Bill Tomlinson
UC Irvine, Informatics, Faculty Member
- Bill Tomlinson is a Professor of Informatics and Education at the University of California, Irvine, and a researcher ... moreBill Tomlinson is a Professor of Informatics and Education at the University of California, Irvine, and a researcher in the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. He studies the fields of computer-supported learning and sustainable information technology. His book Greening through IT (MIT Press, 2010) examines the ways in which information technology can help people think and act on the broad scales of time, space, and complexity necessary for us to address the world's current environmental issues. In addition, he has authored more than 100 publications across a range of journals, conferences, and other venues in computing, the learning sciences, and the law. His work has been reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the LA Times, Wired.com, Scientific American Frontiers, CNN, and the BBC. In 2007, he received an NSF CAREER award, and in 2008 he was selected as a Sloan Research Fellow. In 2014, he was named to the EPA's Board of Scientific Counselors, joining the Sustainable and Healthy Communities subcommittee. He holds an A.B. in Biology from Harvard College, an M.F.A. in Experimental Animation from CalArts, and S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the MIT Media Lab.edit
Abstract Research in many fields argues that contemporary global industrial civilization will not persist indefinitely in its current form, and may, like many past human societies, eventually collapse. Arguments in environmental studies,... more
Abstract Research in many fields argues that contemporary global industrial civilization will not persist indefinitely in its current form, and may, like many past human societies, eventually collapse. Arguments in environmental studies, anthropology, and other fields indicate that this transformation could begin within the next half-century. While imminent collapse is far from certain, it is prudent to consider now how to develop sociotechnical systems for use in these scenarios.
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This sketch presents a method for enabling a real-time animated character to appear to jump between a stationary computer screen and a mobile graphical device. This heterogeneous character animation-character animation that takes place... more
This sketch presents a method for enabling a real-time animated character to appear to jump between a stationary computer screen and a mobile graphical device. This heterogeneous character animation-character animation that takes place across two or more networked ...
Current software engineering practices have significant effects on the environment. Examples include e-waste from computers made obsolete due to software upgrades, and changes in the power demands of new versions of software. Sustainable... more
Current software engineering practices have significant effects on the environment. Examples include e-waste from computers made obsolete due to software upgrades, and changes in the power demands of new versions of software. Sustainable software engineering aims to ...
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... Page 7. Cochran, Bryan Yong, Geoffrey Beatty, Jed Wahl, Dan Stiehl, Rusmin Soetjipto, DanZaharopol, and Aileen Kawabe. APPENDIX A: VIDEO We have included with this submission a video showing the installation as it was presented at... more
... Page 7. Cochran, Bryan Yong, Geoffrey Beatty, Jed Wahl, Dan Stiehl, Rusmin Soetjipto, DanZaharopol, and Aileen Kawabe. APPENDIX A: VIDEO We have included with this submission a video showing the installation as it was presented at SIGGRAPH 2001. ...
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Page 1. EcoPath: Adding Spatial, Social, and Gaming Contexts to Personal Tracking Systems Joel Ross, Nadine Amsel, Robert Beckman, Bill Tomlinson Informatics Department University of California, Irvine AbstractWhile ...
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... Joel holds an MS from UCI and a BA in Mathematics and English from Colorado College, where he graduated magna cum laude and with distinction in both majors. Bill Tomlinson is an Associate Professor of Informatics at the University of... more
... Joel holds an MS from UCI and a BA in Mathematics and English from Colorado College, where he graduated magna cum laude and with distinction in both majors. Bill Tomlinson is an Associate Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, and a researcher in ...
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The field of HCI is growing, not only in the variety of application areas or the volume of research conducted, but also in the number of analytical approaches for use in the evaluation and design of interactive systems. However, despite... more
The field of HCI is growing, not only in the variety of application areas or the volume of research conducted, but also in the number of analytical approaches for use in the evaluation and design of interactive systems. However, despite the abundance of theoretical frameworks available, relatively little work has directly compared the application of these frameworks. This paper compares video analysis methods based on two analytic frameworks - activity theory (AT) and distributed cognition (DCog) - by performing an analysis of the same system from each of the two different theoretical perspectives. The results presented here provide a better understanding of how such theoretically informed methods in practice both resemble and differ from one another. Furthermore, this comparison enables specific insights about each of the theories themselves, as well as more general discussion about the role of theory in HCI.
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Abstract Metaphor is often seen as a mode of creative thinking or as a means of fostering creativity. However, little work has studied creative generation of novel metaphors. This paper explores the use of computational metaphor... more
Abstract Metaphor is often seen as a mode of creative thinking or as a means of fostering creativity. However, little work has studied creative generation of novel metaphors. This paper explores the use of computational metaphor identification (CMI) to foster creative generation of novel metaphors. CMI is a technique for analyzing textual corpora to identify potential conceptual metaphors. Drawing those metaphors to readers' attention can provide an opportunity to consider alternatives to current metaphors. This paper describes results ...
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ABSTRACT Whether you are fortunate enough to work in an industry you love, or you have aspirations to do so one day, don't overlook the benefits that come with being a member of your local ACM SIGGRAPH.With a membership made up of... more
ABSTRACT Whether you are fortunate enough to work in an industry you love, or you have aspirations to do so one day, don't overlook the benefits that come with being a member of your local ACM SIGGRAPH.With a membership made up of professionals from all aspects ...
