2023

SkyGlyphs: Reflections on the Design of a Delightful Visualization

Exploring data by leveraging curiosity, inciting delight, and…

2022

Supercharging Trial-and-Error for Learning Complex Software Applications

Despite an abundance of carefully-crafted tutorials, trial-and-error…

2022

SimCURL: Simple Contrastive User Representation Learning from Command Sequences

User modeling is crucial to understanding user behavior and essential…

2022

AvatAR: An Immersive Analysis Environment for Human Motion Data Combining Interactive 3D Avatars and Trajectories

Analysis of human motion data can reveal valuable insights about the…

2021

How Tall is that Bar Chart? Virtual Reality, Distance Compression and Visualizations

As VR technology becomes more available, VR applications will be…

2021

Paper Forager: Supporting the Rapid Exploration of Research Document Collections

We present Paper Forager, a web-based system which allows users to…

2021

Think-Aloud Computing: Supporting Rich and Low-Effort Knowledge Capture

When users complete tasks on the computer, the knowledge they leverage…

2021

MeetingMate: an Ambient Interface for Improved Meeting Effectiveness and Corporate Knowledge Sharing

We present MeetingMate, a system for improving meeting effectiveness…

2020

AuthAR: Concurrent Authoring of Tutorials for AR Assembly Guidance

Augmented Reality (AR) can assist with physical tasks such as object…

2020

MicroMentor: Peer-to-Peer Software Help Sessions in Three Minutes or Less

While synchronous one-on-one help for software learning is rich and…

2019

Geppetto: Enabling Semantic Design of Expressive Robot Behaviors

Expressive robots are useful in many contexts, from industrial to…

2018

Dream Lens: Exploration and Visualization of Large-Scale Generative Design Datasets

This paper presents Dream Lens, an interactive visual analysis tool…

2017

Same Stats, Different Graphs: Generating Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Statistics through Simulated Annealing

Why graphical representation and visualization are so important to…

2017

AMI: An Adaptable Music Interface to Support the Varying Needs of People with Dementia

Dementia is a progressive, degenerative syndrome that erodes…

2016

Crowdsourced Fabrication

In recent years, extensive research in the HCI literature has explored…

2016

The Effect of Visual Appearance on the Performance of Continuous Sliders and Visual Analogue Scales

Sliders and Visual Analogue Scales (VASs) are input mechanisms which…

2015

Deploying CommunityCommands: A Software Command Recommender System Case Study

In 2009 we presented the idea of using collaborative filtering within…

2015

Dynamic Opacity Optimization for Scatter Plots

Scatterplots are an effective and commonly used technique to show the…

2015

Candid Interaction: Revealing Hidden Mobile and Wearable Computing Activities

The growth of mobile and wearable technologies has made it often…

2014

Investigating the Feasibility of Extracting Tool Demonstrations from In-Situ Video Content

Short video demonstrations are effective resources for helping users…

2014

Video Lens: Rapid Playback and Exploration of Large Video Collections and Associated Metadata

We present Video Lens, a framework which allows users to visualize and…

2013

Swifter: Improved Online Video Scrubbing

Online streaming video systems have become extremely popular, yet…

2013

YouMove: Enhancing Movement Training with an Augmented Reality Mirror

YouMove is a novel system that allows users to record and learn…

2013

Patina: Smart Heatmaps for Visualizing Application Usage

We present Patina, an application independent system for collecting…

2012

Waken: Reverse Engineering Usage Information and Interface Structure from Software Videos

We explore the possibilities and opportunities related to reverse…

2012

Citeology: Visualizing Paper Genealogy

Citeology is an interactive visualization that looks at the…

2012

Swift: Reducing the Effects of Latency in Online Video Scrubbing

We first conduct a study using abstracted video content to measure the…

2011

IP-QAT: In-Product Questions, Answers & Tips

We present IP-QAT, a new community-based question and answer system…

2011

Design and Evaluation of a Command Recommendation System for Software Applications

We examine the use of modern recommender system technology to aid…

2011

Searching for Software Learning Resources using Application Context

Users of complex software applications frequently need to consult…

2011

TwitApp: In-product Micro-Blogging for Design Sharing

We describe TwitApp, an enhanced micro-blogging system integrated…

2011

Ambient Help

In this paper we present Ambient Help, a system that supports…

2011

Magic Desk: Bringing Multi-Touch Surfaces into Desktop Work

Despite the prominence of multi-touch technologies, there has been…

2010

Chronicle: Capture, Exploration, and Playback of Document Workflow Histories

We describe Chronicle, a new system that allows users to explore…

2009

The Design and Evaluation of Multi-Finger Mouse Emulation Techniques

We explore the use of multi-finger input to emulate fullmouse…

2009

Toward the Digital Design Studio: Large Display Explorations

Inspired by our automotive and product design customers using large…

2009

CommunityCommands: Command Recommendations for Software Applications

We explore the use of modern recommender system technology to address…

2009

The Role of Visualization in the Naturalization of Remote Software Immigrants

Software development is commonly becoming a globally distributed task,…

2008

Safe 3D Navigation

Typical commercial 3D CAD tools provide modal tools such as pan, zoom,…

2008

ViewCube: A 3D Orientation Indicator and Controller

Literally hundreds of thousands of users of 2D computer-aided design…

2008

PieCursor: Merging Pointing and Command Selection for Rapid In-place Tool Switching

We describe a new type of graphical user interface widget called the…

2005

Spotlight: Directing Users’ Attention on Large Displays

We describe a new interaction technique, called a spotlight, for…

2005

Office Central

Using Office Central, remote workers can “advertise” their presence in…

2019

CommunityCommands

Just as Amazon and Netflix recommend products and movies to their…

2016

HIVE Exhibit

Hive is an innovative and interactive exhibit built through a unique…

2011

OrgOrgChart: The Evolution of an Organization

This project looks at the evolution of a company’s structure over…

2010

3D Navigation

While advances in computing have empowered users to design and…

2009

Large Displays

Exploring design solutions to the unique interaction challenges which…