Papers

Here is a (mostly complete, but probably not fully up to date) list of all my peer-reviewed publications. A more comprehensive and up-to-date (but slightly noisy) listing is available at my Google Scholar profile.

2023

  1. The Importance of Separating Appropriateness into Impact and Feasibility for the Psychology of Creativity Chan, Joel, and Schunn, Christian D. Creativity Research Journal 2023 [Abstract]
  2. Fluid Transformers and Creative Analogies: Exploring Large Language Models’ Capacity for Augmenting Cross-Domain Analogical Creativity Ding, Zijian, Srinivasan, Arvind, Macneil, Stephen, and Chan, Joel In Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2023 Best Paper Honorable Mention [Abstract] [PDF]
  3. Exploring Challenges to Inclusion in Participatory Design From the Perspectives of Global North Practitioners Elsayed-Ali, Salma, Bonsignore, Elizabeth, and Chan, Joel Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2023 [Abstract] [PDF]
  4. CausalMapper: Challenging designers to think in systems with Causal Maps and Large Language Model Huang, Ziheng, Quan, Kexin, Chan, Joel, and MacNeil, Stephen In Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2023 [Abstract]
  5. AnalogiLead: Improving Selection of Analogical Inspirations with Chunking and Recombination Srinivasan, Arvind, and Chan, Joel In Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2023 [Abstract] [PDF]
  6. How Diverse Initial Samples Help and Hurt Bayesian Optimizers Kamrah, Eesh, Ghoreishi, Fatemeh, Ding, Zijian, Chan, Joel, and Fuge, Mark Journal of Mechanical Design 2023 [Abstract]
  7. Supporting Exploration of Far-Domain Analogical Inspirations with Bridging Analogies Chan, Joel, and Rudd, David Anthony In Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2023 [Abstract]

2022

  1. Augmenting Scientific Creativity with an Analogical Search Engine Kang, Hyeonsu B., Qian, Xin, Hope, Tom, Shahaf, Dafna, Chan, Joel, and Kittur, Aniket ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 2022 [Abstract] [PDF]
  2. Growing New Scholarly Communication Infrastructures for Sharing, Reusing, and Synthesizing Knowledge Chan, Joel, Lutters, Wayne, Schneider, Jodi, Kirsanow, Karola, Bessa, Silvia, and Saunders, Jonny L. In Companion Publication of the 2022 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing 2022 [Abstract] [PDF]
  3. Scaling Creative Inspiration with Fine-Grained Functional Aspects of Ideas Hope, Tom, Tamari, Ronen, Hershcovich, Daniel, Kang, Hyeonsu B, Chan, Joel, Kittur, Aniket, and Shahaf, Dafna In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2022 [Abstract] [PDF]

2021

  1. Sustainable Authorship Models for a Discourse-Based Scholarly Communication Infrastructure Chan, Joel Common Place 2021 [Abstract] [PDF]
  2. Learning to Recommend Visualizations from Data Qian, Xin, Rossi, Ryan A., Du, Fan, Kim, Sungchul, Koh, Eunyee, Malik, Sana, Lee, Tak Yeon, and Chan, Joel In Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining 2021 [Abstract] [PDF]
  3. Generating Accurate Caption Units for Figure Captioning Qian, Xin, Koh, Eunyee, Du, Fan, Kim, Sungchul, Chan, Joel, Rossi, Ryan A., Malik, Sana, and Lee, Tak Yeon In Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021 2021 [Abstract] [PDF]
  4. Managing Context during Scholarly Knowledge Synthesis: Process Patterns and System Mechanics Morabito, John S, and Chan, Joel In Creativity and Cognition 2021 [Abstract] [PDF]
  5. Supporting human flourishing by ensuring human involvement in AI-infused systems Chan, Joel, Daumé III, Hal, Dickerson, John P., Kacorri, Hernisa, and Shneiderman, Ben In NeurIPS 2021 Workshop on Human Centered AI 2021

2020

  1. Opening Up the Black Box of Scholarly Synthesis: Intermediate Products, Processes, and Tools. Qian, Xin, Fenlon, Katrina, Lutters, Wayne G., and Chan, Joel In Proceedings of ASIST 2020 2020
  2. Understanding Older Adults’ Participation in Design Workshops Pradhan, Alisha, Jelen, Ben, Siek, Katie A., Chan, Joel, and Lazar, Amanda In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2020 [Abstract]
  3. A Formative Study on Designing Accurate and Natural Figure Captioning Systems Qian, Xin, Koh, Eunyee, Du, Fan, Kim, Sungchul, and Chan, Joel In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2020 [Abstract]
  4. Where the rubber meets the road: Identifying integration points for semantic publishing in existing scholarly practice Chan, Joel, Qian, Xin, Fenlon, Katrina, and Lutters, Wayne G. In JCDL 2020 Workshop on Conceptual MOdeling 2020 [Abstract]

2019

  1. Scaling up Analogical Innovation with Crowds and AI Kittur, Aniket, Yu, Lixiu, Hope, Tom, Chan, Joel, Lifshitz-Assaf, Hila, Gilon, Karni, Ng, Felicia, Kraut, Robert E., and Shahaf, Dafna Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2019 [Abstract] [PDF]
  2. Beyond iTunes for Papers: Redefining the Unit of Interaction in Literature Review Tools Qian, Xin, Erhart, Matt J., Kittur, Aniket, Lutters, Wayne G., and Chan, Joel In Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing 2019 [Abstract]
  3. How science teams deal with uncertainty Chan, Joel, and Paletz, Susannah BF The Oxford Handbook of Group Creativity and Innovation 2019

