The power of example

Janet Huang2011/12/16

Problem Finding & Problem Solving

What is design?

"Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal" - Pablo Picasso

Learning by Examples

Learning by Doing

Background2004 University of California, Berkeley · PhD in Computer Science2001 University of California, Berkeley · MS in Computer Science1999 Brown University · Dual BA with honors in Art-Semiotics and Computer ScienceGraphic Design coursework at the Rhode Island School of Design

Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford UniversityHe co-directs the Human-Computer Interaction Group and Bredt Faculty Scholar development chair.

AwardsHe has been awarded the Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize, Sloan Fellowship, NSF CAREER award, Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship, and several best paper awards at the premier HCI conferences (CHI and UIST).

How to increase the quality of people’s creative work?

Scott Klemmer’s research

Example Search and Adaptation

Insightful Prototyping Tools

Rapidly Designing Alternatives

Bricolage: Example-Based Retargeting for Web Design

Ranjitha  Kumar,  Jerry  O.  Talton,  Salman  Ahmad,  and  Sco:  R.  KlemmerCHI:  ACM  Conference  on  Human  Factors  in  Compu6ng  Systems,  2011.  Best  Paper

Step 1: bento page segmentation

Step 2: collecting and analyzing human mappingStep 3: computing page mapping

d.tour: Style-based Exploration of Design Example Galleries

Daniel  Ritchie,  Ankita  Arvind  Kejriwal,  Sco:  R  KlemmerUIST:  ACM  Symposium  on  User  Interface  SoAware  and  Technology,  2011

Example-Centric Programming: Integrating Web Search into the Development Environment

Joel  Brandt,  Mira  Dontcheva,  Marcos  Weskamp,  Sco:  R.  KlemmerCHI:  ACM  Conference  on  Human  Factors  in  Compu6ng  Systems,  2010.  Best  Paper  Nominee.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/blueprint/

Blueprint

1. embedding search into the development environment2. extracting code examples from Web pages and composing them in a consistent, code-centric search results view

Creating and Comparing Alternatives

Prototyping Dynamics: Sharing Multiple Designs Improves Exploration, Group Rapport, and Results, Steven P. Dow, Julie Fortuna, Dan Schwartz, Beth Altringer, Daniel L. Schwartz, and Scott R. Klemmer. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’11), Vancouver, BC, CAN, 2011.

Steven P DowAssistant Professor at the HCI Institute at Carnegie Mellon University

Parallel Prototyping Leads to Better Design Results, More Divergence, and Increased Self-Efficacy, Steven P. Dow, Alana Glassco, Jonathan Kass, Melissa Schwarz, Daniel L. Schwartz, Scott R. Klemmer. In ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 17(4), 2010.

The Efficacy of Prototyping Under Time Constraints, Steven P. Dow, Kate Heddleston, and Scott R. Klemmer. ACM SIGCHI Conf on Creativity and Cognition, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2009.