Publications
Manuscripts in Preparation
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"PoseShare: Enabling Full-Body Inter-Tile Interaction in Video Conferencing"
with Oliver Steele
Project website
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"Objex: Recognition and Manipulation of Common Objects in Video Conferencing"
with Oliver Steele
Journal, Conference, and Book Chapters
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"A Little Help from Friends: Short-Term Collaborations with AI and Non-AI Agents for Exploring Digital Embroidery"
Ubicomp Companion '25, Espoo, Finland (2025)
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"Exploring a Computer Embroidery Swatchbook in a University Classroom"
with Yuchen Li
Constructionism/FabLearn Conference 2023, New York, October 2023
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"College Students Respond to 'Twenty Things' in 2020"
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, Vol. 22 No. 1-22 (2022)
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"Movement Practices and Computing: We are Internet Beings"
Panel Session, 109th College Art Association Conference, February 2021
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"History of Logo"
with Cynthia Solomon, Brian Harvey, Ken Kahn, Henry Lieberman, Mark L. Miller, Seymour Papert, and Brian Silverman
Proc. ACM Program. Lang. 4, HOPL, Article 79 (June 2020), 66 pages
DOI: 10.1145/3386329
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"Learning to Draw"
In Inventive Minds: Marvin Minsky on Education, MIT Press, April 2019
Translated to Japanese and Chinese (2020)
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"Soft Circuits for Livelihood and Education in India"
with 5 co-authors
Poster, FabLearn 2013, Stanford
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"HazBot: Development of a Telemanipulator Robot with Haptics for Emergency Response"
with 8 co-authors
American Journal of Disaster Medicine, Vol. 3, No. 2, March/April 2008
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"Will Haptics Research Parallel Computer Graphics Research?"
Proceedings ICAT '97 Conference, Tokyo, November 1997
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"Simulated Haptic Textures: Roughness"
with Susan J. Lederman
ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress: Dynamic Systems and Control Division, Vol. 2, DSC-Vol. 58 (1996)
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"Feeling and Seeing: Issues in Force Display"
with Ming Ouh-young, Oliver Steele, Frederick P. Brooks Jr., and Michael Behensky
Proceedings of 1990 Workshop on 3D Interactive Computer Graphics, ACM SIGGRAPH, March 1990
(880+ citations)
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"Manipulating Simulated Objects with Real-World Gestures Using a Force and Position Sensitive Screen"
Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH (1984)
Books
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LogoWorks
Editors: Cynthia Solomon, Margaret Minsky, Brian Harvey
McGraw-Hill (1984)
Technical Reports & Other Publications
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"Improvisational Thinking in the Classroom: A Dance with Mathematics"
The Creative Classroom, Issue 4 (2024)
Read on Medium
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"Ants Fabric," "Drawing from Tinbergen," and "DinaCrab: Hermit Behavior"
Proceedings of First Digital Naturalism Conference, Koh Lon, Thailand (2018)
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"Home Haptics"
MIT AI Lab Technical Report #1596, October 1996
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Preface, "Music, Mind, and Meaning"
Website (2014)
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Patents
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US Patent #5,757,929
"Audio Interface Garment and Communication System for Use therewith"
with Steve Wang and John Shurman
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US Patent #5,563,951
"Audio Interface Garment and Communication System for Use therewith"
with Steve Wang and John Shurman
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US Patent #8,117,089
"System for segmentation by product category of product images within a shopping cart"
with Margaret Minsky and Oliver Steele
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US Patent #9,530,142
"Method and system for creating a multifunctional collage useable for client/server communication"
with Margaret Minsky and Oliver Steele