I am Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Toronto, and Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at AXL. My research lies in the general area of Human-Computer Interaction, with a primary focus on understanding how emerging technologies and machine intelligence can be leveraged to develop enhanced and compelling user experiences. My work has led to a number of technologies that are now in commercial products used by millions of users, such as Autodesk Screencast and Autodesk Sketchbook Motion - selected as Apple's 2016 iPad App of the Year.
I received my Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Prior to joining University of Toronto I was a Distinguished Research Scientist at Autodesk Research. I have authored over 180 peer-reviewed scientific articles, over 100 patents, and have received eighteen best paper awards and nominations at the ACM UIST and CHI conferences. I served as the Technical Program Co-Chair for the 2014 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, the Program Committee Co-Chair for the 2015 ACM UIST Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, and the vice-chair of the ACM CHI Steering Committee from 2019 to 2022.
I collaborate closely with several Toronto industry HCI research labs, please use the form below to inquire about internship opportunities.
Research Interests: Intelligent User Interfaces; Computer Science Education; Human-Robot Interaction; Mixed Reality Interaction; Technology-Assisted Learning; Input Techniques.
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[C.184] Blaine Lewis, Parastoo Abtahi, Christopher Collins, Tovi Grossman, and Michael Glueck. 2026. Mid-air Hand Gesture Sequences: Evaluation and Design Recommendations Towards Gestural-Interfaces. ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction. 1-12.
[C.183] Zhecheng Wang, Jiaju Ma, Eitan Grinspun, Tovi Grossman, and Bryan Wang. 2026. Script2Screen: Supporting Dialogue-Centric Scriptwriting with Interactive Audiovisual Generation. ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. 1496-1513.
[C.182] Zheng Zhang, Mengjie Yu, Tianyi Wang, Kashyap Todi, Ajoy Savio Fernandes, Yue Liu, Haijun Xia, Tovi Grossman, and Tanya R. Jonker. 2026. Gazeify Then Voiceify: Physical Object Referencing Through Gaze and Voice Interaction with Displayless Smart Glasses. ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. 1821-1841.
[C.181] Chao-Jung Lai, Mauricio Sousa, Tianyu Zhang, Ludwig Sidenmark, and Tovi Grossman. 2025. Adaptique: Multi-objective and Context-aware Online Adaptation of Selection Techniques in Virtual Reality. ACM UIST Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.
[C.180] Jacqui Fashimpaur, Tovi Grossman, Ben Lafreniere, Naveen Sendhilnathan, Kashyap Todi, Tianyi Wang, Ting Zhang, and Tanya R. Jonker. 2025. Squiggle: Multimodal Lasso Selection in the Real World. ACM UIST Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.
[C.179] Sangho Suh, Michael Lai, Kevin Pu, Steven P. Dow, and Tovi Grossman. 2025. StoryEnsemble: Enabling Dynamic Exploration & Iteration in the Design Process with AI and Forward-Backward Propagation. ACM UIST Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.
[C.178] Ruei-Che Chang, Tovi Grossman, Carine Rognon, Michael Glueck, Christopher Collins, Amy Karlson, and Hemant Bhaskar Surale. 2025. Viago: Exploring Visual-Audio Modality Transitions for Social Media Consumption on the Go. ACM UIST Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.
[C.177] Dishita Turakhia, Mark Parent, Tovi Grossman, Michael Glueck, and Ben Lafreniere. 2025. Investigating Augmented Reality for Adaptive Motor-Skill Training. ACM GI Graphics Interface Conference. 10 pages.
[C.176] Ben Lafreniere, Zachary Davis, Michelle Li, Junmeng Han, Tovi Grossman, Stephanie Santosa, and Daniel Wigdor. 2025. Investigating Aggregated vs. Sequential Command Recommendation in Graphical User Interfaces. ACM GI Graphics Interface Conference. 13 pages.
[C.175] Leping Qiu, Erin Seongyoon Kim, Sangho Suh, Ludwig Sidenmark, Tovi Grossman. 2025. Marginalia: Enabling In-person Lecture Capturing and Note-taking Through Mixed Reality. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
[C.174] Naveen Sendhilnathan, Ting Zhang, David Bethge, Michael Nebeling, Tovi Grossman, Tanya R. Jonker. 2025. A multimodal approach for targeting error detection in virtual reality using implicit user behavior. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
[C.173] Joanne Leong, David Ledo, Thomas Driscoll, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice, Fraser Anderson. 2025. Paratrouper: Exploratory Creation of Character Cast Visuals Using Generative AI. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
[C.172] Kevin Pu, K. J. Kevin Feng, Tovi Grossman, Tom Hope, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Matt Latzke, Jonathan Bragg, Joseph Chee Chang, Pao Siangliulue. 2025. IdeaSynth: Iterative Research Idea Development Through Evolving and Composing Idea Facets with Literature-Grounded Feedback. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
[C.171] Kevin Pu, Daniel Lazaro, Ian Arawjo, Haijun Xia, Ziang Xiao, Tovi Grossman, Yan Chen. 2025. Assistance or Disruption? Exploring and Evaluating the Design and Trade-offs of Proactive AI Programming Support. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
[C.170] Violet Yinuo Han, Tianyi Wang, Hyunsung Cho, Kashyap Todi, Ajoy Savio Fernandes, Andre Levi, Zheng Zhang, Tovi Grossman, Alexandra Ion, Tanya R. Jonker. 2025. A Dynamic Bayesian Network Based Framework for Multimodal Context-Aware Interactions. ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.
[C.169] Hai Dang, Ben Lafreniere, Tovi Grossman, Kashyap Todi, Michelle Li. 2025. Authoring LLM-Based Assistance for Real-World Contexts and Tasks. ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.
