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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.

combinFormation
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]

TTeCLoG: Team Coordination Games
Teaching 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

Webb, A. and 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.

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.

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, Proc ACM Computer Human Interaction 2007 Workshop on Exploratory Search and HCI, San Jose, 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, April 2007, 277-286.

Toups, Z. O., Kerne, A., Location-Aware Augmented Reality Gaming for Emergency Response Education: Concepts and Development, Proc ACM Computer Human Interaction 2007 Workshop on Mobile Spatial Interaction, San Jose, 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.

Stenner, J., Kerne, A., Williams, Y., Playas: Homeland Mirage, ISEA/Zero One, Aug 2006, San Jose.

Stenner, J., Kerne, A., Williams, Y., Playas: Homeland Mirage, Proc ACM Multimedia, Nov 2005, Singapore, 1057-1058.

Kerne, A., doing interface ecology: the practice of metadisciplinarity, Proc SIGGRAPH Art and Animation,
Aug 2005, Los Angeles, 181-185.

Kerne, A., Koh, E., Sundaram, V., Mistrot, J.M., Generative semantic clustering in spatial hypertext, Proc ACM Document Engineering 2005, Nov 2005, Bristol, UK, 84-93.

Kerne, A., Smith, S.M., Choi, H., Graeber, R., Caruso, D., Evaluating Navigational Surrogate Formats with Divergent Browsing Tasks, Proc ACM CHI, April 2005, Portland, Oregon.

Kerne, A., Mistrot, J.M., Khandelwal, M.,Sundaram, V., Koh, E., Using Composition to Re-Present Personal Collections of Hypersigns, Proc Computational Semiotics in Games and New Media (CoSIGN), Sept 2004, Split, Croatia.