Publications




 
 
Journals and Law Review Articles
2009 A. Torrance, B. Tomlinson. 2009. "Patent Expertise and the Regress of Useful Arts." In: Southern Illinois University Law Journal. (Accepted for publication.)
 
2009 L. Lewis, R. Black, B. Tomlinson. 2009. "Let Everyone Play: An Educational Perspective on Why Fan Fiction Is, or Should Be, Legal." In: International Journal of Learning and Media. Vol. 1(1). MacArthur Foundation/MIT Press. 8,586 words. (Accepted for publication.)
 
2009 B. Tomlinson, M. L. Yau, E. Baumer, J. Ross, A. Correa, G. Ji. 2009. "Richly Connected Systems and Multi-Device Worlds." In: PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments. Vol. 18, No. 1. p. 54-71. MIT Press.
 
2009 B. Tomlinson. 2009. "A Proximate Mechanism for Communities of Agents to Commemorate Long Dead Ancestors." In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. Vol. 12, No. 1, online. 6,494 words.
 
2009 A. Torrance, B. Tomlinson. 2009. "Patents and the Regress of Useful Arts." In: Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. Vol. 10. 39pp.
 
2008 B. Tomlinson, E. Baumer, M. L. Yau, F. L Carpenter, R. Black. 2008. "A Participatory Simulation for Informal Education in Restoration Ecology." In: E-Learning. Vol. 5, No. 3. Online. p. 238-255.
 
2005 Tomlinson, B. 2005. "Social Characters for Computer Games." In: International Journal of Interactive Technology and Smart Education, Special Issue on Social Learning through Gaming. Vol. 2, No. 2, p. 101-115.
 
2005 Tomlinson, B. 2005. "From Linear to Interactive Animation: How Autonomous Characters Change the Process and Product of Animating." In: ACM Computers in Entertainment. Vol 3. No. 1. Online. 20 pages.
 
2002 Blumberg, B., Downie, M., Ivanov, Y., Berlin, M., Johnson, M. P., and Tomlinson, B. 2002. "Integrated Learning for Interactive Synthetic Characters.” Computer Graphics, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2002. San Antonio, TX.
 
1999 Tomlinson, B. 1999. "Dead Technology." Style Vol. 33 No. 2, p. 316-335
 
 
 
Full Conference & Symposium Papers
2009 E. Baumer, L. Richland, and B. Tomlinson. 2009. "Applying Computational Metaphor Identification to Middle School Students' Writing about Cellular Reproduction." National Association for Research in Science Teaching Annual Conference (NARST). (Garden Grove, CA).
 
2008 Baumer, E., M. Sueyoshi, B. Tomlinson. 2008. "Exploring the Role of the Reader in the Activity of Blogging." In: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008). Florence, Italy. 10 pages.
 
2008 Tomlinson, B. 2008. "Prototyping a Community-Generated, Mobile Device-Enabled Database of Environmental Impact Reviews of Consumer Products." In: Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Social Spaces Minitrack. Big Island, HI. 10 pages.
 
2006 Baumer, E. and B. Tomlinson. 2006. "The Interconnected Roles of Abstraction and Emergence in Artificial Societies." In: AAAI Fall Symposium. Interaction and Emergent Phenomena in Societies of Agents. Arlington, VA. 9 pages.
 
2006 Alspaugh, T. Tomlinson, B., Baumer, E. 2006. "Using Social Agents to Visualize Software Scenarios." ACM Symposium on Software Visualization (SOFTVIS'06), September 2006.
 
2006 Baumer, E., Tomlinson, B. 2006. "The Interconnected Roles of Abstraction and Emergence in Artificial Societies." In: AAAI Fall Symposium. Interaction and Emergent Phenomena in Societies of Agents. Arlington, VA.
 
2006 Tomlinson, B., Yau, M. L. and Baumer, E. 2006. "Embodied Mobile Agents." In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems.
 
2002 Tomlinson, B., Downie, M., Berlin, M., Gray, J., Lyons, D., Cochran, J., and Blumberg, B. 2002. "Leashing the AlphaWolves: Mixing User Direction with Autonomous Emotion in a Pack of Semi-Autonomous Virtual Characters." Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation. San Antonio, TX.
 
2001 Tomlinson, B., and Blumberg, B. 2001. "Social Behavior, Emotion and Learning in a Pack of Virtual Wolves." 2001 AAAI Fall Symposium "Emotional and Intelligent II: The Tangled Knot of Social Cognition". November 2-4, 2001, North Falmouth, MA.
 
