Andrea Bunt

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Journal Papers

  • Dubois, P., Maftouni, M. and Bunt, A. (2022) Towards more gender-inclusive Q&As: Investigating perceptions of additional community presence information. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact, 6, CSCW2, Article 466 (November 2022), 23 pages. [paper] [ACM DL]
  • Dubois, P.M., Maftouni, M., Chilana, P.K., McGrenere, J. and Bunt, A. (2020) Gender Differences in Graphic Design Q&As: How Community and Site Characteristics Contribute to Gender Gaps in Answering Questions. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 4, CSCW2, Article 113 (October 2020), 26 pages. [paper] [ACM DL]
  • Seo, S.H., Griffin, K., Young, J.E., Bunt, A., Prentice, S., Loureiro-Rodrguez, V. (2018) Investigating people’s rapport building and hindering behaviors when working with a collaborative robot. International Journal of Social Robotics, 10(11), pp.147– 161. [Springer]
  • Scarr, J., Gutwin, C., Cockburn, A. and Bunt, A. StencilMaps and EphemeralMaps: Spatially Stable Interfaces that Highlight Command Subsets. Behaviour and Information Technology, 34(11), p.1092-1106, 2015. [doi]
  • Bunt, A., Terry, M. and Lank, E. Challenges and Opportunities for Mathematics Software in Expert Problem Solving. Human-Computer Interaction Journal. 28(3), 222-264, 2013. [doi]
  • Tanvir, E., Bunt, A., Cockburn, A., and Irani, P. Improving Cascading Menu Selections with Adaptive Activation Areas. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 69(11), p.769-785, 2011. [pdf]
  • Bunt, A. and Conati, C. Probabilistic Student Modeling to Improve Exploratory Behaviour. Journal of User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction. 13(3), p.269-309, 2003. [pdf]
  • Price, C, McCalla, G. and Bunt, A. L2Tutor: A Mixed-Initiative Dialogue System for Improving Fluency. Computer Assisted Language Learning 12(2), 1999.

