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Overview

Steven Dow is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Computer Science, with a focus on subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Applications, Mechanical Engineering, Sociology and Political Science, and Human-Computer Interaction.

Their work explores topics that cover a range of interdisciplinary areas such as Design Education and Practice, Innovative Human-Technology Interaction, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Open Source Software Innovations, Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing, Creativity in Education and Neuroscience, and Social Media and Politics.

Recent publications by Steven Dow include:

  • The Idea Machine: LLM-based Expansion, Rewriting, Combination, and Suggestion of Ideas (2022, Creativity and Cognition)
  • A Framework for Open Civic Design: Integrating Public Participation, Crowdsourcing, and Design Thinking (2021, Digital Government Research and Practice)
  • Critique Me (2020, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction)
  • MetaWriter: Exploring the Potential and Perils of AI Writing Support in Scientific Peer Review (2024, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction)
  • Framing Creative Work: Helping Novices Frame Better Problems through Interactive Scaffolding (2021, Creativity and Cognition)

Steven Dow frequently publishes in several venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction and Creativity and Cognition. Other venues of publication include arXiv (Cornell University), Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, and Digital Government Research and Practice.

Collaborations with other researchers are an important aspect of Steven Dow's work. Frequent co-authors include Jude Rayan, Lu Sun, Stephen MacNeil, Zijian Ding, and X. X. Xu, reflecting a network of interdisciplinary partnerships across various topics related to their research fields.

Best Publications

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

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

  • DART: a toolkit for rapid design exploration of augmented reality experiences

    Blair MacIntyre;Maribeth Gandy;Steven Dow;Jay David Bolter

  • Shepherding the crowd yields better work

    Steven Dow;Anand Kulkarni;Scott Klemmer;Björn Hartmann

  • DART: a toolkit for rapid design exploration of augmented reality experiences

    Blair MacIntyre;Maribeth Gandy;Steven Dow;Jay David Bolter

  • The efficacy of prototyping under time constraints

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

  • Wizard of Oz support throughout an iterative design process

    S. Dow;B. MacIntyre;J. Lee;C. Oezbek

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

    Steven Dow;Julie Fortuna;Dan Schwartz;Beth Altringer

  • Structuring, Aggregating, and Evaluating Crowdsourced Design Critique

    Kurt Luther;Jari-Lee Tolentino;Wei Wu;Amy Pavel

  • Do the best design ideas (really) come from conceptually distant sources of inspiration

    Joel Chan;Steven P. Dow;Christian D. Schunn

  • Presence and engagement in an interactive drama

    Steven Dow;Manish Mehta;Ellie Harmon;Blair MacIntyre

  • Exploring spatial narratives and mixed reality experiences in Oakland Cemetery

    Steven Dow;Jaemin Lee;Christopher Oezbek;Blair Maclntyre

  • Generating implications for design through design research

    Corina Sas;Steve Whittaker;Steven Dow;Jodi Forlizzi

  • Toward Collaborative Ideation at Scale: Leveraging Ideas from Others to Generate More Creative and Diverse Ideas

    Pao Siangliulue;Kenneth C. Arnold;Krzysztof Z. Gajos;Steven P. Dow

  • Almost an Expert: The Effects of Rubrics and Expertise on Perceived Value of Crowdsourced Design Critiques

    Alvin Yuan;Kurt Luther;Markus Krause;Sophie Isabel Vennix

  • Personality Matters: Balancing for Personality Types Leads to Better Outcomes for Crowd Teams

    Ioanna Lykourentzou;Angeliki Antoniou;Yannick Naudet;Steven P. Dow

  • Providing Timely Examples Improves the Quantity and Quality of Generated Ideas

    Pao Siangliulue;Joel Chan;Krzysztof Z. Gajos;Steven P. Dow

  • Graphologue: Exploring Large Language Model Responses with Interactive Diagrams

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  • Glance: rapidly coding behavioral video with the crowd

    Walter S. Lasecki;Mitchell Gordon;Danai Koutra;Malte F. Jung

  • The design and testing of a force feedback dental simulator

    Geb Thomas;Lyiii Johnson;Steven Dow;Clark Stanford

  • Improving Crowd Innovation with Expert Facilitation

    Joel Chan;Steven Dang;Steven P. Dow

  • IdeaHound: Improving Large-scale Collaborative Ideation with Crowd-Powered Real-time Semantic Modeling

    Pao Siangliulue;Joel Chan;Steven P. Dow;Krzysztof Z. Gajos

  • ConsensUs: Supporting Multi-Criteria Group Decisions by Visualizing Points of Disagreement

    Weichen Liu;Sijia Xiao;Jacob T. Browne;Ming Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Blair MacIntyre
Blair MacIntyre Georgia Institute of Technology
Elizabeth M. Gerber
Elizabeth M. Gerber Northwestern University
Scott R. Klemmer
Scott R. Klemmer University of California, San Diego
Jeffrey P. Bigham
Jeffrey P. Bigham Carnegie Mellon University
Brian P. Bailey
Brian P. Bailey University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Krzysztof Z. Gajos
Krzysztof Z. Gajos Harvard University
Björn Hartmann
Björn Hartmann University of California, Berkeley
Michael Mateas
Michael Mateas University of California, Santa Cruz
Christian D. Schunn
Christian D. Schunn University of Pittsburgh

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