Rebecca Krosnick
About me:
I am a 6th year PhD student in the EECS department at the University of Michigan, advised by Professor Steve Oney. I study human-computer interaction and am interested in designing intuitive programming tools for developers and end-users.I currently am exploring ways to make creating, generalizing, and editing web macros more intuitive and visual. I also have designed a programming-by-demonstration system for creating responsive user interfaces.
Previously I interned in the HCI and Visualization group at Autodesk Research, the EPIC group at Microsoft Research, and the UI Understanding research group at Apple AI/ML, and worked as a software engineer at MathWorks. I received my SB and MEng in Computer Science from MIT, where I was advised by Professor Rob Miller.
Papers
Conference Papers
Rebecca Krosnick and Steve Oney. ParamMacros: Creating UI Automation Leveraging End-User Natural Language Parameterization. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2022). Rome, Italy.
[PDF] [Demo video]
[PDF] [Demo video]
Rebecca Krosnick and Steve Oney. Understanding the Challenges and Needs of Programmers Writing Web Automation Scripts. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2021).
[PDF] [Supplemental materials] [Talk]
[PDF] [Supplemental materials] [Talk]
Rebecca Krosnick, Fraser Anderson, Justin Matejka, Steve Oney, Walter S. Lasecki, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice. Think-Aloud Computing: Supporting Rich and Low-Effort Knowledge Capture. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021).
[PDF] [Supplemental materials] [Talk] [4 min video] [30 sec video]
[PDF] [Supplemental materials] [Talk] [4 min video] [30 sec video]
Steve Oney, Rebecca Krosnick, Joel Brandt, Brad Myers. Implementing Multi-Touch Gestures with Touch Groups and Cross Events. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019). Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Honorable Mention.
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Sang Won Lee, Rebecca Krosnick, Sun Young Park, Brandon Keelean, Sach Vaidya, Stephanie D. O'Keefe, Walter S. Lasecki. Exploring Real-Time Collaboration in Crowd-Powered Systems Through a UI Design Tool. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2018). New York, New York.
[PDF] [Blog post]
[PDF] [Blog post]
Steve Oney, Alan Lundgard, Rebecca Krosnick, Michael Nebeling, Walter S. Lasecki. Arboretum and Arbility: Improving Web Accessibility Through a Shared Browsing Architecture. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2018). Berlin, Germany.
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Rebecca Krosnick, Sang Won Lee, Walter S. Lasecki, Steve Oney. Expresso: Building Responsive Interfaces with Keyframes. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2018). Lisbon, Portugal.
[PDF] [Study materials] [Demo video]
[PDF] [Study materials] [Demo video]
Rohit Singh, Rishabh Singh, Zhilei Xu, Rebecca Krosnick, Armando Solar-Lezama. Modular Synthesis of Sketches Using Models. International Conference on Verification, Model Checking and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI). 2014.
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Workshop and Demo Papers
Rebecca Krosnick and Steve Oney. Providing Feedback and UI Context to Programmers Writing Web Automation Scripts. IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2021), Posters and Showpieces.
[PDF] [Demo video]
[PDF] [Demo video]
Rebecca Krosnick and Steve Oney. Toward Providing Live Feedback in Web Automation IDEs. LIVE workshop at the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (LIVE 2020).
[PDF] [Talk] [Demo video]
[PDF] [Talk] [Demo video]
Symposia
Rebecca Krosnick. Tools for Creating UI Automation Macros. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2022), Graduate Consortium. Rome, Italy.
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Rebecca Krosnick. Designing Tools for Intuitive Creation, Generalization, and Maintenance of Web Macros. PL+HCI "Swimmer" School 2020, Doctoral Symposium.
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Rebecca Krosnick. Creating Interactive User Interfaces by Demonstration using Crowdsourcing. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2018), Graduate Consortium. Lisbon, Portugal.
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Thesis
Rebecca Krosnick. VideoDoc: Combining Videos and Lecture Notes for a Better Learning Experience. MIT Department of EECS MEng Thesis. 2015.
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Projects
Web Automation IDEs
How can we build more intuitive tools to help people create web automation scripts? I'm exploring a combination of recording user page actions, presenting UI visual context, and providing live feedback and suggestions.
[Workshop paper] [Talk] [Demo video]
[Workshop paper] [Talk] [Demo video]
Expresso
A programming-by-demonstration approach for creating responsive UIs, where users create keyframes at a few representative viewport sizes and specify smooth or jump (i.e., linear interpolation) transitions between them.
[PDF] [Demo video]
[PDF] [Demo video]
VideoDoc
As online education grows in popularity, more people are learning using educational lecture videos. Videos are engaging to watch, but difficult to navigate when searching for a particular topic. To address this problem, we built VideoDoc, a lecture video interface that merges a video with the organizational features of a textbook to make educational videos easier to navigate.
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[MEng Thesis]