ACME Creativity Machine Environment (ACME) Lab, directed by Ellen Do, researches computational tools for design, creativity, cognition, tangible and embedded interaction, and computing for health and wellness. Along with the explicit name for which the acronym stands, Do likes ACME because of its lofty connotations and its association to the Looney Tunes fictional organization, A Company that Makes Everything.
A key ethos for the lab is the belief that everyone can be creative because everyone has the ability to make things. Human beings are wonderfully intricate pieces of machinery. In the effort to understand human intelligence and creativity (cognition), or how people design everything (from their meals to furniture, house, or software programs), we build models and machines (physical, digital, and interactive) to attempt to explain and simulate, or to explore the boundaries of these ideas that are inside black boxes.
Lab Director
Ellen Yi-Luen Do
Professor • Director, ATLAS Partnerships & Innovation • ACME Lab • DESIGN, TANGIBLE INTERACTION, HAPPY HEALTHY LIVING • COMPUTER SCIENCE
Associated Researchers
Sandra Bae
PhD Student • INFORMATION VISUALIZATION, INFORMATION PHYSICALIZATION, INTERPLAY BETWEEN HUMAN, MACHINE & DATA
ATLAS Institute
Amy Banić
Visiting Associate Professor • 3D UI, AR/VR/XR, COMPUTER GRAPHICS, HCI
Computer Science
Alexandra Charland
Undergraduate Student
Computer Science and Creative Technology and Design
Torshawna Chew
Undergraduate Student
ATLAS Institute
Matt Corones
Creative Industries Master's Student
ATLAS Institute
Alex Eldridge
Affiliated Researcher
Peter Gyory
PhD Student • GAMES, XR, TANGIBLE INTERACTION
ATLAS Institute
Torin Hopkins
Lecturer • PhD Student • MUSIC, MUSIC INTERACTIONS, TANGIBLE MUSICAL OBJECTS
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David Hunter
PhD Student
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Sasha Novack
PhD Student • MUSIC, HAPTICS, PHYSICS EDUCATION, SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
ATLAS Institute
Perry Owens
Creative Industries Master's Student • BS, CTD–Creative Technology and Design '22
ATLAS Institute
Allison Palmer
Undergraduate Student
Computer Science
Krithik Ranjan
PhD Student
ATLAS Institute
Jenna Rothe
Undergraduate Student
Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
James Ryan
Undergraduate Student
Computer Science
Larissa Schwartz
Creative Industries Master's Student
ATLAS Institute
Aubrey Shick
Research Affiliate
ATLAS Institute
Percy Suchanek
BS, CTD–Creative Technology and Design '22; BA Media Prod. '22
ATLAS Institute
Ruojia Sun
PhD Student • TANGIBLE INTERACTION, HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION, NOVEL FABRICATION APPROACHES FOR TECHNOLOGY DESIGN
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Julia Uhr
PhD Student • MIXED REALITY, GAME, TECH POLICY, PROGRAMMING LANGUAUGE FOR VR
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Rishi Vanukuru
PhD Student • XR, CREATIVITY, COLLABORATION, MUSIC
ATLAS Institue
Che Chuan "Suibi" Weng
Creative Industries Master's Student
ATLAS Institute
Emma Wenzel
Undergraduate Student
Computer Science
Ruhan Yang
PhD Student • MS, CTD—Creative Industries '21 • TOY DESIGN, PAPER CRAFT
ATLAS Institute
Alumni
AJ .
MS, CTD—Creative Industries '22 • TOY DESIGN, GAME DEVELOPMENT, STORYTELLING
ATLAS Institute
Hunter Allen-Bonney
Creative Industries Master's Student • BS, CTD–Creative Technology and Design '21
ATLAS Institue
Cody Candler
MS, TMS—Creative Technologies + Design '20
ATLAS Institute
Sam Herwig
MS, CTD—Creative Industries '21
ATLAS Institute
Weiliang “Albert” Jin
Undergraduate student • BS, TAM–Technology, Arts and Media '20
ATLAS Institute
Henry Kvietok
BS, CTD–Creative Technology and Design '21
ATLAS Institute
Benjamin Lee
MS, TMS—Information and Communication Technology for Development '20
ATLAS Institute
Chad Lewis
BS, Computer Science '20
Computer Science
Max Macaluso
BS, Computer Science '21
Computer Science
Peter Martin
BS, Computer Science '21
Computer Science
Holiday (Noah) McAllister
MS, CTD—Creative Industries '22
ATLAS Institute
Ngozi Nwankwo
Summer Intern
ATLAS Institute
Peter Rosenthal
MS, CTD—Creative Industries '22
ATLAS Institute
Zachary Schwemler
Lecturer • MS, CTD—Creative Industries '22
ATLAS Institute
Darren Sholes
PhD student • HCI, MUSIC, PLAYFUL INTERACTIONS
ATLAS Institute
Colin Soguero
BS, CTD–Creative Technology and Design '21
ATLAS Institute
Ryo Suzuki
Post-Doctoral Research Associate • PhD, Computer Science '20
ATLAS Institute
Dylan Turner
Summer Intern • BS, CTD–Creative Technology and Design '21
ATLAS Institute
Anyan Zhao
BS, Automation, '21 • Summer Intern
Beihang University
Clement Zheng
Post-Doctoral Research Associate • PhD, Technology, Media & Society ‘20 • COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN, TANGIBLE INTERACTION
ATLAS Institute
Publications
- Peter Gyory, Perry Y Owens, Matthew Bethancourt, Amy Banic, Clement Zheng, Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2022. Build Your Own Arcade Machine with Tinycade, In 14th ACM conference on Creativity & Cognition, (June 20-23, 2022—Venice, Italy).
