5 papers
Feeling UISTful: An Interactive Portrait of Scholarly Authorship, Readership, and the In-Between
Sophia Liu, Sophia W. Liu, Shm Garanganao Almeda +2
We introduce UISTful, a system that turns reading activity into a collective portrait of a scholarly community. Readers explore a semantic globe of UIST papers and authors while th…
Creative Reading: Scaffolding Reading for Transformation
Sophia Liu, Sarah Abowitz, Yijun Liu +3
Reading augmentation systems increasingly help readers process text at scale. While these tools address real constraints of time and cognitive load, they often implicitly frame rea…
Artographer: a Curatorial Interface for Art Space Exploration
Shm Garanganao Almeda, John Joon Young Chung, Sophia Liu +4
Relating a piece to previously established works is crucial in creating and engaging with art, but AI interfaces tend to obscure such relationships, rather than helping users explo…
Chasing RATs: Tracing Reading for and as Creative Activity
Sophia Liu, Shm Garanganao Almeda
Creativity research has privileged making over the interpretive labor that precedes and shapes it. We introduce Reading Activity Traces (RATs), a proposal that treats reading -- br…
Agency Among Agents: Designing with Hypertextual Friction in the Algorithmic Web
Sophia Liu, Shm Garanganao Almeda
Today's algorithm-driven interfaces, from recommendation feeds to GenAI tools, often prioritize engagement and efficiency at the expense of user agency. As systems take on more dec…