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The Interface Ecology Lab invents new media and information
forms by exploring new relationships between human beings
and technology. We instantiate interface ecosystems by
connecting sensation, computing, media, semantics, and cultures.
We develop digital
systems, environments, components, and compositions to
elevate the role of human creativity and expression.
4/2008: Interface Ecology Lab director Andruid Kerne is awarded an
NSF CAREER grant by the Human-Centered Computing program for the proposal, "A Multimodal Mixed-Initiative Research Notebook for Information Discovery".
7/2008: The Interface Ecology Lab is awarded an
NSF IIS Medium grant by the Human-Centered Computing program for the proposal, "A Location-Aware Non-Mimetic Simulation Game for Teaching Team Coordination".
combinFormation [2.6 Beta 1]integrates searching, browsing, collecting, and organizing to promote information discovery, the emergence of new ideas while finding information. Agents work with the participant to collect and compose relevant image and text clippings, forming a continuously evolving navigational informationscape composition.
[supported by NSF Advanced Learning Technologies,
NSF IIS CAREER]
TTeCLoG: Team Coordination GamesTeaching Team Coordination with Location-aware Games (TTeCLoG) takes situated work practice of fire emergency responders, and develops games to teach team coordination. From a grounding in practice, we design non-mimetic simulations that re-create information flows and team structure, without a mimesis of fire and smoke.
[supported by NSF Information & Intelligent Systems, HARC Summer Scholars Program]
upcoming and recent presentations
Toups, Z. O., Kerne, A., Hamilton, W., Blevins, A.
Emergent Team Coordination: From Fire Emergency Response Practice to a Non-Mimetic Simulation Game,
Proc ACM Group 2009,
Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, May 10-13, 2009, 341-350.
Hamilton, W., Toups, Z. O., Kerne, A.
Synchronized Communication and Coordinated Views: Qualitative Data Discovery for Team Game User Studies,
Ext Abs ACM Computer Human Interaction 2009,
Boston, Massachusetts, USA, April 4-9, 2009, in press.
Toups, Z. O., Kerne, A., Hamilton, W.
Motivating Play through Score,
ACM Computer Human Interaction 2009 Workshop on Engagement by Design,
Boston, Massachusetts, USA, April 4-9, 2009.
Kerne, A., Koh, E., Smith, S. M., Webb, A., Dworaczyk, B.,
combinFormation: Mixed-Initiative Composition of Image and Text Surrogates Promotes Information Discovery
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ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 27(1), Dec. 2008, 5:1-45,http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1416950.1416955.
Kerne, A., Damaraju, S., Kumar, B., and Webb, A.
Meta-Metadata: A Semantic Architecture for Multimedia Metadata Definition, Extraction, and Presentation,
Poster and Demo Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies,
Koblenz, Germany, 3-5 December 2008.
Damaraju, S., Kerne, A.
Multitouch Gesture Learning and Recognition System.
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Extended Abstracts of IEEE Workshop on Tabletops and Interactive Surfaces,
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1-3 October 2008.
Kerne, A., Toups, Z.O., Dworaczyk, B., Khandelwal, M.
A Concise XML Binding Framework Facilitates Practical Object-Oriented Document Engineering
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Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Document Engineering,
Sao Paulo, Brazil, 16-19 September 2008.
Kerne, A., Smith, S.M., Koh, E., Choi, H., Graeber, R.,
An Experimental Method for Measuring the Emergence of New Ideas in Information Discovery,
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI),
24 (5) July 2008, 460-477.
Webb, A., Kerne, A.
The In-Context Slider: A Fluid Interface Component for Visualization and Adjustment of Values while Authoring,
Proceedings of ACM Advanced Visual Interfaces,
Napoli, Italy, 28-30 May 2008.
Kerne, A., Koh, E.,
Representing Collections as Compositions to Support Distributed Creative Cognition and Situated Creative Learning,
New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (NRHM),
13(2) Dec 2007, 135-162.
Koh, E., Kerne, A., Webb, A., Damaraju, S., Sturdivant, D.,
Generating Views of the Buzz: Browsing Popular Media and Authoring using Mixed-Initiative Composition,
Proceedings of ACM Multimedia,
Augsburg, Germany, 23-29 September 2007.
Koh, E., Caruso, D., Kerne, A., Gutierrez-Osuna, R.,
Elimination of Junk Document Surrogate Candidates through Pattern Recognition,
Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Document Engineering,
Winnipeg, Canada, 28-31 August 2007.
Webb, A.,
A Transitory Interface Component for the In-Context Visualization and Adjustment of a Value
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M.S. thesis, Texas A&M University, August 2007.
Koh, E., Kerne, A., Hill, R.,
Creativity Support: Information Discovery and Exploratory Search,
Proceedings of ACM SIGIR Conference,
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 23-27 July 2007.
Kerne, A., Koh, E., Smith, S.M., Choi, H., Graeber, R., Webb., A.,
Promoting Emergence in Information Discovery by Representing Collections with Composition,
Proc ACM Creativity & Cognition,
Washington DC, June 2007, 117-126.
Kerne, A., Koh, E.,
Creativity support: the mixed-initiative composition space,
Proc Joint ACM/IEEE Conf. on Digital Libraries (JCDL),
Vancouver, June 2007, 509-509.
Koh, E., Kerne, A.,
combinFormation: Exploring Multiple Searches Together through the Mixed-Initiative Composition Space,
ACM Computer Human Interaction 2007 Workshop on Exploratory Search and HCI,
San Jose, California, USA, April 2007.
Toups, Z. O., Kerne, A.,
Implicit Coordination in Firefighting Practice: Design Implications for Teaching Fire Emergency Responders,
Proc ACM Computer Human Interaction 2007,
San Jose, California, USA, April 2007, 277-286.
Toups, Z. O., Kerne, A.,
Location-Aware Augmented Reality Gaming for Emergency Response Education: Concepts and Development,
ACM Computer Human Interaction 2007 Workshop on Mobile Spatial Interaction,
San Jose, California, USA, April 2007.
Webb, A., Kerne, A., Koh, E., Joshi, P., Park, Y., Graeber, R.,
Choreographic Buttons: Promoting Social Interaction through Human
Movement and Clear Affordances, Proc ACM Multimedia, Santa
Barbara, Oct 2006.
Graeber, R., Kerne, A., Henderson, K.,
ZooMICSS:
a zoomable map image collection sensemaking system (the Katrina Rita context),
Proc ACM Multimedia, Santa Barbara, Oct 2006.
Toups, Z. O., Graeber, R., Kerne, A., Tassinary, L., Berry, S.,
Overby, K., Johnson, M., A
Design for Using Physiological Signals to Affect Team Game Play, Proc
Augmented Cognition International, Oct 2006, San Francisco.
Koh, E., Kerne, A.,
I Keep Collecting: College Students Build
and Utilize Collections in Spite of Breakdowns, Proc European Conf
on Digital Libraries (ECDL), Sept 2006, Alicante, Spain.
Kerne, A., Koh, E., Dworaczyk, B., Mistrot, J.M., Choi, H.,
Smith, S., Graeber, R., Caruso, D., Webb, A., Hill, R., Albea, J., A
Mixed-Initiative System for Representing Collections as Compositions of
Image and Text Surrogates,Proc Joint ACM/IEEE Conf. on Digital Libraries (JCDL), June 2006, Chapel Hill.
Kerne, A., Koh, E., Choi, H., Dworaczyk, B., Smith, S.M., Hill,
R., Albea, J., Supporting
Creative Learning Experience with Compositions of Image and Text
Surrogates, Proc Ed Media 2006, June 2006, Orlando.
Toups, Z., Overby, K., Kerne, A., Graeber, R., Cooper, T.,
Alley, E., Censor Chair, ACM SIGCHI Intl Conf on Advances in
Computer Entertainment, June 2006, Hollywood.
Alley, E., Cooper, T., Graeber, R., Kerne, A., Overby, K.,
Toups, Z., Censor
Chair: Exploring Censorship and Social Presence through
Psychophysiological Sensing, Proc ACM Multimedia, Nov 2005,
Singapore, 922-929.