2001 Blumberg, B., Tomlinson, B., and Downie, M. 2001. "Multiple Conceptions of Character-Based Interactive Installations." Computer Graphics International 2001. p. 5-11
 
2000 Tomlinson, B., B. Blumberg and B. Rhodes. 2000. "How Is an Agent Like a Wolf?: Dominance and Submission in Multi-Agent Systems." International ICSC Symposium on Multi-Agents and Mobile Agents in Virtual Organizations and E-Commerce (MAMA '2000), Wollongong, Australia
 
2000 Tomlinson, B., B. Blumberg, and D. Nain. 2000. "Expressive Autonomous Cinematography for Interactive Virtual Environments." Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2000), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
 
 
 
Short Conference & Symposium Papers
2007 Huang, E.M., Blevis, E., Mankoff, J., Nathan, L., & Tomlinson, B. 2009. Workshop: Defining the Role of HCI in the Challenges of Sustainability. In Extended Abstracts of the Twenty-Seventh Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Boston, MA, USA, April 04-09, 2009). CHI '09. ACM, New York, NY.
 
2007 Dourish, P., G. Hayes, L. Irani, C. Lee, S. Lindtner, B. Nardi, D. Patterson, B. Tomlinson. 2008. "Informatics at UC Irvine." ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008) Extended Abstracts (Research Landscapes). 6 pages.
 
2007 Baumer, E. and B. Tomlinson. 2007. "Questioning the Technological Panacea: Three Reflective Questions for Designers." ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2007) Extended Abstracts (alt.chi). 9 pages.
 
2007 Tomlinson, B., E. Baumer, M. L. Yau, P. MacAlpine, L. Canales, A. Correa, B. Hornick, A. Sharma. 2007. "Dreaming of Adaptive Interface Agents." ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2007) Extended Abstracts (Trends - Interactivity). 6 pages.
 
2006 Tomlinson, B., Yau, M. L., Baumer, E., Goetz, S., Carpenter, F. L., Pratt, R. T., Young, K., May-Tobin, C. 2006. "The EcoRaft Project: A Multi-Device Interactive Graphical Exhibit for Learning About Restoration Ecology." In: ACM Conference On Human Factors In Computing Systems (CHI 2006), Work in Progress. Montreal, Canada.
 
2006 Elliott, G., Tomlinson, B. 2006. "PersonalSoundtrack: Context-aware playlists that adapt to user pace." In: ACM Conference On Human Factors In Computing Systems (CHI 2006), Work in Progress. Montreal, Canada.
 
2005 Tomlinson, B., Yau, M. L. and Gray, J. 2005. "Heterogeneous Character Animation: How to make an interactive character jump between stationary and mobile graphical computers" In: SIGGRAPH 05 Sketches.
 
2005 Tomlinson, B. 2005. "Negative Behavior Space in the Design of Interactive Agents." In: Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 05) Conference, Marina del Rey, CA. AAAI Press.
 
2005 Tomlinson, B. 2005. "A Heterogeneous Animated Platform for Educational Participatory Simulations." In: 10th Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, Taipei, Taiwan.
 
2005 Tomlinson, B., Gray, J., Yau, M. L. 2005. "Multiple Virtual Rafts: A Multi-User Paradigm for Interacting with Communities of Autonomous Characters." In: ACM Conference On Human Factors In Computing Systems (CHI 2005), Late Breaking Results (Interactive Poster), Portland, OR.
 
2005 Tomlinson, B., Yau, M. L., O'Connell, J., Williams, K., Yamaoka, S. 2005. "The Virtual Raft Project: A Mobile Interface for Interacting with Communities of Autonomous Characters." Conference Abstracts and Applications, ACM Conference On Human Factors In Computing Systems (CHI 2005). Portland, OR.
 
2002 Tomlinson, B., and Blumberg, B. 2002. "Synthetic Social Relationships in Animated Virtual Characters." From Animals to Animats 7. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB ’02). Edinburgh, UK.
 
 
 
Workshops & Posters
2008 B. Tomlinson. 2009. "Broadening Human Horizons through Green IT." In ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Workshop on Defining the Role of HCI in the Challenges of Sustainability. Boston, MA. 3 pages.
 
2008 Baumer, E., B. Tomlinson. 2008. "Dream-like Interfaces and Computational Dreaming." In: ACM Conference On Human Factors In Computing Systems (CHI 2008), Workshop on Night and Darkness: Interaction after Dark. Florence, Italy. 2 pages.
 
2008 Baumer, E., M. Sueyoshi, and B. Tomlinson. 2008. "Examining Privacy in Blogging from the Reader's Perspective." In Poster Session, Second International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2008). Seattle, WA. 2 pages.
 
2008 Baumer, E. and B. Tomlinson. 2008. "Computational Identification of Conceptual Metaphors in Communities of Blogs." In Poster Session, Second International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2008). Seattle, WA. 2 pages.
 
2007 Torrance, A. and B. Tomlinson. 2007. "A Multi-User Interactive Patent Simulation (PatentSim)." Fifth Annual Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium. Washington, DC.
 
