Portrait of James McCann
Associate Professor
Home Department: RI
Office: 229 Elliot Dunlap Smith Hall
Administrative Assistant: Brian Hutchison
Mailing Address

I build creative tools — software and hardware that help people make things. I am particularly interested in systems that operate in real-time and build user intuition. I’ve been applying these ideas to textiles fabrication and machine knitting as the leader of the Carnegie Mellon Textiles Lab; as well as to other domains including robotic painting, real-time graphics, and visual music production.

Displaying 44 Publications

2023
Zilin Si, Tianhong Catherine Yu, Katrene Morozov, James McCann, and Wenzhen Yuan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, July, 2023
2020
Nur Yildirim, James McCann, and John Zimmerman
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20), April, 2020
2019
Megan Hofmann, Lea Albaugh, Ticha Sethapakadi, Jessica Hodgins, Scott E. Hudson, James McCann, and Jennifer Mankoff
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '19), pp. 5 - 16, October, 2019
E. Ulu, J. McCann, and L. B. Kara
Journal Article, Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 38, No. 5, pp. 85 - 98, August, 2019
Vidya Narayanan, Kui Wu, Cem Yuksel, and James McCann
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 38, No. 4, July, 2019
Yifei Li, David E. Breen, James McCann, and Jessica Hodgins
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 45th Graphics Interface Conference (GI '19), May, 2019
T. Sethapakdi and J. McCann
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19), May, 2019
Ruta Desai, Fraser Anderson, Justin Matejka, Stelian Coros, James McCann, George W. Fitzmaurice, and Tovi Grossman
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19), May, 2019
2018
Ruta Desai, James McCann, and Stelian Coros
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '18), pp. 457 - 472, October, 2018
V. Narayanan, L. Albaugh, J. Hodgins, S. Coros, and J. McCann
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - Special Issue On Production Rendering, Vol. 37, No. 3, August, 2018

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