Curriculum vitæ
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ACM Digital Library
My printed portfolio which is also available as a glossy bound booklet
Vɪᴍ: Empowering Designers with Customizable, Decomposable Electrical Energy Storage
ACM CHI, April 2023.
Lotio: Lotion-Mediated Interaction with an Electronic Skin-Worn Display
ACM CHI, April 2023.
Kaleidoscope: A Reflective Documentation Tool for a User Interface Design Course
ACM CHI, April 2023. 🏆 Best Paper Award
ACM DL • PDF • Preview Video • Talk Video
Understanding Version Control as Material Interaction with Quickpose
ACM CHI, April 2023.
Towards Creative Version Control
ACM CSCW, 2022. ACM DL
Creative and Motivational Strategies Used by Expert Creative Practitioners
ACM Creativity & Cognition, June 2022. 🏆 Best Paper Award
Towards Decomposable Interactive Systems: Design of a Backyard-Degradable Wireless Heating Interface
ACM CHI, May 2022. (video preview and video presentation) 🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
Adroid: Augmenting Hands-on Making with a Collaborative Robot
ACM UIST, October 2021. (video)
Expanding the Design Space for Technology-Mediated Theatre Experiences
ACM DIS, June 2021. (video)
ACM CHI, May 2021.
Crank That Feed: A Physical Intervention for Active Twitter Users
ACM CHI, May 2021.
Makerspaces for Inclusive Education
International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII), Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2020.
Interacting with Literary Style through Computational Tools
ACM CHI, April 2020.
Turn-by-Wire: Computationally Mediated Physical Fabrication
ACM UIST, Oct 2019.
Phosphenes: Crafting Resistive Heaters within Thermoreactive Composites
ACM DIS, June 2019.
Hybrid Microgenetic Analysis: Using Activity Codebooks to Identify and Characterize Creative Process
ACM Creativity & Cognition, June 2019.
A Conversation with Actuators: An Exploratory Environment for Hybrid Materials
ACM Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions (TEI), March 2019.
ACM DIS, June 2018.
Statement Making: Experiences from Running a Maker Fashion Show
ACM DIS, June 2018. 🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
AlterWear: Battery-Free Wearable Displays for Opportunistic Interactions
ACM CHI, April 2018.
MatchSticks: Digital Fabrication for Woodworking
ACM CHI, April 2018. 🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
Häiriö: Human Hair as Interactive Material
ACM Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions (TEI), March 2018.
Illumination Aesthetics: Light as a Creative Material within Computational Design
ACM CHI, May 2017. 🏆 Best Paper Award
AlterNail: Ambient, Batteryless, Stateful, Dynamic Displays at your Fingertips
ACM CHI, May 2017.
Crowdclass: Designing Classification-based Citizen Science Learning Modules
AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP), November 2016.
Aesthetic Electronics: Designing, Sketching, and Fabricating through Digital Exploration
ACM UIST, October 2016.
Skintillates: Towards Epidermal Electronic Interactions
ACM DIS, June 2016. 🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
ProxyPrint: Supporting Crafting Practice through Physical Computational Proxies
ACM DIS, June 2016. 🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
ACM DIS, June 2016.
ACM CHI, May 2016. 🏆 Best Paper Award
MyPart: Personal, Portable, Accurate, Airborne Particle Counting
ACM CHI, May 2016.
HapticPrint: Designing Feel Aesthetics for Digital Fabrication
ACM UIST, November 2015.
MetaMorphe: Designing Dynamic 3D Models for Digital Fabrication
ACM Creativity & Cognition, Glasgow, Scotland, June 2015.
Biological Citizen Publics: Personal Genetics as a Site of Scientific Literacy and Action
ACM Creativity & Cognition, Glasgow, Scotland, June 2015.
Exploring Barriers to the Adoption of Mobile Technologies for Volunteer Data Collection Campaigns
ACM CHI, April 2015.
ACM CHI, April 2015.
ACM CHI, April 2015.
The Obscura 1C Digital Camera: A Counterfuntional Device
Biennial Research Through Design (RTD) Conference, April 2015.
Fl.UIs : Liquid-Mediated Vision Based Touch Surfaces
ACM TEI, Stanford, CA, January 2015.
