Month: February 2019

The paper for this session was “WeBuild: Automatically Distributing Assembly Tasks Among Collocated Workers to Improve Coordination,” a collaborative work between AutoDesk Research and UC San Diego from Fraser et al. The paper concerns itself with the design of a system to facilitate assembly tasks that require multiple workers. Though the potential applications for such…

Reflection 3 In this paper, the author developed a tool, IMAXES, that allows users to create visualizations of data in old and new ways by manipulating axes using a hand controller. The formation of the visualizations utilizes a set grammar that the authors developed which allows for deterministic and declarative outputs. They test their novel…

Summary: The paper presents a task distribution system – WeBuild. As physical building tasks often requires coordination among multiple workers, one of the problems often occurred is that a large chunk of time is wasted on coordination process such as distributing main task into subtasks, assigning subtasks to individuals, etc. WeBuild takes the advantage of…

Crowdsourced Fabrication C. Ailie Fraser, Tovi Grossman, and George Fitzmaurice. 2017. WeBuild: Automatically Distributing Assembly Tasks Among Collocated Workers to Improve Coordination. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1817-1830. DOI: https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.vt.edu/10.1145/3025453.3026036 Summary: There are many existed challenges in current large-scale fabrication. The organization,…

Summary The authors of this research paper devised an app that allows users to plan collaborative tasks automatically. The app assigns subtasks to the group taking into account dependencies and the skill-level of each member of the group. The researchers found that the app reduces startup time quite considerably. Reflection One key feature of this…

Reflection on: Fraser, C. A., Grossman, T., & Fitzmaurice, G. (2017, May). WeBuild: Automatically distributing assembly tasks among collocated workers to improve coordination. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1817-1830). ACM. Summary: The paper sets out a goal to improve group efficiency and coordination by developing a system that…

“Fraser, C. A., Grossman, T., & Fitzmaurice, G. (2017, May). WeBuild: Automatically distributing assembly tasks among collocated workers to improve coordination. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1817-1830). ACM.” The authors propose a novel approach aimed at enhancing the efficiency and collaboration in a group. They develop a system…

The assigned paper for this session was “ImAxes: Immersive Axes as Embodied Affordances for Interactive Multivariate Data Visualisation,” a work from Cordeil et al. I found the main idea of the paper fascinating: using virtual reality (VR) to enhance data visualizations. One of the main difficulties associated with producing data visualizations arises with highly multidimensional…

“Maxime Cordeil, Andrew Cunningham, Tim Dwyer, Bruce H. Thomas, and Kim Marriott. 2017. ImAxes: Immersive Axes as Embodied Affordances for Interactive Multivariate Data Visualisation. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology(UIST ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 71-83. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3126594.3126613” The authors propose a Virtual Reality environment where users…

Summary For the purpose of full disclosure, I was not able to download the paper using the link here: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3126613 (it asked for money) so I used the description of the paper provided in this youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTD9xUFeQgo). The researchers of this paper design a virtual reality setup where users are able to manipulate graphs…