ACME Creativity听Machine Environment (ACME) Lab, directed by听Ellen Do, researches computational tools for design,听creativity, cognition, tangible and embedded interaction, and computing for health and wellness. Along with the explicit name for which the acronym stands, Do likes ACME because of its lofty connotations and its association to听the Looney Tunes fictional organization, A Company that Makes Everything.
A key ethos for the lab is the belief that everyone can be creative because everyone has the ability to make things. Human beings are wonderfully听intricate pieces of machinery. In the effort听to understand human intelligence and creativity (cognition), or how people design everything (from their meals to furniture, house, or software programs), we build models and machines (physical, digital, and interactive) to attempt听to explain听and simulate, or to explore the boundaries of these ideas that are inside black boxes.
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Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Pattie Maes, Florian `Floyd' Mueller, and Nathan Semertzidis. 2023.听听(Dagstuhl Seminar 23212). In:听Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 13, Issue 5, pp. 136-164, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum f眉r Informatik.听(November 27, 2023).听
Saad Elbeleidy, Terran Mott,听Dan Liu,听Ellen Do, Elizabeth Reddy, and Tom Williams. 2023听鈥�.鈥� In:听Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW2, Article 326.听(October 2023).
Rishi Vanukuru听补苍诲听Ellen Yi-Luen Do.听2023听"." In:听IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct).听(Sydney, Australia, October 16-20, 2023).
Suibi Che-Chuan Weng,听Torin Hopkins, Shih-Yu Ma,听Chad Tobin,听Amy Banic,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do.听2023.听"." In:听IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct).听(Sydney, Australia, October 16-20, 2023).
Torin Hopkins,听Rishi Vanukuru,听Suibi Che Chuan Weng,听Chad Tobin,听Amy Banic,听Mark D Gross,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do.听2023.听"." In:听IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct).听(Sydney, Australia, October 16-20, 2023).
Rishi Vanukuru,听Suibi Che-Chuan Weng,听Krithik Zanjan,听Torin Hopkins,听Amy Banic,听Mark D Gross,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do.听2023听"". In:听IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR).听(Sydney, Australia, October 16-20, 2023).
Ruhan Yang听补苍诲听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2024. "." In: Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (SIGCSE 2024). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1929.听
Ruhan Yang听补苍诲听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2024. PaBo Bot: Paper Box Robots for Everyone. In Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1158鈥�1162.听
Ruhan Yang. 2024. "." In: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY.
Yuzhen Zhang, Ruixiang Han,听Ran Zhou,听Peter Gyory,听Clement Zheng, Patrick C. Shih,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Malte F Jung, Wendy Ju, and听Daniel Leithinger. 2024.听. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 47, 1鈥�15.
Torin Hopkins,听Suibi Che Chuan Weng,听Rishi Vanukuru,听Sasha Novack,听Chad Tobin,听Emma Wenzel,听Amy Banic,听Mark D Gross,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do, 鈥�.鈥� In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and eXtended and Virtual Reality (AIxVR).听(Jan 17-19, 2024)
Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Yan-Ming Chiou, and听Ellen Yi-Luen Do, 鈥�,鈥澨齣n 2024 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and eXtended and Virtual Reality (AIxVR), (Jan 17-19 2024)
S. S. Bae, T. Fujiwara, A. Ynnerman,听E. Y. -L. Do,听M. L. Rivera听补苍诲听D. A. Szafir, ","听 in听IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 913-923, Jan. 2024, doi:听.
Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Pattie Maes, Florian `Floyd' Mueller, and Nathan Semertzidis. Designing the Human-Machine Symbiosis (Dagstuhl Seminar 23212). In Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 13, Issue 5, pp. 136-164, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum f眉r Informatik (27 Nov, 2023)听
Rishi Vanukuru听补苍诲听Ellen Yi-Luen Do, "," 听2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), 16-20 October 2023, Sydney, Australia
Suibi Che-Chuan Weng,听Torin Hopkins,听Shih-Yu Ma,听Chad Tobin,听Amy Banic,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do,听","听2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), 16-20 October 2023, Sydney, Australia, 2023
Torin Hopkins,听Rishi Vanukuru,听Suibi Che Chuan Weng,听Chad Tobin,听Amy Banic,听Mark D Gross,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do, "," 听2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), 16-20 October 2023, Sydney, Australia, 2023
Rishi Vanukuru,听Suibi Che-Chuan Weng,听Krithik Zanjan,听Torin Hopkins,听Amy Banic,听Mark D Gross,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do,听","听2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Sydney, Australia (16-20 October 2023).
Saad Elbeleidy, Terran Mott,听Dan Liu,听Ellen Do, Elizabeth Reddy, and Tom Williams, 鈥�.鈥� . 2023. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW2, Article 326 (October 2023).
S. Sandra Bae, Takanori Fujiwara, Anders Ynnerman,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do,听Michael L. Rivera,听Danielle Albers Szafir. 2023. "". In:听IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics听(October听2023).
Torin Hopkins, Emily Doherty,听Netta Ofer,听Suibi Che-Chuan Weng,听Peter Gyory,听Chad Tobin, Leanne Hirschfield, and听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. 鈥溾��. In:听Proceedings of听Audio Mostly 2023. (August 30 - September 1, 2023).
Torin Hopkins, Alvin Jude, Greg Phillips, and听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. 鈥溾��. In:听Proceedings of听AIMC 2023. (August 29, 2023.
Torin Hopkins,听Suibi听Che-Chuan Weng, and听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. 鈥溾��. In:听Proceedings of听AIMC 2023. (August 29, 2023).
S. Sandra Bae, Takanori Fujiwara, Anders Ynnerman,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do,听Michael L. Rivera,听Danielle Albers Szafir. 2023. 鈥溾��. In:听ArXiv听.(August 9, 2023).
Ruojia Sun,听Althea Vail Wallop,听Grace Leslie, and听Ellen Yi-Luen Do.听鈥溾�澨� 2023. In: Companion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '23 Companion). (July 12, 2023).
Krithik Ranjan,听Peter Gyory,听Michael L. Rivera,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. 鈥溾��. In:听Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC '23)听(Chicago, IL, June 19-23, 2023).
Peter Gyory,听S. Sandra Bae,听Ruhan Yang,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do,听and听Clement Zheng.听2023. 鈥溾��. In:听CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023). 听
Ruhan Yang,听Krithik Ranjan, and听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. 鈥溾��. In:听CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).
Clement Zheng,听Peter Gyory, and听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. 鈥溾��. In:听CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems听(Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).听
Clement Zheng, Bo Han, Xin Liu,听Laura Devendorf, Hans Tan, and Ching Chiuan Yen. "". In:听Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems听(Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).
Suibi Che鈥揅huan Weng,听Torin Hopkins,听Rishi Vanukuru,听Chad Tobin,听Amy Banic,听鈥嬧赌�Daniel Leithinger, and听Ellen Yi鈥揕uen Do. 2023. 鈥溾��. In:听2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)听(Shanghai, China, March 25-29, 2023).听
Bae, S. Sandra听补苍诲听Vanukuru, Rishi听补苍诲听Yang, Ruhan听补苍诲听Gyory, Peter听补苍诲听Zhou, Ran听补苍诲听Do, Ellen Yi-Luen听补苍诲听Szafir, Danielle Albers,鈥澨�"听 in听IEEE Transactions on Visualization听and Computer Graphics, vol. 29, no. 1 (January听2023).
Hopkins Torin, Weng Suibi Che Chuan, Vanukuru Rishi, Wenzel Emma A., Banic Amy, Gross Mark D., Do Ellen Yi-Luen. 2022.听"".听Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Vol. 3听(August 19, 2022).
S. Sandra Bae,听Rishi Vanukuru,听Ruhan Yang,听Peter Gyory,听Ran Zhou,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do,听Danielle Albers Szafir. 2022. "." In:听Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2022,听(Oct.16-21, 2022鈥擮klahoma City, Oklahoma).