ShrinkyCircuits: Sketching, Shrinking, and Formgiving for Electronic Circuits
ACM UIST, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 2014.
Sensory Triptych: Here, Near, Out There
ACM UIST, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 2014.
Counterfunctional Things: Exploring Possibilities in Designing Digital Limitations
ACM DIS, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, June 2014.
Some Variations on a Counter-Functional Digital Camera
ACM DIS, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, June 2014.
Exploring the Opportunities of Mobile Technology Use in Nonprofit Organizations
ACM CHI, Toronto, Canada, May 2014. (Work in Progress Paper)
A Low-Tech Sensing System for Particulate Pollution
ACM Tangible and Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI), Munich, Germany, February 2014.
Community Engagements with Living Sensing Systems
ACM Creativity and Cognition, Sydney, Australia, August 2013
ACM CHI, Paris, France, April 2013.
inAir: A Longitudinal study of Indoor Air Quality Measurements and Visualizations
ACM CHI, Paris, France, April 2013
ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), San Antonio, TX, USA, February 2013
At the seams: DIYbio and opportunities for HCI
ACM DIS, Newcastle, UK, June 2012.
The Local Energy Indicator: Designing for Wind and Solar Energy Systems in the Home
ACM DIS, Newcastle, UK, June 2012.
Designing Everyday Technologies with Human-Power and Interactive Microgeneration
ACM DIS, Newcastle, UK, June 2012.
At the Seams: DIYbio and opportuniues for HCI
ACM DIS, Newcastle, UK, June 2012.
A Subscription-based Authoring Tool for Mobile Citizen Science Campaigns
ACM CHI, Austin, TX., May 2012.
Beyond Energy Monitors: Interaction, Energy, and Emerging Energy Systems
ACM CHI, Austin, TX., May 2012.
TimeBlocks: “Mom, can I have another block of time?”
ACM CHI, Austin, TX., May 2012.
Red Balloon, Green Balloon, Sensors in the Sky
Ubiquitous Computing Conference, September 2011.
Nurturing Natural Sensors 🏆 Best Paper Award
Ubiquitous Computing Conference, September 2011.
Practices in the Creative Reuse of e-Waste
ACM CHI, Vancouver, B.C., May 2011.
A Phenomenology of Human-Electricity Relations 🏆 Best Note Nomination
ACM CHI, Vancouver, B.C., May 2011.
ACM CHI, Vancouver, B.C., May 2011.
Breaking Boundaries: Strategies for mentoring through Textile Computing Workshops
ACM CHI, Vancouver, B.C., May 2011.
Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipe Bombe: Challenges to Urban Authoring and Participatory Sensing
ACM CHI, Vancouver, B.C., May 2011.
Citizen Energy: Towards Populist Interactive Micro-Energy Production
Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS) Kauai, USA, 2011.
Rise of the Expert Amateur: DIY Projects, Communities, and Cultures
ACM NordiCHI, Reykjavík, Iceland, October 2010
Understanding Conflict Between Landlords and Tenants: Implications for Energy Sensing and Feedback
UbiComp, September 2010.
Participatory Sensing in Public Spaces: Activating Urban Surfaces with Sensor Probes
ACM DIS, Aarhus, Denmark, August 2010.
WallBots: Interactive Wall-Crawling Robots In the Hands of Public Artists and Political Activists
ACM DIS, Aarhus, Denmark, August 2010.
ACM DIS, Aarhus, Denmark, August 2010.
ACM DIS, Aarhus, Denmark, August 2010.
Designing Emotional Attachment to Energy 🏆 Best Paper Award (poster)
Design and Emotion, Chicago, USA, October 2010.
UpStream: Motivating Water Conservation with Low-Cost Water Flow Sensing and Persuasive Displays
ACM CHI, Atlanta, USA, April 2010.
Home, Habits, and Energy: Deconstructing Domestic Interactions and Energy Consumptions
ACM CHI, Atlanta, USA, April 2010.
inAir: Sharing Indoor Air Quality Measurements and Visualizations
ACM CHI, Atlanta, USA, April 2010.
Personal, Public: Using DIY to explore citizen-led efforts in urban computing
ACM CHI, Atlanta, USA, April 2010.
