About

I am a PhD student at the Carnegie Mellon University Human-Computer Interaction Institute, working with the Morphing Matter Lab and the DevLab, and informally with the Textiles Lab. My previous affiliations include Disney Research, the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, the Recurse Center, and the MAKESHOP at Children's Museum of Pittsburgh.

I used to post fairly frequently to Twitter. I'm trying to pivot to Mastodon, with lea@hci.social as my "professional" account for research-related discussion and lea@mastodon.social as more of an overall Twitter-replacer. My CV is available upon request.

My publications include:

Albaugh, L., Gonzalez, J., and Hudson, S. (2024). Tensions and Resolutions in Hybrid Basketry: Joining 3D Printing and Handweaving. Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’24). To appear.

Hofmann, M., Albaugh, L., Wang, T., Mankoff, M., and Hudson, S. (2023). KnitScript: A Domain-Specific Scripting Language for Advanced Machine Knitting. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’23). ACM, 2023.

Albaugh, L., Hudson, S., and Yao, L. (2023). Physically Situated Tools for Exploring a Grain Space in Computational Machine Knitting. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2023.

Albaugh, L., Hudson, S., and Yao, L. (2023). An Augmented Knitting Machine for Operational Assistance and Guided Improvisation. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2023.

Lee, Y. and Albaugh, L. (2021). Hybrid Embroidery Games: Playing with Materials, Machines, and People. Proceedings of the 2021 ACM on Designing Interactive Systems Conference. ACM, 2021.

Best Pictorial

Alves-Oliveira, P., Lupetti, M.L, Luria, M., Löffler, D., Gamboa, M., Albaugh, L., Kamino, W., Ostrowski, A. K., Puljiz, D., Reynolds-Cuéllar, P., Scheunemann, M., Suguitan, M., Lockton, D. (2021). Collection of Human-Robot Interaction Metaphors. Proceedings of the 2021 ACM on Designing Interactive Systems Conference. ACM, 2021.

Albaugh, L., McCann, J., Hudson, S., Yao, L. (2021). Engineering Multifunctional Spacer Fabrics by Machine Knitting. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2021.

Best Paper Honorable Mention

Albaugh, L., McCann, J., Yao, L., Hudson, S. (2021). Enabling Personal Computational Handweaving with a Low-Cost Jacquard Loom. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2021.

Albaugh, L., Hudson, S., Yao, L, and Devendorf, L. (2020). Investigating Underdetermination Through Interactive Computational Handweaving. Proceedings of the 2020 ACM on Designing Interactive Systems Conference. ACM, 2020.

Albaugh, L., Hudson, S., and Yao, L. (2019). Digital Fabrication of Soft Actuated Objects by Machine Knitting. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2019.

Hofmann, M., Albaugh, L., Sethapakdi, T., Hodgins, J., Hudson, S., McCann, J., and Mankoff, J. (2019). KnitPicking Textures: Programming and Modifying Complex Knitted Textures for Machine and Hand Knitting. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. ACM, 2019.

Narayanan, V., Albaugh, L., Hodgins, J., Coros, S., & McCann, J. (2018). Automatic machine knitting of 3D meshes. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 37(3), 35.

McCann, J., Albaugh, L., Narayanan, V., Grow, A., Matusik, W., Mankoff, J., & Hodgins, J. (2016). A compiler for 3D machine knitting. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 35(4), 49.

Albaugh, L., Grow, A., Liu, C., McCann, J., Smith, G., & Mankoff, J. (2016, May). Threadsteading: Playful Interaction for Textile Fabrication Devices. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 285-288). ACM.

I have given several talks with publicly-available recordings. My favorite somewhat recent one was on weaving and underdetermination, for the "Crafting Change" symposium at Oberlin in 2021. For older talks, videos and transcripts are available at my blog: Strange Loop 2018, on weaving notations; Strange Loop 2016 on languages for industrial knitting; at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry in 2015 on actuated clothing; and a 10-minute lightning talk at !!Con 2015, also on industrial knitting. There are additionally slides and notes available for my Strange Loop 2014 workshop on Inform 7.

I made this site with Jekyll and Sass, and the code is available at my Github.

Lea Albaugh