2018

  1. Analogy Mining for Specific Design Needs Gilon, Karni, Chan, Joel, Ng, Felicia Y, Assaf, Hila Lifshitz, Kittur, Aniket, and Shahaf, Dafna In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing 2018 [Abstract] [PDF]
  2. SOLVENT: A Mixed Initiative System for Finding Analogies between Research Papers Chan, Joel, Chang, Joseph Chee, Hope, Tom, Shahaf, Dafna, and Kittur, Aniket Proceedings of ACM Human-Computer Interaction: CSCW 2018 [Abstract] [PDF]

2017

  1. Accelerating Innovation Through Analogy Mining Hope, Tom, Chan, Joel, Kittur, Aniket, and Shahaf, Dafna In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2017 Best Paper [Abstract] [PDF]
  2. The dynamics of micro-conflicts and uncertainty in successful and unsuccessful design teams Paletz, Susannah B. F., Chan, Joel, and Schunn, Christian D. Design Studies 2017 [Abstract] [PDF]
  3. Crowdboard: Augmenting In-Person Idea Generation with Real-Time Crowds Andolina, Salvatore, Schneider, Hendrik, Chan, Joel, Klouche, Khalil, Jacucci, Giulio, and Dow, Steven In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2017 [Abstract] [PDF]
  4. Semantically Far Inspirations Considered Harmful?: Accounting for Cognitive States in Collaborative Ideation Chan, Joel, Siangliulue, Pao, Qori McDonald, Denisa, Liu, Ruixue, Moradinezhad, Reza, Aman, Safa, Solovey, Erin T., Gajos, Krzysztof Z., and Dow, Steven P. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2017 [Abstract] [PDF]
  5. Measuring design innovation for project-based design assessment: considerations of robustness and efficiency Schunn, Christian, Chan, Joel, and Goncher, Andrea Bitácora Urbano Territorial 2017 [Abstract] [PDF]

2016

  1. Scaling up Analogy with Crowdsourcing and Machine Learning. Chan, Joel, Hope, Tom, Shahaf, Dafna, and Kittur, Aniket In ICCBR Workshops 2016 [Abstract] [PDF]
  2. Situative Creativity: Larger Physical Spaces Facilitate Thinking of Novel Uses for Everyday Objects Chan, Joel, and Nokes-Malach, Timothy The Journal of Problem Solving 2016 [Abstract] [PDF]
  3. Comparing Different Sensemaking Approaches for Large-Scale Ideation Chan, Joel, Dang, Steven, and Dow, Steven P. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2016 [Abstract] [PDF]
  4. Uncovering Uncertainty through Disagreement Paletz, Susannah B. F., Chan, Joel, and Schunn, Christian D. Applied Cognitive Psychology 2016 [Abstract] [PDF]
  5. IdeaHound: Improving Large-scale Collaborative Ideation with Crowd-Powered Real-time Semantic Modeling Siangliulue, Pao, Chan, Joel, Dow, Steven P., and Gajos, Krzysztof Z. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2016 [Abstract] [PDF]
  6. Improving Crowd Innovation with Expert Facilitation Chan, Joel, Dang, Steven, and Dow, Steven P. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing 2016 [Abstract] [PDF]

2015

  1. Providing timely examples improves the quantity and quality of generated ideas Siangliulue, Pao, Chan, Joel, Gajos, Krzysztof, and Dow, Steven P. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2015 Best Contribution to Creative Communication (nominated) [Abstract] [PDF]
  2. Do The Best Design Ideas (Really) Come From Conceptually Distant Sources Of Inspiration? Chan, Joel, Dow, Steven P., and Schunn, Christian D. Design Studies 2015 Design Studies Award [Abstract] [PDF]
  3. The impact of analogies on creative concept generation: Lessons from an in vivo study in engineering design Chan, Joel, and Schunn, Christian D. Cognitive Science 2015 [Abstract] [PDF]
  4. The importance of iteration in creative conceptual combination Chan, Joel, and Schunn, Christian D. Cognition 2015 [Abstract] [PDF]

2014

  1. The impact of sources of inspiration on the genesis of creative ideas Chan, Joel 2014 Tim Post Award [Abstract] [PDF]

2013

  1. Reducing Annotation Effort on Unbalanced Corpus based on Cost Matrix. Luo, Wencan, Litman, Diane J, and Chan, Joel In HLT-NAACL 2013 [Abstract] [PDF]
  2. Expert representation of design repository space: A comparison to and validation of algorithmic output Fu, Katherine, Chan, Joel, Schunn, Christian, Cagan, Jonathan, and Kotovsky, Kenneth Design Studies 2013 [Abstract] [PDF]
  3. The Meaning of Near and Far: The Impact of Structuring Design Databases and the Effect of Distance of Analogy on Design Output Fu, Katherine, Chan, Joel, Cagan, Jonathan, Kotovsky, Kenneth, Schunn, Christian, and Wood, Kristin Journal of Mechanical Design 2013 [Abstract] [PDF]

2012

  1. The Meaning of “Near” and “Far”: The Impact of Structuring Design Databases and the Effect of Distance of Analogy on Design Output Fu, Katherine, Chan, Joel, Cagan, Jonathan, Kotovsky, Kenneth, Schunn, Christian, and Wood, Kristin In ASME 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference 2012 Best Paper [Abstract] [PDF]
  2. Analogy as a strategy for supporting complex problem solving under uncertainty Chan, Joel, Paletz, Susannah BF, and Schunn, Christian D Memory & cognition 2012 [Abstract] [PDF]

2011

  1. On the benefits and pitfalls of analogies for innovative design: Ideation performance based on analogical distance, commonness, and modality of examples Chan, Joel, Fu, Katherine, Schunn, Christian. D., Cagan, Jonathan, Wood, Kristin L., and Kotovsky, Kenneth Journal of Mechanical Design 2011 [Abstract] [PDF]