CV
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science [HCI]
Designated Emphasis in New Media
University of California, Berkeley
July 2014 - July 2020
Thesis: Heirloom Wearables: A Hybrid Approach
to the Design of Embodied Wearable Technologies
Advisor: Eric Paulos (EECS)
Readers: Björn Hartmann (EECS)
Kimiko Ryokai (iSchool)
B.S., Computer Science and Math
Minor in Psychology
Elon University
August 2010 - May 2014
Research
Research Scientist
Adobe Research
Graduate Student Researcher, Hybrid Ecologies Lab
Advisor - Eric Paulos
UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Research Intern
Advisors - Dr. Gavin Miller, TJ Rhodes
Adobe Research
Research Intern
Advisors - Scott Carter, Patrick Chiu, Tony Dunnigan, Don Kimber
FX Palo Alto Laboratory
Undergraduate Researcher, Honors Thesis
Advisor - Joel Hollingsworth
Elon University Computing Sciences
Undergraduate Research Intern, Berkeley Institute of Design
Advisor - Björn Hartmann
UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Undergraduate Research Intern, Distributed and Adaptive Real-Time Systems Lab
Advisor - Christian Poellabauer
University of Notre Dame Computer Science and Engineering
Publications
Christine Dierk, Scott Carter, Patrick Chiu, Tony Dunnigan, and Don Kimber. Use Your Head! Exploring Interaction Modalities for Hat Technologies. In Proc. of DIS '19, ACM Press (2019). [25% acceptance].
Christine Dierk, Molly Jane Pearce Nicholas, and Eric Paulos. AlterWear: Battery-Free Wearable Displays for Opportunistic Interactions. In Proc. of CHI ’18, ACM Press (2018). [26% acceptance].
Christine Dierk, Sarah Sterman, Molly Jane Pearce Nicholas, and Eric Paulos. HäirIÖ: Human Hair as Interactive Material. In Proc. of TEI ’18, ACM Press (2018). [28% acceptance].
Christine Dierk, Tomás Vega Gálvez, and Eric Paulos. AlterNail: Ambient, Batteryless, Stateful, Dynamic Displays at your Fingertips. In Proc. of CHI ’17, ACM Press (2017). [25% acceptance].
Rundong Tian, Christine Dierk, Christopher Myers, and Eric Paulos. MyPart: Personal, Portable, Accurate, Airborne Particle Counting. In Proc. of CHI ’16, ACM Press (2016). [23% acceptance].
Patents
Low-power, personalized smart grips for vr/ar interaction, (with Daniel Avrahami and Scott Carter), U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 16/274,181, Feb 2019.
Smart hat device for interacting with remote devices and displays, (with Scott Carter, Patrick Chiu, Anthony Dunnigan, Chelhwon Kim, Donald Kimber, Nami Tokunaga, and Hajime Ueno), U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 16/149,000, Oct 2018.
Portable Airborne Particle Counting Systems and Methods, (with Eric Paulos, Rundong Tian, and Chris Myers), U.S. Provisional Patent Application No.62/096,371, Dec 2014.
Selected Talks, Posters, & Demos
Christine Dierk, Molly Nicholas, and Eric Paulos. AlterWear: Battery-Free Wearable Displays for Opportunistic Interactions, demo at the Berkeley Center for New Media Fall Open House, Berkeley, CA (2018)
Christine Dierk. Wearables Should Transcend Cultural Norms and Practices, presentation at the CHI ’18 Workshop on (Un)Acceptable!?! -- Re-thinking the Social Acceptability of Emerging Technologies. Montreal QC, Canada (2018).
Christine Dierk, Sarah Sterman, Molly Nicholas, and Eric Paulos. HäirIÖ: Human Hair as Interactive Material, demo at the Berkeley Center for New Media Fall Open House, Berkeley, CA (2017 & 2018).
Christine Dierk and Bala Thoravi Kumaravel. EINSTEIN: E-Ink Nail Sensing Technology for Embodied INteractions, poster, technical talk, and demo at the Jacobs Winter Design Showcase, Berkeley, CA (2017).
Christine Dierk and Molly Nicholas. Cosmetic Computing, presentation at the SWARM Lab Fall Retreat, Berkeley, CA (2017).