[C.168] Majeed Kazemitabaar, Oliver Huang, Sangho Suh, Austin Z Henley, Tovi Grossman. 2025. Exploring the Design Space of Cognitive Engagement Techniques with AI-Generated Code for Enhanced Learning. ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.
[C.167] Karthik Mahadevan, Blaine Lewis, Jiannan Li, Bilge Mutlu, Anthony Tang, Tovi Grossman. 2025. ImageInThat: Manipulating Images to Convey User Instructions to Robots.
HRI 2025 Best Paper Award
[C.166] Majeed Kazemitabaar, Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, Tovi Grossman, Austin Henley, Carina Negreanu, Advait Sarkar. 2024. Improving Steering and Verification in AI-Assisted Data Analysis with Interactive Task Decomposition. ACM UIST Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Article 92, 1-19.
[C.165] Ludwig Sidenmark, Tianyu Zhang, Leen Al Lababidi, Jiannan Li, Tovi Grossman. 2024. Desk2Desk: Optimization-based Mixed Reality Workspace Integration for Remote Side-by-side Collaboration. ACM UIST Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Article 44, 1 - 15.
[C.163] Liwei Wu, Ben Lafreniere, Tovi Grossman, Thomas White, Stephanie Santosa. 2024. Body Language for VUIs: Exploring Gestures to Enhance Interactions with Voice User Interfaces. ACM DIS Designing Interactive Systems Conference. 133-150.
[C.162] Joannes Chan, Chris De Paoli, Michelle Li, Tovi Grossman, Stephanie Santosa, Daniel Wigdor, Michael Glueck. 2024. Fidgets: Building Blocks for a Predictive UI Toolkit. ACM DIS Designing Interactive Systems Conference (Peer Reviewed Pictorial). 1290-1305.
[C.160] Majeed Kazemitabaar, Runlong Ye, Xiaoning Wang, Austin Henley, Paul Denny, Michelle Craig, Tovi Grossman. 2024. CodeAid: Evaluating a Classroom Deployment of an LLM-based Programming Assistant that Balances Student and Educator Needs. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article 650. 1-20.
[C.159] Fengyuan Zhu, Mauricio Sousa, Ludwig Sidenmark, Tovi Grossman. 2024. PhoneInVR: An Evaluation of Spatial Anchoring and Interaction Techniques for Smartphone Usage in Virtual Reality. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article 639. 1-16.
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[C.158] Mohi Reza, Nathan M Laundry, Ilya Musabirov, Peter Dushniku, Zhi Yuan "Michael" Yu, Kashish Mittal, Tovi Grossman, Michael Liut, Anastasia Kuzminykh, Joseph Jay Williams. 2024. ABScribe: Rapid Exploration & Organization of Multiple Writing Variations in Human-AI Co-Writing Tasks using Large Language Models. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article 1024. 1-18.
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[C.157] Johann Wentzel, Fraser Anderson, George Fitzmaurice, Tovi Grossman, Daniel Vogel. 2024. SwitchSpace: Understanding Context-Aware Peeking Between VR and Desktop Interfaces. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article 801. 1-16.
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[C.156] Shan Xu, Sarah Sykes, Parastoo Abtahi, Tovi Grossman, Daylon Walden, Michael Glueck, Carine Rognon. 2024. Designing Haptic Feedback for Sequential Gestural Inputs. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article 711. 1-17.
[C.155] Jiahao Nick Li, Yan Xu, Tovi Grossman, and Stephanie Santosa, Michelle Li. 2024. OmniActions: Predicting Digital Actions in Response to Real-World Multimodal Sensory Inputs with LLMs. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article 8. 1-22.
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[C.154] Stephen Brade, Bryan Wang, Mauricio Sousa, Gregory Lee Newsome, Sageev Oore, Tovi Grossman. 2024. SynthScribe: Deep Multimodal Tools for Synthesizer Sound Retrieval and Exploration. ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. 51-65.
Jazzki 2024 Human-Machine Creativity Award, First Place Paper | Video | Presentation
[C.153] Majeed Kazemitabaar, Xinying Hou, Austin Henley, Barbara Ericson, David Weintrop and Tovi Grossman. 2023. How Novices Use LLM-based Code Generators to Solve CS1 Coding Tasks in a Self-Paced Learning Environment. ACM Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research. Article 3. 1-12.
[C.152] Fengyuan Zhu, Ludwig Sidenmark, Mauricio Sousa, Tovi Grossman. 2023. PinchLens: Applying Spatial Magnification and Adaptive Control Display Gain for Precise Selection in Virtual Reality. IEEE ISMAR International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. 1221-1230.
[C.145] Weilun Gong, Stephanie Santosa, Tovi Grossman, Michael Glueck, Daniel Clarke, and Frances Lai. 2023. Affordance-Based and User-Defined Gestures for Spatial Tangible Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1500–1514.
[C.144] Majeed Kazemitabaar, Justin Chow, Carl Ka To Ma, Barbara J. Ericson, David Weintrop, Tovi Grossman. 2023. Studying the Effect of AI Code Generators on Supporting Learners in Introductory Programming. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article 455. 1-23.
[C.143] Jiannan Li, Mauricio Sousa, Karthik Mahadevan, Bryan Wang, Paula Akemi Aoyagui, Nicole Yu, Angela Yang, Ravin Balakrishnan, Anthony Tang, Tovi Grossman. 2023. Stargazer: An Interactive Camera Robot for Capturing How-To Videos Based on Subtle Instructor Cues. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article 800. 1-16.
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[C.142] Karthik Mahadevan, Qian Zhou, George Fitzmaurice, Tovi Grossman, Fraser Anderson. 2023. Tesseract: Querying Spatial Design Recordings by Manipulating Worlds in Miniature. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article 460. 1-16.