WearAir: Expressive T-shirts for Air Quality Sensing
Tangible Embeded and Embodied Interaction, Cambridge, MA, January 2010.
Engaging Data, October 2009
It's Not All About Green: Energy use in Low-income Communities
UbiComp, September 2009
inAir: Measuring and Visualizing Indoor Air Quality
UbiComp, September 2009
A Vehicle for Research: Using Street Sweepers to Explore the Landscape of Environmental Community Action 🏆 Best Paper Nomination
ACM CHI, Boston, USA, April 2009.
ACM DIS, February 2008.
180 x 120: Designing Alternate Location Systems
ACM DUX, November 2007
AnyPhone: Mobile Applications for Everyone
ACM DUX, November 2007
Sashay: Designing for Wonderment
ACM CHI, April 2006
Urban Probes: Encountering our Emerging Urban Atmospheres
ACM CHI, April 2005
The Familiar Stranger: Anxiety, Comfort, and Play in Public Places
ACM CHI, April 2004.
Mobile Play: Blogging, Tagging, and Messaging
Panel in Ubiquitous Computing, October 2003.
Connexus: A Communal Interface
ACM DUX: Designing for User Experiences, San Francisco, June 2003.
Collaborative Online Teleoperation with Spatial Dynamic Voting and a Human "Tele-Actor"
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2002.
Designing Personal Tele-embodiment
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1998.
PRoP: Personal Roving Presence
ACM CHI 1998.
Delivering Real Reality to the World Wide Web via Telerobotics
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1996
Accurate Insertions Strategies Using Simple Optical Sensors
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1994.
Informed Peg-in-Hole Insertion Using Optical Sensors
SPIE Sensor Fusion VI, 1993.
International Journal of Robotics Research, 2001.
Social Tele-embodiment: Understanding Presence
Autonomous Robotics, Volume 11, Issue 1, July 2001.
Ubiquitous Tele-embodiment: Applications and Implications
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Special Issue on Innovative Applications of the World Wide Web, Volume 46, Issue 6, 1997.
Fast Construction of Near Optimal Probing Strategies
Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, 1996.
A World Wide Web Telerobotics Remote Environment Browser
World Wide Web Journal, 1996.
TimeBlocks: “Mom, can I have another block of time?”
CM SIGCHI, Austin, TX, May 2012.
Enabling Personal Tele-embodiment
Video Technical Program, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Seattle, WA, 1998.
PRoP: Personal Roving Presence
Video Technical Program, ACM SIGCHI, Los Angeles, CA, 1998.
Common Sense: Mobile Environmental Sensing Platforms to Support Community Action and Citizen Science
Demonstration at Ubiquitous Computing Conference, September 2008.
Objects of Wonderment: Hullabaloo
Demonstration at Ubiquitous Computing Conference, Orange County, California, September 2006.
Jetsam: Exposing our Everyday Discarded Objects
Demonstration at Ubiquitous Computing Conference, Orange County, California, September 2006.
PRoP: Personal Roving Presence
Electric Garden at ACM SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, CA August 1997.
Space Browsers: A Tool for Ubiquitous Tele-embodiment
The Digital Bayou at ACM SIGGRAPH, New Orleans, LA, August 1996.
Objects of Wonderment: Hullabaloo
Demonstration at Ubiquitous Computing, September 2006
Jetsam: Exposing Our Everyday Discarded Objects
Demonstration at Ubiquitous Computing, September 2006
Jabberwocky: Your Personal Compass
Where 2.0, O'Reilly Network, June 2005
The New Social Strange: Artists and Augmentation
Workshop position paper for The Future of Social AR Workshop at CSCW 2020.
Materializing Energy in Everyday Life
Workshop position paper for the Examining Appropriation, Re-use, and Maintenance for Sustainability at SIGCHI 2010.
Re-designing Everyday Interactions, Relationships, and Practices with Energy
Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change (BECC), Sacramento, USA, November 2010
Expressive Interactions for Sustainability and Empowerment Workshop, October 2009.
N-smarts: networked suite of mobile atmospheric real-time sensors
Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR at SIGCOMM), August 2008.