- Bae, S., Zheng, C., West, M.E., Do, E.Y., Huron, S., & Szafir, D.A. (2022). Making Data Tangible: A Cross-disciplinary Design Space for Data Physicalization. ArXiv, abs/2202.10520.
- Sandra Bae, Ruhan Yang, Peter Gyory, Julia Uhr, Danielle Albers Szafir, Ellen Yi-Luen Do. Touching Information with DIY Paper Charts & AR Markers, (2021) in IDC '21: Interaction Design and Children, June 2021 Pages 433–438, 24 June 2021, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3459990.3465191
- Luo, Zhiqiang, Ponraj Durairaj, Cheng Mun Lau, Yuichiro Katsumoto, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Ahmad Sapon Bin Zainuddin, Kensaku, Kawauchi, "Gamification of Upper Limb Virtual Rehabilitation in Post Stroke Elderly Using SilverTune- A Multi-sensory Tactile Musical Assistive System," 2021 IEEE 7th International Conference on Virtual Reality (ICVR), 2021, pp. 149-155, doi: 10.1109/ICVR51878.2021.9483850.
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Torin Hopkins, Rishi Vanukuru, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Amy Banic, Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2022. Augmented Personification of Intelligent Music Tools for Creativity and Collaboration, ACM CHI 2022 Workshop 47: Intelligent Music Interfaces: When Interactive Assistance and Augmentation Meet Musical Instruments (New Orleans, LA—May 1, 2022).
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Rishi Vanukuru, Amarnath Murugan, Jayesh Pillai, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2022. Designing and Studying Social Interactions in Shared Virtual Spaces using Mobile Augmented Reality, ACM CHI 2022 Workshop 46: Social Presence in Virtual Event Spaces (New Orleans, LA—May 1, 2022).
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Chris Hill, Ruojia Sun, Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2022. What to Design Next: Actuated Materials and Soft Robots for Children, ACM CHI 2022 Workshop 39: Actuated Materials and Soft Robotics Strategies for Human Computer Interaction Design (New Orleans, LA—May 1, 2022).
- Torin Hopkins, Peter Pascente, Wayne Seltzer, Kellie Masterson, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2021. The Jam Station: Gamifying Collaborative Musical Experiences Through Algorithmic Assessment. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 58, 1–6. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3430524.3442466 (Salzburg, Austria (virtual)–Feb. 14-19, 2021).
- S. Sandra Bae and Mary Etta West. 2021. Cyborg Crafts: Second SKIN (Soft Keen INteraction). In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 87, 1–3. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3430524.3444705 (Salzburg, Austria (virtual) Feb. 14-19, 2021). [Craft Award]
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Torin Hopkins, S. Sandra Bae, Julia Uhr, Clement Zheng, Amy Banic and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2021. User Interfaces in Smart Cities (book chapter). In Handbook of Smart Cities. Springer Publishing Company, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15145-4_94-1 (first online Feb 16, 2021)
- Clement Zheng, Peter Gyory, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2020. Tangible Interfaces with Printed Paper Markers. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM on Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 909–923. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395578. (Eindhoven, Netherlands (virtual) – July 6-20, 2020) [Honorable Mention Award for Best Pictorial Paper] & [Honorable Mention Award for Best Demonstration]
- Sarah Beemer, Zak Boston, April Bukoski, Daniel Chen, Princess Dickens, Andrew Gerlach, Torin Hopkins, Parth Anand Jawale, Chris Koski, Akanksha Malhotra, Piyush Mishra, Saliha Muradoglu, Lan Sang, Tyler Short, Sagarika Shreevastava, Elizabeth Spaulding, Testumichi Umada, Beilei Xiang, Changbing Yang, Mans Hulden. 2020. Linguist vs. Machine: Rapid Development of Finite-State Morphological Grammars, in Proceedings of the 17th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, July 2020, 162-170. (Seattle, Washington (virtual)–July 10, 2020).
