San Francisco

Mira Dontcheva
Research Scientist

I recently joined Adobe Systems as a research scientist in computer graphics and human computer interaction. I am interested in a variety of problems including managing, sharing, and repurposing Web content and visualizing heterogenous data. In 2008 I finished my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Washington with David Salesin, Michael Cohen and Steven Drucker. My thesis focused on novel interaction techniques for managing and repurposing 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.

Projects

Collecting and Organizing Personal Web Content

Publications

• Adar, E., Dontcheva, M., Fogarty, J., Weld, D. 2008. Zoetrope: Interacting with the ephemeral web. In UIST'08: Proceedings of 21st annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 239–248.
• Schrier, E., Dontcheva, M., Jacobs, C., Wade, G., and Salesin, D. 2008. Adaptive layout for dynamically aggregated documents. In IUI '08: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 99-108.
• Dontcheva, M., Drucker, S. M., Salesin, D., and Cohen, M. F. 2007. Relations, cards, and search templates: user-guided web data integration and layout. In UIST '07: Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 61–70.
• Dontcheva, M., Drucker, S. M., Wade, G., Salesin, D., and Cohen, M. F. 2006. Summarizing personal web browsing sessions. In UIST '06: Proceedings of the 19th annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 115–124.
• Dontcheva, M., Drucker, S. M., and Cohen, M. F. 2005. v4v: a view for the viewer. In DUX '05: Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Designing for User eXperience, 19.
• Agarwala, A., Dontcheva, M., Agrawala, M., Drucker, S. M., Colburn, A., Curless, B., Salesin, D., and Cohen, M. F. 2004. Interactive digital photomontage. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 23(3), 294-302.
• Dontcheva, M., Yngve, G., and Popović, Z. 2003. Layered acting for character animation. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 22(3), 409–416.

Thesis Work

Mira Dontcheva , "Interaction Techniques for Automating Collecting and Organizing Personal Web Content", PhD Dissertation 2008