Projects

Color Portraits

Color Portraits, from color picking to interacting with color

Research themes

• Creativity

Beyond Grids

Understanding how graphic designers currently structure their layouts and creating novel tools to better support their current practices

Research themes

• Creativity
• Human-computer partnerships

StickyLines

StickyLines lets users create precise, predictable and persistent interactive alignment and distribution relationships, and ‘tweak’ positions that are maintained for subsequent interactions.

Research themes

• Human-computer partnerships
• Fundamentals of Interaction

Knotation

Knotation lets choreographers sketch their own representations of choreographic ideas and render them interactive.

Research themes

• Creativity
• Human-computer partnerships

VideoClipper

Fieldward and Pathward

We help users create gestures that are both personally memorable and reliably recognized by a touch-enabled mobile device. We address these competing requirements with two dynamic guides that use progressive feedforward to interactively visualize the "negative space" of unused gestures: Pathward and Fieldward.

Research themes

• Human-computer partnerships

CommandBoard

A simple and efficient technique to invoke gesture commands from soft keyboards.

Expressive Keyboards

Expressive typing with gesture keyboards.

Research themes

• Fundamentals of Interaction
• Human-computer partnerships

Stretchis

We present a novel and inexpensive fabrication method for creating Stretchis, highly stretchable user interfaces that combine sensing capabilities and visual output.

Communication Places in App Ecosystems

We study how users appropriate the features and technical constraints of their communication apps to create idiosyncratic *communication places*, each with its own membership rules, perceived purposes, and emotional connotations.

Research themes

• Collaboration