highlights-archive
An archive of highlights.
| Sep 29, 2024 | Attending UIST’24 (10/13-16) and organizing the “Dynamic Abstractions: Building the Next Generation of Cognitive Tools and Interfaces” workshop. Feel free to reach out if you want to chat! |
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| Sep 17, 2024 | The website for our UIST 2024 workshop “Dynamic Abstractions: Building the Next Generation of Cognitive Tools and Interfaces” is now live! Visit the site for more details and register here. |
| Aug 2, 2024 | Our workshop “Dynamic Abstractions: Building the Next Generation of Cognitive Tools and Interfaces” is accepted for inclusion at UIST 2024! I will post an update soon. |
| Jun 29, 2024 | “CoLadder: Manipulating Code Generation with Multi-Level Blocks” led by Ryan Yen is conditionally accepted to UIST 2024. Congrats Ryan! |
| May 6, 2024 | Organizing a new working group meetup at CHI’24. Join us for Monday lunch (05/13) by signing up on this spreadsheet! Learn more about our dynamic abstractions working group. |
| Apr 26, 2024 | Gave an invited talk “Expanding the Thinkable Territory With AI To Enable Powerful Ways of Thinking” @ UIUC SALT Lab. |
| Apr 15, 2024 | Luminate is now available to try! It is also open-source. |
| Jan 18, 2024 | “Luminate: Structured Generation and Exploration of Design Space with Large Language Models for Human-AI Co-Creation” is accepted to CHI 2024. |
| Nov 22, 2023 | I am giving a talk titled “Expanding the Thinkable Territory by Building AI Tools Inspired by Optical Instruments” at KAIST (Dec. 15), Naver (Dec. 20), and Seoul National University (Jan. 8th, 2024). |
| Nov 6, 2023 | Received “Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews” for CHI 2024 papers |
| Oct 9, 2023 | After a wonderful year at the Design Lab and Creativity Lab @ UC San Diego, I am joining DGP Lab @ University of Toronto as a Postdoctoral Fellow. |
| Aug 9, 2023 | Talk @ Microsoft Research, Cambridge - “Sensecape: Enabling Multilevel Exploration and Sensemaking with Large Language Models” |
| Aug 4, 2023 | “Sensecape: Enabling Multilevel Exploration and Sensemaking with Large Language Models” is accepted to UIST 2023. |
| Apr 28, 2023 | “Metaphorian: Leveraging Large Language Models to Support Extended Metaphor Creation for Science Writing” is accepted to DIS 2023. |
| Feb 1, 2023 | Talk @ Design Lab and Interactive Computing Seminar (02.08) - “Toward Meaningful Interaction with Complex Information” |
| Nov 8, 2022 | Received 2 x “Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews” for CHI 2023 papers |
| Oct 31, 2022 | Presented CodeToon at UIST 2022! [Talk] |
| Oct 13, 2022 | CodeToon was covered in TechXplore! [Article] |
| Aug 5, 2022 | “CodeToon: Story Ideation, Auto Comic Generation, and Structure Mapping for Code-Driven Storytelling” is accepted to UIST 2022. |
| Jun 13, 2022 | Our DIS 2022 paper received Best Paper Honorable Mention Award!🎖 |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Taught Experiment Design at University of Toronto’s Human-AI Interaction Research School |
| Apr 27, 2022 | Talk @ Google - “Creating Opportunities to Move Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction”: Generating Comics from Code with Story Ideation, Auto Comic Generation, and Generative AI |
| Apr 5, 2022 | “PrivacyToon: Concept-driven Storytelling with Creativity Support for Privacy Concepts” is accepted to DIS 2022. |
| Mar 15, 2022 | Successfully defended my PhD thesis! |
| Feb 10, 2022 | Received 2 x “Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews” for CHI 2022 papers |
| Jan 18, 2022 | “Leveraging Generative Conversational AI to Develop a Creative Learning Environment for Computational Thinking” is accepted to IUI 2022. |
| Nov 15, 2021 | Awarded LITE Grant to work on “Developing Curriculum and Guidelines for A New Approach of Teaching and Learning Programming with Comics” |
| Nov 6, 2021 | “CodeToon: A New Visual Programming Environment Using Comics for Teaching and Learning Programming” is accepted and will be presented at SIGCSE 2022 |
| Apr 21, 2021 | Excited to present recent Coding Strip projects at UWTL 2021! |
| Mar 16, 2021 | Presenting paper and CodingToon at SIGCSE 2021! |
| Jan 21, 2021 | Selected as finalist for Adobe Research Fellowship! |
| Dec 16, 2020 | My coding strip research is covered in press! [Article] [Twitter] [UWaterloo News] [ACM TechNews] |
| Nov 20, 2020 | “CodingToon: Using Authoring Tool to Create Concept-driven Comics for Programming Comics” is accepted and will be presented at SIGCSE 2021 |
| Oct 9, 2020 | “Using Comics to Introduce and Reinforce Programming Concepts in CS1” is accepted to SIGCSE 2021 |
| Aug 11, 2020 | Attending and presenting at VL/HCC 2020 |
| Aug 10, 2020 | Coding strip website has been revamped! |
| Apr 28, 2020 | “Coding Strip: A Pedagogical Tool for Teaching and Learning Programming Concepts through Comics” is accepted to VL/HCC 2020 |
| Mar 23, 2020 | “How Do We Design for Concreteness Fading? Survey, General Framework, and Design Dimensions” is accepted to IDC 2020 |
| Feb 11, 2020 | “Curiosity Notebook: A Platform for Learning by Teaching Conversational Agents” is accepted to CHI 2020 |
| Jan 6, 2020 | Teaching CS105 - Introduction to Computer Programming this term |
| Dec 16, 2019 | Completed Comp-II and now a Ph.D. Candidate |
| Aug 11, 2019 | Attended ICER’19 Doctoral Consortium in Toronto! Had an amazing time! |
| Jan 3, 2019 | Awarded Learning Innovation and Teaching Enhancement (LITE) Full Grant for my 2-year research project on programming education [description] [proposal] |