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[C.141] Sixuan Wu, Jiannan Li, Mauricio Sousa, Tovi Grossman. 2023. Investigating Guardian Awareness Techniques to Promote Safety in Virtual Reality. IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces. 631-640.
[C.140] Eve Mingxiao Li, Anran Qi, Mauricio Sousa, and Tovi Grossman. 2023. EnchantedBrush: Animating in Mixed Reality for Storytelling and Communication. ACM GI Graphics Interface Conference. 10 Pages.
[C.139] Matthew K Miller, Frederik Brudy, Tovi Grossman, George W. Fitzmaurice, Fraser Anderson. 2023. Peek-At-You: An Awareness, Navigation, and View Sharing System for Remote Collaborative Content Creation. ACM GI Graphics Interface Conference. 14 Pages.
[C.138] Amir Hosein Jahanlou, Jo Vermeulen, Tovi Grossman, Parmit Chilana, George Fitzmaurice, Justin Matejka. 2023. Task-Centric Application Switching: How and Why Knowledge Workers Switch Software Applications for a Single Task. ACM GI Graphics Interface Conference. 10 Pages.
[C.137] Majeed Kazemitabaar, Viktar Chyhir, David Weintrop, Tovi Grossman. 2023. Scaffolding Progress: How Structured Editors Shape Novice Errors When Transitioning from Blocks to Text. ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. 556-562.
[C.136] Fengyuan Zhu, Zhuoyue Lyu, Mauricio Sousa, Tovi Grossman. 2022. Touching The Droid: Understanding and Improving Touch Precision With Mobile Devices in Virtual Reality. IEEE ISMAR International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. 807-816.
[C.133] Naveen Sendhilnathan, Ting Zhang, Ben Lafreniere, Tovi Grossman, Tanya R. Jonker. 2022. Detecting input recognition errors and user errors using gaze dynamics in virtual reality. ACM UIST Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Article No. 38, 1–19.
[C.130] Majeed Kazemitabaar, Viktar Chyhir, David Weintrop, Tovi Grossman. 2022. CodeStruct: Design and Evaluation of an Intermediary Programming Environment for Novices to Transition from Scratch to Python. ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC) Conference. 261-273.
[C.129] Kevin Huang, Jiannan Li, Maurício Sousa, Tovi Grossman. 2022. immersivePOV: Filming How-To Videos with a Head-Mounted 360° Action Camera. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article No. 91, 1–13.
CHI 2022 Honorable Mention Award Paper | Video | Presentation
[C.128] Jiannan Li, Maurício Sousa, Chu Li, Jessie Liu, Yan Chen, Ravin Balakrishnan, Tovi Grossman. 2022. ASTEROIDS: Exploring Swarms of Mini-Telepresence Robots for Physical Skill Demonstration. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article No. 111, 1–14.
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[C.127] Jiannan Li, Jiahe Lyu, Mauricio Sousa, Ravin Balakrishnan, Anthony Tang, Tovi Grossman. 2021. Route Tapestries: Navigating 360 Virtual Tour Videos Using Slit-Scan Visualizations. ACM UIST Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. 223–238.
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[C.126] Yan Chen, Tovi Grossman. 2021. Umitation: Retargeting UI Behavior Examples for Website Design. ACM UIST Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. 922–935.
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[C.125] Bryan Wang, Gang Li, Xin Zhou, Zhourong Chen, Tovi Grossman, Yang Li. 2021. Screen2Words: Automatic Mobile UI Summarization with Multimodal Learning. ACM UIST Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. 498–510.
[C.124] Ben Lafreniere, Tanya R. Jonker, Stephanie Santosa, Mark Parent, Michael Glueck, Tovi Grossman, Hrvoje Benko, Daniel Wigdor. 2021. False Positives vs. False Negatives: The Effects of Recovery Time and Cognitive Costs on Input Error Preference. ACM UIST Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. 54–68.
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[C.123] Justin Matejka, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice. 2021. Paper Forager: Supporting the Rapid Exploration of Research Document Collections. ACM GI Graphics Interface Conference. 237-245.
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[C.122] Justin Matejka, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice. 2021. MeetingMate: an Ambient Interface for Improved Meeting Effectiveness and Corporate Knowledge Sharing. ACM GI Graphics Interface Conference. 28-34.
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[C.121] Josh Davis, Fraser Anderson, Merten Stroetzel, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice. 2021. Designing Co-Creative AI for Virtual Environments. ACM C&C Conference on Creativity & Cognition. 1–11.
[C.120] Bryan Wang, Meng Yu Yang, Tovi Grossman. 2021. Soloist: Generating Mixed-Initiative Tutorials from Existing Guitar Instructional Videos Through Audio Processing. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article 98. 1-14.
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[C.119] Karthik Mahadevan, Mauricio Sousa, Anthony Tang, Tovi Grossman. 2021. “Grip-that-there”: An Investigation of Explicit and Implicit Task Allocation Techniques for Human-Robot Collaboration. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article 215. 1-14.
CHI 2021 Honorable Mention Award Paper | Video | Presentation
[C.118] Rebecca Krosnick, Fraser Anderson, Justin Matejka, Steve Oney, Walter S. Lasecki, Tovi Grossman, and George Fitzmaurice. 2021. Think-Aloud Computing: Supporting Rich and Low-Effort Knowledge Capture. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article 199. 1-13.
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[C.117] Mackenzie Leake, Frances Lai, Tovi Grossman, Daniel Wigdor, and Ben Lafreniere. 2021. PatchProv: Supporting Improvisational Design Practices for Modern Quilting. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article 500. 1-17.
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[C.116] Sunggeun Ahn, Stephanie Santosa, Mark Parent, Daniel Wigdor, Tovi Grossman, and Marcello Giordano. 2021. StickyPie: A Gaze-Based, Scale-Invariant Marking Menu Optimized for AR/VR. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article 739. 1-16.
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[C.115] Geoffrey X Yu, Tovi Grossman, and Gennady Pekhimenko. 2020. Skyline: Interactive In-Editor Computational Performance Profiling for Deep Neural Network Training. ACM UIST Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. 126-139.
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[C.114] Kimia Kiani, Parmit Chilana, Andrea Bunt, Tovi Grossman and George Fitzmaurice. 2020. “I Would Just Ask Someone”: Learning Feature-Rich Design Software in the Modern Workplace. IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing. 1-10.
[C.113] Fengyuan Zhu, Tovi Grossman. 2020. BISHARE: Exploring Bidirectional Interactions Between Smartphones and Head-Mounted Augmented Reality. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article 106. 1-14.
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[C.112] Bryan Wang, Tovi Grossman. 2020. BlyncSync: Enabling Multimodal Smartwatch Gestures with Synchronous Touch and Blink. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article 5. 1-14.
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[C.111] Rorik Henrikson, Tovi Grossman, Sean Trowbridge, Daniel Wigdor, Hrvoje Benko. 2020. Head-Coupled Kinematic Template Matching: A Prediction Model for Ray Pointing in VR. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article 362. 1-14.
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[C.110] Nikhita Joshi, Justin Matejka, Fraser Anderson, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice. 2020. MicroMentor: Peer-to-Peer Software Help Sessions in Three Minutes or Less. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article 103. 1-13.
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[C.109] Di (Laura) Chen, Ravin Balakrishnan, Tovi Grossman. 2020. Disambiguation Techniques for Freehand Object Manipulations in Virtual Reality. IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces. 285-292.
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[C.108] Minsuk Chang, Ben Lafreniere, Juho Kim, George Fitzmaurice, Tovi Grossman. 2020. Workflow Graphs: A Computational Model of Collective Task Strategies for 3D Design Software. ACM GI Graphics Interface Conference. 114-124.
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[C.107] Jiannan Li, Ravin Balakrishnan, Tovi Grossman. 2020. StarHopper: A Touch Interface for Remote Object-Centric Drone Navigation. ACM GI Graphics Interface Conference. 317-326.
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[C.106] Matt Whitlock, George Fitzmaurice, Tovi Grossman, Justin Matejka. 2020. AuthAR: Concurrent Authoring of Tutorials for AR Assembly Guidance. ACM GI Graphics Interface Conference. 431-439.
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[C.105] Balasaravanan Thoravi Kumaravel, Fraser Anderson, George Fitzmaurice, Bjoern Hartmann, Tovi Grossman. 2019. Loki: Facilitating Remote Instruction of Physical Tasks Using Bi-Directional Mixed-Reality Telepresence. ACM UIST Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. 161-174.
[C.103] Ruta Desai, Fraser Anderson, Justin Matejka, Stelian Coros, James McCann, George Fitzmaurice, Tovi Grossman. 2019. Geppetto: Enabling Semantic Design of Expressive Robot Behaviors. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Paper No. 369. 1-14.
CHI 2019 Best Paper Award
[C.95] Nathaniel Hudson, Ben Lafreniere, Parmit Chilana, and Tovi Grossman. 2018. Investigating How Online Help and Learning Resources Support Children’s Use of 3D Design Software. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Paper No. 257. 14 Pages.
[C.94] Justin Matejka, Michael Glueck, Erin Bradner, Ali Hashemi, Tovi Grossman, and George Fitzmaurice. 2018. Dream Lens: Exploration and Visualization of Large-Scale Generative Design Datasets. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Paper Num. 369. 12 Pages.
[C.93] Rahul Arora, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice, and Karan Singh. 2018. SymbiosisSketch: Combining 2D & 3D Sketching for Designing Detailed 3D Objects in Situ. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Paper No. 185. 15 Pages.
[C.92] Xu Wang, Ben Lafreniere, and Tovi Grossman. 2018. Leveraging Community-Generated Videos and Command Logs to Classify and Recommend Software Workflows. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Paper No. 285. 13 Pages.
[C.88] Barrett Ens, Fraser Anderson, Tovi Grossman, Michelle Annett, Pourang Irani, George Fitzmaurice. 2017. Ivy: Exploring Spatially Situated Visual Programming for Authoring and Understanding Intelligent Environments. Proceedings of Graphics Interface. 156-163.
[C.84] Lauren Vasey, Long Nguyen, Tovi Grossman, Heather Kerrick, Danil Nagy, Evan Atherton, David Thomasson, Nicholas Cote, Tobias Schwinn, David Benjamin, Maurice Conti, George Fitzmaurice, Achim Menges. 2016. Collaborative Construction: Human and Robot Collaboration Enabling the Fabrication and Assembly of a Filament-Wound Structure. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture. 12 pages.
[C.83] Benjamin Lafreniere, Tovi Grossman, Fraser Anderson, Justin Matejka, Heather Kerrick, Danil Nagy, Lauren Vasey, Evan Atherton, Nicholas Beirne, Marcelo Coelho, Nicholas Cote, Steven Li, Andy Nogueira, Long Nguyen, Tobias Schwinn, James Stoddart, David Thomasson, Ray Wang, Thomas White, David Benjamin, Maurice Conti, Achim Menges, George Fitzmaurice. 2016. Crowdsourced Fabrication. ACM symposium on user interface software and technology. 15-28.
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[C.81] Xiang 'Anthony' Chen, Jeeeun Kim, Jennifer Mankoff, Tovi Grossman, Stelian Coros, Scott E. Hudson. 2016. Reprise: A Design Tool for Specifying, Generating, and Customizing 3D Printable Adaptations on Everyday Objects. ACM symposium on user interface software and technology. 29-39.
