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

ATLAS 225C

Mark听D. Gross, director of the听听and professor of computer science,听has听worked on intelligent听computer-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. 听He is the听co-founder of Blank Slate Systems Incorporated and听Modular Robotics Incorporated. He holds a PhD听in Design Theory & Methods听from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 听

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Hopkins Torin,听Weng Suibi Che Chuan,听Vanukuru Rishi,Wenzel Emma A.,听Banic Amy,听Gross Mark D.,听Do Ellen Yi-Luen听(2022), AR Drum Circle: Real-Time Collaborative Drumming in AR, , Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Vol. 3, Article 847284 听(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鈥1290. DOI: (June 28-July 2,听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鈥揗ay 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鈥7. DOI:听(Salzburg, Germany (virtual)鈥揊eb. 14-19, 2021).

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

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

Schneider, M.,听Hill, C.,听Eisenberg, A.,听Gross, M.听and Blum, A. 2020. A Software Debugger for E-textiles and Arduino Microcontrollers, In听Proceedings of听the 2020听FabLearn听- 9th Annual Conference on Maker Education (FabLearn '20)听(New York鈥揙ct. 10-11, 2020).

Ryo Suzuki,听Hooman Hedayati,听Clement Zheng, James Bohn,听Daniel Szafir,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do,听Mark D Gross, and听Daniel Leithinger. 2020. RoomShift: Room-scale Dynamic Haptics for VR with Furniture-moving Swarm Robots. In听Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 396, 11 pages. DOI:听听 to appear (Honolulu, Hawaii听鈥撎鼳pril 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鈥151. DOI: (Sydney, Australia -- Feb. 9-12, 2020)听

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hyunjoo Oh, Sherry Hsi,听Michael Eisenberg, and听Mark D. Gross. 2018.听. In听Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children听(IDC '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 389-395. DOI:听听(Trondheim, Norway 鈥撎齁une, 2018).

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

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

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