| 2020 | CHI | Investigating Roleplaying and Identity Transformation in a Virtual Reality Narrative Experience. | Saumya Gupta, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Meena Devii Muralikumar, Aparajita S. Marathe |
| 2020 | CHI | "How do I make this thing smile?": An Inventory of Expressive Nonverbal Communication in Commercial Social Virtual Reality Platforms. | Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Nazely Hartoonian, Jeffrey S. Bryan |
| 2019 | DIGRA | Adapting the Empty Orchestra: the Performance of Play in Karaoke. | Jeffrey S. Bryan, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum |
| 2019 | TEI | Shiva's Rangoli: Tangible Storytelling through Diegetic Interfaces in Ambient Environments. | Saumya Gupta, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Karen Tanenbaum |
| 2018 | CHI | Playing to Wait: A Taxonomy of Idle Games. | Sultan A. Alharthi, Olaa Alsaedi, Phoebe O. Toups Dugas, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Jessica Hammer |
| 2018 | CHI | Dynamic Demographics: Lessons from a Large-Scale Census of Performative Possibilities in Games. | Daniel L. Gardner, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum |
| 2018 | CHI | Design for Sexual Wellbeing in HCI. | Gopinaath Kannabiran, Alex A. Ahmed, Matthew Wood, Madeline Balaam, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell |
| 2016 | ICIDS | Phylactery: An Authoring Platform for Object Stories. | Charu Chaudhari, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum |
| 2016 | ICIDS | GeoPoetry: Designing Location-Based Combinatorial Electronic Literature Soundtracks for Roadtrips. | Jordan Rickman, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum |
| 2016 | TEI | Penseive Box: Themes for Digital Memorialization Practices. | Charu Chaudhari, Anjanakshi Prakash, A. M. Tsaasan, Jed R. Brubaker, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum |
| 2015 | FDG | Empathy and Identity in Digital Games: Towards a New Theory of Transformative Play. | Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Karen Tanenbaum |
| 2015 | FDG | Envisioning the Future of Wearable Play: Conceptual Models for Props and Costumes as Game Controllers. | Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Karen Tanenbaum |
| 2015 | TEI | Costumes and Wearables as Game Controllers. | Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Karen Tanenbaum, Katherine Isbister, Kaho Abe, Anne Sullivan, Luigi Anzivino |
| 2014 | CHI | Alternate endings: using fiction to explore design futures. | Conor Linehan, Ben Kirman, Stuart Reeves, Mark Blythe, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Audrey Desjardins, Ron Wakkary |
| 2014 | CHI | Critical making hackathon: situated hacking, surveillance and big data proposal. | Karen Tanenbaum, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Amanda M. Williams, Matt Ratto, Gabriel Resch, Antonio Gamba Bari |
| 2013 | CHI | Three perspectives on behavior change for serious games. | Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Alissa Nicole Antle, John Robinson |
| 2013 | CHI | Democratizing technology: pleasure, utility and expressiveness in DIY and maker practice. | Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Amanda M. Williams, Audrey Desjardins, Karen Tanenbaum |
| 2013 | DIGRA | How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Gamer: Reframing Subversive Play in Story-Based Games. | Theresa Jean Tanenbaum |
| 2013 | ICIDS | Performative Authoring: Nurturing Storytelling in Children through Imaginative Enactment. | Sharon Lynn Chu, Francis K. H. Quek, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum |
| 2012 | CHI | Steampunk as design fiction. | Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Karen Tanenbaum, Ron Wakkary |
| 2012 | TEI | Design fictions. | Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Karen Tanenbaum, Ron Wakkary |
| 2011 | ICIDS | Being in the Story: Readerly Pleasure, Acting Theory, and Performing a Role. | Theresa Jean Tanenbaum |
| 2011 | ICIDS | Imagining New Design Spaces for Interactive Digital Storytelling. | Theresa Jean Tanenbaum |
| 2011 | ICIDS | The Reading Glove: A Non-linear Adaptive Tangible Narrative. | Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Karen Tanenbaum |
| 2011 | Interact | Balancing Act: Enabling Public Engagement with Sustainability Issues through a Multi-touch Tabletop Collaborative Game. | Alissa Nicole Antle, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Allen Bevans, Katie Seaborn, Sijie Wang |
| 2011 | TEI | Futura: design for collaborative learning and game play on a multi-touch digital tabletop. | Alissa Nicole Antle, Allen Bevans, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Katie Seaborn, Sijie Wang |
| 2011 | TEI | Experiencing the reading glove. | Karen Tanenbaum, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Alissa Nicole Antle, Jim Bizzocchi, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Marek Hatala |
| 2009 | SIGGRAPH | Rock Band: a case study in the design of embodied interface experience. | Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Jim Bizzocchi |
| 2008 | ICIDS | Improvisation and Performance as Models for Interacting with Stories. | Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Karen Tanenbaum |