Judith E. Fan

85 papers A* 6B 50Journal 23Unranked 6
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 — conf
Data Literacy for the 21st Century: Perspectives from Visualization, Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Education.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Lily W. Ge, Michael S. Horn, Duri Long, Judith E. Fan, Matthew Kay
2026 A* conf
Gesturing Toward Abstraction: Multimodal Convention Formation in Collaborative Physical Tasks.
CHI
Kiyosu Maeda, William P. McCarthy, Ching-Yi Tsai, Jeffrey Mu, Haoliang Wang, Robert D. Hawkins, Judith E. Fan, Parastoo Abtahi
2026 J jnl
Gesturing Toward Abstraction: Multimodal Convention Formation in Collaborative Physical Tasks.
CoRR
Kiyosu Maeda, William P. McCarthy, Ching-Yi Tsai, Jeffrey Mu, Haoliang Wang, Robert D. Hawkins, Judith E. Fan, Parastoo Abtahi
2026 A* conf
Presenting Large Language Models as Companions Affects What Mental Capacities People Attribute to Them.
CHI
Allison Chen, Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Angel Nathaniel Franyutti-Cintron, Amaya Dharmasiri, Kushin Mukherjee, Olga Russakovsky, Judith E. Fan
2025 J jnl
CHART-6: Human-Centered Evaluation of Data Visualization Understanding in Vision-Language Models.
CoRR
Arnav Verma, Kushin Mukherjee, Christopher Potts, Elisa Kreiss, Judith E. Fan
2025 B conf
Consequences of prior experience on visual problem solving.
CogSci
Sean P. Anderson, Lionel Wong, Maddy Bowers, Judith E. Fan
2025 J jnl
Diagnosing Bottlenecks in Data Visualization Understanding by Vision-Language Models.
CoRR
Alexa R. Tartaglini, Satchel Grant, Daniel Wurgaft, Christopher Potts, Judith E. Fan
2025 B conf
Exploring the mechanisms that enable multimodal reasoning about data visualizations in vision-language models.
CogSci
Alexa R. Tartaglini, Christopher Potts, Judith E. Fan
2025 B conf
How do we get to know someone? Diagnostic questions for inferring personal traits.
CogSci
Erik Brockbank, Tobias Gerstenberg, Judith E. Fan, Robert D. Hawkins
2025 J jnl
Humans Select Subgoals That Balance Immediate and Future Cognitive Costs During Physical Assembly.
Cogn. Sci.
Felix J. Binder, Marcelo Gomes Mattar, David Kirsh, Judith E. Fan
2025 B conf
Investigating children's performance on object- and picture-based vocabulary assessments in global contexts: Evidence from Kisumu, Kenya.
CogSci
Rebecca Zhu, Tabitha Nduku, Joab Ochieng Arieda, Arnav Verma, Judith E. Fan, Michael C. Frank
2025 B conf
Linking student psychological orientation, engagement, and learning in college-level introductory data science.
CogSci
Kristine Zheng, Erik Brockbank, Shawn T. Schwartz, David Yeager, Christopher Bryan, Carol S. Dweck, Judith E. Fan
2025 B conf
Measuring and predicting variation in the difficulty of questions about data visualizations.
CogSci
Arnav Verma, Judith E. Fan
2025 J jnl
Measuring and predicting variation in the difficulty of questions about data visualizations.
CoRR
Arnav Verma, Judith E. Fan
2025 B conf
Measuring sustained attention across timescales to predict learning in real-world environments.
CogSci
Shawn T. Schwartz, Kristine Zheng, Judith E. Fan
2025 B conf
Minds at School: Advancing cognitive science by measuring and modeling human learning in situ.
CogSci
Judith E. Fan, Kristine Zheng, Benjamin A. Motz, Shayan Doroudi, Ji Son, Candace Thille
2025 B conf
Minds in the Making: Cognitive Science and Design Thinking.
CogSci
Junyi Chu, Arnav Verma, Guy Davidson, Robbie Fraser, Judith E. Fan
2025 B conf
Perception as a Foundation for Common-Sense Theories of the World.
CogSci
Abdul-Rahim Deeb, Kevin A. Smith, Shari Liu, Judith E. Fan
2025 — conf
Portraying Large Language Models as Machines, Tools, or Companions Affects What Mental Capacities Humans Attribute to Them.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Allison Chen, Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Amaya Dharmasiri, Olga Russakovsky, Judith E. Fan
2025 B conf
Portraying Large Language Models as Machines, Tools, or Companions Affects What Mental Capacities People Attribute to Them.
CogSci
Allison Chen, Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Amaya Dharmasiri, Olga Russakovsky, Judith E. Fan
2025 J jnl
Presenting Large Language Models as Companions Affects What Mental Capacities People Attribute to Them.
