My research lies primarily at the intersection of human computer interaction and computer graphics. Broadly, I’m interested in thinking about how to design computational tools that can support users in developing domain expertise, which I currently explore within the domain of creativity. My work takes inspiration from cognitive science and education theory to design computational tools that scaffold novices’ creative processes. Inspired by how expert artists have trained their eyes to “see” in a certain way, I aim to design guidance that helps novices develop their own “artistic vision”—and in doing so, support them in developing their own artistic expertise.
More specifically, my dissertation work focused on photography and videography interfaces. I designed in-camera guidance interfaces that can help users be more aware of their artistic choices. During my postdoc, I am more directly exploring the impact of computational feedback on creativity to inform the design of such creativity support tools.
On the side, I am a dancer 🩰 and a photo enthusiast 📷. I am a foodie 🍛 and also a lover of fitness 🤸🏻♀️.
announcements
April 2024
Invited talks at USC CS, NUS Computing, and UCSD Cognitive Science
March 2024
“Jamplate: Exploring LLM-Enhanced Templates for Idea Reflection” presented at IUI 2024 by Tone Xu
March 2024
Invited talks at Oregon State EECS, Tufts CS, UVA CS, Cornell IS Colloquium, and Indiana HCC
Submitted camera-ready to CSCW 2024 “ProcessGallery: Contrasting Early and Late Iterations for Design Principle Learning” (co-lead by Grace Yen and me)
November 2023
“Color Field: Developing Professional Vision by Visualizing the Effects of Color Filters” presented at UIST 2023 by Matt Beaudouin-Lafon
@inproceedings{yen2024processgallery,author={Yen*, Yu-Chun Grace and E*, Jane L. and Jin, Hyoungwook and Li, Mingyi and Lin, Grace and Pan, Isabelle Yan and Dow, Steven P.},title={ProcessGallery: Contrasting Early and Late Iterations for Design Principle Learning},venue={(To Appear) CSCW},year={2024},preprint={papers/yen2024processgallery_preprint.pdf},}
Jamplate: Exploring LLM-Enhanced Templates for Idea Reflection
Xiaotong (Tone) Xu, Jiayu Yin, Catherine Gu, Jenny Mar, Sydney Zhang, Jane L. E, and Steven P. Dow
@inproceedings{xu2024jamplate,author={Xu, Xiaotong (Tone) and Yin, Jiayu and Gu, Catherine and Mar, Jenny and Zhang, Sydney and E, Jane L. and Dow, Steven P.},title={Jamplate: Exploring LLM-Enhanced Templates for Idea Reflection},url={https://doi.org/10.1145/3640543.3645196},doi={10.1145/3640543.3645196},venue={IUI},year={2024},}
Color Field: Developing Professional Vision by Visualizing the Effects of Color Filters
Matthew T Beaudouin-Lafon, Jane L. E, and Haijun Xia
@inproceedings{beaudouinlafon2023colorfield,author={Beaudouin-Lafon, Matthew T and E, Jane L. and Xia, Haijun},title={Color Field: Developing Professional Vision by Visualizing the Effects of Color Filters},booktitle={Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology},url={https://doi.org/10.1145/3586183.3606828},doi={10.1145/3586183.3606828},venue={UIST},year={2023},}
@article{e2023machines,author={E, Jane L. and Fang, Cathy Mengying and Bourgault, Sam},title={Machines as Collaborators for Art and Rituals},journal={XRDS},url={https://doi.org/10.1145/3596928},doi={10.1145/3596928},venue={XRDS Magazine},year={2023},}
Exploring the Horizon of Computation for Creativity
@article{bourgault2023creativity,author={Bourgault, Sam and E, Jane L.},title={Exploring the Horizon of Computation for Creativity},journal={XRDS},url={https://doi.org/10.1145/3596921},doi={10.1145/3596921},venue={XRDS Magazine},year={2023},}
DataParticles: Block-based and Language-oriented Authoring of Animated Unit Visualizations
Yining Cao, Jane L. E, Zhutian Chen, and Haijun Xia
@inproceedings{cao2023dataparticles,author={Cao, Yining and E, Jane L. and Chen, Zhutian and Xia, Haijun},title={DataParticles: Block-based and Language-oriented Authoring of Animated Unit Visualizations},booktitle={Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},url={https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581472},doi={10.1145/3544548.3581472},venue={CHI},year={2023},bestpaper={true},}
Developing Comic-based Learning Toolkits for Teaching Computing to Elementary School Learners
Francisco Castro, Sangho Suh, Jane L. E, Weena Naowaprateep, and Yang Shi
@inproceedings{castro2023comic,author={Castro, Francisco and Suh, Sangho and E, Jane L. and Naowaprateep, Weena and Shi, Yang},title={Developing Comic-based Learning Toolkits for Teaching Computing to Elementary School Learners},booktitle={Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2},url={https://doi.org/10.1145/3545947.3576272},doi={10.1145/3545947.3576272},venue={SIGCSE Posters},year={2023},}
Artistic Vision: Providing Contextual Guidance for Capture-Time Decisions
@inproceedings{e2021declutter,author={E, Jane L. and Zhai, Kevin Y. and Echevarria, Jose and Fried, Ohad and Hanrahan, Pat and Landay, James A.},title={Dynamic Guidance for Decluttering Photographic Compositions},booktitle={Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology},url={https://doi.org/10.1145/3472749.3474755},doi={10.1145/3472749.3474755},venue={UIST},year={2021},}
Adaptive Photographic Composition Guidance
Jane L. E, Ohad Fried, Jingwan Lu, Jianming Zhang, Radomı́r Měch, Jose Echevarria, Pat Hanrahan, and James A. Landay
@inproceedings{e2020composition,author={E, Jane L. and Fried, Ohad and Lu, Jingwan and Zhang, Jianming and M\v{e}ch, Radom\'{\i}r and Echevarria, Jose and Hanrahan, Pat and Landay, James A.},title={Adaptive Photographic Composition Guidance},booktitle={Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},url={https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376635},doi={10.1145/3313831.3376635},venue={CHI},year={2020},}
Optimizing Portrait Lighting at Capture-Time Using a 360 Camera as a Light Probe
@inproceedings{e2019portrait,author={E, Jane L. and Fried, Ohad and Agrawala, Maneesh},title={Optimizing Portrait Lighting at Capture-Time Using a 360 Camera as a Light Probe},booktitle={Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology},url={https://doi.org/10.1145/3332165.3347893},doi={10.1145/3332165.3347893},venue={UIST},year={2019},}
Understanding the Accessibility of Smartphone Photography for People with Motor Impairments
Martez E. Mott, Jane L. E, Cynthia L. Bennett, Edward Cutrell, and Meredith Ringel Morris
@inproceedings{mott2018motor,author={Mott, Martez E. and E, Jane L. and Bennett, Cynthia L. and Cutrell, Edward and Morris, Meredith Ringel},title={Understanding the Accessibility of Smartphone Photography for People with Motor Impairments},booktitle={Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},url={https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174094},doi={10.1145/3173574.3174094},venue={CHI},year={2018},}
How Teens with Visual Impairments Take, Edit, and Share Photos on Social Media
Cynthia L. Bennett, Jane L. E, Martez E. Mott, Edward Cutrell, and Meredith Ringel Morris
@inproceedings{bennett2018visual,author={Bennett, Cynthia L. and E, Jane L. and Mott, Martez E. and Cutrell, Edward and Morris, Meredith Ringel},title={How Teens with Visual Impairments Take, Edit, and Share Photos on Social Media},booktitle={Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},url={https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173650},doi={10.1145/3173574.3173650},venue={CHI},year={2018},}
Drone Near Me: Exploring Touch-Based Human-Drone Interaction
Parastoo Abtahi, David Y. Zhao, Jane L. E, and James A. Landay
@article{abtahi2017drone,author={Abtahi, Parastoo and Zhao, David Y. and E, Jane L. and Landay, James A.},title={Drone Near Me: Exploring Touch-Based Human-Drone Interaction},journal={Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies},url={https://doi.org/10.1145/3130899},doi={10.1145/3130899},venue={IMWUT / UbiComp},year={2017},}
Human Perception of Swarm Robot Motion
Griffin Dietz, Jane L. E, Peter Washington, Lawrence H. Kim, and Sean Follmer
@inproceedings{dietz2017swarm,author={Dietz, Griffin and E, Jane L. and Washington, Peter and Kim, Lawrence H. and Follmer, Sean},title={Human Perception of Swarm Robot Motion},booktitle={Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems},url={https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3053220},doi={10.1145/3027063.3053220},venue={CHI EA},year={2017},}
Drone & Wo: Cultural Influences on Human-Drone Interaction Techniques
Jane L. E, Ilene L. E, James A. Landay, and Jessica R. Cauchard
@inproceedings{e2017drone,author={E, Jane L. and E, Ilene L. and Landay, James A. and Cauchard, Jessica R.},title={Drone \& Wo: Cultural Influences on Human-Drone Interaction Techniques},booktitle={Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},url={https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025755},doi={10.1145/3025453.3025755},venue={CHI},year={2017},}
Towards a Drone Cinematographer: Guiding Quadrotor Cameras using Visual Composition Principles
Niels Joubert*, Jane L. E*, Dan B Goldman, Floraine Berthouzoz, Mike Roberts, James A. Landay, and Pat Hanrahan
@article{joubert2016drone,author={Joubert*, Niels and E*, Jane L. and Goldman, Dan B and Berthouzoz, Floraine and Roberts, Mike and Landay, James A. and Hanrahan, Pat},title={Towards a Drone Cinematographer: Guiding Quadrotor Cameras using Visual Composition Principles},journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.01691 [cs.GR]},url={https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1610.01691},doi={10.48550/arXiv.1610.01691},venue={arXiv},year={2016},}
Drone & Me: An Exploration into Natural Human-Drone Interaction
Jessica R. Cauchard, Jane L. E, Kevin Y. Zhai, and James A. Landay
@inproceedings{cauchard2015drone,author={Cauchard, Jessica R. and E, Jane L. and Zhai, Kevin Y. and Landay, James A.},title={Drone \& Me: An Exploration into Natural Human-Drone Interaction},booktitle={Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing},url={https://doi.org/10.1145/2750858.2805823},doi={10.1145/2750858.2805823},venue={UbiComp},year={2015},}
Fully Automatic Generation of Anatomical Face Simulation Models
Matthew Cong, Michael Bao, Jane L. E, Kiran S. Bhat, and Ronald Fedkiw
@inproceedings{cong2015face,author={Cong, Matthew and Bao, Michael and E, Jane L. and Bhat, Kiran S. and Fedkiw, Ronald},title={Fully Automatic Generation of Anatomical Face Simulation Models},booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation},url={https://doi.org/10.1145/2786784.2786786},doi={10.1145/2786784.2786786},venue={SCA},year={2015},}
