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most citedAgency Among Agents: Designing with Hypertextual Friction in the Algorithmic Web

9 citations · 11 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.HC2026

Mylar: Exploring Self-Curation as a Reflexive Creative Practice

Kate Chier, Shm Garanganao Almeda, Bjoern Hartmann

The container holding an artist's work can itself be just as expressive as the work it presents. We investigate self-curation as a creative practice, asking how artists explore and…

cs.HC2026

Feeling Wistful: Reflecting on Scholarly Sensibilities with Creative Reading Traces

Sophia W. Liu, Kate Chier, Shm Garanganao Almeda +2

Researchers often read before they can articulate what they are looking for. As AI increasingly mediates scholarly search and synthesis, understanding and preserving the idiosyncra…

cs.HC2026

Reflecting on Creative-Boundaries with an AI Co-Doodler

Samia Menon, Samyukta Jayaram, Chetan Goenka +1

In this pictorial, we consider how the negotiation of creative boundaries with a co-creative AI system can create moments for personal creative reflection. We ground this in our ex…

cs.DL2026

Feeling UISTful: An Interactive Portrait of Scholarly Authorship, Readership, and the In-Between

Sophia W. Liu, Shm Garanganao Almeda, Max Kreminski +1

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…

cs.HC2026

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…

cs.HC2026

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…

cs.HC2026

Elsewise: Authoring Open-ended Interactive Narrative with Possibility Space Visualization

Yi Wang, John Joon Young Chung, Melissa Roemmele +6

Interactive narrative (IN) authors craft spaces of divergent narrative possibilities for players to explore, with the player's input determining which narrative possibilities they…

cs.HC2025★ 2 cited

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…

cs.CL2025

LiteraryTaste: A Preference Dataset for Creative Writing Personalization

John Joon Young Chung, Vishakh Padmakumar, Melissa Roemmele +7

People have different creative writing preferences, and large language models (LLMs) for these tasks can benefit from adapting to each user's preferences. However, these models are…

cs.HC2025★ 9 cited

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…

cs.DS2022

Synthesis Cost-Optimal Targeted Mutant Protein Libraries

Dimitris Papamichail, Madeline Febinger, Shm Almeda +1

Protein variant libraries produced by site-directed mutagenesis are a useful tool utilized by protein engineers to explore variants with potentially improved properties, such as ac…