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2009

A. Torrance, B. Tomlinson. 2009. "Patent Expertise and the Regress of Useful Arts." In: Southern Illinois University Law Journal. (Accepted for publication.)

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.)

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.

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.

A. Torrance, B. Tomlinson. 2009. "Patents and the Regress of Useful Arts." In: Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. 11,644 words. (Accepted for publication.)

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

P. Dourish, 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.

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.

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.

E. Baumer, 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. (To appear)

E. Baumer, M. Sueyoshi, and B. Tomlinson. 2008. "Examining Privacy from the Perspective of Blog Readers." In Poster Session, Second International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2008). Seattle, WA. 2 pages. (To appear)

E. Baumer 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. (To appear)

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.

2007

E. Baumer, 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.

B. Tomlinson, 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.

A. Torrance, B. Tomlinson. 2007. "A Multi-User Interactive Patent Simulation (PatentSim)." Fifth Annual Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium. Washington, DC.

M. L. Yau, 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.

E. Baumer, 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

E. Baumer, 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.

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)

Alspaugh, T. Tomlinson, B., Baumer, E. 2006. "Using Social Agents to Visualize Software Scenarios." ACM Symposium on Software Visualization (SOFTVIS'06), September 2006.

Tomlinson, B., Baumer, E., Yau, M. L. 2006. "The Island Metaphor." In: SIGGRAPH 2006 Posters.

Yau, M. L., Moore, J. Z., Tomlinson, B. 2006. "Interactive Lighting Design for Multi-device Virtual Environments." In: SIGGRAPH 2006 Posters.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Baumer, E. and Tomlinson, B. 2005. "Institutionalization by Habitualization and Typification of Roles in Societies of Autonomous Agents." Second NASA/JPL Workshop or Radical Agent Concepts (WRAC). September, 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.

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.

Tomlinson, B. 2005. "A Heterogeneous Animated Platform for Educational Participatory Simulations." In: 10th Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, Taipei, Taiwan.

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.

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.

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.