San Francisco

Mira Dontcheva
Research Scientist

I am research scientist at Adobe Systems. My research focuses on leveraging the growing amount of Web content to help people be more productive and creative. Before joining Adobe 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

• Example-Centric Development: Integrating Web Search into the Development Environment
• Generating Photo Manipulation Tutorials and Macros by Demonstration
• Collecting and Organizing Personal Web Content

SELECTED Publications

• Grabler, F., Agrawala, M., Li, W., Dontcheva, M., Igarashi, T. 2009. Generating Photo Manipulation Tutorials by Demonstration. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 28(3), 1-9.
• Brandt, J., Guo, P., Lewenstein, J., Dontcheva, M., Klemmer, S. 2009. Two Studies of Opportunistic Programming: Interleaving Web Foraging, Learning, and Writing Code, In CHI'09: Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems, 1589-1598.
• 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