2007 Yau, M. L., J. Moore, Z. Ji, M. Roland, B. Tomlinson. 2007. "Persistence and Propagation of Shadow Direction in Mobile and Multi-Device Graphics." In: SIGGRAPH 07, Research Posters. San Diego, CA.
 
2007 Baumer, E. and B. Tomlinson. 2007. "Advocating Polytheoretic Evaluation of Interactive Art and New Media." In: ACM Conference On Human Factors In Computing Systems (CHI 2007), Workshop on HCI and New Media: Methodology and Evaluation. San Jose, CA. 4 pages.
 
2006 Alspaugh, T., Baumer, E., Tomlinson, B. 2006. "On a Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Social-Agent Scenario Visualization." Fourth International Workshop on Comparative Evaluation in Requirements Engineering (CERE '06)
 
2006 Tomlinson, B., Baumer, E., Yau, M. L. 2006. "The Island Metaphor." In: SIGGRAPH 2006 Posters.
 
2006 Yau, M. L., Moore, J. Z., Tomlinson, B. 2006. "Interactive Lighting Design for Multi-device Virtual Environments." In: SIGGRAPH 2006 Posters.
 
2005 Baumer, E. and Tomlinson, B. 2005. "Institutionalization Through Reciprocal Habitualization and Typification." Second NASA/JPL Workshop or Radical Agent Concepts (WRAC). September, 2005.
 
2005 Baumer, E., Tomlinson, B. 2005. "Synthetic Social Construction for Autonomous Characters." In: AAAI 05 Conference, Workshop on Modular Construction of Human-Like Intelligence. Pittsburgh, PA.
 
2005 Tomlinson, B. 2005. “Designing Affective Interaction Paradigms for Animated Characters.” In: Proceedings of the Human Computer Interaction Consortium Winter Meeting (HCIC 05), Fraser, CO.
 
2004 Tomlinson, B. 2004. "Using Human Acting Skill to Measure Empathic Value in Heterogeneous Characters.” Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Workshop on Empathic Agents. New York, NY.
 
 
 
Book Chapters
2003 E. Baumer and B. Tomlinson. 2009. "Relationships between the Processes of Emergence and Abstraction in Societies." In Trajkovski, G. and Collins, S. (eds.) Handbook of Research on Agent-Based Societies: Social and Cultural Interactions. Hershey, PA: IGI-Global.
 
2003 Synthetic Characters Group (B. Tomlinson, M. Downie, M. Berlin, J. Gray, A. Wong, R. Burke, D. Isla, Y. Ivanov, M. P. Johnson, D. Lyons, J. Cochran, B. Yong, B. Blumberg). 2003. "AlphaWolf.” in J. Shaw and P. Weibel (eds.) Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
 
2003 Tomlinson, B., and Blumberg, B. 2003. "AlphaWolf: Social Learning, Emotion and Development in Autonomous Virtual Agents." Innovative Concepts in Agent-Based Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2564, p. 35-45, Springer-Verlag, 2003. Presented at First GSFC/JPL Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts. 2002. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.
 
 
 
Professional Newsletters & Magazines
2008 B. Tomlinson. 2008. "A Call for Pro-Environmental Conspicuous Consumption in the Online World." In: ACM Interactions. Vol. 15, No. 6. Nov/Dec 2008. Sustainably Ours forum, edited by E. Blevis.
 
2006 Pratt, R. T., Carpenter, F. L. and Tomlinson, B. 2006. "The EcoRaft Project: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Lessons in Ecological Restoration." In: Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. Vol. 87, No. 2. April 2006, p. 176-182.
 
2002 Tomlinson, B., and Blumberg, B. 2002. "Social Synthetic Characters." (Visfiles column, edited by Bill Hibbard). Computer Graphics. Vol. 26, No. 2. (May 2002).
 
2002 Downie, M., Tomlinson, B., and Blumberg, B. 2002. "Developing an Aesthetic: Character-Based Interactive Installations." Computer Graphics. Vol. 26, No. 2. (May 2002).
 
1999 Synthetic Characters Group (B. Tomlinson, M. Downie, A. Benbasat, J. Wahl, W. Stiehl, B. Blumberg). 1999. "sand:stone - Artist Statement." Leonardo Vol. 32, No. 5, p. 462-463
 
 
 
Theses
2002 Tomlinson, W. 2002. "Synthetic Social Relationships for Computational Entities." Doctoral Dissertation. MIT Program in Media Arts & Sciences. May 7, 2002.
 
1999 Tomlinson, W. 1999. "Interactivity and Emotion through Cinematography." Master's Thesis. MIT Media Arts and Sciences.
 
 
 
Popular Press
1997 Tomlinson, B. 1997. "The Sundance Kid." Philadelphia City Paper, 1/30/97






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