Strictly Reviewed Conference Papers

  • Chowdhury, A. and Bunt, A. (2023) Co-designing with early adolescents: Understanding perceptions of and design considerations for tech-based mediation strategies that promote technology disengagement Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023), to appear, 21 pages.
  • Chowdhury, A. and Bunt, A. (2022) Tutorials for children by children: Design and evaluation of a childrens tutorial authoring tool for digital art. Proceedings of the Graphics Interface Conference (GI '22). Winner of the "Best HCI Student Paper" Award [paper]
  • Maftouni, M., Dubois, P. and Bunt, A. (2022) Thank you for being nice: Investigating perspectives towards social feedback on Stack Overflow. Proceedings of the Graphics Interface Conference (GI '22). [paper]
  • Giannisakis, E., Alvina, J., Bunt, A., Chilana, P. , and McGrenere, J. (2022) Promoting feature awareness by leveraging collaborators usage habits in collaborative editors. Proceedings of the Graphics Interface Conference (GI '22). [paper]
  • de Leon Pereira, R., Tan, A. , Bunt, A. and Tremblay-Savard, O. (2021) Increasing player engagement, retention and performance through the inclusion of educational content in a citizen science game. Proceedings of FDG 2021, Foundation of Digital Games, 12 pages Winner of a "Best Paper" Award .
  • Anik, M.A.I and Bunt A. (2021) Data-Centric Explanations: Explaining Training Data of Machine Learning Systems to Promote Transparency, Proceedings of CHI 2021, the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Article No.75. [paper] [ACM DL]
  • Sabab, S.A., Khan, A., Chilana, P., McGrenere, J., and Bunt, A. (2020) An Automated Approach to Assessing an Application Tutorials Difficulty, Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2020), pages 1-10. [paper]
  • Kiani, K., Bunt, A., Chilana, P., Grossman, T., and Fitzmaurice, G. I Would Just Ask Someone: Learning Feature-Rich Design Software in the Modern Workplace, Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2020), pages 1-10. [paper]
  • Alvina, J., Bunt, A., Chilana, P., Malacria, S. and McGrenere, J. (2020) Where is that Feature? Designing for Cross-Device Software Learnability, Proceedings of DIS 2020. [paper] [ACM DL]
  • Ashtari, N., Bunt, A., McGrenere, J., Nebeling, M. and Chilana, P. (2020) Creating augmented and Virtual Reality applications: Current practices, challenges, and opportunities. Proceedings of CHI 2020, the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1-13. Winner of a ``Best Paper'' Award [paper] [ACM DL]
  • Mahmud, S., Alvina, J., Chilana, P., Bunt, A., and McGrenere, J. (2020) Learning through exploration: How children, adults, and older adults interact with a new feature-rich application. Proceedings of CHI 2020, the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1- 14 pages. [paper] [ACM DL]
  • Kiani, K., Cui, G., Bunt, A., McGrenere, J., and Chilana, P.(2019) Beyond "One-Size-Fits-All": Understanding the diversity and challenges in how software newcomers discover and make use of external help resources, Proceedings of CHI 2019, the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 340, 13 pages. [paper] [ACM DL]
  • Dziubak, V., Lafreniere, B., Grossman, T, Bunt, A., and Fitzmaurice, G. (2018) Maestro: Designing a System for Real-Time Orchestration of 3D Modeling Workshops, Proceedings of UIST 2018, 287-298. [pdf] . [ACM DL]
  • V. Dziubak, A. Bunt. (2018) Prism: Enhancing Graphic Designers’ Visual Research with Interactive Search Trails. ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems - DIS'18, pp. 1283-1294. [paper] [ACM DL]
  • Alallah, F., Neshati, A., Sakamoto, Y., Hasan, K., Lank, E., Bunt, A., and Irani, P. (2018) Performer vs. observer: Whose comfort level should we consider when examining the social acceptability of input modalities for head-worn displays? Proceedings of VRST 2018, the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, 10:1-10:9. [ACM DL]
  • Alallah, F., Neshati, A., Sheibani, N., Sakamoto, Y., Bunt, A., Irani, P. and Hasan, K. (2018) Crowdsourcing vs laboratory-style social acceptability studies? Examining the social acceptability of spatial user interactions for Head-Worn Displays. Proceedings of CHI 2018, the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, paper 310, 7 pages, [ACM DL]
  • Dubois, P., Dziubak, V. and Bunt, A. (2017) Tell me more! Soliciting reader contributions to software tutorials. Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2017, pp. 16 - 23. "Best Student Paper" Award . [paper]
  • Amini, F., Hasan, K., Bunt, A. and Irani, P. (2017) Data representations for insitu exploration of health and fitness data. Proceedings of Pervasive Health 2017, pp. 163 - 172. [paper]
  • Haraty, M., McGrenere, M, and Bunt, A. (2017) Online Customization Sharing Ecosystems: Components, Roles, and Motivations. Proceedings of CSCW 2017, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. pp. 2359- 2371. [ACM DL]
  • Wiebe, M., Geiskovitvch, D., Bunt, A., Young, J.E., and Glenwright, M. (2016) Icons for kids: Can young kids understand graphical representations of App store categories? Graphics Interface 2016, pp. 163-166. [pdf]
  • Volodymyr Dziubak, Patrick Dubois, Andrea Bunt, Michael Terry. (2016) Switter: Supporting Exploration of Software Learning Materials on Social Media. DIS 2016, pp. 1209-1220 [pdf] .
  • Wiebe, M., Geiskovitvch, D.Y., Bunt, A. (2016) Exploring user attitudes towards different approaches to command recommendation in feature-rich software. Proceedings of IUI 2016, ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 43-47. [pdf]
  • Seo, S.H., Gu, J., Jeong, S. Griffin, K. Young, J.E., Bunt, A., and Prentice, S. (2015) Women and men collaborating with robots on assembly lines: designing a novel evaluation scenario for collocated human-robot teamwork. Proceedings of International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '15), pp. 3-9.
  • Sarah Morrison-Smith, Christina Boucher, Andrea Bunt, and Jaime Ruiz. 2015. Elucidating the role and use of bioinformatics software in life science research. In Proceedings of the 2015 British HCI Conference (British HCI '15). ACM, 230-238. [pdf] [doi]
  • Roberta M. Melvin, Andrea Bunt, Erick Odour and Carman Neustaedter (2015). The Effect of Signal Expense and Dependability on Family Communication in Rural and Northern Canada. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2015), 717-726. [pdf] [doi]
