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Program Director/Principal Investigator (Last, First, Middle): Do, Yi-Luen Ellen
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
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NAME POSITION TITLE
Yi-Luen Ellen Do Associate Professor
eRA COMMONS USER NAME (credential, e.g., agency login)
ellendo
EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)
DEGREE
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION YEAR(s) FIELD OF STUDY
(if applicable)
Georgia Institute of Technology PhD 1998 Design Computing
Harvard University Graduate School of Design M DeS 1991 Design Computing
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan BS 1988 Architecture
Positions and Employment
1990 - 1992 Technical and Applications Assistant, Computer Resources, Harvard Graduate School of
Design
1992 - 1994 Instructor, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology
1994 - 1999 Professional Research Associate, Instructor, University of Colorado, Boulder
1999 - 2004 Assistant and Associate Professor (tenured 2003), Department of Architecture, (Adjunct in
Landscape Architecture), Program Director, Master of Science in Design Computing (from
March 2002), University of Washington
2004 - 2005 Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University
2006 - present Associate Professor, PhD Program, College of Architecture and joint appointment at School of
Interactive Computing, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Other Experience and Professional Memberships
1998 Technology, Arts and Media Program Committee, University of Colorado at Boulder
1997 - 1999 Steering Committee for Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)
1999 - 2001 Awards Officer for ACADIA (Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture)
1999 - 2003 Executive Board, Space.City, Seattle's Art and Architecture Forum, a non-profit organization
2000 - 2002 Advisory Board, IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing)
2002 Advisor, Berkeley Institute of Design (BID), University of California, Berkeley.
2003 Seattle Site Chair, The Fifth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
2002 - 2008 Editorial Board, International Journal of Architectural Computing, IJAC, MultiScience Publishing,
UK.
2006, 2008 Guest Editor, Journal of Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing,
AIEDAM, Cambridge University Press.
2007 - 2008 Advisory Board, Developing Graduate level Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Creating Safe and
Effective Health Care Environments, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant
Honors
1994 Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology
2000 Best Paper of the Year, Third Prize, Journal of Computers & Graphics, "Drawing on the back of an
envelope" in Computers and Graphics, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp 835-849, New York, Pergamon Press.
2001 Jeannette and David McKinley Faculty Award for "Designing the Interface and Communication Control
for the Future Home Environments", University of Washington
2006 Top 25 Hottest articles, Jan-March 2006 Science Direct in the Subject Area: Computer Science, " Design
sketches and sketch design tools," in KBS - Knowledge-Based Systems, Volume 18, Issue 8, 1
December 2005, Pp 383-405
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2006 Keynote Speaker - "Things that Think, Spaces that Sense and Places that Play" at the Smart Living
Space Symposium, June 1-2 at International Conference Center at NCKU - National Cheng-Kung
University, Tainan, Taiwan, organized by the Center for Research of E-life Digital Technology
2007 Keynote Speaker, "Every Drawing Tells a Story," for "Spatial Cognition in Architectural Design Workshop
- Anticipating User Behavior, Layout Legibility, and Route Instructions in the Planning Process," in
conjunction with the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT'07), Melbourne,
Australia, September 19, 2007,
2007 Keynote Speaker, "Patient Room of the Future" at 2007 Symposium on Digital Life Technologies:
Building a Safe, Secured and Sound (3S) Living Environment, June 7-8, at National Cheng-Kung
University, Taiwan
Selected peer-reviewed publications (selected from 92 peer reviewed publications)
Journal Articles
Gross M D, E Y-L Do, R J McCall, W V Citrin, P Hamill, A Warmack, K S Kuczun (1998) "Collaboration and
Coordination in Architectural Design: approaches to computer mediated teamwork", In Automation in
Construction pp. 465-473.
Do E Y-L, M D Gross, C Zimring, B Neiman (2000) "Intentions and Relations among Design Drawings", in
Design Studies Vol. 21 #5 pp. 483-503, Gabriel Goldschimidt and William Porter (eds), Elsevier Publisher
Gross M D, E Y-L Do, (2000) "Drawing on the Back of an Envelope", in Computers and Graphics, Vol. 24, No. 6,
pp. 835-849, Calligraphic Interface, Joaquim A Jorge and Ephraim Glinert (eds) New York, Pergamon Press.
