ACME Lab
ACME CreativityMachine Environment (ACME) Lab, directed byEllen Do, researches computational tools for design,creativity, cognition, tangible and embedded interaction, and computing for health and wellness. Along with the explicit name for which the acronym stands, Do likes ACME because of its lofty connotations and its association tothe Looney Tunes fictional organization, A Company that Makes Everything.
A key ethos for the lab is the belief that everyone can be creative because everyone has the ability to make things. Human beings are wonderfullyintricate pieces of machinery. In the effortto understand human intelligence and creativity (cognition), or how people design everything (from their meals to furniture, house, or software programs), we build models and machines (physical, digital, and interactive) to attemptto explainand simulate, or to explore the boundaries of these ideas that are inside black boxes.
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Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Shih-Yu Ma, Sawyer Reinig, Pritalee Kadam, Ada Yi Zhao, Amy Banić, Ryo Suzuki, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2026. "". In: Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’26). (Singapore, June 13–17, 2026).
Sasha Novack, Noah Finkelstein, Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2026. "". In: Design+, Vol: 3, Issue: 1. (March 31, 2026).
Kosei Ueda,Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Hironori Yoshida. 2026. “Sound of Kigumi: A Playful VR Joinery Adjustment with Hammering Sound Feedback”. In:TEI '26:Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. (Chicago, IL, March 8-11, 2026).
Krithik Ranjan, S. Sandra Bae, Peter Gyory,Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Clement Zheng, Rong-Hao Liang. “Why (Not) ReacTIVision: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities for Building Tangible User Interfaces with Computer Vision Toolkits”. In:TEI '26:Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. (Chicago, IL, March 8-11, 2026).
Thiago Rossi Roque,Ruojia Sun,Ellen Yi-Luen Do,Grace Leslie. “HyperDance: Real-Time Vibrotactile Stimulation Feedback of Inter-Brain Connectivity in Partner Dance”. In:TEI '26:Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. (Chicago, IL, March 8-11, 2026).
S. Sandra Bae, Takanori Fujiwara, Danielle Szafir,Ellen Yi-Luen Do,Michael L. Rivera. 2025. “”. In: SCF '25: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication. (Cambridge, MA, November 20-21, 2025).
Ada Yi Zhao, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Ella Grace Finstuen, Haifeng Chen, Lu-An Tang, Kai Ishikawa, Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2024. "". In: 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct). (Bellevue, WA, October 21-25 2024).
Suibi Che-Chuan Weng. 2024. "". In: 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct). (Bellevue, WA, USA, October 21-25, 2024).
Ruhan Yang and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2024. "". In: ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 Posters (SIGGRAPH '24). (Denver, CO, July 27 - August 1, 2024).
Ruhan Yang and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2024. "". In: ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 Labs (SIGGRAPH '24). (Denver, CO, July 27 - August 1, 2024).
Ellen Yi-Luen Do and Rishi Vanukuru. 2024. "". In: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences(IMX '24). (Stockholm, Sweden, June 12-14 2024).
Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Pattie Maes, Florian `Floyd' Mueller, and Nathan Semertzidis. 2023.(Dagstuhl Seminar 23212). In:Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 13, Issue 5, pp. 136-164, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik.(November 27, 2023).
Saad Elbeleidy, Terran Mott,Dan Liu,Ellen Do, Elizabeth Reddy, and Tom Williams. 2023“.” In:Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW2, Article 326.(October 2023).
Rishi VanukuruandEllen Yi-Luen Do.2023"." In:IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct).(Sydney, Australia, October 16-20, 2023).
Suibi Che-Chuan Weng,Torin Hopkins, Shih-Yu Ma,Chad Tobin,Amy Banic,Ellen Yi-Luen Do.2023."." In:IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct).(Sydney, Australia, October 16-20, 2023).
Torin Hopkins,Rishi Vanukuru,Suibi Che Chuan Weng,Chad Tobin,Amy Banic,Mark D Gross,Ellen Yi-Luen Do.2023."." In:IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct).(Sydney, Australia, October 16-20, 2023).
Rishi Vanukuru,Suibi Che-Chuan Weng,Krithik Zanjan,Torin Hopkins,Amy Banic,Mark D Gross,Ellen Yi-Luen Do.2023"". In:IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR).(Sydney, Australia, October 16-20, 2023).
Casey Lee Hunt, Kaiwen Sun, Kaitlyn Tseng, Priyanka Balasubramaniyam, Allison Druin, Amanda Huynh, Daniel Leithinger and Jason Yip. 2024. "". In: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC'24) (Delft, Netherlands, June 17-20, 2024).