[C.80] Rubaiat Habib, Tovi Grossman, Nobuyuki Umetani, George Fitzmaurice. 2016. Motion Amplifiers: Sketching Dynamic Illustrations Using the Principles of 2D Animation. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 4599-4609.
[C.79] Rubaiat Habib, Tovi Grossman, Cory Mogk, Ryan Schmidt, George Fitzmaurice. 2016. ChronoFab: Fabricating Motion. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 908-918
[C.78] Raf Ramakers, Fraser Anderson, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice. 2016. RetroFab: A Design Tool for Retrofitting Physical Interfaces using Actuators, Sensors and 3D Printing. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 409-419.
CHI 2016 Honorable Mention Award
[C.77] Justin Matejka, Michael Glueck, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice. 2016. The Effect of Visual Appearance on the Performance of Continuous Sliders and Visual Analogue Scales. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 5421-5432.
CHI 2016 Best Paper Award
[C.75] Madeline Gannon, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice. 2016. ExoSkin: On-Body Fabrication. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 5996-6007
[C.67] Madeline Gannon, Tovi Grossman and George Fitzmaurice. 2015. Tactum: A Skin-Centric Approach to Digital Design and Fabrication. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1779-1788.
CHI 2015 Honorable Mention Award
[C.66] Fraser Anderson, Tovi Grossman, Daniel Wigdor and George Fitzmaurice. 2015. Supporting Subtlety with Deceptive Devices and Illusory Interactions. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1489-1498.
CHI 2015 Honorable Mention Award
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[C.65] Valkyrie Savage, Ryan Schmidt, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice & Björn Hartmann. 2014. A Series of Tubes: Adding Interactivity to 3D Prints Using Internal Pipes. Proceedings of the ACM symposium on user interface software and technology. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 3-12.
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[C.61] Rubaiat Habib, Fanny Chevalier, Tovi Grossman, Shengdong Zhao & George Fitzmaurice. 2014. Draco: Bringing Life to Illustrations with Kinetic Textures. Proceedings of the ACM CHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 351-360.
CHI 2014 Honorable Mention AwardCHI 2014 Best Talk Award
CHI 2014 Best Video Award
Apple 2016 iPad App of the Year Paper | Video | Transferred!
[C.60] Xiang Anthony Chen, Tovi Grossman, Daniel Wigdor & George Fitzmaurice. (2014). Duet: Exploring Joint Interactions on a Smart Phone and a Smart Watch. Proceedings of the ACM CHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 159-168.
CHI 2014 Best Paper AwardCHI 2014 Best Talk Award
[C.59] Ben Lafreniere, Tovi Grossman, Justin Matejka & George Fitzmaurice. (2014). Investigating the Feasibility of Extracting Tool Demonstrations from In-Situ Video Content. Proceedings of the ACM CHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 4007-4016.
CHI 2014 Honorable Mention Award
[C.56] Wei Li, Justin Matejka, Tovi Grossman & George Fitzmaurice. 2014. Deploying CommunityCommands: A Software Command Recommender System Case Study. Proceedings of the IAAI Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence. AAAI, Palo Alto, CA, USA. 2922-2929.
IAAI 2014 Innovative Application Award Paper | Video | Transferred!
[C.52] Michael Glueck, Tovi Grossman & Daniel Wigdor. 2013. A Model of Navigation for Very Large Data Views. Proceedings of the Graphics Interface Conference. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages.
GI 2013 Best Student Paper Award
[C.51] Abhijit Karnik, Tovi Grossman & Sriram Subramanian. 2013. Comparison of User Performance in Mixed 2D-3D Multi-Display Environments. Proceedings of the IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. 260-277.
[C.47] Nikola Banovic, Tovi Grossman, and George Fitzmaurice. 2013. The Effect of Time-based Cost of Error in Target-directed Pointing Tasks. Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 1373-1382.
[C.46] Parmit K. Chilana, Andrew J. Ko, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Tovi Grossman. 2013. A Multi-Site Field Study of Crowdsourced Contextual Help: Usage and Perspectives of End-Users and Software Teams. The 31st international conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 217-226.
[C.45] Xing-Dong Yang, Tovi Grossman, Daniel Wigdor & George Fitzmaurice. 2012. Magic Finger: Always-Available Input through Finger Instrumentation. Proceedings of the ACM symposium on user interface software and technology. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 147-156.
[C.42] Christian Holz, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice & Anne Agur. 2012. Implanted User Interfaces. Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 503-512.
Discovery Channel Interview
InformationWeek Article
NewScientist Article
[C.39] Nikola Banovic, Fanny Chevalier, Tovi Grossman & George Fitzmaurice. 2012. Triggering Triggers and Burying Barriers to Customizing Software. Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2717-2726.
[C.35] Michael Ekstrand, Wei Li, Tovi Grossman, Justin Matejka, George Fitzmaurice. 2011. Searching for Software Learning Resources using Application Context. Proceedings of the ACM symposium on user interface software and technology. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 195-204.
[C.33] Michael Rooke, Tovi Grossman, and George Fitzmaurice. 2011. AppMap: Exploring User Interface Visualizations. In Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2011. Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 111-118.
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[C.31] Xiaojun Bi, Tovi Grossman, Justin Matejka, and George Fitzmaurice. 2011. Magic Desk: Bringing Multi-Touch Surfaces into Desktop Work. In Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2511-2520.
CHI 2011 Best Paper Award Nominee
[C.29] Parmit Chilana, Tovi Grossman, and George Fitzmaurice. 2011. Modern Software Product Support Processes and the Usage of Multimedia Formats. In Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3093-3102.
[C.28] Xing-Dong Yang, Tovi Grossman, Pourang Irani, and George Fitzmaurice. 2011. TouchCuts and TouchZoom: Enhanced Target Selection for Touch Displays using Finger Proximity Sensing. In Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2585-2594.
