DesignWeaver: Dimensional Scaffolding for Text-to-Image Product Design
Sirui Tao, Ivan Liang, Cindy Peng, Zhiqing Wang, Srishti Palani, Steven P. Dow. In the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25), 2025.
Contextualizing the Role of Web Search In Creative Workflows: Insights from a Longitudinal Study
Srishti Palani and Steven P. Dow. In ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR’25) 2025.
Prompting for products: investigating design space exploration strategies for text-to-image generative models
Leah Chong, I-Ping Lo, Jude Rayan, Steven Dow, Faez Ahmed, Ioanna Lykourentzou. In the Journal of Design Science, 2025
Orchestrate: An AI-Powered Cross-Device System to Enhance Group Cohesion and Collective Intelligence at Workshops
Jude Rayan, Jinmao Wang, Yifan Gong, Nan Jiang, and Steven P. Dow. In Ext. Abstracts for 2024 Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Collective Intelligence (CI ’24).
Exploring the Potential for Generative AI-based Conversational Cues for Real-Time Collaborative Ideation
Jude Rayan, Dhruv Kanetkar, Yifan Gong, Yuewen Yang, Srishti Palani, Haijun Xia, and Steven P. Dow. In 2024 Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C ’24). 117–131.
Idea-Centric Search: Four Patterns of Information Seeking During Creative Ideation
Xiaotong (Tone) Xu, Srishti Palani, Azzaya Munkhbat, Tiffany Lee, and Steven P. Dow. In 2024 Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C ’24). 280–291.
Freeform Templates: Combining Freeform Curation with Structured Templates
Stephen MacNeil, Ziheng Huang, Kenneth Chen, Zijian Ding, Alexander Yu, Kendall Nakai, and Steven P. Dow. In 2023 Proceedings of ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 478–488.
The Idea Machine: LLM-based Expansion, Rewriting, Combination, and Suggestion of Ideas
Giulia Di Fede, Davide Rocchesso, Steven P. Dow, and Salvatore Andolina. In the Proceedings of ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C’22). 623-627. June 2022.
IdeateRelate: An Examples Gallery that Helps Creators Explore Ideas in Relation to Their Own.
Xiaotong (Tone) Xu, Rosaleen Xiong, Boyang Wang, David Min, and Steven P. Dow. In the Proceedings of ACM Human-Computer Interaction. 5, CSCW2, Article 352 (October 2021). VIDEO
Framing Creative Work: Helping Novices Frame Better Problems through Interactive Scaffolding.
Stephen MacNeil, Zijian Ding, Kexin Quan, Thomas Parashos, and Steven P. Dow. In ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C’21), 2021. VIDEO