Do E Y-L, M D Gross (2001) "Thinking with Diagrams in Architectural Design", In Artificial Intelligence Review,
Vol. 15. pp. 135-149, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Do E Y-L (2002) "Drawing Marks, Acts and Reacts: toward a computational sketching for architectural design",
16 (3), 149-171, in special issue of human-computer interaction, Journal of AIEDAM - Artificial Intelligence in
Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, Cambridge University Press (eds. Ian Parmee and Ian Smith)
Do E Y-L, M D Gross (2004) "Let There be Light! Knowledge-Based 3-D Sketching Design Tools," IJAC -
International Journal of Architectural Computing, W Jabi and C Pinet (eds), vol. 2, # 2, pp. 211-227(17) Multi-
Science Publishing Co Ltd
Do E Y-L (2005) "Design Sketches and Sketch Design Tools," Ellen Yi-Luen Do, in KBS - Knowledge Based
Systems (18) 383-405, Kumiyo Nakakoji, Mark D Gross, Linda Candy, Ernest Edmonds (eds), Elsevier Publisher
Eng M, K Camarata, E Y-L Do, M D Gross (2006) "FlexM: Designing a Physical Construction Kit for 3D
Modeling", in IJAC International Journal of Architectural Computing, N Cheng and C Pinet (eds), 1 June 2006,
vol. 4, issue. 2, pp: 27-47, Multi-Science Publishing Co Ltd
Camarata K, E Y-L Do, M D Gross (2006) "Energy Cube and Energy Magnets", in IJAC - International Journal of
Architectural Computing, N Cheng and C Pinet (eds), 1 June 2006, vol. 4, issue. 2, pp: 49-66
Referred Conference Papers
Do E Y-L (2001) "Graphics Interpreter of Design Actions: the GIDA system of diagram sorting and analysis", in
Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures (CAAD Futures 2001), Bauke de Vries, Jos P. van Leeuwen, Henri
H. Achten (eds), Pp. 271-284. July, 2001, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Do E Y-L (2001) "VR Sketchpad: Creating Instant 3D Worlds by Sketching on a Transparent Window", Ellen Yi-
Luen Do, in, CAAD Futures 2001, Bauke de Vries, Jos P. van Leeuwen, Henri H. Achten (eds), pp.161-172, July,
2001, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers. Acceptance rate 48-50%. (48 -58 papers, from
67 abstracts, selected from 167 submissions, double review)
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Gross M D, E Y-L Do, B R Johnson (2001) "The Design Amanuensis, An Instrument for Multi-modal Design
Capture and Playback", CAAD Futures 2001, Bauke de Vries, Jos P. van Leeuwen, Henri H. Achten (eds), pp. 1-
13, July 2001, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Camarata K, E Y-L Do, B R Johnson, M D Gross (2002) "Navigating Information Space with Tangible Media",
January 13-16, San Francisco, 2002 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), ACM press,
pp. 31-38
Do E Y-L (2002) "Digital Sandbox: integration of design and analysis in digital earth-forming", in Artificial
Intelligence in Design, (ed.) J Gero, Kluwer Academic Publisher, July 15-17, Cambridge University, pp. 165-188
Oh Y, E Y-L Do, M D Gross (2004) "Intelligent Critiquing of Design Sketches", in Making Pen-Based Interaction
Intelligent and Natural, Randall Davis, James Landay, Tom Stahovich, Rob Miller, and Eric Saund (eds), p.127 -
133, Oct 21-24, 2004, Arlington, Virginia, AAAI Press, Technical Report FS-04-06, ISBN 1-57735-217-3
Gross M G, E Y-L Do (2004) "Three R's of Design Computing", for First International Conference on Design
Computing and Cognition (DCC '04), p. 613-632, Kluwer, at MIT, July 19-21, 2004
Do E Y-L, M D Gross (2004) "Between Worlds: Visions and View for the Future of CAD", in Generative CAD
Systems, Edited by Omer Akin, Ramesh Krishnamurti, and Khee Poh Lam, pp. 61-78, Carnegie Mellon
University
Le Dantec C A, E Y-L Do (2007) "The Mechanisms of Value Transfer in Design Meetings," Christopher A in
DTRS 7, Design Meeting Protocols, Design Thinking Research Symposium, Central Saint Martins College of Art
and Design, London, UK, (eds) N Cross, P Lloyd, R Luck, J McDonnell, and Fraser Reid, p 57-68
Weller MP, E Y-L Do (2007) "Architectural Robotics: A New Paradigm for the Built Environment," for EuropIA.11,
11th International Conference on Design Sciences & Technology, Digital Thinking in Architecture, Civil
Engineering, Archaeology, Urban Planning and Design: Finding the Ways, (eds) G De Paoli, K Zreik and R
