Mackenzie Leake

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RankCut: A Ranking-Based LLM Approach to Extractive Summarization for Transcript-Based Video Editing

Video recordings of interviews, lectures, and meetings contain valuable moments surrounded by less essential talk. Making a shareable and meaningful shorter version of this content requires significant effort because it combines tedious, repeated operations with personal editorial decisions, which require human judgme…

UIST '25CorrespondingCustomizable & Personalized Objects +1

Refashion: Reconfigurable Garments via Modular Design

While bodies change over time and trends vary, most store-bought clothing comes in fixed sizes and styles and fails to adapt to these changes. Alterations can enable small changes to otherwise static garments, but these changes often require sewing and are non-reversible. We propose a modular approach to garment desig…

CHI '252nd AuthorGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +2

VidSTR: Automatic Spatiotemporal Retargeting of Speech-Driven Video Compositions

Video editors often record multiple versions of a performance with minor differences. When they add graphics atop one video, they may wish to transfer those assets to another recording, but differences in performance, wordings, and timings can cause assets to no longer be aligned with the video content. Fixing this is…

UIST '24CorrespondingEcological Design & Green Computing +1

WasteBanned: Supporting Zero Waste Fashion Design Through Linked Edits

The commonly used cut-and-sew garment construction process, in which 2D fabric panels are cut from sheets of fabric and assembled into 3D garments, contributes to widespread textile waste in the fashion industry. There is often a significant divide between the design of the garment and the layout of the panels. One op…

UIST '241st AuthorShape-Changing Materials & 4D Printing +1

ScrapMap: Interactive Color Layout for Scrap Quilting

Scrap quilting is a popular sewing process that involves combining leftover pieces of fabric into traditional patchwork designs. Imagining the possibilities for these leftovers and arranging the fabrics in such a way that achieves visual goals, such as high contrast, can be challenging given the large number of potent…

CHI '241st AuthorAI-Assisted Creative Writing +2

ChunkyEdit: Text-first video interview editing via chunking

The early stages of video editing present many cognitively demanding tasks that require editors to remember and structure large amounts of video. In our formative work we learned that editors break down the editing process into smaller parts by labeling and organizing footage around central themes. Using current video…

UIST '235th+ Author3D Modeling & Animation +2

Style2Fab: Functionality-Aware Segmentation for Fabricating Personalized 3D Models with Generative AI

With recent advances in Generative AI, it is becoming easier to automatically manipulate 3D models. However, current methods tend to apply edits to models globally, which risks compromising the intended functionality of the 3D model when fabricated in the physical world. For example, modifying functional segments in 3…

CHI '235th+ AuthorLaser Cutting & Digital Fabrication +1

Polagons: Designing and Fabricating Polarized Light Mosaics with User-Defined Color-Changing Behaviors

Polarized light mosaics (PLMs) are color-changing structures that alter their appearance based on the orientation of incident polarized light. While a few artists have developed techniques for crafting PLMs by hand, the underlying material properties are difficult to reason about; there exist no tools to bridge the hi…

CHI '231st AuthorCustomizable & Personalized Objects +1

InStitches: Augmenting Sewing Patterns with Personalized Material-Efficient Practice

There is a rapidly growing group of people learning to sew online. Without hands-on instruction, these learners are often left to discover the challenges and pitfalls of sewing through trial and error, which can be a frustrating and wasteful process. We present InStitches, a software tool that augments existing sewing…

UIST '221st AuthorCustomizable & Personalized Objects

Sketch-Based Design of Foundation Paper Pieceable Quilts

Foundation paper piecing is a widely used quilt-making technique in which fabric pieces are sewn onto a paper guide to facilitate construction. But, designing paper pieceable quilt patterns is challenging because the sewing process imposes constraints on both the geometry and sewing order of the fabric pieces. Based o…

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