Mark D Gross

  • Professor
  • ATLAS Director
  • DESIGN, ROBOTICS, TANGIBLE INTERACTION
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE
  • ATLAS INSTITUTE

Mark D. Gross, director of the ATLAS Institute and professor of computer science, has worked on intelligent computer-aided design, virtual environments and design simulation, modular robotics and computationally enhanced construction kits and craft, tangible interaction design, sketch and diagram recognition, digital fabrication and more.  He is the co-founder of Blank Slate Systems Incorporated and Modular Robotics Incorporated. He holds a PhD in Design Theory & Methods from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  

Projects

Publications

Rishi VanukuruSuibi Che-Chuan WengKrithik ZanjanTorin HopkinsAmy BanicMark D GrossEllen Yi-Luen Do. 2023 "DualStream: Spatially Sharing Selves and Surroundings using Mobile Devices and Augmented Reality". In: IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR). (Sydney, Australia, October 16-20, 2023).

Hopkins TorinWeng Suibi Che ChuanVanukuru Rishi, Wenzel Emma A., Banic AmyGross Mark D.Do Ellen Yi-Luen (2022), AR Drum Circle: Real-Time Collaborative Drumming in AR, , Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Vol. 3, Article 847284  (11 pages), online Aug 19, 2022, URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frvir.2022.847284, DOI=10.3389/frvir.2022.847284

Purnendu, Sasha M Novack, Eric Acome, Christoph Keplinger, Mirela Alistar, Mark D Gross, Carson Bruns, and Daniel Leithinger. 2021. Electriflow: Soft Electrohydraulic Building Blocks for Prototyping Shape-changing Interfaces. Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1280–1290. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3461778.3462093 (June 28-July 2, 2021Virtual Event).

Purnendu, Eric Acome, Christoph Keplinger, Mark D. Gross, Carson Bruns, Daniel Leithinger. 2021. Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators for Origami Inspired Shape-Changing Interfaces. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI '21 Extended Abstracts). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3451590. (Yokohama, Japan–May 8-13, 2021).

Chris Hill, Michael Schneider, Ann Eisenberg, and Mark D. Gross. 2021. The ThreadBoard: Designing an E-Textile Rapid Prototyping Board. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 23, 1–7. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3430524.3440642 (Salzburg, Germany (virtual)–Feb. 14-19, 2021).

S. Key & M. D. Gross (2021) From architects’ terms to computable descriptions of spatial qualities, Spatial Cognition & Computation, 21:3, 173-196, DOI: 10.1080/13875868.2020.1862125.  (Jan. 17, 2021).

Hill, C., Schneider, M., Eisenberg, A.Gross, M. and Blum, A. 2020. A Wearable Meter That Actively Monitors the Continuity of E-Textile Circuits as They Are Sewn, In Proceedings of the 2020 FabLearn - 9th Annual Conference on Maker Education (FabLearn '20). (New York–Oct. 10-11, 2020). 

Schneider, M., Hill, C.,  Eisenberg, A.Gross, M. and Blum, A. 2020. A Software Debugger for E-textiles and Arduino Microcontrollers, In Proceedings othe 2020 FabLearn - 9th Annual Conference on Maker Education (FabLearn '20) (New York–Oct. 10-11, 2020).

Ryo SuzukiHooman HedayatiClement Zheng, James Bohn, Daniel SzafirEllen Yi-Luen DoMark 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  to appear (Honolulu, Hawaii – April 25-30, 2020).

Ryo Suzuki, Ryosuke Nakayama, Dan Liu, Yasuaki Kakehi, Mark D. Gross, and Daniel Leithinger. 2020. LiftTiles: Constructive Building Blocks for Prototyping Room-scale Shape-changing Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Pages 143–151. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3374920.3374941 (Sydney, Australia -- Feb. 9-12, 2020) 

Ryo Suzuki, Ryosuke Nakayama, Dan Liu, Yasuaki Kakehi, Mark D. Gross, and Daniel Leithinger. 2019. LiftTiles: Modular and Reconfigurable Room-scale Shape Displays through Retractable Inflatable Actuators. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1-3.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3332167.3357105 (New Orleans, Louisiana – Oct. 20-23, 2019).

Ryo SuzukiClement Zheng, Yasuaki Kakehi, Tom YehEllen Yi-Luen DoMark D. GrossDaniel 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, Louisiana — Oct. 20-23, 2019).

Clement ZhengJeeeun KimDaniel 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).

Patrycja Zdziarska, Felix A. Epp, Walther Jensen, Mark D GrossEllen 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).

Ryo Suzuki, Junichi Yamaoka, Daniel Leithinger, Tom Yeh, Mark D. Gross, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Yasuaki Kakehi. 2018. Dynablock: Dynamic 3D Printing for Instant and Reconstructable Shape Formation. In Proceedings of The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'18). DOI: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3242659 (Berlin, Germany — Oct. 14 - 17, 2018).

Ryo Suzuki, Koji Yatani, Mark D. Gross, Tom Yeh. 2018. Explorable Design for 3D Printing Textures. In Proceedings of The 26th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics'18). DOI: https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/pg20181273 (Hong Kong – Oct. 8-11, 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, MA, June 17-19, 2018).

Hyunjoo Oh, Sherry Hsi, Michael Eisenberg, and Mark D. Gross. 2018. Paper mechatronics: present and future. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 389-395. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3202185.3202761 (Trondheim, Norway – June, 2018).

Ryo Suzuki, Jun Kato, Mark D. Gross, Tom Yeh. 2018. Reactile: Programming Swarm User Interfaces through Direct Physical Manipulation. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173773 (April 21-26, 2018, Montreal, Canada).

Hyunjoo Oh, Tung D. Ta, Ryo SuzukiMark D. Gross, Yoshihiro Kawahara, and Lining Yao. 2018. PEP (3D Printed Electronic Papercrafts): An Integrated Approach for 3D Sculpting Paper-Based Electronic Devices. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 441, 12 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174015 (Montreal, Canada, April 21-26, 2018).

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