David Chuan-en Lin
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Campus Address
Newell-Simon Hall 3612
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Research Areas
David builds interactive, AI-infused tools for designers to co-create with AI capabilities, with a mixed background in Human-Computer Interaction and Computer Vision.
David's projects span multiple modalities: video, image, 3D, text, audio, and sketching. A large thread of his research has focused on AI-augmented video creation tools, including tools for adding sound effects to visuals, detecting highlight moments, and organizing video footage.
David's research impacts design practice by seamlessly blending AI capabilities into designers' natural workflows, enhancing both their creativity and productivity.
In the News
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HCII Highlights in The Link
The Link magazine from the CMU School of Computer Science is now available in mailboxes of alumni and friends, on newsstands in SCS campus...
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CMU at CHI 2024
Researchers from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and several other Carnegie Mellon University schools and disciplines cont...
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![Vivian facilitating a demo at UIST 2023. [This image is from the official ACM UIST photo album]](/sites/default/files/styles/person_profile_image_600x400/public/2024-04/UIST-demo.jpg.webp?itok=LQUjuJMT)
HCII at UIST 2023
The 2023 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) was held in San Francisco, California from October 29 to November ...
Related Projects
ProjectInkspire
With recent advancements in the capabilities of Text-to-Image (T2I) AI models, product designers have begun experimenting with them in their work. However, T2I ...
ProjectVideoMap
Video editing is a creative and complex endeavor and we believe that there is potential for reimagining a new video editing interface to better support the crea...
ProjectSoundify
In the art of video editing, sound is really half the story. Through formative interviews with professional editors (N=10), we found that the manual task ...
ProjectJigsaw: Supporting Designers to Prototype Multimodal Applications by Assembling AI Foundation Models
Recent advancements in AI foundation models have made it possible for them to be utilized off-the-shelf for creative tasks, including ideating design conc...