S. Sandra Bae. 2022. "." In:听Creativity and Cognition (C&C '22). Association for Computing Machinery,听(June 20-23, 2022鈥擵enice, Italy).
Peter Gyory. 2022. "." In:听Creativity and Cognition (C&C '22). Association for Computing Machinery.听(June 20-23, 2022鈥擵enice, Italy).
Peter Gyory,听Perry Y Owens,听Matthew Bethancourt,听Amy Banic,听Clement Zheng,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2022.听鈥�.鈥� In:听14th ACM conference on听Creativity & Cognition.听(June 20-23, 2022鈥擵enice, Italy).
T. Hopkins,听S. C. -C. Weng,听R. Vanukuru,听E. Wenzel,听A. Banic听补苍诲听E. Y. -L. Do, "." In:听2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)听(Christchurch, New Zealand鈥擬arch12-16, 2022).
S. Sandra Bae,听Clement Zheng,听Mary Etta West,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do,听Samuel Huron,听Danielle Albers Szafir听(2022). "." Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. (April 30 - May 5, 2022鈥擭ew Orleans, USA).
Sandra Bae,听Ruhan Yang,听Peter Gyory,听Julia Uhr,听Danielle Albers Szafir, Ellen Yi-Luen Do. "." In:听IDC '21: Interaction Design and Children听(24 June 2021).
Torin Hopkins,听Rishi Vanukuru,听Suibi Che-Chuan Weng,听Amy Banic,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do.听2022. "Augmented Personification of Intelligent Music Tools for Creativity and Collaboration." In:听ACM CHI 2022 Workshop 47:听Intelligent Music Interfaces:听When Interactive Assistance and Augmentation Meet Musical Instruments.听(New Orleans, LA鈥擬ay 1, 2022).
Rishi Vanukuru, Amarnath Murugan, Jayesh Pillai, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do.听"Designing and Studying Social Interactions in Shared Virtual Spaces using Mobile Augmented Reality." In:听ACM CHI 2022 Workshop 46: Social Presence in Virtual Event Spaces.听(New Orleans, LA鈥擬ay 1, 2022).
Chris Hill,听Ruojia Sun,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do.听2022.听鈥淲hat to Design Next: Actuated Materials and Soft Robots for Children,鈥� ACM CHI 2022 Workshop 39: Actuated Materials and听听Strategies for Human Computer Interaction Design.听听(New Orleans, LA鈥擬ay 1, 2022).
Torin Hopkins, Peter Pascente, Wayne Seltzer, Kellie Masterson, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2021. ".: In:听Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '21). Association for Computing Machinery (Salzburg, Austria听(virtual)鈥揊eb. 14-19, 2021).
Luo, Zhiqiang, Ponraj Durairaj,听Cheng Mun Lau,听Yuichiro听Katsumoto,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do,听Ahmad Sapon Bin Zainuddin,听Kensaku, Kawauchi, "." In:听2021 IEEE 7th International Conference on Virtual Reality (ICVR)听(2021).
S. Sandra Bae听and听Mary Etta West.听"" In"听Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '21). Association for Computing Machinery.听(Salzburg, Austria (virtual) Feb. 14-19, 2021).听[Craft Award]
Torin Hopkins, S. Sandra Bae, Julia Uhr, Clement Zheng, Amy Banic and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2021. "."听In:听. Springer Publishing Company, Inc.听(Feb 16, 2021)
Clement Zheng,听Peter Gyory, and听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2020. "."听In:听Proceedings of the 2020 ACM on Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 鈥�20). Association for Computing Machinery听(Eindhoven, Netherlands (virtual) 鈥� July 6-20, 2020)听[Honorable Mention Award for Best Pictorial Paper] & [Honorable Mention Award for Best Demonstration]
Sarah Beemer, Zak Boston, April Bukoski, Daniel Chen, Princess Dickens, Andrew Gerlach, Torin Hopkins, Parth Anand Jawale, Chris Koski, Akanksha Malhotra, Piyush Mishra, Saliha Muradoglu, Lan Sang, Tyler Short, Sagarika Shreevastava, Elizabeth Spaulding, Testumichi Umada, Beilei Xiang, Changbing Yang, Mans Hulden. 2020.听, in听Proceedings of the 17th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, July 2020, 162-170. (Seattle, Washington (virtual)鈥揓uly 10, 2020).
