Pattie Maes

Author: Pattie Maes

Ph.D

Pattie Maes is a professor in MIT's Program in Media Arts and Sciences. She founded and directs the Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces group. Previously, she founded and ran the Software Agents group. She currently acts as the associate Department Head for the Media, Arts and Sciences Department. Prior to joining the Media Lab, Maes was a visiting professor and a research scientist at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. She holds bachelor's and PhD degrees in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. Her areas of expertise are human-computer interaction, intelligent interfaces and ubiquitous computing. Maes is the editor of three books, and is an editorial board member and reviewer for numerous professional journals and conferences. She has received several awards: Newsweek magazine named her one of the "100 Americans to watch for" in the year 2000; TIME Digital selected her as a member of the Cyber-Elite, the top 50 technological pioneers of the high-tech world; the World Economic Forum honored her with the title "Global Leader for Tomorrow"; Ars Electronica awarded her the 1995 World Wide Web category prize; and in 2000 she was recognized with the "Lifetime Achievement Award" by the Massachusetts Interactive Media Council.

Publications

Publication period start: 2012
Number of co-authors: 39

Co-authors

Number of publications with favourite co-authors
Suranga Nanayakkara
3
Marcelo Coelho
5
Pranav Mistry
7

Productive Colleagues

Most productive colleagues in number of publications
Henry Lieberman
64
Hiroshi Ishii
111
Ben Shneiderman
225

Publications

Maes, Pattie (2005): Attentive objects: enriching people\'s natural interaction with everyday objects. In Interactions, 12 (4) pp. 45-48.

Liu, Hugo, Maes, Pattie (2004): What would they think?: a computational model of attitudes. In: Nunes, Nuno Jardim, Rich, Charles (eds.) International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2004 January 13-16, 2004, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. pp. 38-45. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/964442.964451

Wexelblat, Alan, Maes, Pattie (1999): Footprints: History-Rich Tools for Information Foraging. In: Altom, Mark W., Williams, Marian G. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 99 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference May 15-20, 1999, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. pp. 270-277. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/chi/302979/p270-wexelblat/p270-wexelblat.pdf

Dyke, Neil W. Van, Lieberman, Henry, Maes, Pattie (1999): Butterfly: A Conversation-Finding Agent for Internet Relay Chat. In: Maybury, Mark T. (eds.) International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 1999 January 5-8, 1999, Redondo Beach, California, USA. pp. 39-41. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/uist/291080/p39-van_dyke/p39-van_dyke.pdf

Maes, Pattie, Guttman, Robert H., Moukas, Alexandros (1999): Agents That Buy and Sell. In Communications of the ACM, 42 (3) pp. 81-91. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/295685.295716

Shneiderman, Ben, Maes, Pattie (1997): Direct Manipulation vs Interface Agents. In Interactions, 4 (6) pp. 42-61. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/journals/interactions/1997-4-6/p42-shneiderman/p42-shneiderman.pdf

Maes, Pattie (1997): Intelligent Software. In: Moore, Johanna D., Edmonds, Ernest, Puerta, Angel R. (eds.) International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 1997 January 6-9, 1997, Orlando, Florida, USA. pp. 41-43. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/uist/238218/p41-maes/p41-maes.pdf

Maes, Pattie (1997): On Software Agents: Humanizing the Global Computer (Interview). In IEEE Internet Computing, 1 (4) pp. 10-19.

Shardanand, Upendra, Maes, Pattie (1995): Social Information Filtering: Algorithms for Automating "Word of Mouth". In: Katz, Irvin R., Mack, Robert L., Marks, Linn, Rosson, Mary Beth, Nielsen, Jakob (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 95 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference May 7-11, 1995, Denver, Colorado. pp. 210-217. https://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi95/proceedings/papers/us_bdy.htm

Maes, Pattie (1995): Artificial Life Meets Entertainment: Lifelike Autonomous Agents. In Communications of the ACM, 38 (11) pp. 108-114.

Maes, Pattie (1994): Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload. In Communications of the ACM, 37 (7) pp. 30-40.

Kozierok, Robyn, Maes, Pattie (1993): A Learning Interface Agent for Scheduling Meetings. In: Gray, Wayne D., Hefley, William, Murray, Dianne (eds.) International Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces 1993 January 4-7, 1993, Orlando, Florida, USA. pp. 81-88. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/uist/169891/p81-kozierok/p81-kozierok.pdf

Costanza, Enrico, Inverso, Samuel A., Allen, Rebecca, Maes, Pattie (2007): Intimate interfaces in action: assessing the usability and subtlety of emg-based motionles. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2007, . pp. 819-828. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1240624.1240747

Merrill, David, Kalanithi, Jeevan, Maes, Pattie (2007): Siftables: towards sensor network user interfaces. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction , 2007, . pp. 75-78. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1226969.1226984

Costanza, Enrico, Inverso, Samuel A., Pavlov, Elan, Allen, Rebecca, Maes, Pattie (2006): eye-q: eyeglass peripheral display for subtle intimate notifications. In: Proceedings of 8th conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services , 2006, . pp. 211-218. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1152215.1152261

Wright, Alyssa, Maes, Pattie, Ishii, Hiroshi (2008): Social resonance: balancing reputation with tangible design. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008, . pp. 3387-3392. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1358628.1358862