Workshop position paper for the Sensing on Everyday Mobile Phones in Support of Participatory Research at ACM SenSys 2008, November 2007
Workshop position paper for the Ubiquitous Sustainability: Technologies for Green Values at UbiComp, September 2007
Urban Score: Measuring Your Relationship with the City
Workshop position paper for the Design and Evaluation of Ambient Information Systems at Pervasive, May 2007
HCI Cannot be used to Evaluate Art
Workshop position paper for HCI and New Media Arts: Methodlogy and Evaluation at ACM SIGCHI, April 2007.
Workshop position paper for Imaging the City workshop submission at ACM SIGCHI, April 2007
Urban Atmospheres Workshop Newsletter
Workshop position paper for Engaging the City: Public Interface and Civic Intermediary at ACM SIGCHI, April 2005
Workshop position paper for Representations of Digital Identity at ACM CSCW, November 2004
Connexus: An Evocative Interface
ACM CSCW Workshop on Ad hoc Communications and Collaboration in Ubiquitous Computing Environments, New Orleans, November 2002.
Beyond Individuals: Exploring Social Experiences Around Wearables (workshop website)
Workshop at ACM UbiComp 2019, London, UK, Oct 2019.
Invention Clubhouse
Hands on Prototyping Workshop for Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) Elementary Children, CITRIS Invention Lab, June 2015.
New Making Renaissance: Programmable Matter and Things
Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Computing Community Consortium (CCC) with the National Science Foundation (NSF), St. Helena, CA, 3-4 June 2014.
Invention Clubhouse
Hands on Prototyping Workshop for Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) Elementary Children, CITRIS Invention Lab, June 2014.
Robots and New Media
Berkeley Center for New Media Symposium, 4 April 2014.
(DIY)biology and Opportunities for HCI
Workshop organized at ACM DIS, Newcastle, UK, June 2012.
HCI, Politics and the City: Engaging with Urban Grassroots Movements forReflection and Action (workshop website)
Workshop at ACM SIGCHI, Vancouver, B.C., May 2011.
DIY for CHI: Methods, Communities, and Values of Reuse and Customization (Workshop Link here)
Workshop at ACM SIGCHI, Boston, USA, April 2009
Ubiquitous Sustainability: Citizen Science & Activism (Workshop Link here)
Workshop organized at Ubiquitous Computing Conference, Seoul, South Korea, September 2008.
Pervasive Persuasive Technology and Environmental Sustainability (Full set of Workshop Papers) (Workshop Website)
Workshop 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Sydney, Australia, May 2008.
Interactive City Summit
Two Day Summit for International Symposium on Electronic Art, San Francisco, USA, August 2006.
Ex-Urban Noir(Workshop Link here)
Two-Day Workshop at Ubiquitous Computing Conference, Orange County, California, September 2006.
Metapolis and Urban Life (Workshop link)
Two-Day Workshop at Ubiquitous Computing Conference, Tokyo, Japan, September 2005.
UbiComp in the Urban Frontier (Workshop Link here)
Workshop at Ubiquitous Computing Conference, Nottingham, UK, September 2004.
Urban After
Rx Gallery, San Francsico, CA, July 2004.
Street Talk: An Urban Computing Happening
Full Day Event held at the Intel Research Lab in Berkeley, July 2004
Workshop at Ubiquitous Computing Conference, Seattle, WA, October 2003.
Images from the Demonstrations that Allison Woodruff and I co-Chaired for UbiComp 2003 Conference
Colloquium exploring the technological, aesthetic and social-political issues
Current Challenges in Internet Robotics
Workshop at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Detroit, MI, May 1999.
Report on the ISEA2006 Interative City Summit
Panel at International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), San Jose, CA, August 2006.