Ruhan Yang, Cody Candler, and听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2020. EdBoard: An Educational Breadboard.听听In Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference 2020 (IDC'20).听DOI: (London, England (virtual)鈥揓une 17-24, 2020).
Torin Hopkins听补苍诲听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2020.听. In听Proceedings of听International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation听(TENOR'20)听(Hamburg, Germany鈥揗ay 12-14,听2020).
Ryo Suzuki,听Hooman Hedayati,听Clement Zheng, James Bohn,听Daniel Szafir,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do,听Mark D Gross, and听Daniel Leithinger. 2020. "."听In:听Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). ACM听(Honolulu, Hawaii (virtual)听鈥撎鼳pril 25-30, 2020).
Amy听Banic, Erik听Horwitz and听Clement听Zheng.听2020. "." In:听2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)听(Atlanta, Georgia鈥揗arch 22-26, 2020).
Junnan Yu, Clement Zheng, Mariana Aki Tamashiro, Christopher Gonzalez-millan, and Ricarose Roque.听"." In:听Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI 鈥�20). Association for Computing Machinery.听(Sydney, Australia 鈥� Feb. 9-12, 2020).听
Ryo Suzuki,听Clement Zheng, Yasuaki Kakehi,听Tom Yeh,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do,听Mark D. Gross,听Daniel Leithinger. "." In: Proceedings of The 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology听(UIST'19).听(New Orleans, LA鈥擮ct. 20-23, 2019).
Ryosuke Nakayama,听Ryo Suzuki,听Satoshi Nakamaru, Ryuma Niiyama, Yoshihiro Kawahara, and Yasuaki Kakehi. "." In Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '19).听[Best Paper Award].
Peter Gyory,听Clement Zheng,听Daniel Leithinger, and听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. "." In: Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion听(DIS '19 Companion). ACM (San Diego, CA, USA鈥擩une 23-28, 2019).
Clement Zheng,听HyunJoo Oh,听Laura Devendorf, and听Ellen Yi-Luen Do.听"." In:听Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference听(DIS '19).听(San Diego, CA, USA 鈥� June 23 - 28, 2019). [Best Pictorial Award].
Patrycja Zdziarska, Felix A. Epp, Walther Jensen,听Mark D Gross,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. "."听In: Proceedings of Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction听(TEI鈥�19).听(Tempe, Arizona, USA鈥擬arch 17-20, 2019).
Clement Zheng,听Jeeeun Kim,听Daniel Leithinger,听Mark D Gross,听&听Ellen Yi-Luen Do.听"."听In: Proceedings of Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction听(TEI鈥�19).听(Tempe, Arizona, USA鈥擬arch 17-20, 2019).
Denise Powell, Peter听Gyory,听Ricarose Roque, and听Annie Bruns. . In"听Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children,听(IDC听'18). (Trondheim, Norway 鈥� June 19-22, 2018).
Jeeeun Kim, Clement Zheng, Haruki Takahashi, Mark Gross, Daniel Ashbrook and Tom Yeh. .听In:听Proceedings of the 2nd听ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication, (SCF, '18).听(Cambridge, Massachusetts 鈥� June 17-19, 2018).
Clement Zheng听and听Ellen Yi-Luen Do.听,听In: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction听(). (Stockholm, Sweden, March 18-21, 2018).
Clement Zheng.听2018.听.听In:听Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (). (Stockholm, Sweden 鈥� March 18-21, 2018).
James Hallam,听Clement Zheng, Noah Posner, Heydn Ericson, Matthew Swarts,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2017.听.听In:听Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers听(UbiComp '17). (Maui, Hawaii, Sept.听11-15, 2017).