CoRR
Allison Chen, Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Angel Nathaniel Franyutti-Cintron, Amaya Dharmasiri, Kushin Mukherjee, Olga Russakovsky, Judith E. Fan
2025 A* conf
SketchAgent: Language-Driven Sequential Sketch Generation.
CVPR
Yael Vinker, Tamar Rott Shaham, Kristine Zheng, Alex Zhao, Judith E. Fan, Antonio Torralba
2025 J jnl
Understanding Human Limits in Pattern Recognition: A Computational Model of Sequential Reasoning in Rock, Paper, Scissors.
CoRR
Logan Matthew Cross, Erik Brockbank, Tobias Gerstenberg, Judith E. Fan, Daniel L. K. Yamins, Nick Haber
2025 B conf
Using Gesture and Language to Establish Multimodal Conventions in Collaborative Physical Tasks.
CogSci
Kiyosu Maeda, Ching-Yi Tsai, Judith E. Fan, Parastoo Abtahi
2025 B conf
What makes people think a puzzle is fun to solve?
CogSci
Junyi Chu, Kristine Zheng, Judith E. Fan
2025 — conf
mrCAD: Multimodal Communication to Refine Computer-aided Designs.
EMNLP (Findings)
William P. McCarthy, Saujas Vaduguru, Karl D. D. Willis, Justin Matejka, Judith E. Fan, Daniel Fried, Yewen Pu
2025 J jnl
mrCAD: Multimodal Refinement of Computer-aided Designs.
CoRR
William P. McCarthy, Saujas Vaduguru, Karl D. D. Willis, Justin Matejka, Judith E. Fan, Daniel Fried, Yewen Pu
2024 B conf
COGGRAPH: Building bridges between cognitive science and computer graphics.
CogSci
Kartik Chandra, Anne H. K. Harrington, Katherine M. Collins, Christopher J. Kymn, Kushin Mukherjee, Sean P. Anderson, Arnav Verma, Judith E. Fan
2024 B conf
Communicating Design Intent Using Drawing and Text.
Creativity & Cognition
William P. McCarthy, Justin Matejka, Karl D. D. Willis, Judith E. Fan, Yewen Pu
2024 B conf
Evaluating human and machine understanding of data visualizations.
CogSci
Arnav Verma, Kushin Mukherjee, Christopher Potts, Elisa Kreiss, Judith E. Fan
2024 B conf
How do video content creation goals impact which concepts people prioritize for generating B-roll imagery?
Creativity & Cognition
Holly Huey, Mackenzie Leake, Deepali Aneja, Matthew Fisher, Judith E. Fan
2024 B conf
How does assembling an object affect memory for it?
CogSci
William P. McCarthy, Sean P. Anderson, Judith E. Fan
2024 B conf
Probabilistic simulation supports generalizable intuitive physics.
CogSci
Haoliang Wang, Khaled Jedoui, Rahul Mysore Venkatesh, Felix Jedidja Binder, Josh Tenenbaum, Judith E. Fan, Daniel Yamins, Kevin A. Smith
2024 J jnl
SketchAgent: Language-Driven Sequential Sketch Generation.
CoRR
Yael Vinker, Tamar Rott Shaham, Kristine Zheng, Alex Zhao, Judith E. Fan, Antonio Torralba
2024 — conf
Understanding Physical Dynamics with Counterfactual World Modeling.
ECCV (24)
Rahul Mysore Venkatesh, Honglin Chen, Kevin T. Feigelis, Daniel M. Bear, Khaled Jedoui, Klemen Kotar, Felix J. Binder, Wanhee Lee, Sherry Liu, Kevin A. Smith, Judith E. Fan, Daniel L. K. Yamins
2024 B conf
Without his cookies, he's just a monster: a counterfactual simulation model of social explanation.
CogSci
Erik Brockbank, Justin Yang, Mishika Govil, Judith E. Fan, Tobias Gerstenberg
2023 B conf
Advancing Cognitive Science and AI with Cognitive-AI Benchmarking.
CogSci
Felix Jedidja Binder, Logan Matthew Cross, Yoni Friedman, Robert D. Hawkins, Daniel L. K. Yamins, Judith E. Fan
2023 J jnl
Consistency and Variation in Reasoning About Physical Assembly.
Cogn. Sci.
William P. McCarthy, David Kirsh, Judith E. Fan
2023 J jnl
Counterfactual World Modeling for Physical Dynamics Understanding.
CoRR
Rahul Mysore Venkatesh, Honglin Chen, Kevin T. Feigelis, Daniel M. Bear, Khaled Jedoui, Klemen Kotar, Felix J. Binder, Wanhee Lee, Sherry Liu, Kevin A. Smith, Judith E. Fan, Daniel L. K. Yamins
2023 B conf
Evaluating machine comprehension of sketch meaning at different levels of abstraction.