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Many human activities now take place in settings that include several computational devices—such as desktop computers, laptops, and mobile phones—in the same physical space. However, we lack interaction paradigms that support a coherent... more
Many human activities now take place in settings that include several computational devices—such as desktop computers, laptops, and mobile phones—in the same physical space. However, we lack interaction paradigms that support a coherent experience across these collocated technologies and enable them to work effec- tively as systems. This article presents a conceptual framework for building richly connected systems of collocated
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Environmental concerns such as global climatic disruption occur over long time periods, large distances, and vast scales of complexity. Unassisted, humans are not well equipped to deal with problems on such broad scales. Throughout... more
Environmental concerns such as global climatic disruption occur over long time periods, large distances, and vast scales of complexity. Unassisted, humans are not well equipped to deal with problems on such broad scales. Throughout history, technological innovations have enabled human cultures to engage with broader suites of problems than we would otherwise be able to address. In particular, information technology
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Multi-Device Virtual Environments (MDVEs) - in which several collocated graphical computing devices integrate together to form a single virtual world - are a novel area for applications in entertainment, education and simulation. MDVEs... more
Multi-Device Virtual Environments (MDVEs) - in which several collocated graphical computing devices integrate together to form a single virtual world - are a novel area for applications in entertainment, education and simulation. MDVEs composed of stationary and mobile devices, though, pose new challenges in the area of lighting design. Traditional computational lighting design techniques are static and do not take
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This paper presents metaViz, an online application that uses computational metaphor identification to find conceptual metaphors in political blogs. The application presents those metaphors to users in an interactive, visual fashion, with... more
This paper presents metaViz, an online application that uses computational metaphor identification to find conceptual metaphors in political blogs. The application presents those metaphors to users in an interactive, visual fashion, with the goal of fostering critical thinking and ...
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Blogs are becoming an increasingly important medium -- socially, academically, and politically. Much research has involved analyzing blogs, but less work has considered how such analytic techniques might be incorporated into tools for... more
Blogs are becoming an increasingly important medium -- socially, academically, and politically. Much research has involved analyzing blogs, but less work has considered how such analytic techniques might be incorporated into tools for blog readers. A new tool, metaViz, analyzes political blogs for potential conceptual metaphors and presents them to blog readers. This paper presents a study exploring the types
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We are creating a pack of virtual creatures who exhibit the kinds of social interactions found in a natural species of animal, the gray wolf (Canis lupus). To do this, we are extending our synthetic character building toolkit to enable... more
We are creating a pack of virtual creatures who exhibit the kinds of social interactions found in a natural species of animal, the gray wolf (Canis lupus). To do this, we are extending our synthetic character building toolkit to enable our characters to learn to adapt pre-existing behaviors for use in novel social contexts; to have and express emotional states;
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... This installation, headed by Bill Tomlinson, is modeled after the natural social behavior of a pack of gray wolves (Canis lupus) [Mech ... thank all of the other members of the Synthetic Characters Group who made AlphaWolf possible:... more
... This installation, headed by Bill Tomlinson, is modeled after the natural social behavior of a pack of gray wolves (Canis lupus) [Mech ... thank all of the other members of the Synthetic Characters Group who made AlphaWolf possible: Marc Downie, Matt Berlin, Jesse Gray, Adolph ...
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This poster presents a computational analysis of conceptual metaphors in a community of political blogs. Like sentiment analysis or opinion extraction, computational metaphor identification can provide an understanding of the framings or... more
This poster presents a computational analysis of conceptual metaphors in a community of political blogs. Like sentiment analysis or opinion extraction, computational metaphor identification can provide an understanding of the framings or conceptualizations used in a community. This poster includes an implementation overview and results summary.
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Page 1. PersonalSoundtrack: Context-aware playlists that adapt to user pace Abstract This paper describes a mobile music player, PersonalSoundtrack, that makes real-time choices of music based on user pace. Standard playlists ...
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Tools for human computers" is an underexplored design space in human computation research, which has focused on techniques for buyers of human computation rather than sellers. We characterize the sellers in one human compu-tation... more
Tools for human computers" is an underexplored design space in human computation research, which has focused on techniques for buyers of human computation rather than sellers. We characterize the sellers in one human compu-tation market, Mechanical Turk, and describe some of the challenges they face. We list several projects developed to approach these problems, and conclude with a list of open questions relevant to sellers, buyers, and researchers.
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... Blogging Eric Baumer Department of Informatics U of California, Irvine, USA ebaumer@ics. uci.edu ... In order to gain a better understanding of the social practice of blogging, we must take into account the role, contributions, and... more
... Blogging Eric Baumer Department of Informatics U of California, Irvine, USA ebaumer@ics. uci.edu ... In order to gain a better understanding of the social practice of blogging, we must take into account the role, contributions, and significance of the reader. ...
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... Gray, Adolph Wong, Robert Burke, Scott Eaton, Damian Isla, Yuri Ivanov, Michael Patrick Johnson, Spencer Lynn, Ben Resner, Derek Lyons, Jennie Cochran, Bryan Yong, Steve Curcuru, Geoffrey Beatty, Jed Wahl, Dan Stiehl, Rusmin... more
... Gray, Adolph Wong, Robert Burke, Scott Eaton, Damian Isla, Yuri Ivanov, Michael Patrick Johnson, Spencer Lynn, Ben Resner, Derek Lyons, Jennie Cochran, Bryan Yong, Steve Curcuru, Geoffrey Beatty, Jed Wahl, Dan Stiehl, Rusmin Soetjipto, Dan Zaharopol, Aileen Kawabe ...
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... People are accustomed to seeing animated entities on single screens, but the movement of an EMA from one screen to another helps to reduce the inherent separation that usually occurs between the physical world and a virtual... more
... People are accustomed to seeing animated entities on single screens, but the movement of an EMA from one screen to another helps to reduce the inherent separation that usually occurs between the physical world and a virtual environment. ...