[C.27] Tovi Grossman, Justin Matejka, and George Fitzmaurice. 2010. Chronicle: Capture, exploration, and playback of document workflow histories. In Proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 143-152.
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[C.25] Tovi Grossman and George Fitzmaurice. 2010. ToolClips: An investigation of contextual video assistance for functionality understanding. In Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1515-1524.
CHI 2010 Best Paper Award Nominee Paper | Video | Transferred!
[C.24] Hyunyoung Song, Francois Guimbretiere, Tovi Grossman, and George Fitzmaurice. 2010. MouseLight: Bimanual interactions on digital paper using a pen and a spatially-aware mobile projector. In Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2451-2460.
CHI 2010 Best Paper Award Nominee
[C.22] Justin Matejka, Wei Li, Tovi Grossman, and George Fitzmaurice. 2009. CommunityCommands: command recommendations for software applications. In Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 193-202.
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[C.20] Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice, and Ramtin Attar. 2009. A survey of software learnability: metrics, methodologies and guidelines. In Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 649-658.
CHI 2009 Best Paper Award Nominee
[C.18] Hyunyoung Song, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice, Francois Guimbretiere, Azam Khan, Ramtin Attar, and Gordon Kurtenbach. 2009. PenLight: combining a mobile projector and a digital pen for dynamic visual overlay. In Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 143-152.
[C.16] Tovi Grossman and Daniel Wigdor. 2007. Going deeper: a taxonomy of 3D on the tabletop. In Proceedings of the second annual IEEE international workshop on horizontal interactive human-computer systems. IEEE, 137-144.
[C.14] Tovi Grossman, Daniel Wigdor, and Ravin Balakrishnan. 2007. Exploring and reducing the effects of orientation on text readability in volumetric displays. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 483-492.
[C.13] Tovi Grossman, Nicholas Kong, and Ravin Balakrishnan. 2007. Modeling pointing at targets of arbitrary shapes. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 463-472.
[C.12] Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Tovi Grossman, Clarissa Mak, and Ravin Balakrishnan. 2007. An exploratory study of input configuration and group process in a negotiation task using a large display. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 91-100.
[C.11] Raghavendra S. Kattinakere, Tovi Grossman, and Sriram Subramanian. 2007. Modeling steering within above-the-surface interaction layers. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 317-326.
[C.10] Vanacken, L., Grossman, T., Coninx, K., 2007. Exploring the effects of environment density and target visibility on object selection in 3D virtual environments. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces. IEEE, 117-124.
[C.8] Tovi Grossman and Ravin Balakrishnan. 2006. An evaluation of depth perception on volumetric displays. In Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 193-200.
[C.7] Tovi Grossman, Ken Hinckley, Patrick Baudisch, Maneesh Agrawala, and Ravin Balakrishnan. 2006. Hover widgets: using the tracking state to extend the capabilities of pen-operated devices. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 861-870.
[C.6] Tovi Grossman and Ravin Balakrishnan. 2005. The bubble cursor: enhancing target acquisition by dynamic resizing of the cursor's activation area. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 281-290.
CHI 2005 Best Paper Award
[C.4] Tovi Grossman and Ravin Balakrishnan. 2004. Pointing at trivariate targets in 3D environments. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 447-454.
[C.3] Tovi Grossman, Ravin Balakrishnan, and Karan Singh. 2003. An interface for creating and manipulating curves using a high degree-of-freedom curve input device. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 185-192.
[C.2] Tovi Grossman, Ravin Balakrishnan, Gordon Kurtenbach, George Fitzmaurice, Azam Khan, and Bill Buxton. 2002. Creating principal 3D curves with digital tape drawing. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 121-128.
Classic HCI Demo
[C.1] Tovi Grossman, Ravin Balakrishnan, Gordon Kurtenbach, George Fitzmaurice, Azam Khan, and Bill Buxton. 2001. Interaction techniques for 3D modeling on large displays. In Proceedings of the 2001 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 17-23.
[J.8] Marcello Giordano, Tovi Grossman, Aakar Gupta, Daniel Clarke, Rorik Henrikson, Sean Trowbridge, Stephanie Santosa, Michael Glueck, Tanya Jonker, Hrvoje Benko, and Daniel Wigdor. 2024. An Investigation of Multimodal Kinematic Template Matching for Ray Pointing Prediction for Target Selection in VR. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. Just Accepted (October 2024).
[J.7] Stan Nowak, Ben Aseniero, Lyn Bartram, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice, Justin Matejka. 2023. Identifying Visualization Opportunities to Help Architects Manage the Complexity of Building Codes. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CGA). 43, 6 (Nov-Dec 2023), 75-86.
[J.6] Ludwig Sidenmark, Mark Parent, Chi-Hao Wu, Joannes Chan, Michael Glueck, Daniel Wigdor, Tovi Grossman, Marcello Giordano. 2022. Weighted Pointer: Error-aware Gaze-based Interaction through Fallback Modalities. ISMAR 2022 Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). 28, 11 (November 2022), 3585-3595.
[J.5] Michelle Annett, Tovi Grossman, Daniel Wigdor, George Fitzmaurice. 2019. Exploring and Understanding the Role of Workshop Environments in Personal Fabrication Processes. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction - Special Issue on Human-Building Interaction. 26, 2 (April 2019), Article No. 10. 43 Pages.
[J.4] Tovi Grossman, and George Fitzmaurice. 2015. An Investigation of Metrics For the in-situ Detection of Software Expertise. Human Computer Interaction. 30, 1 (January 2015), 64-102.
[J.3] Wei Li, Justin Matejka, Tovi Grossman, Joe Konstan, and George Fitzmaurice. 2011. Design and Evaluation of a Command Recommendation System for Software Applications. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 18, 2 (June 2011), Article 6, 35 pages.
