Self-Reflective Crowds: Surfacing Wisdom through Emergent Scaffolding
Ruo Ning (Nancy) Qiu, Annapurna Vadaparty, Suma Vintha, Steven P. Dow. In Proceedings of the ACM Collective Intelligence Conference (CI’25), 2025.
ProcessGallery: Contrasting Early and Late Iterations for Design Principle Learning
Yu-Chun Grace Yen, Jane L. E, Hyoungwook Jin, Mingyi Li, Grace Lin, Isabelle Yan Pan, and Steven P. Dow. In Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW1, Article 112 (April 2024).
Seeking Exemplars in the Wild: Exploring How Students Find Design Examples to Support Personalized Learning
Yu-Chun Grace Yen and Steven P. Dow. In the Proceedings of ACM Conference on Learning@Scale. 418–421. June 2022.
Schema and Metadata Guide the Collective Generation of Relevant and Diverse Work.
Xiaotong (Tone) Xu, Judy Fan, and Steven P. Dow. In AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP’20), 2020.
Do the Best Design Ideas (Really) Come from Conceptually Distant Sources.
Joel Chan, Steven P. Dow, Christian D. Schunn. In Engineering a Better Future: Interplay between Engineering, Social Sciences, and Innovation, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Toluwalogo Odumosu, Jeffrey Y. Tsao, eds., Springer, pp 111-139, 2018.
Paragon: An Online Gallery for Enhancing Design Feedback with Visual Examples.
Hyeonsu B. Kang, Gabriel Amoako, Neil Sengupta, Steven P. Dow. In ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’18), 2018.
Semantically Far Inspirations Considered Harmful? Accounting for Cognitive States in Collaborative Ideation.
Joel Chan, Pao Siangliulue, Denisa Qori McDonald, Ruixue Liu, Reza Moradinezhad, Safa Aman, Erin T. Solovey, Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Steven P. Dow. In ACM SIGCHI Conf on Creativity and Cognition (C&C’17), 2017.
Providing Timely Examples Improves the Quantity and Quality of Generated Ideas.
Pao Siangliulue, Joel Chan, Krzysztof Z. Gajos, and Steven P. Dow. In ACM SIGCHI Conf on Creativity and Cognition, Glasgow, UK, 2015. (Nominated for Best Contribution to Creative Communication).
Toward Collaborative Ideation at Scale: Leveraging Ideas from Others to Generate More Creative and Diverse Ideas.
Pao Siangliulue, Kenneth C. Arnold, Krzysztof Z. Gajos, and Steven P. Dow. In ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW’15), 2015.
Do The Best Design Ideas (Really) Come From Conceptually Distant Sources Of Inspiration?
Joel Chan, Steven P. Dow, and Christian D. Schunn. In Journal of Design Studies, Volume 36, January 2015, pg 31-58. (Best Paper Award)