  • Md Adnan Alam Khan, Volodymyr Dziubak, Andrea Bunt (2015) Exploring Personalized Command Recommendations based on Information Found in Web Documentation. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2012), 225-235 [pdf] [doi]
  • Ben Lafreniere, Andrea Bunt, and Michael Terry (2014). Task-Centric Interfaces for Feature-Rich Software. In Proceedings of OzCHI, 48-58. [pdf] [doi]
  • Matthew Lount and Andrea Bunt (2014) Characterizing web-based tutorials: Exploring quality, community, and showcasing strategies. Proceedings of SIGDOC 2014, ACM Conference on the Design of Communication, Colorado Spring, CO, article 6, 10 pages. [pdf] [doi]
  • Mohammad Noor Nawaz and Andrea Bunt (2014) IntelWiki: Recommending Resources to Help Users Contribute to Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2014), pp. 303-404. [pdf]
  • Yasmeen Hashish, Andrea Bunt, and James E. Young (2014) Involving Children in Content Control: A Collaborative and Education-Oriented Content Filtering Approach. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2014), 1797-1806. [pdf] [doi]
  • Andrea Bunt, Patrick Dubois, Ben Lafreniere, Michael Terry, and David Cormack (2014) TaggedComments: Promoting and Integrating User Comments in Online Application Tutorials. In Proceedings of the ACM Confererence on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2014), 4037-4046. [pdf] [doi]
  • Joey Scarr, Andy Cockburn, Carl Gutwin, Andrea Bunt and Jared Cechanowicz (2014) The Usability of Command Maps in Realistic Tasks. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference in Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2241-2250. [doi]
  • Ben Lafreniere, Andrea Bunt, Matthew Lount, and Michael Terry. (2013) Understanding the Roles and Uses of Web Tutorials. Proceedings of the AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2013), 303-310. [pdf]
  • Ashish Singh, Stela H. Seo, Yasmeen Hashish, Masayuki Nakane, James E. Young, Andrea Bunt. (2013) An Interface for Remote Robotic Manipulator Control That Reduces Task Load and Fatigue. In proceedings of the IEEE international conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN'2013, 738-743.
  • Melvin, R. and Bunt, A. (2012) Designed for Work, but not from Here: Rural and Remote Perspectives on Networked Technology, Proceedings of ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2012), pp. 176-185. [pdf]
    © ACM, 2012. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution.
  • Hasan, K. Yang, X., Bunt, A. and Irani, P. (2012) A-coord input: Coordinating auxiliary input streams for augmenting contextual pen-based interactions, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012), pp. 805-814. [pdf]
    © ACM, 2012. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution.
  • Scarr, J., Cockburn, A. Gutwin, C. and Bunt, A. (2012) Improving Command Selection with CommandMaps, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012), pp. 257-266. Best Paper Award [pdf]
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  • Bunt, A., Lount, M., and Lauzon, C. (2012) Are Explanations Always Important? A Study of Deployed, Low-Cost Intelligent Interactive Systems, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2012), pp 169-178. [pdf]
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  • Lafreniere, B., Bunt, A., Whissell, J., Clarke, C., and Terry, M. (2010) Characterizing Large-Scale Use of a Direct Manipulation Application in the Wild. Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI 2010), pp. 11-17. [pdf]
  • Bunt, A., Terry, M. and Lank, E. (2009) Friend of Foe? Examining CAS Use in Mathematics Research. Proceedings of CHI 2009 pp. 239-238. [pdf] © ACM, 2009. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution.
  • Ruiz, J., Tausky, D., Bunt, A., Lank, E. and Mann, R. (2008) Analyzing the kinematics of bivariate pointing. Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2008 , pp. 251-258. [pdf]
  • Ruiz, J., Bunt, A. and Lank, E. (2008) A model of non-preferred hand mode switching. Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2008, pp. 49-56. [pdf]
  • Bunt, A., McGrenere, J. and Conati, C. (2007) Understanding the Utility of Rationale in a Mixed-Initiative System for GUI Customization. Proceedings of UM 2007, International Conference on User Modeling, pp. 147-156. [pdf]
  • Gluck, J., Bunt, A. and McGrenere, J. (2007) Matching Attentional Draw with Utility in Interruption. Proceedings of CHI, pp. 41-50. [pdf]
    © ACM, 2007. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution.
  • Bunt, A., Conati, C. and McGrenere, J. (2007) Supporting Interface Customization Using a Mixed-Initiative Approach. Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, pp. 92-101. Winner of the Best Paper Award [pdf]
    © ACM, 2007. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution.
  • Bunt A., Conati C and Muldner K. (2004). Scaffolding self-explanation to improve learning in exploratory learning environments. Proceedings of ITS 2004, 7th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Maceio, Brazil, p.656-667. [pdf]
  • Bunt, A., Conati, C. and McGrenere, J. What Role Can Adaptive Support Play in an Adaptable System? In Proceedings of IUI'04 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Island of Madeira, Portugal, pp. 117-124, 2004. [pdf]
  • Bunt,A and Conati, C. Assessing Effective Exploration in Open Learning Environments using Bayesian Networks. In S.A. Cerri, G. Gouarderes and F. Paraguacu (Eds), Proceedings of ITS 2002, 6th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Biarritz, France, June 4-7, 2002. [pdf]
  • Bunt, A., Conati, C., Huggett, M. and Muldner, K. On Improving the Effectiveness of Open Learning Environments Through Tailored Support for Exploration. In J.D. Moore, C.L. Redfield and W.L. Johnson (Eds.), Proceedings of AIED 2001, 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education , San Antonio Texas, May 19-23, 2001. [ps]

Book Chapters and Magazine Articles

Workshop Papers and Posters

Theses

  • Bunt, A. Mixed-Initiative Support for Customizing Graphical User Interfaces. Ph.D. Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. [pdf]
  • Bunt, A.On Creating a Student Model to Assess Effective Exploratory Behaviour in an Open Learning Environment. Master's Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2001. [pdf]