Publications (5)
Designing AI-Supported Focus Groups: A Role x Modality Playbook
Zhiqing Wang, Steven Dow
Collecting participants' lived experiences is central to design research. Focus groups are uniquely valuable because participants not only share individual accounts but also respon…
Prompting for products: Investigating design space exploration strategies for text-to-image generative models
Leah Chong, I-Ping Lo, Jude Rayan +3
Text-to-image models are enabling efficient design space exploration, rapidly generating images from text prompts. However, many generative AI tools are imperfect for product desig…
WearWrite: Orchestrating the Crowd to Complete Complex Tasks from Wearables (We Wrote This Paper on a Watch)
Michael Nebeling, Anhong Guo, Kyle Murray +6
In this paper we introduce a paradigm for completing complex tasks from wearable devices by leveraging crowdsourcing, and demonstrate its validity for academic writing. We explore…
CAD-Prompted Generative Models: A Pathway to Feasible and Novel Engineering Designs
Leah Chong, Jude Rayan, Steven Dow +2
Text-to-image generative models have increasingly been used to assist designers during concept generation in various creative domains, such as graphic design, user interface design…
Attendee-Sourcing: Exploring The Design Space of Community-Informed Conference Scheduling
Anant Bhardwaj, Juho Kim, Steven Dow +4
Constructing a good conference schedule for a large multi-track conference needs to take into account the preferences and constraints of organizers, authors, and attendees. Creatin…