Napkin Authors

Mark D Gross is associate professor of College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado at Denver (He was assistant professor of environmental design at the University of Colorado at Boulder before the two campus units merged. His office and lab remain in the Boulder Campus, at the ENVD Building). He works in the area of intelligent computer support for design. In addition to the Electronic Cocktail Napkin, his research interests include constraint based tools for design and support for coordination of team work in design.

Ellen Yi-Luen Do is a PhD alumna from the College of Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology. She did her undergraduate design thesis with Ming-Hung Wang at National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan (Honors), R.O.C. and did graduate work with William J. Mitchell at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, before joining the PhD program at Georgia Tech. She has taken a number of courses from College of Computing, and gotten interested in the issues of Human Computer Interaction taught by James D. Foley, and done usability studies at the Graphics, Visualization & Usability Center. In addition to the Electronic Cocktail Napkin, she worked on the ARCHIE, Case Based Design Aid for Archtetctural Design, lead by Janet Kolodner, and Eric Domeshek, and her advisor Craig Zimring. She also taught graduate CAD courses on Alias, an advanced visualization and animation software, for Industrial Design program, and won an Outstanding Teaching Award (College of Architecture, 1994). Her research interests include Cognitive Science, Drawing, Sketching and Diagrams, visual note taking, analogy and creativity....when not hacking innovative design software, Ellen enjoys singing, free hand sketching (of course), buying books, skiing, hiking, taking photographs, travelling (with friends), watching movies, playing tuba, creating origami, eating noodles and sushi.

Ellen taught a week of origami in Mark's Design Theory and Methods class. Paper related workshops from the Spring DTM class are cardboard furniture design and paper clothing fashion show.

a gif from a friend ;-)

Ellen just participated a Virtual Design project on "Multi-Media Unplugged" , an exhibit and workshop at the NeoMuseum, Yoshino, Japan. The workshop asked participatns to use cubes to express ideas about Multie-media. Check out Ellen's Folding and Unfolding Cubes!!
Ellen has taught for the College of Architecture & Planning, University of Colorado, a Computer Graphics Programming class and supervised Lab Advisors, (also known as ENVD 3919 Managing Architecture & Planning Computer Facilities).

The Electronic Cocktail Napkin is a pen based drawing environment written in Macintosh Common Lisp. It is a prototype designed to explore opportunities to support designing using hand drawn sketches and diagrams.

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