Christine Dierk, Tomás Vega Gálvez, and Eric Paulos. AlterNail: Ambient, Batteryless, Stateful, Dynamic Displays at your Fingertips, demo at the Berkeley Center for New Media Fall Open House, Berkeley, CA (2016 & 2017).
Christine Dierk, Tomás Vega Gálvez, and Eric Paulos. AlterNail: Ambient, Batteryless, Stateful, Dynamic Displays at your Fingertips, poster and demo at the SWARM Lab Fall Retreat, Berkeley, CA (2016).
Ethan Chiou, Christine Dierk, Maggie George, Shana Hu, and Siqi Wang. Spark, poster at the Jacobs Spring Design Showcase, Berkeley, CA (2016).
Christine Dierk. Ukulele Fabrication, poster at the Jacobs Winter Design Showcase, Berkeley, CA (2015).
Rundong Tian, Christine Dierk, Christopher Myers, and Eric Paulos. MyPart: Personal, Portable, Accurate, Airborne Particle Counting, poster and demo at the Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium, Berkeley, CA (2015).
Christine Dierk, Zachary Gima, Maxwell Micali, and Anthony Sutardja. Punch, poster at the CITRIS Winter Design Showcase, Berkeley, CA (2014).
Christine Dierk, Kurtis Heimerl, and Björn Hartmann. Determining Proximity through High Frequency Emission and Detection, poster at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Lexington, KY (2014).
Christine Dierk and Joel Hollingsworth. Real-Life Musical Composition through Virtual Means: A Mobile Application Controlled Ukulele-Playing Robot, technical talk at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Lexington, KY (2014).
Christine Dierk and Todd Lee. A Recursive Solution to Enumerating Directed Graphs, technical talk at the 9th Annual UNCG Regional Mathematics and Statistics Conference, Greensboro, NC (2013).
Christine Dierk and Christian Poellabauer. Controlling an OSX Application through iOS and Kinect Input, poster at the Experimental Research on Wireless Networking poster session, South Bend, IN (2012).
Teaching
Graduate Student Instructor, User Interface Design and Development, UC Berkeley
Graduate Student Instructor, Critical Making, UC Berkeley
Graduate Student Instructor, Intro to Prototyping and Fabrication, UC Berkeley
Teaching Assistant, Intro to Electronics, Elon University
Service
Berkeley Humane Society
PhD Admissions Committee, Computer Science Division [HCI]
MEng Admissions Committee, Computer Science Division [VCCG & DSS]
Student Volunteer | UIST 2015
Associate Chair | CHI 2021, TEI 2021 Pictorials, MobileHCI 2021
ACM Reviewer | 84 reviews total
Special Recognition Reviews: C&C '19, CHI PLAY '19, CHI '20
Fellowships & Awards
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow
"Cosmetic Computing: Epidermal Interfaces and Interactive Electro Chemical Materials"
EECS Departmental Excellence Award, UC Berkeley
Computer Science Academic Achievement Award, Elon University
Janie Crumpton Evans Reece Mathematics Scholar, Elon University
J. Albert Carpenter Computing Sciences Scholar, Elon University
Richard Carlisle Haworth Mathematics Scholar, Elon University
Presidential Scholar, Elon University
Honors Fellow, Elon University
Graduate Coursework
History and Theory of New Media - Prof. Abigail De Kosnik
Questioning New Media - Prof. Jill Miller
Human Computer Interaction Research - Prof. Eric Paulos
Algorithmic Human Robot Interaction - Prof. Anca Dragan
Sound and Music Computing with CNMAT Technologies - Prof. Rama Gottfried
Computer Vision - Prof. Alexei Efros
Critical Making - Prof. Eric Paulos
Security in Computer Systems - Prof. Raluca Ada Popa
Computational Design and Fabrication - Prof. Jonathan Bachrach
Intro. to Machine Learning - Prof. Trevor Darrell & Prof. Alexei Efros
Internet of Everyday Things - Prof. David E. Culler
Sensing, Perception, and Natural Human-Device Interaction Technologies - Achin Bhowmik, Intel
Interactive Device Design - Prof. Björn Hartmann
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