Mobile Play: Blogging, Tagging, and Messaging
Images from the Panel I organized at UbiComp 2003 Conference
Displaced Perceptions: Intriguing Questions on the Desires of Uninhibited Technology
Keynote Panel featuring (alphabetically): Natalie Jeremijenko, Eduardo Kac, Mark Pauline, Eric Paulos Web98 Design and Development Conference and Exposition, San Francisco, USA, 22 June, 1998
Interfacing Reality: Exploring Emerging Trends between Humans and Machines
SIGGRAPH Panel featuring (alphabetically): John Canny, Eduardo Kac, Ken Goldberg, Mark Pauline, Eric Paulos, Stelarc at SIGGRAPH Los Angeles, USA, 5-7 August, 1997
The Rise of the Expert Amateur: DIY Culture and the Evolution of Computer Science
International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), Huston, TX, March 2013
ACM Interactions, Volume 19 Issue 1, January + February 2012. ACM Press, New York, NY
Pervasive Computing and Environmental Sustainability: Two Conference Workshops
IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 78-81, January-March, 2009
Special Issue on Urban Computing
IEEE Pervasive Computing, July-September 2007
Ex-Urban Noir Workshop Review
IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol 6, Num 1, January-March 2007
Beyond BitTorrent: Dark Nets to Native Data
Architectural Design issue on Collective Intelligence, October 2006.
Our Emerging Urban Atmospheres: Urban Probes and Familiar Strangers
IEEE Pervasive Computing, April 2005
Jabberwocky
Spectropolios, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council on Digital Futures, New York, October 2004.
Our Emerging Urban Computing Landscape: Familiar Strangers
Receiver Magazine, Vodafone, UK, May 2004.
PRoPs:The Avatars Are Loose in the Hauptplatz!
FleshFactor at Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, 8-13 September, 1997
PRoP: Personal Roving Presence
Electric Garden at SIGGRAPH Los Angeles, USA, 5-7 August, 1997
Space Browsers: A Tool for Ubiquitious Tele-embodiment
The Digital Bayou at SIGGRAPH, 4-9 August, 1996
The Rise of the Expert Amateur: Citizen Science and Micro-Volunteerism
in From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen: Urban Informatics, Social Media, Ubiquitous Computing, and Mobile Technology to Support Citizen Engagement Edited by: Foth, M., Forlano, L., Satchell, C., & Gibbs, M. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2011
Citizen Science: Enabling Participatory Urbanism
in Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City. Edited by Marcus Foth Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, IGI Global, 2008
Mobile Persuasion for Everyday Behavior Change
in Mobile Persuasion: Perspectives on the Future of Influence Edited by B.J Fogg, 2007
Personal Tele-embodiment: Reconstructing the Body for Online Interaction
in The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemonogy on the Internet, Edited by Ken Goldberg, MIT Press, 2000.
Personal Tele-embodiment
in Beyond Webcams: An Introduction to Online Robots,Edited by Roland Siegwart and Ken Goldberg, MIT Press, 2001
Personal Tele-embodiment (282 pages / 11 MB)
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, 2001.
Fast Construction of Near Optimal Probing Strategies
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, 1999.
Skintillates: Towards Epidermal Electronics Interactions
U.S. Provisional Patent Application No.62/174,735, June 2015.
Portable Airborne Partiel Counting Systems and Methods
U.S. Provisional Patent Application No.62/096,371, Dec 2014.
Tele-Action: A Framework for Collaborative Telepresence
3 May 2011, U.S. Pat. No. 7,937,285.
Individually Addressable, Highly Efficient, Trifunctional Conductive Thread
June 2015
Ambient Local and Remote Threat Indicator System
Provisional Patent, 2002
A System to Enhance Security of a Tele-Collaboration System
Provisional Patent, 2001
Remote Controlled Persistent Laser Pointer Imagery
Provisional Patent, 2001
A System to Macro-Steer Movements from a Remote Location
Provisional Patent, 2001
A System to Stabilize a Wearable Pointer
Provisional Patent, 2001
A System to Coordinate a Zooming Camera with a Tele-Collaboration System Incorporating a Remote Laser Pointer
Provisional Patent, 2001
A System to Control a Wearable Laser Pointer from a Remote Location
Provisional Patent, 2001
A System to Control the Movements of a Remote Control Pointer
Provisional Patent, 2001
Towards Digital Apprenticeship: Wearable Activity Recognition in the Workshop Setting
EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2015-172, July 2015.
Tele-Actors: Tools for Collaborative Telepresence
UC Berkeley, Computer Science Technical Report (UCB/CSD-01-1135), 27 February 2001.
On-line Collision Avoidance for Multiple Robots Using B-Splines
UC Berkeley, Computer Science Technical Report (UCB/CSD-98-977),1994.
Robotics Grasping Literature Overview, 1993.