Ruhan YangandEllen Yi-Luen Do. 2024. "." In: Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (SIGCSE 2024). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1929.
Ruhan YangandEllen Yi-Luen Do. 2024.. In:Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '24). (ǸԹ, CO, March 11-15, 2024).
Ruhan Yang. 2024. "." In: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY.
Yuzhen Zhang, Ruixiang Han,Ran Zhou,Peter Gyory,Clement Zheng, Patrick C. Shih,Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Malte F Jung, Wendy Ju, andDaniel Leithinger. 2024.. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 47, 1–15.
Torin Hopkins,Suibi Che Chuan Weng,Rishi Vanukuru,Sasha Novack,Chad Tobin,Emma Wenzel,Amy Banic,Mark D Gross,Ellen Yi-Luen Do, “.” In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and eXtended and Virtual Reality (AIxVR).(Jan 17-19, 2024)
Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Yan-Ming Chiou, andEllen Yi-Luen Do, “,”in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and eXtended and Virtual Reality (AIxVR), (Jan 17-19 2024)
S. S. Bae, T. Fujiwara, A. Ynnerman,E. Y. -L. Do,M. L. RiveraandD. A. Szafir, "," inIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 913-923, Jan. 2024, doi:.
Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Pattie Maes, Florian `Floyd' Mueller, and Nathan Semertzidis. Designing the Human-Machine Symbiosis (Dagstuhl Seminar 23212). In Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 13, Issue 5, pp. 136-164, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (27 Nov, 2023)
Rishi VanukuruandEllen Yi-Luen Do, "," 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), 16-20 October 2023, Sydney, Australia
Suibi Che-Chuan Weng,Torin Hopkins,Shih-Yu Ma,Chad Tobin,Amy Banic,Ellen Yi-Luen Do,","2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), 16-20 October 2023, Sydney, Australia, 2023
Torin Hopkins,Rishi Vanukuru,Suibi Che Chuan Weng,Chad Tobin,Amy Banic,Mark D Gross,Ellen Yi-Luen Do, "," 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), 16-20 October 2023, Sydney, Australia, 2023
Rishi Vanukuru,Suibi Che-Chuan Weng,Krithik Zanjan,Torin Hopkins,Amy Banic,Mark D Gross,Ellen Yi-Luen Do,","2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Sydney, Australia (16-20 October 2023).
Saad Elbeleidy, Terran Mott,Dan Liu,Ellen Do, Elizabeth Reddy, and Tom Williams, “.” . 2023. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW2, Article 326 (October 2023).
S. Sandra Bae, Takanori Fujiwara, Anders Ynnerman,Ellen Yi-Luen Do,Michael L. Rivera,Danielle Albers Szafir. 2023. "". In:IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics(October2023).
Torin Hopkins, Emily Doherty,Netta Ofer,Suibi Che-Chuan Weng,Peter Gyory,Chad Tobin, Leanne Hirschfield, andEllen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. “”. In:Proceedings ofAudio Mostly 2023. (August 30 - September 1, 2023).
Torin Hopkins, Alvin Jude, Greg Phillips, andEllen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. ““. In:Proceedings ofAIMC 2023. (August 29, 2023.
Torin Hopkins,SuibiChe-Chuan Weng, andEllen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. “”. In:Proceedings ofAIMC 2023. (August 29, 2023).
S. Sandra Bae, Takanori Fujiwara, Anders Ynnerman,Ellen Yi-Luen Do,Michael L. Rivera,Danielle Albers Szafir. 2023. “”. In:ArXiv.(August 9, 2023).
Ruojia Sun,Althea Vail Wallop,Grace Leslie, andEllen Yi-Luen Do.“” 2023. In: Companion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '23 Companion). (July 12, 2023).
Krithik Ranjan,Peter Gyory,Michael L. Rivera,Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. “”. In:Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC '23)(Chicago, IL, June 19-23, 2023).
Ella Emanuele,David Hunter, Zachary Duer, and Simon Birch. 2023. “”. In:Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C '23).(Virtual, June 19-21, 2023).
Elise Johnson,S. Sandra Bae, andEllen Yi-Luen Do. 2023.“.” In:Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C '23). (June 2023).
Peter Gyory,S. Sandra Bae,Ruhan Yang,Ellen Yi-Luen Do,andClement Zheng.2023. “”. In:CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).
Ruhan Yang,Krithik Ranjan, andEllen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. “”. In:CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).