CogSci
Kushin Mukherjee, Xuanchen Lu, Holly Huey, Yael Vinker, Rio Aguina-Kang, Ariel Shamir, Judith E. Fan
2023 B conf
How do communicative goals guide which data visualizations people think are effective?
CogSci
Holly Huey, Lauren Oey, Hannah Lloyd, Judith E. Fan
2023 B conf
How does the mind discover useful abstractions?
CogSci
Marcelo Gomes Mattar, Judith E. Fan, Wai Keen Vong, Lionel Wong
2023 B conf
Humans choose visual subgoals to reduce cognitive cost.
CogSci
Felix Jedidja Binder, Marcelo Gomes Mattar, David Kirsh, Judith E. Fan
2023 A* conf
Learning Dense Correspondences between Photos and Sketches.
ICML
Xuanchen Lu, Xiaolong Wang, Judith E. Fan
2023 J jnl
Learning Dense Correspondences between Photos and Sketches.
CoRR
Xuanchen Lu, Xiaolong Wang, Judith E. Fan
2023 B conf
Marks and Meanings: new perspectives on the evolution of human symbolic behavior.
CogSci
Kristian Tylén, Mathias Sablé-Meyer, Judith E. Fan, Michelle C. Langley
2023 B conf
Measuring and Modeling Physical Intrinsic Motivation.
CogSci
Julio Martinez, Felix Jedidja Binder, Haoliang Wang, Nick Haber, Judith E. Fan, Daniel Yamins
2023 J jnl
Measuring and Modeling Physical Intrinsic Motivation.
CoRR
Julio Martinez, Felix J. Binder, Haoliang Wang, Nick Haber, Judith E. Fan, Daniel L. K. Yamins
2023 A* conf
Physion++: Evaluating Physical Scene Understanding that Requires Online Inference of Different Physical Properties.
NeurIPS
Hsiao-Yu Tung, Mingyu Ding, Zhenfang Chen, Daniel Bear, Chuang Gan, Josh Tenenbaum, Dan Yamins, Judith E. Fan, Kevin A. Smith
2023 J jnl
Physion++: Evaluating Physical Scene Understanding that Requires Online Inference of Different Physical Properties.
CoRR
Hsiao-Yu Tung, Mingyu Ding, Zhenfang Chen, Daniel Bear, Chuang Gan, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Daniel L. K. Yamins, Judith E. Fan, Kevin A. Smith
2023 A* conf
SEVA: Leveraging sketches to evaluate alignment between human and machine visual abstraction.
NeurIPS
Kushin Mukherjee, Holly Huey, Xuanchen Lu, Yael Vinker, Rio Aguina-Kang, Ariel Shamir, Judith E. Fan
2023 J jnl
SEVA: Leveraging sketches to evaluate alignment between human and machine visual abstraction.
CoRR
Kushin Mukherjee, Holly Huey, Xuanchen Lu, Yael Vinker, Rio Aguina-Kang, Ariel Shamir, Judith E. Fan
2023 B conf
What is graph comprehension and how do you measure it?
CogSci
Hannah Lloyd, Holly Huey, Erik Brockbank, Lace M. K. Padilla, Judith E. Fan
2022 B conf
Communicating understanding of physical dynamics in natural language.
CogSci
Haoliang Wang, Jane Yang, Ronen Tamari, Judith E. Fan
2022 B conf
Decomposing objects into parts from vision and language.
CogSci
Maneesha Nagabandi, Justin Yang, Holly Huey, Judith E. Fan
2022 B conf
Developmental changes in the semantic part structure of drawn objects.
CogSci
Holly Huey, Bria Long, Justin Yang, Kaylee R. George, Judith E. Fan
2022 B conf
From Images to Symbols: Drawing as a Window into the Mind.
CogSci
Kushin Mukherjee, Holly Huey, Timothy T. Rogers, Judith E. Fan
2022 B conf
Generalizing physical prediction by composing forces and objects.
CogSci
Haoliang Wang, Kelsey R. Allen, Ed Vul, Judith E. Fan
2022 B conf
How do people incorporate advice from artificial agents when making physical judgments?
CogSci
Erik Brockbank, Haoliang Wang, Justin Yang, Suvir Mirchandani, Erdem Biyik, Dorsa Sadigh, Judith E. Fan
2022 J jnl
How do people incorporate advice from artificial agents when making physical judgments?
CoRR
Erik Brockbank, Haoliang Wang, Justin Yang, Suvir Mirchandani, Erdem Biyik, Dorsa Sadigh, Judith E. Fan
2022 B conf
Identifying concept libraries from language about object structure.
CogSci
Catherine Wong, William P. McCarthy, Gabriel Grand, Yoni Friedman, Josh Tenenbaum, Jacob Andreas, Robert D. Hawkins, Judith E. Fan
2022 J jnl
Identifying concept libraries from language about object structure.
CoRR
Catherine Wong, William P. McCarthy, Gabriel Grand, Yoni Friedman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Jacob Andreas, Robert D. Hawkins, Judith E. Fan
2021 B conf
Connecting perceptual and procedural abstractions in physical construction.
CogSci
William P. McCarthy, Marcelo Gomes Mattar, David Kirsh, Judith E. Fan
2021 B conf
How do the semantic properties of visual explanations guide causal inference?
CogSci
Holly Huey, Caren M. Walker, Judith E. Fan
2021 B conf
Improvised Numerals Rely on 1-to-1 Correspondence.
CogSci
Sebastian Holt, David Barner, Judith E. Fan
2021 B conf
Learning part-based abstractions for visual object concepts.
CogSci
Haoliang Wang, Nadia Polikarpova, Judith E. Fan
2021 B conf
Learning to communicate about shared procedural abstractions.
CogSci
William P. McCarthy, Robert D. Hawkins, Haoliang Wang, Cameron Holdaway, Judith E. Fan
2021 J jnl
Learning to communicate about shared procedural abstractions.
CoRR
William P. McCarthy, Robert D. Hawkins, Haoliang Wang, Cameron Holdaway, Judith E. Fan
2021 B conf
Measuring and predicting variation in the interestingness of physical structures.
CogSci
Cameron Holdaway, Daniel M. Bear, Samaher Radwan, Michael C. Frank, Daniel L. K. Yamins, Judith E. Fan
2021 — conf
Physion: Evaluating Physical Prediction from Vision in Humans and Machines.
NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks
Daniel Bear, Elias Wang, Damian Mrowca, Felix J. Binder, Hsiao-Yu Tung, R. T. Pramod, Cameron Holdaway, Sirui Tao, Kevin A. Smith, Fan-Yun Sun, Fei-Fei Li, Nancy Kanwisher, Josh Tenenbaum, Dan Yamins, Judith E. Fan
2021 J jnl
Physion: Evaluating Physical Prediction from Vision in Humans and Machines.
CoRR
Daniel M. Bear, Elias Wang, Damian Mrowca, Felix J. Binder, Hsiau-Yu Fish Tung, R. T. Pramod, Cameron Holdaway, Sirui Tao, Kevin A. Smith, Fan-Yun Sun, Li Fei-Fei, Nancy Kanwisher, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Daniel L. K. Yamins, Judith E. Fan
2021 B conf
Predicting children's and adults' preferences in physical interactions via physics simulation.
CogSci
George Kachergis, Samaher Radwan, Bria Long, Judith E. Fan, Michael Lingelbach, Daniel M. Bear, Daniel L. K. Yamins, Michael C. Frank
2021 B conf
Theory Acquisition as Constraint-Based Program Synthesis.
CogSci
Haoliang Wang, Ed Vul, Nadia Polikarpova, Judith E. Fan
2021 B conf
Visual communication of object concepts at different levels of abstraction.
CogSci
Justin Yang, Judith E. Fan
2021 J jnl
Visual communication of object concepts at different levels of abstraction.
CoRR
Justin Yang, Judith E. Fan
2021 J jnl
Visual resemblance and communicative context constrain the emergence of graphical conventions.
CoRR
Robert D. Hawkins, Megumi Sano, Noah D. Goodman, Judith E. Fan
2021 B conf
Visual scoping operations for physical assembly.
CogSci
Felix Jedidja Binder, Marcelo Gomes Mattar, David Kirsh, Judith E. Fan
2021 J jnl
Visual scoping operations for physical assembly.
CoRR
Felix J. Binder, Marcelo M. Mattar, David Kirsh, Judith E. Fan
2020 B conf
Learning to build physical structures better over time.
CogSci
William P. McCarthy, David Kirsh, Judith E. Fan
2020 B conf
Schema and Metadata Guide the Collective Generation of Relevant and Diverse Work.
HCOMP
Xiaotong (Tone) Xu, Judith E. Fan, Steven P. Dow
2019 B conf
collabdraw: An Environment for Collaborative Sketching with an Artificial Agent.
Creativity & Cognition
Judith E. Fan, Monica Dinculescu, David Ha
2018 J jnl
Common Object Representations for Visual Production and Recognition.
Cogn. Sci.
Judith E. Fan, Daniel L. K. Yamins, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne
2018 B conf
Drawings as a window into developmental changes in object representations.
CogSci
Bria Long, Judith E. Fan, Michael C. Frank
2015 B conf
Common object representations for visual recognition and production.
CogSci
Judith E. Fan, Daniel Yamins, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne
2014 — conf
Mapping core similarity among visual objects across image modalities.
SIGGRAPH Posters
Judith E. Fan, Daniel Yamins, James J. DiCarlo, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne