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Cheryl Zhenyu Qian

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Simon Fraser University

Holding a Bachelor degree in Architecture and a Master degree in Applied Science in Interactive Arts, I am specifically interested in the cognitive and HCI issues of application design in terms of supporting designers' intention, creativity and expertise. My research aims to observe, understand, support and augment user intention and action in parametric design systems. The users I focus on comprise active designers - more specifically, architects and civil engineers. My objective in the study is to understand the mid-level patterns of work that recur across designers and tasks.

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Qian, Cheryl Zhenyu, Chen, Victor Yingjie and Woodbury, Robert F. (2008): Developing a Simple Repository to Support Authoring Learning Objects. In International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication, 2 (2) pp. 154-173

“This paper reports our experience of designing a human-centric repository to support learning object authoring. The users of DesignPatterns.ca are designers who want to explore, communicate and share parametric modelling knowledge and strategies. Aiming to support such a community, we provided succinct functions to meet their evident needs, kept the effort of packaging and publishing to a minimum, and left space for user innovation. We used agile methods and negotiated process and design with users regularly. The paper records and critically reviews the process we followed and lessons we learned in this repository development.”

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Qian, Cheryl Zhenyu (2007): Design patterns: augmenting user intention in parametric design systems. In: Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2007, Washington DC, USA. p. 295. Available online

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Qian, Cheryl Zhenyu, Chen, Victor Yingjie and Woodbury, Robert F. (2007): Participant Observation can Discover Design Patterns in Parametric Modeling. In: ACADIA 2007: Expanding Bodies October 1-7, 2007, Halifax, Canada. pp. 230-241. Available online

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Chen, Victor Yingjie, Qian, Cheryl Zhenyu and Woodbury, Robert F. (2007): Visualizing Collaborative Filtering in Digital Collections. In: 11th International Conference of Information Visualization July 4-6, 2007, Zurich, Switzerland. pp. 203-210. Available online

“The NEAR (Navigating Exhibitions, Annotations and Resources) panel is a method of managing digital collections and user preferences through collaborative filtering and graphically revealing implicit data relations such as sharing, reference and similarity. It is implemented on AVIRE, an online multimedia repository. AVIRE supports semi-structured collections (exhibitions) which containing various resources and annotations. Its users are encouraged to contribute, share, annotate and interpret resources. Similar to the act of adding items into shopping carts in the e-commence applications, a user's activities of searching, organizing and interpreting data in AVI-RE are considered as evidence of user's preferences. The design process of NEAR was guided by several principles from the visualization literature. It implements new navigation and communication approaches that support discovery of relations. Having tested NEAR with several users, we further analyze the design, report the evaluation and consider its use in other applications. ”

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Chen, Victor Yingjie, Qian, Cheryl Zhenyu and Woodbury, Robert F. (2007): Local Navigation Can Reveal Implicit Relations. In: Dong, Andy, Moere, Andrew Vande and Gero, John S. (eds.) CAAD Futures July 11-13, 2007, Sydney, Australia. pp. 403-416. Available online

“This paper intends to analyze, compare, understand and explore the data relations among a collection, the collected items and user-created meaning appearing in different digital applications. Details of such relations are introduced and investigated with reference to several actual systems. In order to represent these three components in a way easy for users to interpret, navigate and interact, we introduce NEAR, a localized graph visualization tool to help people browse, understand and manipulate information in a digital architectural repository A•VI•RE. ”

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Qian, Cheryl Zhenyu, Chen, Victor Yingjie and Woodbury, Robert F. (2006): NEAR: Collaborative Filtering & Visualizing Information Relations in a Multimedia Repository. In: Butz, Andreas, Fisher, Brian D., Kruger, Antonio and Olivier, Patrick (eds.) Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Smart Graphics July 23-25, 2006, Vancouver, Canada. pp. 236-241. Available online

“The NEAR (Navigating Exhibitions, Annotations and Resources) is a compact panel designed to help people navigating, searching and interacting in an information repository by visualizing implicit data relations such as sharing, reference and similarity. It is implemented on A•VI•RE, an online multimedia repository. A•VI•RE supports semi-structured collections (exhibitions) containing various resources and annotations. Its users are encouraged to contribute, share, annotate and interpret resources. Similar to the act of adding items into shopping carts in the e-commence applications, a user’s acts of searching and organizing and interpreting data in A•VI•RE are considered as evidence of the user’s preferences. The design process of NEAR was guided by several design moves analyzed from literatures. It implements new navigation and communication approaches that support discovery of relations. ”

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Publication period:2006-2008
Publication count:6
Number of co-authors:2



Productive colleagues

Cheryl Zhenyu Qian's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Robert F. Woodbury:9
Victor Yingjie Chen:5


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Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:

Robert F. Woodbury:5
Victor Yingjie Chen:5

 

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