[J.2] Lode Vanacken, Tovi Grossman, and Karin Coninx. 2009. Multimodal selection techniques for dense and occluded 3D virtual environments. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 67, 3 (March 2009), 237-255.
[M.2] Jonathan Lazar, Elizabeth F. Churchill, Tovi Grossman, Gerrit Van der Veer, Philippe Palanque, John “Scooter” Morris, Jen Mankoff. 2016. Making the Field of Computing More Inclusive. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 60 No. 3. 50-59.
[M.1] Tovi Grossman, Fanny Chevalier, Rubaiat Habib Kazi. 2016. Bringing research articles to life with animated figures. ACM Interactions. 23, 4 (June 2016), 52-57.
[c.3] Barrett Ens, Fraser Anderson, Tovi Grossman, Michelle Annett, Pourang Irani, and George Fitzmaurice. 2017. Won by a Head: A Platform Comparison of Smart Object Linking in Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence & Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments. 4 pages.
[c.2] Xiaole Kuang, Bo Yi, Shengdong Zhao, Jianann Chow, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice. 2012. A Classification of Opening Posts in Commercial Software Help Forums. In Proceedings of the 10th Asia Pacific conference on computer human interaction. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 4 pages.
[c.1] Parmit Chilana, Andrew Ko, Jacob Wobbrock, Tovi Grossman, and George Fitzmaurice. 2011. Post-Deployment Usability: A Survey of Current Practices. In Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2243-2246.
[ea.7] Justin Cui, Kevin Pu, Tovi Grossman. 2026. LOOM: Personalized Learning Informed by Daily LLM Conversations Toward Long-Term Mastery via a Dynamic Learner Memory Graph. AAAI 2026 PerFM Workshop.
[ea.6] Kevin Pu, Tovi Grossman, Yan Chen. 2024. Towards Semantic User Intent Expression and Refinement in Web Automation. PLATEAU 13th Annual Workshop at the Intersection of PL and HCI.
[ea.5] Stephen Brade, Bryan Wang, Mauricio Sousa, Gregory Lee Newsome, Sageev Oore, Tovi Grossman. 2023. SynthScribe: Deep Multimodal Tools for Synthesizer Sound Retrieval and Exploration. NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design.
[ea.4] Tianquan Di, Daniel Medeiros, Maurício Sousa, Tovi Grossman. 2023. VRChoir: Exploring Remote Choir Rehearsals via Virtual Reality. IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces. 895-896.
[ea.3] Jiannan Li, Maurício Sousa, Ravin Balakrishnan, Tovi Grossman. 2021. Constellation: a Multi-User Interface for Remote Drone Tours. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 6 pages.
[ea.1] Parmit Chilana, Mary Czerwinski, Tovi Grossman, Chris Harrison, Ranjitha Kumar, Tapan Parikh, Shumin Zhai. 2015. Technology Transfer of HCI Research Innovations: Challenges and Opportunities. In Proceedings of the ACM Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 6 pages.
Tovi Grossman (2004). Alternate User Interfaces for the Manipulation of Curves in 3D Environments. M.Sc. Thesis. Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Post-Docs
Sangho Suh, Allen Institute for AI
Ludwig Sidenmark
Maurício Sousa, Meta Reality Labs
Yan Chen, Virginia Tech
Michelle Annett, MishMashMakers
Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Adobe Research
Ph.D.
Blaine Lewis
Karthik Mahadevan
Majeed Kazemitabaar
Fengyuan Zhu
Bryan Wang, Adobe Research
Jiannan Li, Singapore Management University
Masters
Leping Qiu
Stephen Brade
Naaz Sibia
Carlos McGregor
Bryan Wang
Mingxiao (Eve) Li
Research Interns
Kimia Kiani, Simon Fraser University
Balasaravana Thoravi, UC Berkeley
Minsuk Chang, KAIST
Blaine Lewis, University of Waterloo
Sultan Alharthi, New Mexico State University
Jun Gong, Dartmouth College
Matt Whitlock, University of Colorado-Boulder
Ariel Weingarten, University of California, San Diego
Teng Han, University of Manitoba
Jeremy Warner, UC Berkeley
Volodymyr Dziubak, University of Manitoba
Ruta Desai, Carnegie Mellon University
Xu Wang, Carnegie Mellon University
Nora Willet, Princeton University
Ailie Fraser, University of California San Diego
Rahul Arora, University of Toronto
Nathaniel Hudson, University of Waterloo
David Ledo, University of Calgary
Jun Xing, University of Hong Kong
Seongkook Heo, KAIST
Raf Ramakers, Hasselt University, Belgium
Barrett Ens, University of Manitoba
Haijunia Xia, University of Toronto
Jarrod Knibbe, University of Bristol
Madeline Gannon, Carnegie Mellon University
Valkyrie Savage, UC Berkeley
Anthony Chen, Carnegie Mellon University
Rubaiat Habib Kazi, National University of Singapore
Fraser Anderson, University of Alberta
Natalia Bogdan, York University
Tim Chen, National Tsing Hua University
Ben Lafreniere, University of Waterloo
Christian Holz, Hasso Plattner Institute
Nicholas Kong, UC Berkeley
Nikola Banovic, University of Toronto
Michelle Annett, University of Alberta
Jennifer Fernquist, University of British Columbia
Parmit Chilana, University of Washington
Xing-Dong Yang, University of Alberta
Xiaojun Bi, University of Toronto
Julian Lepinski, Queen's University
Mike Rooke, Queen's University
Hyunyoung Song, University of Maryland
Visiting Graduate Students
Joanne Leong, MIT
Thomas Driscoll, University of Guelph
Stan Nowak, Simon Fraser University
Amir Jahanlou, Simon Fraser University
Matthew Miller, University of Saskatchewan
Sasha Ivanov, University of Calgary
Sunggeun Ahn, KAIST
Tingyu Cheng, Georgia Tech
Sujeath Pareddy, Carnegie Mellon University
Mackenzie Leake, Stanford University
Lukas Gehrke, Technische Universität Berlin
Hanif Wicaksono, Harvard University
Maximillian Mueller, Harvard University
Johann Wentzel, University of Waterloo
Undergraduate Assistants
Carol Meng
Oliver (Haoze) Huang
Chao-Jung Lai
Courtney Amm
Qihan Gao
Kieran Kasha
Rahul Hingorani
Michael Lai
Roy Bernstein
Amy Chen
Leen Al Lababidi
Jeannie Jiyun Yoo
Connor Burns
Harry Ye
Tianyu Zhang
Daniel Lazaro
Issam Arabi
Xiaoning Wang
Sixuan Wu
Minyi Ma
Helena Jovic
Shawn Zhang
Yviel Castillejos
Tianquan (Andy) Di
Leshi Yang
Angela Yang
Jim Yang
Angel Yuan
Wilson Gao
Stephen Brade
Kevin Ge
Viktar Chyhir
Qian Chen
Devamardeep Hayatpur
Kevin Huang
Jiahe Lyu
Zhuoyue Lyu
Steven Li
Nicholas Beirne
Jessica Lo
Nicholas Kong
Vikas Jain
A learning partner, not a shortcut: Profs teach judgment in the age of AI
U of T News, September 2026.
