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most citedExploring Challenges and Opportunities to Support Designers in Learning to Co-create with AI-based Manufacturing Design Tools

122 citations · 188 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.HC2025

Facilitating Longitudinal Interaction Studies of AI Systems

Tao Long, Sitong Wang, Émilie Fabre +14

UIST researchers develop tools to address user challenges. However, user interactions with AI evolve over time through learning, adaptation, and repurposing, making one time evalua…

cs.HC2025★ 4 cited

Understanding the Challenges of Maker Entrepreneurship

Natalie Friedman, Alexandra Bremers, Adelaide Nyanyo +5

The maker movement embodies a resurgence in DIY creation, merging physical craftsmanship and arts with digital technology support. However, mere technological skills and creativity…

cs.HC2024

Nudge: Haptic Pre-Cueing to Communicate Automotive Intent

Nikhil Gowda, Srinath Sibi, Sonia Baltodano +4

To increase driver awareness in a fully autonomous vehicle, we developed several haptic interaction prototypes that signal what the car is planning to do next. The goal was to use…

cs.CY2024

Power and Play: Investigating "License to Critique" in Teams' AI Ethics Discussions

David Gray Widder, Laura Dabbish, James Herbsleb +1

Past work has sought to design AI ethics interventions--such as checklists or toolkits--to help practitioners design more ethical AI systems. However, other work demonstrates how t…

cs.HC2024★ 1 cited

Co-design Accessible Public Robots: Insights from People with Mobility Disability, Robotic Practitioners and Their Collaborations

Howard Ziyu Han, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Alesandra Baca Vazquez +3

Sidewalk robots are increasingly common across the globe. Yet, their operation on public paths poses challenges for people with mobility disabilities (PwMD) who face barriers to ac…

cs.HC2023★ 2 cited

BioSpark: An End-to-End Generative System for Biological-Analogical Inspirations and Ideation

Hyeonsu B. Kang, David Chuan-En Lin, Nikolas Martelaro +3

Nature is often used to inspire solutions for complex engineering problems, but achieving its full potential is challenging due to difficulties in discovering relevant analogies an…

cs.CL2023

"What's important here?": Opportunities and Challenges of Using LLMs in Retrieving Information from Web Interfaces

Faria Huq, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Nikolas Martelaro

Large language models (LLMs) that have been trained on a corpus that includes large amount of code exhibit a remarkable ability to understand HTML code. As web interfaces are prima…

cs.SD2023

What Do I Hear? Generating Sounds for Visuals with ChatGPT

David Chuan-En Lin, Nikolas Martelaro

This short paper introduces a workflow for generating realistic soundscapes for visual media. In contrast to prior work, which primarily focus on matching sounds for on-screen visu…

cs.CY2023

The AI Incident Database as an Educational Tool to Raise Awareness of AI Harms: A Classroom Exploration of Efficacy, Limitations, & Future Improvements

Michael Feffer, Nikolas Martelaro, Hoda Heidari

Prior work has established the importance of integrating AI ethics topics into computer and data sciences curricula. We provide evidence suggesting that one of the critical objecti…

cs.HC2023★ 21 cited

Jigsaw: Supporting Designers to Prototype Multimodal Applications by Chaining AI Foundation Models

David Chuan-En Lin, Nikolas Martelaro

Recent advancements in AI foundation models have made it possible for them to be utilized off-the-shelf for creative tasks, including ideating design concepts or generating visual…

cs.HC2023★ 122 cited

Exploring Challenges and Opportunities to Support Designers in Learning to Co-create with AI-based Manufacturing Design Tools

Frederic Gmeiner, Humphrey Yang, Lining Yao +2

AI-based design tools are proliferating in professional software to assist engineering and industrial designers in complex manufacturing and design tasks. These tools take on more…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

Videogenic: Identifying Highlight Moments in Videos with Professional Photographs as a Prior

David Chuan-En Lin, Fabian Caba Heilbron, Joon-Young Lee +2

This paper investigates the challenge of extracting highlight moments from videos. To perform this task, we need to understand what constitutes a highlight for arbitrary video doma…

cs.HC2022★ 6 cited

VideoMap: Supporting Video Editing Exploration, Brainstorming, and Prototyping in the Latent Space

David Chuan-En Lin, Fabian Caba Heilbron, Joon-Young Lee +2

Video editing is a creative and complex endeavor and we believe that there is potential for reimagining a new video editing interface to better support the creative and exploratory…

cs.HC2022

Exploring the Future of Remote User Research

Nikolas Martelaro

The rapid move to remote work due to COVID-19 social distancing policies has slowed or stopped most in-person qualitative user research activities. The limitation on in-person acti…

cs.HC2022★ 7 cited

Team Learning as a Lens for Designing Human-AI Co-Creative Systems

Frederic Gmeiner, Kenneth Holstein, Nikolas Martelaro

Generative, ML-driven interactive systems have the potential to change how people interact with computers in creative processes - turning tools into co-creators. However, it is sti…

cs.RO2022

End-User Puppeteering of Expressive Movements

Hongyu Wang, Nikolas Martelaro

The end-user programming of social robot behavior is usually limited by a predefined set of movements. We are proposing a puppeteering robotic interface that provides a more intuit…

cs.SE2022★ 2 cited

Exploring Opportunities in Usable Hazard Analysis Processes for AI Engineering

Nikolas Martelaro, Carol J. Smith, Tamara Zilovic

Embedding artificial intelligence into systems introduces significant challenges to modern engineering practices. Hazard analysis tools and processes have not yet been adequately a…

cs.SD2021★ 12 cited

Soundify: Matching Sound Effects to Video

David Chuan-En Lin, Anastasis Germanidis, Cristóbal Valenzuela +2

In the art of video editing, sound helps add character to an object and immerse the viewer within a space. Through formative interviews with professional editors (N=10), we found t…

cs.CV2021★ 7 cited

Learning Personal Style from Few Examples

David Chuan-En Lin, Nikolas Martelaro

A key task in design work is grasping the client's implicit tastes. Designers often do this based on a set of examples from the client. However, recognizing a common pattern among…

cs.CY2021★ 1 cited

Remote Observation of Field Work on the Farm

Wendy Ju, Ilan Mandel, Kevin Weatherwax +3

Travel restrictions and social distancing measures make it difficult to observe, monitor or manage physical fieldwork. We describe research in progress that applies technologies fo…