Papers

A fair number of these are award papers (ICTD ‘13, Pervasive ‘10, CHI ‘09, CHI ‘07, CHI ‘05, GROUP ‘03, ICDE ‘98), largely thanks to my wonderful collaborators.

Machine Learning and Data Science

(A more-detailed portfolio is here.)

P.M. Aoki. Functional Data Analysis for Rain Rate Statistics. Project report, CS 229 (Machine Learning), Stanford Univ., Dec. 2017. [PDF]
P.M. Aoki. Convolutional Neural Networks for Precipitation Estimation from Geostationary Satellite Imagery. Project report, CS 231n (Convolutional Neural Networks for n Visual Recognition), Stanford Univ., June 2017. [PDF]
P.M. Aoki. New Rain Rate Statistics for Emerging Regions: Implications for Wireless Backhaul Planning. arXiv:1609.00426, Sep. 2016. [PDF]

Technology Design and Adoption in Emerging Regions

N. Sambasivan and P.M. Aoki. Imagined Connectivities: Conceptions of Public Wi-Fi Networks in Urban India. Proc. ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems May 2017, 5917-5928. [ACM] [PDF]
N. Sambasivan, G. Azad, P.M. Aoki and S.S. Mitra. “We call it Hi-Fi”: Exposing Indian Households to High Speed Broadband Wireless Internet. Proc. Int’l Conf. on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD ‘16). [ACM] [PDF]
N. Sambasivan, P. Lee, G. Hecht, P.M. Aoki, M.-I. Carrera, J. Chen, M. Youssefmir, D.P. Cohn, P. Kruskall, E. Wetchler and A.T. Larssen. SmartBrowse: Design and Evaluation of a Mobile Data Price Transparency Tool for Mobile Web Use. Information Technology & International Development 11 (1), Spring 2015, 21-40. [ITID] [PDF]
- See also: Chale, How Much it Cost to Browse? Results from a Mobile Data Price Transparency Trial in Ghana. Proc. Int’l Conf. on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD ‘13), Dec. 2013, 13-23. [ACM] [PDF]
  “Best of” special issue paper (~5%).
S.P. Wyche, T.N. Smyth, M. Chetty, P.M. Aoki and R.E. Grinter. Deliberate Interactions: Characterizing Technology Use in Nairobi, Kenya. Proc. ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘10), Apr. 2010, 2593-2602. [ACM] [PDF]
M.R. Ho, E.K. Owusu and P.M. Aoki. Claim Mobile: Engaging Conflicting Stakeholder Requirements in Healthcare in Uganda. Proc. Int’l Conf. on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD ‘09), Apr. 2009, 35-45. [IEEE] [PDF]
R. Luk, M. Zaharia, M. Ho, B. Levine and P.M. Aoki. ICTD for Healthcare in Ghana: Two Parallel Cases. Proc. Int’l Conf. on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD ‘09), Apr. 2009, 118-128. [IEEE] [PDF]
R. Luk, M. Ho and P.M. Aoki. Asynchronous Remote Medical Consultation for Ghana. Proc. ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘08), Apr. 2008, 743-752. [ACM] [PDF]
S.P. Wyche, P.M. Aoki and R.E. Grinter. Re-Placing Faith: Reconsidering the Secular-Religious Use Divide in the United States and Kenya. Proc. ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘08), Apr. 2008, 11-20. [ACM] [PDF]
M. Ho, R. Luk and P.M. Aoki. Applying User-Centered Design to Telemedicine. Workshop on User-Centered Design for International Development, ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘07), Apr. 2007. [PDF]
P.M. Aoki, R. Luk and M. Ho. When Mobile Experience Comes Apart at the Seams: Emerging Markets Infrastructure Brings Us Back to Nomadic Computing in More Ways Than One. Workshop on Ubiquitous User Experience, 9th Int’l Conf. on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp ‘07), Sept. 2007. [PDF]
R.L. Luk, M. Ho and P. Aoki. A Framework for Designing Teleconsultation Systems in Africa. Proc. Int’l Conf. on Health Informatics in Africa (HELINA ‘07), Jan. 2007, 28(1-5). [PDF]