Beheshti, September 19-21, 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, pp 353-362. ISBN 978-2-909285-41-3
Do E Y-L, M D Gross (2007) "Environments for Creativity - A Lab for Making Things" in Shneiderman B, Fischer
G, Giaccardi E, Eisenberg M (eds) Creativity and Cognition, pp 27-36, (New York, ACM Press)
Weller MP, E Y-L Do, M D Gross (2008) "Posey: Instrumenting a Poseable Hub and Strut Construction Toy,"
Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI'08), Feb 18-20, Bonn, Germany, pp 39-46
Research Support. (during the last three years)
2007 "Pediatric Center of the Future" project sponsored by Perkins + Will
PIs: David Cowan (Health Systems Institute), Craig Zimring (College of Architecture) and Ellen Yi-
Luen Do (College of Architecture and College of Computing)
This project integrates Evidence-Based Design research and principles into workshop course
curriculum with faculty and students from multiple disciplines.
2007 "Designing Healthcare of the Future, Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Applying Innovation in the
Design of a Pediatric Healthcare Center" sponsored by Georgia Tech Health Systems Institute, PIs:
Craig Zimring, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, David Cowan (Health Systems), Gerri Lamb (Emory Nursing) and
Julia Jones (VP of Operations, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding)
This project focuses on the development of educational methods and collaboration techniques in
healthcare environment design, using pediatric care center as a focus.
2007 "Building High Performance Healthcare: Physical Environment" by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
PIs: Craig Zimring, Godfried Augenbroe, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Sheila Bosch, Jennifer DuBose
This project creates knowledge portals, information simulations and progress reports of healthcare
environmental design for healthcare administrators.
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2006 "Developing Graduate level Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Creating Safe and Effective Health Care
Environments", Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to Emory University School of Nursing and
Georgia Tech College of Architecture, National Advisory Board Member
This project brings in a national advisory group in planning cross-disciplinary curriculum for healthcare
design.
2006 "Healthcare Design Web" sponsored by Center for Health Design, PIs: Craig Zimring, Ellen Yi-Luen Do
This project collects data and document best practices of evidence-based design healthcare facilities.
2006 "Patient Room of the Future" project sponsored by Steelcase, Inc. PIs: Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Craig
Zimring. Collaborators, Gerri Lamb, Emory School of Nursing, June Conner, Emory Healthcare
This project initiates the series of Healthcare Environment of the Future courses with collaborations
from multiple institutes and disciplines, including School of Nursing at Emory University
2006 "Ambient Devices for Home Energy Awareness" sponsored by the Creating Energy Options (CEO)
Program, Strategic Energy Initiatives, Georgia Institute of Technology, PI: Ellen Yi-Luen Do
This project investigates and develops innovative ambient devices for awareness of home energy use
to facilitate behavior modifications of people's energy usage pattern.
2005 "Home 2020, Imagine the Future, Build it Today" sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University, and
Carnegie Science Center, PIs: Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Mark D Gross
This project engages design build, research and development of home of the future with interactive
technology, physical and embedded computing.
2005 "Thinking with your Hands: Making 3-Dimensional Design and Production More Intuitive" sponsored by
Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance (PITA), and Institute for Complex Engineered
Systems (ICES). PI: Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Co-PI: Susan Finger, Mark D Gross
This project investigates using freehand sketching as an interface to design 3D objects with rapid
prototyping equipments.
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