Clement Zheng,Peter Gyory, andEllen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. “”. In:CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).
Clement Zheng, Bo Han, Xin Liu,Laura Devendorf, Hans Tan, and Ching Chiuan Yen. "". In:Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).
Suibi Che–Chuan Weng,Torin Hopkins,Rishi Vanukuru,Chad Tobin,Amy Banic,Daniel Leithinger, andEllen Yi–Luen Do. 2023. “”. In:2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)(Shanghai, China, March 25-29, 2023).
Bae, S. SandraandVanukuru, RishiandYang, RuhanandGyory, PeterandZhou, RanandDo, Ellen Yi-LuenandSzafir, Danielle Albers,”" inIEEE Transactions on Visualizationand Computer Graphics, vol. 29, no. 1 (January2023).
Peter Gyory, Krithik Ranjan, Zhen Zhou Yong, Clement Zheng, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2022. In: SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 Emerging Technologies (SA '22). (Daegu, Republic of Korea, December 6-9, 2022).
Hopkins Torin, Weng Suibi Che Chuan, Vanukuru Rishi, Wenzel Emma A., Banic Amy, Gross Mark D., Do Ellen Yi-Luen. 2022."".Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Vol. 3(August 19, 2022).
S. Sandra Bae,Rishi Vanukuru,Ruhan Yang,Peter Gyory,Ran Zhou,Ellen Yi-Luen Do,Danielle Albers Szafir. 2022. "." In:Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2022,(Oct.16-21, 2022—Oklahoma City, Oklahoma).
S. Sandra Bae. 2022. "." In:Creativity and Cognition (C&C '22). Association for Computing Machinery,(June 20-23, 2022—Venice, Italy).
Peter Gyory. 2022. "." In:Creativity and Cognition (C&C '22). Association for Computing Machinery.(June 20-23, 2022—Venice, Italy).
Peter Gyory,Perry Y Owens,Matthew Bethancourt,Amy Banic,Clement Zheng,Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2022.“.” In:14th ACM conference onCreativity & Cognition.(June 20-23, 2022—Venice, Italy).
T. Hopkins,S. C. -C. Weng,R. Vanukuru,E. Wenzel,A. BanicandE. Y. -L. Do, "." In:2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)(Christchurch, New Zealand—March12-16, 2022).
S. Sandra Bae,Clement Zheng,Mary Etta West,Ellen Yi-Luen Do,Samuel Huron,Danielle Albers Szafir(2022). "." Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. (April 30 - May 5, 2022—New Orleans, USA).
Sandra Bae,Ruhan Yang,Peter Gyory,Julia Uhr,Danielle Albers Szafir, Ellen Yi-Luen Do. "." In:IDC '21: Interaction Design and Children(24 June 2021).
Torin Hopkins,Rishi Vanukuru,Suibi Che-Chuan Weng,Amy Banic,Ellen Yi-Luen Do.2022. "Augmented Personification of Intelligent Music Tools for Creativity and Collaboration." In:ACM CHI 2022 Workshop 47:Intelligent Music Interfaces:When Interactive Assistance and Augmentation Meet Musical Instruments.(New Orleans, LA—May 1, 2022).
Rishi Vanukuru, Amarnath Murugan, Jayesh Pillai, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do."Designing and Studying Social Interactions in Shared Virtual Spaces using Mobile Augmented Reality." In:ACM CHI 2022 Workshop 46: Social Presence in Virtual Event Spaces.(New Orleans, LA—May 1, 2022).
Chris Hill,Ruojia Sun,Ellen Yi-Luen Do.2022.“What to Design Next: Actuated Materials and Soft Robots for Children,” ACM CHI 2022 Workshop 39: Actuated Materials andSoft RoboticsStrategies for Human Computer Interaction Design.(New Orleans, LA—May 1, 2022).
Torin Hopkins, Peter Pascente, Wayne Seltzer, Kellie Masterson, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2021. ".: In:Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '21). Association for Computing Machinery (Salzburg, Austria(virtual)–Feb. 14-19, 2021).
Luo, Zhiqiang, Ponraj Durairaj,Cheng Mun Lau,YuichiroKatsumoto,Ellen Yi-Luen Do,Ahmad Sapon Bin Zainuddin,Kensaku, Kawauchi, "." In:2021 IEEE 7th International Conference on Virtual Reality (ICVR)(2021).