Environmental Sensing

P. Aoki, A. Woodruff, B. Yellapragada and W. Willett Environmental Protection and Agency: Motivations, Capacity, and Goals in Participatory Sensing. Proc. ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘17), May 2017, 3138-3150. [ACM] [PDF]
W. Willett, P. Aoki, N. Kumar, S. Subramanian and A. Woodruff. Common Sense Community: Scaffolding Mobile Sensing and Analysis for Novice Users. Proc. 8th Int’l Conf. on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive ‘10), May 2010, 301-318. [PDF]
Best paper award.
K. Anderson, P. Aoki, M. Kaminsky and R. Kuriyan.
Collective Participation: Technology-Enabled Social Action. Intel Technology Journal 14, 1 (2010), 32-45. [PDF]
P. Dutta, P.M. Aoki, N. Kumar, A. Mainwaring, C. Myers, W. Willett and A. Woodruff. Common Sense: Participatory Urban Sensing Using a Network of Handheld Air Quality Monitors (demonstration). Proc. 7th ACM Conf. on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys ‘09), Nov. 2009, 349-350. [ACM] [PDF]
P.M. Aoki, R.J. Honicky, A. Mainwaring, C. Myers, E. Paulos, S. Subramanian and A. Woodruff. A Vehicle for Research: Using Street Sweepers to Explore the Landscape of Environmental Community Action. Proc. ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘09), Apr. 2009, 375-384. [ACM] [PDF]
Best paper nominee (5%).
P.M. Aoki, R.J. Honicky, A. Mainwaring, C. Myers, E. Paulos, S. Subramanian and A. Woodruff. Common Sense: Mobile Environmental Sensing Platforms to Support Community Action and Citizen Science (demonstration). Adjunct Proceedings, 10th Int’l Conf. on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp ‘08), Sep. 2008, 59-60. [PDF]
R. Aipperspach, T.L. Rattenbury, A. Woodruff, K. Anderson, J.F. Canny, and P. Aoki. Ethno-Mining: Integrating Words and Numbers from the Ground Up. Technical Report UCB//EECS-2006-125, EECS Department, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, Oct. 2006. [PDF]

Audio Communication and Mobile Phone Interaction

P.M. Aoki, M.H. Szymanski and A. Woodruff. Bringing Media Spaces Back to the Streets: Notes on the Interplay of Research on Media Space and Mobile Communication. In S. Harrison (ed.), Media Space: 20+ Years of Mediated Life. Springer-Verlag, 2009, 287-301. [PDF]¹
- See also: Media Spaces in the Mobile World. Workshop on Media Space - Reflecting on 20 Years, ACM Conf. on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW ‘06), Nov. 2006. [PDF]

P.M. Aoki and J.C. Tang. The Social Space. In S. Harrison (ed.), Media Space: 20+ Years of Mediated Life. Springer-Verlag, 2009, 17-22. [PDF]²

P.M. Aoki. Does Voice Coordination Have to be ‘Rocket Science’? In T. Erickson and D.W. McDonald (eds.), HCI Remixed: Reflections on Works That Have Influenced the HCI Community. MIT Press, 2008, 179-184. [PDF]
P.M. Aoki. Back Stage on the Front Lines: Perspectives and Performance in the Combat Information Center. Proc. ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘07), Apr. 2007, 717-726. [ACM] [PDF]
Best paper nominee (5%).
P.M. Aoki, M.H. Szymanski, L. Plurkowski, J.D. Thornton, A. Woodruff and W. Yi. Where’s the ‘Party’ in ‘Multi-Party’? Analyzing the Structure of Small-Group Sociable Talk. Proc. ACM Conf. on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW ‘06), Nov. 2006, 393-402. [ACM] [PDF]
M.H. Szymanski, P.M. Aoki, E. Vinkhuyzen and A. Woodruff. Organizing a Remote State of Incipient Talk: Push-to-Talk Mobile Radio Interaction. Language in Society 35 (3), July 2006, 393-418. [PDF]³

