Doug Downey

schoolAllen Institutebar_chart#3050 Global Rank

Total Papers

HCI Rank

#3050

Research Areas

Years Active

Recent Publications

CiteSee: Augmenting Citations in Scientific Papers with Persistent and Personalized Historical Context

When reading a scholarly article, inline citations help researchers contextualize the current article and discover relevant prior work. However, it can be challenging to prioritize and make sense of the hundreds of citations encountered during literature reviews. This paper introduces CiteSee, a paper reading tool tha…

CHI '233rd AuthorExplainable AI (XAI) +1

Relatedly: Scaffolding Literature Reviews with Existing Related Work Sections

Scholars who want to research a scientific topic must take time to read, extract meaning, and identify connections across many papers. As scientific literature grows, this becomes increasingly challenging. Meanwhile, authors summarize prior research in papers’ related work sections, though this is scoped to support a…

UIST '222nd AuthorRecommender System UX +2

FeedLens: Polymorphic Lenses for Personalizing Exploratory Search over Knowledge Graphs

The vast scale and open-ended nature of knowledge graphs (KGs) make exploratory search over them cognitively demanding for users. We introduce a new technique, polymorphic lenses, that improves exploratory search over a KG by obtaining new leverage from the existing preference models that KG-based systems maintain for…

CHI '225th+ AuthorRecommender System UX +1

From Who You Know to What You Read: Augmenting Scientific Recommendations with Implicit Social Networks

The ever-increasing pace of scientific publication necessitates methods for quickly identifying relevant papers. While neural recommenders trained on user interests can help, they still result in long, monotonous lists of suggested papers. To improve the discovery experience we introduce multiple new methods for augme…

Quick Actions

Share this page

ios_share

X in mail

https://hci.top/en/authors/9035?source=all