publications

2026

1. CHI WS

   

   What Happened and Why? Trace-Guided Micro-Episodes with Elicited User Explanations for Product Iteration

   Sirui Tao, William P. McCarthy, and Steven P. Dow

   In Herding CATs: Making Sense of Creative Activity Traces (CHI 2026 Workshop), Feb 2026

   Workshop Position Paper

   Bib PDF Website

           @article{taohappened,
     title={What Happened and Why? Trace-Guided Micro-Episodes with Elicited User Explanations for Product Iteration},
     author={TAO, SIRUI and MCCARTHY, WILLIAM P and DOW, STEVEN P}
   }
   
           

2025

1. CVPR

   

   HotSpot: Signed Distance Function Optimization with an Asymptotically Sufficient Condition

   Zimo Wang, Cheng Wang, Taiki Yoshino, Sirui Tao, Ziyang Fu, and Tzu-Mao Li

   In Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Highlight), Jun 2025

   Bib PDF Video Code Website

           @inproceedings{wang2025hotspot,
     title = {HotSpot: Signed Distance Function Optimization with an Asymptotically Sufficient Condition},
     author = {Wang, Zimo and Wang, Cheng and Yoshino, Taiki and Tao, Sirui and Fu, Ziyang and Li, Tzu-Mao},
     booktitle = {Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Highlight)},
     month = jun,
     year = {2025},
   }
   
           

2. CHI

   

   DesignWeaver: Dimensional Scaffolding for Text-to-Image Product Design

   Sirui Tao, Ivan Liang, Cindy Peng, Zhiqing Wang, Srishti Palani, and Steven Dow

   In Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Apr 2025

   Bib PDF Video Code Website

           @inproceedings{tao2024designweaver,
     title = {DesignWeaver: Dimensional Scaffolding for Text-to-Image Product Design},
     author = {Tao, Sirui and Liang, Ivan and Peng, Cindy and Wang, Zhiqing and Palani, Srishti and Dow, Steven},
     booktitle = {Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
     month = apr,
     year = {2025},
   }
   
           

2023

1. CogSci

   

   Physion++: Evaluating Physical Scene Understanding with Objects Consisting of Different Physical Attributes in Humans and Machines

   Hsiao-Yu Tung, Mingyu Ding, Zhenfang Chen, Sirui Tao, Vedang Lad, Daniel Bear, Chuang Gan, Josh Tenenbaum, Daniel Yamins, Judith Fan, and Kevin Smith

   In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Accepted as poster with abstract publication), Jul 2023

   Bib Website

           @inproceedings{tung2023physion++,
     title = {Physion++: Evaluating Physical Scene Understanding with Objects Consisting of Different Physical Attributes in Humans and Machines},
     author = {Tung, Hsiao-Yu and Ding, Mingyu and Chen, Zhenfang and Tao, Sirui and Lad, Vedang and Bear, Daniel and Gan, Chuang and Tenenbaum, Josh and Yamins, Daniel and Fan, Judith and Smith, Kevin},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Accepted as poster with abstract publication)},
     month = jul,
     year = {2023},
   }
   
           

2021

1. NeurIPS

   

   Physion: Evaluating Physical Prediction from Vision in Humans and Machines

   Daniel Bear, Elias Wang, Damian Mrowca, Felix Binder, Hsiao-Yu Tung, Pramod RT, Cameron Holdaway, Sirui Tao, Kevin Smith, Fan-Yun Sun, Fei-Fei Li, Nancy Kanwisher, Josh Tenenbaum, Dan Yamins, and Judith Fan

   In Proceedings of the Neural Information Processing Systems Track on Datasets and Benchmarks, Dec 2021

   Bib PDF Video Code Website

           @inproceedings{bear2021physion,
     author = {Bear, Daniel and Wang, Elias and Mrowca, Damian and Binder, Felix and Tung, Hsiao-Yu and RT, Pramod and Holdaway, Cameron and Tao, Sirui and Smith, Kevin and Sun, Fan-Yun and Li, Fei-Fei and Kanwisher, Nancy and Tenenbaum, Josh and Yamins, Dan and Fan, Judith},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Neural Information Processing Systems Track on Datasets and Benchmarks},
     editor = {Vanschoren, J. and Yeung, S.},
     url = {https://datasets-benchmarks-proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/hash/d09bf41544a3365a46c9077ebb5e35c3-Abstract-round1.html},
     title = {Physion: Evaluating Physical Prediction from Vision in Humans and Machines},
     volume = {1},
     month = dec,
     year = {2021},
   }