Steven P Dow


Steven Dow

Design can no longer be seen as a solitary endeavor where a designer, through pure force of talent, improves a product or service, and then hands it off to a community of use. My research empirically examines design practices and develops technology to support creative individuals, groups, and crowds. We seek to deepen our understanding of how the creative process works, to improve design practice for teams, and to teach design effectively to larger audiences. MORE...

BIO: Steven is an Assistant Professor at the HCI Institute at Carnegie Mellon University where he researches human-computer interaction, social computing, design education, and prototyping. He is co-recipient of two National Science Foundation grants, Stanford's Postdoctoral Research Award, and the Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Grant. He received an MS and PhD in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a BS in Industrial Engineering from University of Iowa. FULL CV and PORTFOLIO.

NEWS

SUMMER: Find out more about research opportunities in my group.
CHI'13: Read our papers on creative collab formation and crowd classrooms.
FEB: Burr Settles' work is showcased by CMU, L'Atelier, and the Tartan.
FEB: Postdoc Kurt Luther's paper won Best Paper at CSCW 2013!
FEB: Read Sarah Reeder's Health Heritage work in Interactions.
DEC: MIT's CSAIL posted my recent research talk for their group.
FALL: NSF awarded our grant proposals on crowdsourcing and design!

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ALL

A Preliminary Study of Using Crowds in the Classroom, Steven P. Dow, Liz Gerber, and Audris Wong, Conf on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2013. VIDEO

Let’s Get Together: The Formation and Success of Online Creative Collaborations, Burr Settles & Steven P. Dow, Conf on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2013. VIDEO

Shepherding the Crowd Yields Better Work, Steven P. Dow, Anand Kulkarni, Scott R Klemmer, and Björn Hartmann, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2012.

Prototyping Dynamics: Sharing Multiple Designs Improves Exploration, Group Rapport, and Results, Steven P. Dow, Julie Fortuna, Dan Schwartz, Beth Altringer, Daniel L Schwartz, and Scott R Klemmer, Conf on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2011.

Parallel Prototyping Leads to Better Design Results, More Divergence, and Increased Self-Efficacy, Steven P. Dow, Alana Glassco, Jonathan Kass, Melissa Schwarz, Daniel L Schwartz, Scott R Klemmer, Trans on Computer-Human Interaction, 11(4), 2010.

The Efficacy of Prototyping Under Time Constraints, Steven P. Dow, Kate Heddleston, Scott R. Klemmer, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity & Cognition, 2009.

Eliza meets the Wizard-of-Oz: Blending Machine and Human Control of Embodied Characters, Steven P. Dow, Manish Mehta, Blair MacIntyre, Michael Mateas, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010. VIDEO



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Assistant Professor
HCI Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

CONTACT

spdow at cs dot cmu dot edu
3615 Newell Simon Hall
5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Tel: +1 412 268 1513
Office hrs: W 2-4p
Teaching: T/TH 9-11:50a

TRAVEL & TALKS

UPCOMING
FEB 7-10 UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
FEB 23-27 CSCW 2013
San Antonio, TX
MAR 5-6 DARPA
Washington, DC
MAR 9-13 Vacation
Denver, CO
4/26 - 5/4 CHI 2013
Paris, France

PAST (click year to expand/collapse)
2012
2011
2010

SPONSORSHIP

This research is made possible by generous financial support from the National Science Foundation, the Hasso Plattner Research Program, and the Berkman program.

CURRENT & PAST AFFILIATIONS

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