Tracy Hammond - Publications

* = student authored paper.

2008

Brandon Paulson* and Tracy Hammond. (2008) PaleoSketch: Accurate Primitive Sketch Recognition and Beautification.. In Proceedings of IUI (Intelligent User Interfaces). January 13-16, 2008, Canary Islands, Spain.

2007

Tracy Hammond and Barry O'Sullivan. (2007) Recognizing Free-form Hand-sketched Constraint Network Diagrams by Combining Geometry and Context. Eurographics Ireland. December 17, 2007. [PDF]

Tracy Hammond. (2007) Simplifying Sketch Recognition UI Development. Grace Hopper New Investigator Papers, 2007. [PDF]

Katie Dahmen* and Tracy Hammond. (2007) Determining Scribble Intention in Hand-drawn Musical Diagrams. Grace Hopper Student Posters, October 2007. [PDF Poster]

Brandon Paulson* and Tracy Hammond. (2007) A System for Recognizing and Beautifying Low-level Sketch Shapes Using NDDE and DCR. In Proceedings of UIST Posters, 2007. (to appear) [PDF] [PDF Poster] [AVI]

Hammond, Tracy (2007). Enabling Instructors to Develop Sketch Recognition Applications for the Classroom, Frontiers of Education, Milwaukee, WI, October 10-13, 2007. [PDF]

Brandon Paulson* and Tracy Hammond. (2007) MARQS: Retrieving Sketches Using Domain- and Style-Independent Features Learned from a Single Example Using a Dual-Classifier. In Proceedings of International Workshop on Usability of User Interfaces: From Monomodal to Multimodal (IWUMUI of HCI 2007) September 3, 2007, Lancaster, England. [PDF] [PPT Presentation] [MPEG]

Brandon Paulson* and Tracy Hammond. (2007) MARQS: Media Album Retrieval by Query Sketch. (video) AAAI-07 AI Video Competition, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 22-26, 2007. (nominated: Best Short Video) [MPEG]

Hammond, Tracy (2007). Sketch Recognition at Texas A&M University, Invited Workshop on Pen-Centric Computing Research. Brown University, Providence, RI, March 24-26, 2007. PDF

Hammond, Tracy (2007). LADDER: A Perceptually-based Language to Simplify Sketch Recognition User Interface Development, MIT PhD Thesis, February 2007. [PDF]

2006

Hammond, Tracy and Davis, Randall (2006). Interactive Learning of Structural Shape Descriptions from Automatically Generated Near-miss Examples Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2006), [PDF]

2005

Hammond, Tracy and Davis, Randall (2005). LADDER, a sketching language for user interface developers Elsevier, Computers and Graphics 29 (2005) 518-532, [PDF]

2004

Hammond, Tracy and Davis, Randall (2004). Shady: A Shape Description Debugger for Use in Sketch Recognition Proceedings of the 2004 AAAI Fall Symposium on Making Pen-Based Interaction Intelligent and Natural, October, 2004. [PDF]

Hammond Tracy (2004) Automatically Generating Sketch Interfaces from Shape Descriptions MIT Student Oxygen Workshop, September 2004. [PDF] Won Best Paper

Hammond, Tracy and Davis, Randall (2004). Automatically Transforming Symbolic Shape Descriptions for Use in Sketch Recognition The Nineteenth National Conference on Artifical Intelligence (AAAI-04), July 2004. [PDF] [PPT Talk] [AVI Movie]

2003

Work featured in magazine article: Miller, Jeff. Mass High Tech, July 21-27, 2003. www.masshightech.com On line version of article.

Hammond, Tracy and Davis, Randall (2003). LADDER: A Language to Describe Drawing, Display, and Editing in Sketch Recognition Proceedings of IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence), August 2003. [PDF] [PS] [PPT Talk]

Hammond, Tracy (2003). A Domain Description Language for Sketch Recognition MIT Thesis Proposal, March 2003. [PDF] [PS]

2002

Hammond, Tracy and Jan Hammond (2002). Gender-based Underrepresentation in Computer Science and Related Disciplines. Proceedings of 2002 Frontiers in Education (FIE 2002). [PDF] [PS] [DOC]

Hammond, Tracy and Gajos, Krzysztof and Davis, Randall and Shrobe, Howard (2002). An Agent-Based System for Capturing and Indexing Software Design Meetings. Proceedings of 2002 International Workshop on Agents in Design (WAID 2002), August 28-30 2002. [DOC] [PPT Talk]

Hammond, Tracy (2002). A Domain Description Language for Sketch Recognitions MIT Student Oxygen Workshop 2002, July 2002. [PDF] [PS]

Hammond, Tracy and Sezgin, Metin, and Veselova, Olya and Adler, Aaron and Oltmans, Michael and Alvarado, Christine and Hitchcock, Rebecca (2002). Multi-Domain Sketch Recognition MIT Student Oxygen Workshop 2002, July 2002. [PDF] [PS]

Hammond, Tracy and Davis, Randall (2002). Tahuti: A Geometrical Sketch Recognition System for UML Class Diagrams. Proceedings of the 2002 AAAI Spring Symposium on Sketch Understanding, March 2002. [PDF] [PS] [AVI Movie] [AVI ,Movie] [PPT Talk] Extended Abstract: [PDF] [PS]

2001

Hammond, Tracy (2001). Natural Sketch Recognition in UML Class Diagrams MIT Student Oxygen Workshop 2001. [PDF] [PS]

Parthasarthy, Raghavan and Tracy Hammond (2001) Technical Innovation: Options for Developing Countries The Hindu. [PDF] [PS]

2000

Hammond, Tracy (2000). Ethnomathematics: Concept Definition and Research Perspectives Master's Thesis: Columbia University, Anthropology Department. [PDF] [PS]

MIT Lab Abstracts

2004

Hammond, Tracy and Davis, Randall (2004). Debugging Shape Definitions for use in Sketch Recognition MIT CSAIL Lab Abstract, September 2004. [PDF]

Hammond, Tracy and Davis, Randall (2004). Testing Shape Descriptions by Automatically Translating them for Use in Sketch Recognition MIT CSAIL Lab Abstract, September 2004. [PDF]

Hammond, Tracy and Davis, Randall (2004). LADDER: A Sketch Recognition Language MIT CSAIL Lab Abstract, September 2004. [PDF]

2002

Hammond, Tracy and Davis, Randall(2002). A Domain Description Language for Sketch Recognition MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Annual Abstract, September 2002. [PDF] [PS]

Hammond, Tracy and Gajos, Krzysztof and Davis, Randall and Shrobe, Howard (2002). Sketch Recognition in Software Design MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Annual Abstract, September 2002. [PDF] [PS]

2001

Alvarado, Christine, and Tevtik Metin Szegin, Dana Scott, Tracy Hammond, Zardosht Kasheff, Michael Oltmans, and Randall Davis (2001). A Framework for Multi-Domain Sketch Recognition. MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Annual Abstract, Septempber 2001. [PDF] [PS]

Hammond, Tracy and Oshiro, Kalani and Davis, Randall (2001). Natural Editing and Recognition of UML Class Diagrams MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Annual Abstract, September 2001. [PDF] [PS]