S. Sandra BaeandMary Etta West."" In"Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '21). Association for Computing Machinery.(Salzburg, Austria (virtual) Feb. 14-19, 2021).[Craft Award]
Torin Hopkins, S. Sandra Bae, Julia Uhr, Clement Zheng, Amy Banic and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2021. "."In:. Springer Publishing Company, Inc.(Feb 16, 2021)
Clement Zheng,Peter Gyory, andEllen Yi-Luen Do. 2020. "."In:Proceedings of the 2020 ACM on Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’20). Association for Computing Machinery(Eindhoven, Netherlands (virtual) – July 6-20, 2020)[Honorable Mention Award for Best Pictorial Paper] & [Honorable Mention Award for Best Demonstration]
Sarah Beemer, Zak Boston, April Bukoski, Daniel Chen, Princess Dickens, Andrew Gerlach, Torin Hopkins, Parth Anand Jawale, Chris Koski, Akanksha Malhotra, Piyush Mishra, Saliha Muradoglu, Lan Sang, Tyler Short, Sagarika Shreevastava, Elizabeth Spaulding, Testumichi Umada, Beilei Xiang, Changbing Yang, Mans Hulden. 2020., inProceedings of the 17th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, July 2020, 162-170. (Seattle, Washington (virtual)–July 10, 2020).
Ruhan Yang, Cody Candler, andEllen Yi-Luen Do. 2020. EdBoard: An Educational Breadboard.In Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference 2020(IDC'20).DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3397617.3397832 (London, England (virtual)–June 17-24, 2020).
Torin HopkinsandEllen Yi-Luen Do. 2020.. InProceedings ofInternational Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation(TENOR'20)(Hamburg, Germany–May 12-14,2020).
Ryo Suzuki,Hooman Hedayati,Clement Zheng, James Bohn,Daniel Szafir,Ellen Yi-Luen Do,Mark D Gross, andDaniel Leithinger. 2020. "."In:Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). ACM(Honolulu, Hawaii (virtual)–April 25-30, 2020).
AmyBanic, ErikHorwitz andClementZheng.2020. "." In:2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)(Atlanta, Georgia–March 22-26, 2020).
Junnan Yu, Clement Zheng, Mariana Aki Tamashiro, Christopher Gonzalez-millan, and Ricarose Roque."." In:Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery.(Sydney, Australia – Feb. 9-12, 2020).
Ryo Suzuki,Clement Zheng, Yasuaki Kakehi,Tom Yeh,Ellen Yi-Luen Do,Mark D. Gross,Daniel Leithinger. "." In: Proceedings of The 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology(UIST'19).(New Orleans, LA—Oct. 20-23, 2019).
Ryosuke Nakayama,Ryo Suzuki,Satoshi Nakamaru, Ryuma Niiyama, Yoshihiro Kawahara, and Yasuaki Kakehi. "." In Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '19).[Best Paper Award].
Peter Gyory,Clement Zheng,Daniel Leithinger, andEllen Yi-Luen Do. "." In: Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion(DIS '19 Companion). ACM (San Diego, CA, USA—June 23-28, 2019).
Clement Zheng,HyunJoo Oh,Laura Devendorf, andEllen Yi-Luen Do."." In:Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference(DIS '19).(San Diego, CA, USA — June 23 - 28, 2019). [Best Pictorial Award].
Patrycja Zdziarska, Felix A. Epp, Walther Jensen,Mark D Gross,Ellen Yi-Luen Do. "."In: Proceedings of Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction(TEI’19).(Tempe, Arizona, USA—March 17-20, 2019).
Clement Zheng,Jeeeun Kim,Daniel Leithinger,Mark D Gross,&Ellen Yi-Luen Do."."In: Proceedings of Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction(TEI’19).(Tempe, Arizona, USA—March 17-20, 2019).
Denise Powell, PeterGyory,Ricarose Roque, andAnnie Bruns.. In"Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children,(IDC'18). (Trondheim, Norway – June 19-22, 2018).
Jeeeun Kim, Clement Zheng, Haruki Takahashi, Mark Gross, Daniel Ashbrook and Tom Yeh. .In:Proceedings of the 2ndACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication, (SCF, '18).(Cambridge, Massachusetts – June 17-19, 2018).
Clement ZhengandEllen Yi-Luen Do.,In: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction(). (Stockholm, Sweden, March 18-21, 2018).
Clement Zheng.2018..In:Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (). (Stockholm, Sweden – March 18-21, 2018).
James Hallam,Clement Zheng, Noah Posner, Heydn Ericson, Matthew Swarts,Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2017..In:Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers(UbiComp '17). (Maui, Hawaii, Sept.11-15, 2017).