Mark Gross
Professor • ATLAS Director • DESIGN, ROBOTICS, TANGIBLE INTERACTION • COMPUTER SCIENCE
ATLAS Institute

ATLAS 225C

MarkD. Gross, director of theand professor of computer science,hasworked on intelligentcomputer-aided design, virtual environments and design simulation, modular robotics and computationally enhanced construction kits and craft, tangible interaction design, sketch and diagram recognition, digital fabrication and more. He is theco-founder of Blank Slate Systems Incorporated andModular Robotics Incorporated. He holds a PhDin Design Theory & Methodsfrom the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Hopkins Torin,Weng Suibi Che Chuan,Vanukuru Rishi,Wenzel Emma A.,Banic Amy,Gross Mark D.,Do Ellen Yi-Luen(2022), AR Drum Circle: Real-Time Collaborative Drumming in AR, , Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Vol. 3, Article 847284 (11 pages), online Aug 19, 2022, URL=, DOI=10.3389/frvir.2022.847284

Purnendu, Sasha M Novack, Eric Acome, Christoph Keplinger, Mirela Alistar, Mark D Gross, Carson Bruns, and Daniel Leithinger. 2021. Electriflow: Soft Electrohydraulic Building Blocks for Prototyping Shape-changing Interfaces. Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1280–1290. DOI: (June 28-July 2,2021Virtual Event).

Purnendu, Eric Acome, Christoph Keplinger, Mark D. Gross, Carson Bruns, Daniel Leithinger. 2021. Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators for Origami Inspired Shape-Changing Interfaces. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI '21 Extended Abstracts). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages. . (Yokohama, Japan–May 8-13, 2021).

Chris Hill, Michael Schneider, Ann Eisenberg, and Mark D. Gross. 2021. The ThreadBoard: Designing an E-Textile Rapid Prototyping Board. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 23, 1–7. DOI:(Salzburg, Germany (virtual)–Feb. 14-19, 2021).

S. Key & M. D. Gross(2021)From architects’ terms to computable descriptions of spatial qualities,Spatial Cognition & Computation,21:3,173-196,DOI:. (Jan. 17, 2021).

Hill, C.,Schneider, M.,Eisenberg, A.,Gross, M.and Blum, A. 2020.A Wearable Meter That Actively Monitors the Continuity of E-Textile Circuits as They Are Sewn, InProceedings of the 2020 FabLearn- 9th Annual Conference on Maker Education (FabLearn '20).(New York–Oct. 10-11, 2020).

Schneider, M.,Hill, C.,Eisenberg, A.,Gross, M.and Blum, A. 2020. A Software Debugger for E-textiles and Arduino Microcontrollers, InProceedings ofthe 2020FabLearn- 9th Annual Conference on Maker Education (FabLearn '20)(New York–Oct. 10-11, 2020).

Ryo Suzuki,Hooman Hedayati,Clement Zheng, James Bohn,Daniel Szafir,Ellen Yi-Luen Do,Mark D Gross, andDaniel Leithinger. 2020. RoomShift: Room-scale Dynamic Haptics for VR with Furniture-moving Swarm Robots. InProceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 396, 11 pages. DOI: to appear (Honolulu, Hawaii–April 25-30, 2020).

Ryo Suzuki, Ryosuke Nakayama, Dan Liu, Yasuaki Kakehi, Mark D. Gross, and Daniel Leithinger. 2020. LiftTiles: Constructive Building Blocks for Prototyping Room-scale Shape-changing Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Pages 143–151. DOI: (Sydney, Australia -- Feb. 9-12, 2020)

Ryo Suzuki, Ryosuke Nakayama, Dan Liu, Yasuaki Kakehi,Mark D. Gross, andDaniel Leithinger.2019.LiftTiles: Modular and Reconfigurable Room-scale Shape Displays through Retractable Inflatable Actuators.In Adjunct Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '19).ACM, New York, NY, USA,1-3.
DOI:(New Orleans, Louisiana – Oct. 20-23, 2019).

Ryo Suzuki,Clement Zheng, Yasuaki Kakehi,Tom Yeh,Ellen Yi-Luen Do,Mark D. Gross,Daniel Leithinger. 2019. ShapeBots: Shape-changing Swarm Robots. In Proceedings of The 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'19). (New Orleans, Louisiana— Oct. 20-23, 2019).

Clement Zheng,Jeeeun Kim,Daniel Leithinger,Mark D Gross,&Ellen Yi-Luen Do.2019.Mechamagnets: Designing and Fabricating Haptic and Functional Physical Inputs with Embedded Magnets. InProceedings of Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction(TEI’19), p. 325-334(Tempe, Arizona, USA — March 17 - 20, 2019).

Patrycja Zdziarska, Felix A. Epp, Walther Jensen,Mark D Gross,Ellen Yi-Luen Do.2019.Hooze: A Kinetic Fashion Accessory for Touch and Play, InProceedings of Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction(TEI’19) p. 407-413(Tempe, Arizona, USA — March 17 - 20, 2019).

Ryo Suzuki, Junichi Yamaoka, Daniel Leithinger, Tom Yeh, Mark D. Gross, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Yasuaki Kakehi. 2018.Dynablock: Dynamic 3D Printing for Instant and Reconstructable Shape Formation. InProceedings of The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'18).DOI: (Berlin, Germany — Oct.14 - 17, 2018).

Ryo Suzuki, Koji Yatani, Mark D. Gross, Tom Yeh. 2018.Explorable Design for 3D Printing Textures. InProceedings of The 26th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics'18).DOI: (Hong Kong – Oct. 8-11, 2018).

Jeeeun Kim, Clement Zheng, Haruki Takahashi, Mark Gross, Daniel Ashbrook, and Tom Yeh. 2018.. In Proceedings of the 2ndACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication, (SCF, '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 5, 10 pages. DOI: (Cambridge, MA,June 17-19, 2018).

Hyunjoo Oh, Sherry Hsi,Michael Eisenberg, andMark D. Gross. 2018.. InProceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children(IDC '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 389-395. DOI:(Trondheim, Norway –June, 2018).

Ryo Suzuki,Jun Kato,Mark D. Gross,Tom Yeh.2018..InProceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI '18). DOI:(April 21-26, 2018, Montreal, Canada).

Hyunjoo Oh, Tung D. Ta,Ryo Suzuki,Mark D. Gross, Yoshihiro Kawahara, and Lining Yao. 2018.. InProceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 441, 12 pages. DOI:(Montreal, Canada, April 21-26, 2018).

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