People / Jim McCann
Jim McCann
Postdoctoral Researcher
I create new creative tools and contexts by refining accepted metaphors and exploiting modern interface hardware. My interests range widely, from painting systems and perception to programming languages and presentation tools. However, my projects are generally guided by the same three principles: people are creative, ambiguity is powerful, and intuition is essential.
I earned my PhD in 2010 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA where I was advised by Nancy Pollard. While there I worked on various projects, falling under the loose umbrella of perception-motivated artistic tools. As an undergraduate, I studied Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI.
Publications |
Soft Stacking
McCann, J. and Pollard, N. S. (May 12, 2012)
In Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics)
Mid-level Smoke Control for 2D Animation
Barnat, A., Li, Z., McCann, J., and Pollard, N. S. (May 03, 2011)
In Proceedings of Graphics Interface
DynaMMo: Mining and Summarization of Coevolving Sequences with Missing Values
Li, L., McCann, J., Pollard, N. S., and Faloutsos, C. (Jan 30, 2009)
In Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Local Layering
McCann, J. and Pollard, N. S. (Jan 30, 2009)
In ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH)
Laziness is a Virtue: Motion Stitching Using Effort Minimization
Li, L., McCann, J., Pollard, N. S., and Faloustsos, C. (Jan 30, 2008)
In Short Papers Proceedings of Eurographics
Real-time Gradient-domain Painting
McCann, J. and Pollard, N. S. (Jan 30, 2008)
In ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH)
Responsive Characters from Motion Fragments
McCann, J. and Pollard, N. S. (Jan 30, 2007)
In Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH)
NEWTON: A Library-Based Analytical Synthesis Tool for RF-MEMS Resonators
McCorquodale, M. S., McCann, J., and Brown, R. B. (Jan 30, 2006)
In Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
Physics-Based Motions Retiming
McCann, J., Pollard, N. S., and Srinivasa, S. (Jan 30, 2006)
In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation
