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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - ACM Senior Member
  • 2008 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Scott R. Klemmer is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans several intersecting disciplines including Computer Science, Social Sciences, and Psychology, with a focus on applications in Computer Science, Education, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Their work primarily addresses topics related to online education, including Online Learning and Analytics, Online and Blended Learning, and Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods.

Among their recent publications is the paper titled Adjacent Display of Relevant Discussion Helps Resolve Confusion, published in 2021 in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. This paper explores mechanisms for improving learner comprehension by using adjacent displays of discussion content.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Matin Yarmand
  • Srishti Palani

Their research has appeared predominantly in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.

Klemmer has been recognized with distinctions such as:

  • ACM Senior Member in 2013
  • Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2008

Best Publications

  • How bodies matter: five themes for interaction design

    Scott R. Klemmer;Björn Hartmann;Leila Takayama

  • Peer and self assessment in massive online classes

    Chinmay Kulkarni;Koh Pang Wei;Huy Le;Daniel Chia

  • Two studies of opportunistic programming: interleaving web foraging, learning, and writing code

    Joel Brandt;Philip J. Guo;Joel Lewenstein;Mira Dontcheva

  • Parallel prototyping leads to better design results, more divergence, and increased self-efficacy

    Steven P. Dow;Alana Glassco;Jonathan Kass;Melissa Schwarz

  • Reflective physical prototyping through integrated design, test, and analysis

    Björn Hartmann;Scott R. Klemmer;Michael Bernstein;Leith Abdulla

  • Shepherding the crowd yields better work

    Steven Dow;Anand Kulkarni;Scott Klemmer;Björn Hartmann

  • Example-centric programming: integrating web search into the development environment

    Joel Brandt;Mira Dontcheva;Marcos Weskamp;Scott R. Klemmer

  • The designers' outpost: a tangible interface for collaborative web site

    Scott R. Klemmer;Mark W. Newman;Ryan Farrell;Mark Bilezikjian

  • Suede: a Wizard of Oz prototyping tool for speech user interfaces

    Scott R. Klemmer;Anoop K. Sinha;Jack Chen;James A. Landay

  • Papier-Mache: toolkit support for tangible input

    Scott R. Klemmer;Jack Li;James Lin;James A. Landay

  • What would other programmers do: suggesting solutions to error messages

    Björn Hartmann;Daniel MacDougall;Joel Brandt;Scott R. Klemmer

  • ButterflyNet: a mobile capture and access system for field biology research

    Ron Yeh;Chunyuan Liao;Scott Klemmer;François Guimbretière

  • The efficacy of prototyping under time constraints

    Steven P. Dow;Kate Heddleston;Scott R. Klemmer

  • Where do web sites come from?: capturing and interacting with design history

    Scott R. Klemmer;Michael Thomsen;Ethan Phelps-Goodman;Robert Lee

  • Authoring sensor-based interactions by demonstration with direct manipulation and pattern recognition

    Björn Hartmann;Leith Abdulla;Manas Mittal;Scott R. Klemmer

  • PeerStudio: Rapid Peer Feedback Emphasizes Revision and Improves Performance

    Chinmay E. Kulkarni;Michael S. Bernstein;Scott R. Klemmer

  • Prototyping dynamics: sharing multiple designs improves exploration, group rapport, and results

    Steven Dow;Julie Fortuna;Dan Schwartz;Beth Altringer

  • Designing with interactive example galleries

    Brian Lee;Savil Srivastava;Ranjitha Kumar;Ronen Brafman

  • Bricolage: example-based retargeting for web design

    Ranjitha Kumar;Jerry O. Talton;Salman Ahmad;Scott R. Klemmer

  • Hacking, Mashing, Gluing: Understanding Opportunistic Design

    B. Hartmann;S. Doorley;S.R. Klemmer

Frequent Co-Authors

James A. Landay
James A. Landay Stanford University
Björn Hartmann
Björn Hartmann University of California, Berkeley
Michael S. Bernstein
Michael S. Bernstein Stanford University
Steven Dow
Steven Dow University of California, San Diego
Philip J. Guo
Philip J. Guo University of California, San Diego
Daniel M. Russell
Daniel M. Russell University of Zurich
Rob Knight
Rob Knight University of California, San Diego
Andreas Paepcke
Andreas Paepcke Stanford University
Wendy Ju
Wendy Ju Cornell University
Daniel L. Schwartz
Daniel L. Schwartz Stanford University

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