What we can learn from visual artists about software development
A thematic analysis of interviews with 13 professional artists on why and how they choose to use (or not use) software in their work.
Hi, I’m Jingyi!
I’m a computer science Ph.D. student at Stanford.
I do research in human-computer interaction. Most of my work focuses on creativity support tools or fabrication. I really like making things, and enabling others to do the same. I am co-advised by Sean Follmer and Maneesh Agrawala. I did my undergrad at UC Berkeley, where I was advised by Björn Hartmann.
Research
Supporting visual artists in programming through direct inspection and control of program execution
Helping manual artists understand and author programs with visual inspectors on their artwork, looping past inputs, and touching artwork to jump program state.
Editing spatial layouts through tactile templates for people with visual impairments
An interactive, multimodal authoring tool that lets people who are blind or visually impaired understand and edit spatial layout structures.
Direct and immediate drawing with CNC machines
Exploring how to narrow the design-fabrication gap and combine manual art practice with digital fabrication through interactively controlling CNC machines.
Confiding in and listening to virtual agents: the effect of personality
A field deployment study on how the personalities of virtual agents affect user trust.
Makers' Marks: physical markup for designing and fabricating functional objects
A fabrication pipeline for creating functional 3D printed objects from clay and stickers.
Projects
These are older non-research related—but still fun!—things.
Mewsician
A musical friend to help children intrinsicly realize the joys of practicing.
AdShirt
Sell yourself. Make money.
AniME
Automatically generating anime portraits.
G-Pee-S
An Android app for gender non-conforming folks and wheelchair users to locate nearby safe restrooms.
Ultimate Star Collector: Winner of the Universe
A coming-of-age platformer made for the 2014 Queerness & Games conference. Click to play!
Personal
Sometimes—a lot in the past, but not so much now—I draw. Sometimes I write. Sometimes I participate in fandom, and sometimes I even present it academically. I grew up in a Southern Californian suburb which means that I grew up on the internet. I am very passionate about Pokémon.
I was briefly a UI/UX designer at NVIDIA before I was a graduate student. I spent the majority of my Berkeley years living in cooperative student housing, where I contributed four murals to the walls of Cloyne Court.
My hair changes color often! If I'm not lazy about it, click here to see its current shade.