Coelho, Marcelo, Ishii, Hiroshi, Maes, Pattie (2008): Surflex: a programmable surface for the design of tangible interfaces. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008, . pp. 3429-3434. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1358628.1358869

Mistry, Pranav, Maes, Pattie (2008): Intelligent sticky notes that can be searched, located and can send reminders and messages. In: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces , 2008, . pp. 425-426. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1378773.1378849

Zoran, Amit, Coppiardi, Marco, Aguilera, Paula, Maes, Pattie (2009): Physical heart in a virtual body. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2009, . pp. 3523-3524. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1520340.1520523

Coelho, Marcelo, Hall, Lyndl, Berzowska, Joanna, Maes, Pattie (2009): Pulp-based computing: a framework for building computers out of paper. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2009, . pp. 3527-3528. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1520340.1520525

Mistry, Pranav, Maes, Pattie, Chang, Liyan (2009): WUW -- wear Ur world: a wearable gestural interface. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2009, . pp. 4111-4116. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1520340.1520626

Coelho, Marcelo, Poupyrev, Ivan, Sadi, Sajid, Vertegaal, Roel, Berzowska, Joanna, Buechley, Leah, Maes, Pattie, Oxman, Neri (2009): Programming reality: from transitive materials to organic user interfaces. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2009, . pp. 4759-4762. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1520340.1520734

Costanza, Enrico, Inverso, Samuel A., Pavlov, Elan, Allen, Rebecca, Maes, Pattie (2006): eye-q: eyeglass peripheral display for subtle intimate notifications. In: Nieminen, Marko, Roykkee, Mika (eds.) Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services - Mobile HCI 2006 September 12-15, 2006, Helsinki, Finland. pp. 211-218. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1152215.1152261

Coelho, Marcelo, Maes, Pattie (2008): Sprout I/O: a texturally rich interface. In: Schmidt, Albrecht, Gellersen, Hans-Werner, Hoven, Elise van den, Mazalek, Ali, Holleis, Paul, Villar, Nicolas (eds.) TEI 2008 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction February 18-20, 2008, Bonn, Germany. pp. 221-222. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1347390.1347440

Coelho, Marcelo, Maes, Pattie (2009): Shutters: a permeable surface for environmental control and communication. In: Villar, Nicolas, Izadi, Shahram, Fraser, Mike, Benford, Steve (eds.) TEI 2009 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction February 16-18, 2009, Cambridge, UK. pp. 13-18. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1517664.1517671

Zacharia, Giorgos, Moukas, Alexandros, Boufounos, Petros, Maes, Pattie (2000): Dynamic Pricing in a Reputation Brokered Agent Mediated Knowledge Marketplace. In: HICSS 2000 , 2000, . https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/hicss/2000/0493/08/04938064abs.htm

Zacharia, Giorgos, Moukas, Alexandros, Maes, Pattie (1999): Collaborative Reputation Mechanisms in Electronic Marketplaces. In: HICSS 1999 , 1999, . https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/hicss/1999/0001/08/00018026abs.htm

Sadi, Sajid, Maes, Pattie (2007): Meta-Modelling, Visual Languages, Graph Transformation, Operational Semantics. In: VL-HCC 2007 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 23-27 September, 2007, Coeur dAlene, Idaho, USA. pp. 171-174. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2007.39

Merrill, David, Maes, Pattie (2007): Augmenting Looking, Pointing and Reaching Gestures to Enhance the Searching and Browsing o. In: LaMarca, Anthony, Langheinrich, Marc, Truong, Khai N. (eds.) PERVASIVE 2007 - Pervasive Computing 5th International Conference May 13-16, 2007, Toronto, Canada. pp. 1-18. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72037-9_1

Linder, Natan, Maes, Pattie (2010): LuminAR: portable robotic augmented reality interface design and prototype. In: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology , 2010, . pp. 395-396. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1866218.1866237

Mistry, Pranav, Nanayakkara, Suranga, Maes, Pattie (2011): SPARSH: touch the cloud. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW11 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work , 2011, . pp. 585-586. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1958824.1958918

Mistry, Pranav, Nanayakkara, Suranga, Maes, Pattie (2011): SPARSH: passing data using the body as a medium. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW11 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work , 2011, . pp. 689-692. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1958824.1958946

Hunter, Seth, Maes, Pattie, Scott, Stacey, Kaufman, Henry (2011): MemTable: an integrated system for capture and recall of shared histories in group workspa. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2011, . pp. 3305-3314. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979432

Mistry, Pranav, Nanayakkara, Suranga, Maes, Pattie (2011): Touch and copy, touch and paste. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2011, . pp. 1095-1098. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979714

Mistry, Pranav, Maes, Pattie (2011): Mouseless: a computer mouse as small as invisible. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2011, . pp. 1099-1104. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979715

Mistry, Pranav, Maes, Pattie (2009): SixthSense: a wearable gestural interface. In: Oda, Yuko, Tanaka, Mariko (eds.) International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009, Yokohama, Japan, December 16-19, 2009, Art Gallery and Emerging Technologies Adaptation , 2009, . pp. 85. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1665137.1665204

Heun, Valentin, Kapri, Anette von, Maes, Pattie (2012): Perifoveal display: combining foveal and peripheral vision in one visualization. In: Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Uniquitous Computing , 2012, . pp. 1150-1155.

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