P.M. Aoki, M.H. Szymanski and A. Woodruff. Turning from Image Sharing to Experience Sharing. Workshop on Pervasive Image Capture and Sharing, 7th Int’l Conf. on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp ‘05), Sep. 2005. [PDF]
P.M. Aoki and A. Woodruff. Making Space for Stories: Ambiguity in the Design of Personal Communication Systems. Proc. ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘05), Apr. 2005, 181-190. [ACM] [PDF]
;Best paper award (1%).
C. Yu, P.M. Aoki and A. Woodruff. Detecting User Engagement in Everyday Conversations. Proc. 8th Int’l Conf. on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP ‘04), Vol. 2, Oct. 2004, 1329-1332. [PDF]
A. Woodruff and P.M. Aoki. Conversation Analysis and the User Experience. Digital Creativity 15 (4), 2004, 232-238. [PDF]⁴
- See also: Conversation Analysis and the User Experience. Workshop on Exploring Experience Methods Across Disciplines, ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘04), Apr. 2004. [PDF]

P.M. Aoki and A. Woodruff. “User Interfaces” and the Social Negotiation of Availability. Workshop on Forecasting Presence and Availability, ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘04), Apr. 2004. [PDF]
A. Woodruff and P.M. Aoki. Push-to-Talk Social Talk. Computer Supported Cooperative Work 13 (5-6), Dec. 2004, 409-441. [SV] [PDF]⁵
- See also: How Push-to-Talk Makes Talk Less Pushy. Proc. ACM SIGGROUP Conf. on Supporting Group Work (GROUP ‘03), Nov. 2003, 170-179. [ACM] [PDF]
  ;“Best of” special issue paper (7%).
- See also: Media Affordances of a Mobile Push-to-Talk Communication Service. arXiv:cs/0309001, PARC, Feb. 2003. [PDF]

P.M. Aoki, M. Romaine, M.H. Szymanski, J.D. Thornton, D. Wilson and A. Woodruff. The Mad Hatter’s Cocktail Party: A Mobile Social Audio Space Supporting Multiple Simultaneous Conversations. Proc. ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘03), Apr. 2003, 425-432. [ACM] [PDF]

Mobile Computing

M.H. Szymanski, P.M. Aoki, R.E. Grinter, A. Hurst, J.D. Thornton and A. Woodruff. Sotto Voce: Facilitating Social Learning in a Historic House. Computer Supported Cooperative Work 17 (1), Feb. 2008, 5-34. [SV] [PDF]⁶
(Erratum: The ‘Received’ date should be 1 July 2005, not 23 July 2007.)
- See also: Eavesdropping on Electronic Guidebooks: Observing Learning Resources in Shared Listening Environments. Proc. 6th Int’l Conf. on Museums and the Web (MW ‘02), Apr. 2002, 21-30. [HTML] [PDF]
R.E. Grinter, P.M. Aoki, A. Hurst, M.H. Szymanski, J.D. Thornton and A. Woodruff. Revisiting the Visit: Understanding How Technology Can Shape the Museum Visit. Proc. ACM Conf. on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW ‘02), Nov. 2002, 146-155. [ACM] [PDF]
A. Woodruff, M.H. Szymanski, R.E. Grinter and P.M. Aoki. Practical Strategies for Integrating a Conversation Analyst in an Iterative Design Process. Proc. 4th ACM Conf. on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS ‘02), June 2002, 19-28. [ACM] [PDF]
P.M. Aoki, R.E. Grinter, A. Hurst, M.H. Szymanski, J.D. Thornton and A. Woodruff. Sotto Voce: Exploring the Interplay of Conversation and Mobile Audio Spaces. Proc. ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘02), Apr. 2002, 431-438. [ACM] [PDF]
A. Woodruff, M.H. Szymanski, P.M. Aoki and A. Hurst. The Conversational Role of Electronic Guidebooks. Proc. 3rd Int’l Conf. on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp ‘01), Sep. 2001, 187-208. [SV] [PDF]⁷
A. Woodruff, P.M. Aoki, A. Hurst and M.H. Szymanski. Electronic Guidebooks and Visitor Attention. Proc. 6th Int’l Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting (ICHIM ‘01), Milan, Italy, Sep. 2001, 437-454. [AMI] [PDF]
A. Woodruff, P.M. Aoki, A. Hurst and M.H. Szymanski. The Guidebook, the Friend, and the Room: Visitor Experience in a Historic House. Extended Abstracts, ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘01), Mar. 2001, 273-274. [ACM] [PDF]
P.M. Aoki, A. Hurst and A. Woodruff. Tap Tips: Lightweight Discovery of Touchscreen Targets. Extended Abstracts, ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘01), Mar. 2001, 237-238. [ACM] [PDF]
P.M. Aoki and A. Woodruff. Improving Electronic Guidebook Interfaces Using a Task-Oriented Design Approach. Proc. 3rd ACM Conf. on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS ‘00), Aug. 2000, 319-325. [ACM] [PDF]

