenther, A.; Ryall, K., "Fluid DTMouse: Better Mouse Support for Touch-Based Interactions", Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), May 2006 (AVI 2006, TR2006-001)

*   Shen, C.; Esenther, A.; Forlines, C.; Ryall, K., "Three Modes of Multi-Surface Interaction and Visualization", ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 2006 (CHI 2006, TR2006-025)

Esenther, A.; Wittenburg, K., "Multi-User Multi-Touch Games on DiamondTouch with the FTFlash Toolkit", Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN), November 2005 (INTETAIN 2005, TR2005-105)

Ryall, K.; Li, Q.; Esenther, A., "Temporal Magic Lens: Combined Spatial and Temporal Query and Presentation", IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), To Appear September 2005 (INTERACT 2005, TR2005-031)

Ryall, K.; Esenther, A.; Everitt, K.; Forlines, C.; Ringel Morris, M.; Shen, C.; Shipman, S.; Vernier, F., "iDwidgets: Parameterizing Widgets by User Identity", IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), September 2005 (INTERACT 2005, TR2005-055)

Furuichi, M.; Mihori, Y.; Muraoka, F.; Estenther, A.; Ryall, K., "DTMap Demo: Interactive Tabletop Maps for ubiquitous Computing", International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), September 2005 (UbiComp 2005, TR2005-091)

*   Wittenburg, K.B.; Forlines, C.; Lanning, T.; Esenther, A.W.; Harada, S.; Miyachi, T., "Rapid Serial Visual Presentation Techniques for Consumer Digital Video Devices", ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), ISBN: 1-58113-636-6, pp. 115-124, November 2003 (ACM Press, TR2003-019)

Raskar, R.; van Baar, J.; Beardsley, P.A.; Forlines, C.; Dietz, P.H.; Esenther, A.W.; Leigh, D.L; Ryall, K.; Shen, C.; Shipman, S.E.; Yerazunis, W.S., "Intelligent Clusters and Collaborative Projector-based Displays", NSF Workshop on Collaborative Virtual Reality and Visualization (CVRV), October 2003 (NSF Workshop on Collaborative Virtual Reality and Visualization, TR2003-086)

Wittenburg, K., Lanning, T., Forlines, C.; Esenther, A., "Rapid Serial Visual Presentation Techniques for Visualizing a 3rd Data Dimension", International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), June 2003 (HCI International 2003, TR2003-020)

Esenther, A.; Forlines, C.; Ryall, K.; Shipman, S., "DiamondTouch SDK: Support for Multi-User, Multi-Touch Applications", ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), November 2002 (CSCW 2002, TR2002-048)