Refereed Papers
CS1 for Scientists. Greg Wilson, Christine Alvarado, Jennifer Campbell, Ruben Landau, Robert Sedgewick. Panel presentation at SIGCSE 2008.
Evaluating a Breadth-First CS 1 for Scientists. Zach
Dodds, Ran Libeskind-Hadas, Christine Alvarado, Geoff
Kuenning. In Proceedings of SIGCSE 2008.
A
Pen-based Tool for Efficient Labeling of 2D Sketches. Aaron
Wolin, Devin Smith and Christine Alvarado. In Proc. of Eurographics Workshop on
Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling (SBIM). Riverside,
CA. 2007.
Designing
a Sketch Recognition Front-End: User Perception of Interface Elements.
Paul Wais, Aaron Wolin and Christine Alvarado. In Proc. of Eurographics Workshop on
Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling (SBIM). Riverside,
CA. 2007.
Properties of Real World Digital Logic Diagrams Alvarado, Christine and Lazzareschi, Michael. Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Pen-based Learning Technologies. 2007.
Breadth-first CS 1 for Scientists: Curriculum and Assessment, Zach Dodds, Christine Alvarado, Geoff Kuenning, Ran Libeskind-Hadas. In Proc. of the 12th Annual Conference on Innovation in Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2007). 2007.
Sketch Recognition for Digital Circuit Design in the Classroom. Alvarado, Christine. In 2007 Invited Workshop on Pen-Centric Computing Research, Brown University, March 2007.
Dynamically Constructed Bayes Nets for Multi-Domain Sketch Understanding. Alvarado, Christine; and Davis, Randall. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2005.
Alvarado, Christine. Sketch Recognition User Interfaces: Guidelines for Design and Development. AAAI Fall Symposium on Intelligent Pen-based Interfaces, 2004. [PDF]
Alvarado, Christine; and Davis, Randall. SketchREAD: A Multi-domain Sketch Recognition Engine. Proceedings of UIST 2004. [PDF] [PS ]
Oltmans, Michael; Alvarado, Christine; and Davis, Randall. ETCHA Sketches: Lessons Learned from Collecting Sketch Data. AAAI Fall Symposium on Intelligent Pen-based Interfaces, 2004. [PDF]
Teevan, Jaime; Alvarado, Christine; Ackerman, Mark S.; and
Karger,
David R. The Perfect Search Engine Is Not Enough: A Study of
Orienteering Behavior in Directed Search. Proceedings of
CHI-2004. [PS],
[PDF]
Alvarado, Christine. (2003) Dynamically Constructed Bayesian
Networks for Sketch Understanding. MIT Student Oxygen
Workshop. [PS]
[PDF]
*Awarded Best Presentation* Slides
from the talk
Alvarado, Christine; Oltmans, Michael and Davis, Randall. (2002). A
Framework for Multi-Domain Sketch Recognition. 2002 AAAI
Spring Symposium on Sketch Understanding.
[PS],
[PDF]
[Abstract-PS],
[Abstract-PDF]
Alvarado, Christine and Davis, Randall (2001). Resolving
ambiguities to create a natural sketch based interface.
Proceedings of IJCAI-2001, August 2001. [PS],
[PDF]
Alvarado, Christine and Davis, Randall (2001). Preserving the
freedom of paper in a computer-based sketch tool. Proceedings
of HCI International 2001. [PS],
[PDF]
Technical Reports and other Publications
Alvarado, Christine; Teevan, Jaime; Ackerman, Mark S.; and Karger,
David.
Surviving the Information Explosion: How People Find Their
Electronic Information.
MIT Artificial Laboratory Technical Report, April 2003.
[PDF]
[PS]
Alvarado, Christine; Szegin, Metin; Scott, Dana; Hammond, Tracy;
Kasheff, Zardosht; Oltmans, Michael; and Davis, Randall (2001).
A Framework for Multi-Domain Sketch Recognition.
MIT Artificial Laboratory, Septempber 2001.
[PDF]
[PS]
Alvarado, Christine and Davis, Randall (2000). Intelligent
mechanical engineering design environment: From sketching to simulation.
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Annual Abstract, September 2000.
[PS],
[PDF]
Theses
Alvarado, Christine. Multi-domain Sketch Understanding. PhD Thesis. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. September, 2004. [PDF] [GZipped Postscript]
Alvarado, Christine (2000). A natural sketching
environment:
Bringing the computer into early stages of mechanical design.
Master's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000.
[PS],
[PDF]
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