Networked Document Systems

P.M. Aoki, I.E. Smith and J.D. Thornton. Rapid Application Development and Evolution Through Document Metamorphosis. arXiv:cs/0103004, Xerox PARC, Mar. 2001. [PDF]
- See also: Writing Programs for the Harland Property Store. Software documentation, Xerox PARC, Oct. 2000. [PDF]
A. Woodruff, P.M. Aoki, E. Brewer, P. Gauthier and L.A. Rowe. An Investigation of Documents from the World Wide Web. Computer Networks & ISDN Systems 28, 7-11 (May 1996), 963-980. [PDF]
- See also: An Investigation of Documents from the World Wide Web Proc. 5th Int’l World-Wide Web Conf. (WWW5), Paris, France, May 1996. [PDF]

Database Indexing

P.M. Aoki. Index Support for Next-Generation Database Applications. Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, Dec. 1999. UMI No. 996290.
P.M. Aoki. How to Avoid Building DataBlades® That Know the Value of Everything and the Cost of Nothing. Proc. 11th IEEE Int’l Conf. on Scientific and Statistical Database Mgmt. (SSDBM ‘99), July 1999, 122-133. [IEEE] [PDF]
- See also: Algorithms for Index-Assisted Selectivity Estimation. Proc. 15th IEEE Int’l Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE ‘99), Sydney, Australia, Mar. 1999, 258. [IEEE] [PDF]
- See also: Technical Report UCB//CSD-98-1021, Oct. 1998. [PDF]
P.M. Aoki.
Generalizing “Search” in Generalized Search Trees.
Proc. 14th IEEE Int’l Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE ‘98), Feb. 1998, 380-389. [IEEE] [PDF]
Best student paper award .
- See also: Technical Report UCB//CSD-97-950, June 1997. [PDF]
P.M. Aoki. Recycling Secondary Index Structures. Technical Report UCB//S2K-95-66, Sequoia 2000 Project, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, July 1995. [PDF]
P.M. Aoki. Implementation of Extended Indexes in POSTGRES. SIGIR Forum 25, 1 (Spring 1991), 2-9. [ACM] [PDF]

Distributed Database Systems

J. Sidell, P.M. Aoki, S. Barr, A. Sah, C. Staelin, M. Stonebraker and A. Yu. Data Replication in Mariposa. Proc. 12th IEEE Int’l Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE ‘96), New Orleans, LA, Feb. 1996, 485-494. [IEEE] [PDF]
- See also: Technical Report UCB//S2K-95-62, June 1995. [PDF]
M. Stonebraker, P.M. Aoki, W. Litwin, A. Pfeffer, A. Sah, J. Sidell, C. Staelin and A. Yu. Mariposa: A Wide-Area Distributed Database System. VLDB Journal 5, 1 (Jan. 1996), 48-63. [PDF]⁸
- See also: Technical Report UCB//S2K-95-63, June 1995. [PDF]

M. Stonebraker, P.M. Aoki, R. Devine, W. Litwin and M. Olson. Mariposa: A New Architecture for Distributed Data. Proc. 10th IEEE Int’l Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE ‘94), Houston, TX, Feb. 1994, 54-65. [IEEE] [PDF]
- See also: Technical Report UCB//S2K-93-31, May 1993. [PDF]
P.M. Aoki. Query Processing Techniques in XPRS. M.S. thesis (Plan I), Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, June 1989. [PDF]
M. Stonebraker, P. Aoki and M. Seltzer. Parallelism in XPRS. Technical Memorandum UCB//ERL-M89-16, Electronics Research Laboratory, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, Feb. 1989. [PDF]

Miscellany

Z. Qin, W.W. Wang, F.F. Wu, P. Aoki and T. Lo. An ATM Network Simulator to Study Admission Control and Routing Algorithms. Proc. 3rd Int’l Conf. on Comp. Communications & Networks (ICCCN ‘94), San Francisco, CA, Sep. 1994, 1-5. [PDF]

Patents

U.S. patents and patent applications.

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