- Ruhan Yang, Cody Candler, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2020. EdBoard: An Educational Breadboard. In Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference 2020 (IDC'20). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3397617.3397832 (London, England (virtual)–June 17-24, 2020).
- Torin Hopkins and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2020. Jam Tabs: A Color Based Notation System for Novice Improvisation. In Proceedings of International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR'20) (Hamburg, Germany–May 12-14, 2020). pp. 56-62. (Conference moved to 2021; proceedings published in 2020, here is the bibtex). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4105928.
- Ryo Suzuki, Hooman Hedayati, Clement Zheng, James Bohn, Daniel Szafir, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Mark D Gross, and Daniel Leithinger. 2020. RoomShift: Room-scale Dynamic Haptics for VR with Furniture-moving Swarm Robots. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 396, 11 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376523 (Honolulu, Hawaii (virtual) – April 25-30, 2020).
- Amy Banic, Erik Horwitz and Clement Zheng. 2020. Kinetic Skin: Feasibility and Implementation of Bare Skin Tracking of Hand and Body Joints for 3D User Interfaces," 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), (pp. 35-39), DOI: 10.1109/VRW50115.2020.00014. (Atlanta, Georgia–March 22-26, 2020).
- Junnan Yu, Clement Zheng, Mariana Aki Tamashiro, Christopher Gonzalez-millan, and Ricarose Roque. 2020. CodeAttach: Engaging Children in Computational Thinking Through Physical Play Activities. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 453–459. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3374920.3374972 (Sydney, Australia – Feb. 9-12, 2020).
- Ryo Suzuki, Clement Zheng, Yasuaki Kakehi, Tom Yeh, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Mark D. Gross, Daniel Leithinger. 2019. ShapeBots: Shape-changing Swarm Robots. In Proceedings of The 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'19). https://doi.org/10.1145/3332165.3347911 (New Orleans, LA—Oct. 20-23, 2019).
- Ryosuke Nakayama, Ryo Suzuki, Satoshi Nakamaru, Ryuma Niiyama, Yoshihiro Kawahara, and Yasuaki Kakehi. 2019. MorphIO: Entirely Soft Sensing and Actuation Modules for Programming Shape Changes through Tangible Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 975-986. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3322276.3322337. [Best Paper Award].
- Peter Gyory, Clement Zheng, Daniel Leithinger, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2019. HOT SWAP: Probing Embodied Game Interfaces With Reconfigurable Controllers. In Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion (DIS '19 Companion). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 183-187. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3301019.3323901. (San Diego, CA, USA—June 23-28, 2019).
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Clement Zheng, HyunJoo Oh, Laura Devendorf, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2019. Sensing Kirigami. In Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 921-934. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3322276.3323689 (San Diego, CA, USA — June 23 - 28, 2019). [Best Pictorial Award].
- Patrycja Zdziarska, Felix A. Epp, Walther Jensen, Mark D Gross, Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2019. Hooze: A Kinetic Fashion Accessory for Touch and Play, In Proceedings of Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI’19) p. 407-413 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3300980 (Tempe, Arizona, USA—March 17-20, 2019).
- Clement Zheng, Jeeeun Kim, Daniel Leithinger, Mark D Gross, & Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2019. Mechamagnets: Designing and Fabricating Haptic and Functional Physical Inputs with Embedded Magnets. In Proceedings of Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI’19), p. 325-334 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3295622 (Tempe, Arizona, USA—March 17-20, 2019).
- Denise Powell, Peter Gyory, Ricarose Roque, and Annie Bruns. 2018. The Telling Board: An Interactive Storyboarding Tool for Children. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children, (IDC '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 575-580. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3202185.3210778 (Trondheim, Norway – June 19-22, 2018).
- Jeeeun Kim, Clement Zheng, Haruki Takahashi, Mark Gross, Daniel Ashbrook and Tom Yeh. 2018. Expanding & Supporting Workflows Towards Compositional 3D Printing. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication, (SCF, '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 5, 10 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3213512.3213518 (Cambridge, Massachusetts – June 17-19, 2018).
- Clement Zheng and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2018. Mechamagnets: Tactile Mechanisms with Embedded Magnets, In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI '18), ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 57-64 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173225.3173268 (Stockholm, Sweden, March 18-21, 2018).
- Clement Zheng. 2018. Unfolding an Industrial Design Approach to Physical Computing. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI '18), ACM, New York, NY, USA, 721-723 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173225.3173344 (Stockholm, Sweden – March 18-21, 2018).
- James Hallam, Clement Zheng, Noah Posner, Heydn Ericson, Matthew Swarts, Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2017. The Light Orchard: an immersive display platform for collaborative tangible interaction. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (UbiComp '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 245-248. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3123024.3123175 (Maui, Hawaii, Sept. 11-15, 2017).