Experts disagree on how much AI can hurt–or help–children in Canada
INsauga, May 2026.
Your brain on AI
Globe and Mail, June 2025.
AI can help musicians compose and create new sounds. Is it just another music-making tool – or something else?
University of Toronto Magazine, April 2024.
ABScribe: Rapid Exploration of Multiple Writing Variations in Human-AI Co-Writing Tasks using Large Language Models
Montreal AI Ethics Institute, January 2024.
Researchers develop interactive ‘Stargazer’ camera robot that can help film tutorial videos
U of T News, May 2023.
AI code generators could make learning to code easier for young students, new research shows
U of T CS News, March 2023.
Tovi Grossman awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship
U of T Celebrates, February 2021.
Four Arts & Science researchers receive 2021 Sloan Research Fellowships
A&S News, February 2021.
Tovi Grossman receives E.W.R Steacie Memorial Fellowship
U of T Celebrates, November 2020.
Facebook Reality Labs researcher designs software that allows novice designers to build expressive robots
The Daily, February 2020.
Arts and Science computer scientist named NSERC/Autodesk Industrial Research Chair in Human-Computer Interaction
U of T Faculty of Arts and Science News, October 2019.
Universal Robots at Autodesk for human-robot collaboration in construction
Design World, July 2018.
U of T and Autodesk researchers design 2D-3D software for augmented reality drawing
U of T News, April 2018.
Why Would Anyone Want to Program and Control IoT in Virtual Reality?
Engineering.com, July 2017.
Skuid may let non-animators do Disney-style animation
CG Channel Article, May 2016.
Smoke, Spin, Gallop & Go in 3D Print with Autodesk’s New ChronoFab Modeling Tool
3DPrint.com Article, May 2016.
Autodesk Research: Update Legacy Devices Yourself via Easy 3D Modeling & 3D Printing with RetroFab
3DPrint.com Article, April 2016.
The Scientist Who Is Making 3D Printing More Human
Popular Science, September 2015.
'Tactum' By MadLabs; Autodesk lets you design 3D printed wearables directly on your body
3ders.org, June 2015.
Design 3-D Printed Accessories Using Your Arm As The Interface
Fast Company, June 2015.
"Tactum" By MadLabs; Create 3D Printable Designs Using The Human Body As The Interface
3DPrint.com, April 2015.
What if We Could Design Wearables Right on Our Skin?
Wired, March 2015.
PipeDream: Autodesk Working on Way to Integrate Tubes for Electronic Components Within 3D Prints
3DPrint.com, October 2014.
Autodesk's Draco Lets You Animate An Illustration In Seconds
Fast Company, May 2014.
Draco: Bringing Illustration to Life with Kinetic Textures
HOW Design, April 2014.
Magic Finger device suggests new day for calling up content
Phys.org, October 2012.
'Magic Finger' Swipes Smartphone Remotely
Discovery News, October 2012.
Here's a real close call: Implanting your mobile phone under your skin
Metro UK, June 2012.
Interviewed
Discovery Channel's Daily Planet discussing our research on Implanted User Interfaces.
Gadgets work under your skin; but are you ready?
NewScientist, May 2012.
Implanted User Interfaces: I've Got You Under My Skin
TXCHNOLOGIST, May 2012.
Researchers Push Implanted User Interfaces
Slashdot, May 2012.
Implanted User Interface Gives Patients New Options
InformationWeek, May 2012.
Under Your Skin: The First Sub-Dermal Implants Get Tested
Tested, May 2012.
User Interface Gets Under Your Skin
Engineering On The Edge, May 2012.
HoverWidgets: Improving the Functionality of Pen-based interfaces
Mobile Enterprise, June 2006.
Once More, With Volume
MIT Tech Review, Feb 2005.
Interviewed
by David Onley on CityPulse24. 21 May 2003.
ShapeTape Interview
By Natasha Stillwell on Daily Planet. 4 September 2003.
The changing shape of software
University of Toronto Magazine, Summer 2003, Vol 30, No 4, pg. 11.
Team designs twist on software
UofT News, 15 Apr 2003; Innovations Report, 16 Apr 2003; Science Daily, 16 Apr 2003; NewsFactor, 21 Apr 2003; golem.de, 16 Apr 2003
Gazing into the crystal ball
Toronto Star, 20 Jan 2003.
Shaping the future of 3-D
Varsity, 24 Sep 2002.
