Amy Pavel
apavel at cs.cmu.edu | (scholar)
I am a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University and Apple, working with Jeff Bigham. I recently graduated with my PhD from the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley. I was advised by professors Björn Hartmann at UC Berkeley and Maneesh Agrawala at Stanford, and my doctoral work was supported by an NDSEG fellowship. I've previously been supported by a department EECS Excellence Award and a Sandisk Gold Fellowship.
In the summer of 2018, I served as the lecturer for CS160, the UC Berkeley user interface design and development course. Here is the course website.
Research
My dissertation research focuses on developing new algorithms and interfaces for searching, browsing and skimming videos. My projects include new text-based interfaces for exploring educational lecture videos, films, and video critiques. In addition, I've worked to understand how people view and interact with 360° videos. Though I've used video as a medium, I'm broadly interested in how to support users in benefiting from imperfect computational results in domains such as search, collaboration, and content generation.
As an undergraduate, I worked on a system for searching and browsing photoshop tutorials, and tools for helping crowdworkers provide useful design critiques.
Papers
Stephanie Valencia, Amy Pavel, Jared Santa Maria, Seunga (Gloria) Yu, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Henny Admoni
The ACM Conference on Computer Human Interaction (CHI 2020).
Cole Gleason, Amy Pavel, Emma McCamey, Christina Low, Patrick Carrington, Kris M. Kitani, Jeffrey P. Bigham
The ACM Conference on Computer Human Interaction (CHI 2020).
Cole Gleason, Amy Pavel, Xingyu Liu, Patrick Carrington, Lydia B. Chilton, and Jeffrey P. Bigham
ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019).
Prakhar Gupta, Shikib Mehri, Tiancheng Zhao, Amy Pavel, Maxine Eskenazi and Jeffrey P. Bigham
SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2019).
Vincent Sitzmann*, Ana Serrano*, Amy Pavel, Maneesh Agrawala, Diego Gutierrez, Belen Masia, and Gordon Wetzstein
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VR 2018).
Project Page | Code | Video
Amy Pavel, Björn Hartmann, Maneesh Agrawala
ACM 30th Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2017).
PDF | Interactive Demo | Code | Video
Amy Pavel, Dan B Goldman, Björn Hartmann, Maneesh Agrawala
ACM 29th Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2016).
Amy Pavel, Dan B Goldman, Björn Hartmann, Maneesh Agrawala
ACM 28th Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2015).
Kurt Luther, Jari-lee Tolentino, Wei Wu, Amy Pavel, Maneesh Agrawala, Brian Bailey, Björn Hartmann, Steven Dow
The 18th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2015).
Amy Pavel, Colorado Reed, Björn Hartmann, Maneesh Agrawala
ACM 27th Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2014).
Amy Pavel, Floraine Berthouzoz, Björn Hartmann, Maneesh Agrawala
Berkeley EECS Technical Report and Poster Presentation (TR 2013, TECHCON 2013).
Posters and workshops
Kundan Krishna, Amy Pavel, Benjamin Schloss, Jeffrey Bigham and Zachary Lipton
AAAI Workshop on Health Intelligence (W3PHIAI 2020 Workshop Paper).
Christina Low*, Emma McCamey*, Cole Gleason, Patrick Carrington, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Amy Pavel
The 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019 Poster).
Kurt Luther, Wei Wu, Amy Pavel, Jari-lee Tolentino, Maneesh Agrawala, Björn Hartmann, Steven Dow
The 18th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2014 Demo).
Teaching
Instructor — UC Berkeley
CS 160: User interface design and developmentJune 2018 - August 2018
Graduate student instructor — UC Berkeley
CS 160: User interface design and developmentJune 2017 - August 2017
Student project advisor — UC Berkeley
NWMEDIA 190: Making Sense of Cultural DataAugust 2017 - December 2017
Instructor — UC Berkeley
CS Kickstart, intro CS for incoming freshmen womenAugust 2012
Work
Postdoctoral Fellow — Carnegie Mellon University
Advisor: Jeffrey P. Bigham January 2019 - PresentResearch Scientist — Apple
Group: Accessibility/ML ResearchJuly 2019 - Present
Graduate student researcher — UC Berkeley
Advisors: Björn Hartmann, Maneesh Agrawala Committee: Eric Paulos, Björn Hartmann, Maneesh Agrawala, Abigail de KosnikAugust 2013 - December 2018
Undergraduate research assistant — UC Berkeley
Advisors: Maneesh Agrawala, Björn Hartmann, Floraine BerthouzozMay 2011 - May 2013
Research intern — Adobe Research, Seattle
Advisor: Dan GoldmanMay 2014 - August 2014, May 2015 - August 2015
Classes
Grad classes
- INFO C265 — Interface Aesthetics (Ryokai)
- CS 260B — Human Computer Interaction Research (Paulos)
- INFO 271B — Quantitative Researh Methods (Cheshire)
- CS 294-115 — Algorithmic Human Robot Interaction (Dragan)
- CS 280 — Computer Vision (Malik)
- CS 262a — Advanced Topics in Computer Systems (Kubiatowicz)
- CS 270 — Combinatorial Algorithms and Data Structures (Rao)
- CS 294-10 — Visualization (Agrawala)
- CS 294-84 — Interactive Device Design (Hartmann)
Class projects
Amy Pavel, Philippe Laban, Mike Laielli, James Smith
HCI Research (CS 260B 2017).
Amy Pavel
Algorithmic Human Robot Interaction (CS 294-115 2015).
Amy Pavel, Sean Chen, Steve Rubin, Elliot Nahman
Interactive Device Design (CS 294-84 2012).