People / Mira Dontcheva
Mira Dontcheva
Senior Research Scientist
I am senior research scientist at Adobe Systems. My research focuses on instructional design, search and sensemaking interfaces, and creativity. I finished my Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2008 at the University of Washington with David Salesin, Michael Cohen and Steven Drucker. My thesis focused on novel interaction techniques for collecting and organizing Web content. I was an undergraduate at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and completed my B.S.E. in Computer Engineering in 2000. Check out my new book: No Code Required: Giving Users Tools to Transform the Web.
Publications |
PixelTone: A Multimodal Interface for Image Editing
Laput, G., Dontcheva, M., Wilensky, G., Chang, W., Agarwala, A., Linder, J., Adar, E., 2013 (Apr 27, 2013)
To appear in Proceedings of CHI : ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems
Discovery-based Games for Learning Software
Dong, T., Dontcheva, M., Joseph, D., Karahalios, K., Newman, M., Ackerman, M. (May 07, 2012)
To appear in Proceedings of CHI 2012: ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems.
Affective Computational Priming and Creativity
Lewis, S., Dontcheva, M. and Gerber, E. (Feb 01, 2011)
SIGCHI 2011 ACM (Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction)
Pause-and-play: Automatically Linking Screencast Video Tutorials with Applications
Pongnumkul, S., Dontcheva, M., Li, W., Bourdev, L., Avidan, S., Wang, J., Cohen, M., (Jan 30, 2011)
In ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2011)
How the Web Helps People Turn Ideas Into Code
Brandt, J., Guo, P. J., Lewenstein, J., Dontcheva, M., Klemmer. S. R. (Feb 01, 2010)
In No Code Required: Giving Users Tools to Transform the Web, edited by Cypher, A., Dontcheva, M., Lau, T., Nichols, J., Kaufmann, M
Example-Centric Programming: Integrating Web Search into the Development Environment
Brandt, J., Dontcheva, M., Weskamp, M., Klemmer, S. R. (Feb 01, 2010)
In Proceedings of CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems, 513-522. [doi]
Creating Collections with Automatic Suggestions and Example-Based Refinement
Secord, A., Winnemöller, H., Li, W., and Dontcheva, M. (Feb 01, 2010)
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
Generating Photo Manipulation Tutorials By Demonstration
Grabler, F., Agrawala, M., Li, W., Dontcheva, M., Igarashi, T. (Feb 01, 2009)
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 28(3), 1-9
Opportunistic Programming: Writing Code to Prototype, Ideate, and Discover
Brandt, J., Guo, P. J., Lewenstein, J., Dontcheva, M., Klemmer, S. R. (Feb 01, 2009)
IEEE Software, 26 (5), 18-24. [doi]
Two Studies of Opportunistic Programming: Interleaving Web Foraging, Learning, and Writing Code
Brandt, J., Guo, P. J., Lewenstein, J., Dontcheva, M., Klemmer. S. R. (Feb 01, 2009)
In Proceedings of CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems, 1589-1598. [doi].
Adaptive Layout for Dynamically Aggregated Documents
Schrier, E., Dontcheva, M., Jacobs, C., Wade, G., and Salesin, D. (Nov 14, 2008)
In IUI '08: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 99-108
Zoetrope: Interacting with the Ephemeral Web
Adar, E., Dontcheva, M., Fogarty, J., Weld, D. (Mar 17, 2008)
In UIST'08: Proceedings of 21st annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 239–248
Experiences with content extraction on the web
Dontcheva, M., Lin, S., Drucker, S., Salesin, D., Cohen M. 2008 (Feb 02, 2008)
In SIGCHI 2008 Workshop on Semantic Web User Interactions: Exploring HCI Challenges
Relations, Cards, and Search Templates: User-guided Web Data Integration and Layout
Dontcheva, M., Drucker, S. M., Salesin, D., and Cohen, M. F. (Dec 12, 2007)
In UIST '07: Proceedings of the 20th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 61–70
Summarizing personal web browsing sessions
Dontcheva, M., Drucker, S. M., Wade, G., Salesin, D., and Cohen, M. F. (Oct 11, 2006)
In UIST '06: Proceedings of the 19th annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 115–124
v4v: a view for the viewer
Dontcheva, M., Drucker, S. M., and Cohen, M. F. (Mar 21, 2005)
In DUX '05: Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Designing for User eXperience, 19
Interactive digital photomontage
Agarwala, A., Dontcheva, M., Agrawala, M., Drucker, S. M., Colburn, A., Curless, B., Salesin, D., and Cohen, M. F. (Feb 01, 2004)
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 23(3), 294-302
Layered acting for character animation
Dontcheva, M., Yngve, G., and Popović, Z. (Feb 01, 2003)
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 22(3), 409–416
