University of Montreal

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CHI '26Generative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +3

How Notations Evolve: A Historical Analysis with Implications for Supporting User-Defined Abstractions

Traditional human-computer interaction takes place through formally-specified systems like structured UIs and programming languages. Recent AI systems promise a new set of informal interactions with computers through natural language and other notational forms. These informal interactions can then lead to formal repre…

UIST '25Data Storytelling +2

Visual Story-Writing: Writing by Manipulating Visual Representations of Stories

We define "visual story-writing" as using visual representations of story elements to support writing and revising narrative texts. To demonstrate this approach, we developed a text editor that automatically visualizes a graph of entity interactions, movement between locations, and a timeline of story events. Interact…

UIST '25Human-LLM Collaboration +2

Semantic Commit: Helping Users Update Intent Specifications for AI Memory at Scale

As AI agents increasingly rely on memory systems to align with user intent, updating these memories presents challenges of semantic conflict and ambiguity. Inspired by impact analysis in software engineering, we introduce SemanticCommit, a mixed-initiative interface to help users integrate new intent into intent speci…

CHI '25AI-Assisted Creative Writing

Making the Write Connections: Linking Writing Support Tools with Writer Needs

This work sheds light on whether and how creative writers' needs are met by existing research and commercial writing support tools (WST). We conducted a need finding study to gain insight into the writers' process during creative writing through a qualitative analysis of the response from an online questionnaire and R…

CHI '25Honorable MentionHuman-LLM Collaboration +2

Textoshop: Interactions Inspired by Drawing Software to Facilitate Text Editing

We explore how interactions inspired by drawing software can help edit text. Making an analogy between visual and text editing, we consider words as pixels, sentences as regions, and tones as colours. For instance, direct manipulations move, shorten, expand, and reorder text; tools change number, tense, and grammar; c…

CHI '24Mental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +1

"It's Sink or Swim": Exploring Patients' Challenges and Tool Needs for Self-Management of Postoperative Acute Pain

Poorly managed postoperative acute pain can have long-lasting negative impacts and pose a major healthcare issue. There is limited investigation to understand and address the unique needs of patients experiencing acute pain. In this paper, we tackle this gap through an interview study with 14 patients who recently und…

CHI '24Honorable MentionHuman-LLM Collaboration +3

DirectGPT: A Direct Manipulation Interface to Interact with Large Language Models

We characterize and demonstrate how the principles of direct manipulation can improve interaction with large language models. This includes: continuous representation of generated objects of interest; reuse of prompt syntax in a toolbar of commands; manipulable outputs to compose or control the effect of prompts; and…

UIST '23Interactive Data Visualization +1

Statslator: Interactive Translation of NHST and Estimation Statistics Reporting Styles in Scientific Documents

Inferential statistics are typically reported using p-values (NHST) or confidence intervals on effect sizes (estimation). This is done using a range of styles, but some readers have preferences about how statistics should be presented and others have limited familiarity with alternatives. We propose a system to intera…

CHI '23Best PaperInteractive Data Visualization +2

ChartDetective: Easy and Accurate Interactive Data Extraction from Complex Vector Charts

Extracting underlying data from rasterized charts is tedious and inaccurate; values might be partially occluded or hard to distinguish, and the quality of the image limits the precision of the data being recovered. To address these issues, we introduce a semi-automatic system leveraging vector charts to extract the un…

CHI '23Interactive Data Visualization +1

Charagraph: Interactive Generation of Charts for Realtime Annotation of Data-Rich Paragraphs

Documents often have paragraphs packed with numbers that are difficult to extract, compare, and interpret. To help readers make sense of data in text, we introduce the concept of Charagraphs: dynamically generated interactive charts and annotations for in-situ visualization, comparison, and manipulation of numeric dat…

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