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Publications

DesignWeaver: Dimensional Scaffolding for Text-to-Image Product Design

DesignWeaver: Dimensional Scaffolding for Text-to-Image Product Design

Sirui Tao, Ivan Liang, Cindy Peng, Zhiqing Wang, Srishti Palani, Steven P. Dow. To appear in the Proceedings of CHI 2025.

Productive vs. Reflective: How Different Ways of Integrating AI into Design Workflows Affect Cognition and Motivation

Productive vs. Reflective: How Different Ways of Integrating AI into Design Workflows Affect Cognition and Motivation

Xiaotong (Tone) Xu, Arina Konnova, Bianca Gao, Cindy Peng, Dave Vo, and Steven P. Dow. To appear in the Proceedings of CHI 2025.

ProcessGallery: Contrasting Early and Late Iterations for Design Principle Learning

ProcessGallery: Contrasting Early and Late Iterations for Design Principle Learning

Yu-Chun Grace Yen, Jane L. E, Hyoungwook Jin, Mingyi Li, Grace Lin, Isabelle Yan Pan, and Steven P. Dow. In Proceedings of ACM Human-Computer Interaction, Vol 8, CSCW1, Article 112 (April 2024).

MetaWriter: Exploring the Potential and Perils of AI Writing Support in Scientific Peer Review

MetaWriter: Exploring the Potential and Perils of AI Writing Support in Scientific Peer Review

Lu Sun, Stone Tao, Junjie Hu, and Steven P. Dow. In Proceedings of ACM Human-Computer Interaction. Vol. 8, CSCW1, Article 94 (April 2024).

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News

28 Jun 2024
Steven Dow will serve as the next general chair for Collective Intelligence in 2025!
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1 May 2024
Three new papers accepted to Creativity & Cognition 2024. Congrats to Jane E, Tone Xu and Jude Rayan!
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5 Jan 2024
Two new papers accepted to the Intelligent User Interface conference. Congrats to Lu Sun and Tone Xu!
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25 Sep 2023
Srishti Palani invited to the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany.
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About the lab

UC San Diego’s ProtoLab conducts research at the intersection of social computing and design with the goal of developing tools, processes, and instructional techniques that change the way people solve complex problems creatively and collaboratively. We develop technology related to social media, crowdsourcing, mixed-initiative systems, and physical-digital interactions to enable large-scale online creativity and to study the cognitive, social, and cultural aspects of design.

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Projects

Socio-Technical Environments for Community-Driven Design

The practice of design has been shifting from an expert-led endeavor towards community-driven processes—such as co-design, value-sensitive design, citizen-led science, end-user…

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Enabling Context-Aware Exploratory Search

Search tools provide access to the world’s largest repository of knowledge. However, when exploring vast new areas of information, people often struggle to articulate useful search…

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Leveraging Metadata to Support Collective Ideation

To generate truly creative ideas, one needs to have extensive knowledge of existing ideas. The Internet gives access to many existing ideas, but they are typically not presented in relation to a newly…

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