J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira

According to our database, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira authored at least 33 papers between 2019 and 2026.

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2026

Misconception-Aware LLM Programming Tutor: Lessons Learned from Student-Tutor Interactions.

Rose Niousha, Samantha Boatright Smith, Abigail O'Neill, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, John DeNero, Narges Norouzi

Proceedings of the 57th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V.2, 2026

Instructors' Perspectives on LLM-Generated Programming Formative Feedback.

Rose Niousha, Samantha Boatright Smith, Abigail O'Neill, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, John DeNero, Narges Norouzi

Proceedings of the 57th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V.2, 2026

"Un-default" Behavior Tuning: Specifying Model Behavior outside the Norm with LLM Self-Playing and Self-Improving.

Soya Park, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Chinmay Kulkarni

Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2026

How Notations Evolve: A Historical Analysis with Implications for Supporting User-Defined Abstractions.

Jingyue Zhang, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Elena L. Glassman, Damien Masson, Ian Arawjo

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026

Herding CATs: Making Sense of Creative Activity Traces.

Max Kreminski, Amy Smith, John Joon Young Chung, Kihoon Son, Qian Yang, Sang Won Lee, Noor Hammad, Eric Rawn, Shm Garanganao Almeda, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026

2025

Model Behavior Specification by Leveraging LLM Self-Playing and Self-Improving.

Soya Park, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Chinmay Kulkarni

CoRR, March, 2025

61A Bot Report: AI Assistants in CS1 Save Students Homework Time and Reduce Demands on Staff. (Now What?).

J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Laryn Qi, Björn Hartmann, John DeNero, Narges Norouzi

Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1, 2025

Pensieve Discuss: Scalable Small-Group CS Tutoring System with AI.

Yoonseok Yang, Jack Liu, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, John DeNero

Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2, 2025

Spotting AI Missteps: Students Take on LLM Errors in CS1.

Samantha Boatright Smith, Heather Wei, Abby O'Neill, Aneesh Durai, John DeNero, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Narges Norouzi

Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2, 2025

From Code to Concepts: Textbook-Driven Knowledge Tracing with LLMs in CS1.

Abby O'Neill, Samantha Boatright Smith, Aneesh Durai, John DeNero, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Narges Norouzi

Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2, 2025

A Knowledge-Component-Based Methodology for Evaluating AI Assistants.

Laryn Qi, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Taehan Kim, Bjoern Hartmann, John DeNero, Narges Norouzi

Proceedings of the ACM Global on Computing Education Conference 2025 Vol 1, 2025

Beyond Code Generation: LLM-supported Exploration of the Program Design Space.

J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Eunice Jun, Michael Terry, Qian Yang, Bjoern Hartmann

Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

Rambler in the Wild: A Diary Study of LLM-Assisted Writing With Speech.

Xuyu Yang, Wengxi Li, Matthew G. Lee, Zhuoyang Li, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Can Liu

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

2024

61A-Bot: AI homework assistance in CS1 is fast and cheap - but is it helpful?

J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Laryn Qi, Björn Hartmann, John DeNero, Narges Norouzi

CoRR, 2024

SPADE: Synthesizing Assertions for Large Language Model Pipelines.

Shreya Shankar, Haotian Li, Parth Asawa, Madelon Hulsebos, Yiming Lin, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Harrison Chase, Will Fu-Hinthorn, Aditya G. Parameswaran, Eugene Wu

CoRR, 2024

Who Validates the Validators? Aligning LLM-Assisted Evaluation of LLM Outputs with Human Preferences.

Shreya Shankar, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Bjoern Hartmann, Aditya G. Parameswaran, Ian Arawjo

Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2024

Make This! Introduction to Electronics Prototyping Using Arduino.

David Sirkin, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Wendy Ju

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024

Rambler: Supporting Writing With Speech via LLM-Assisted Gist Manipulation.

Susan Lin, Jeremy Warner, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Matthew G. Lee, Sauhard Jain, Shanqing Cai, Piyawat Lertvittayakumjorn, Michael Xuelin Huang, Shumin Zhai, Bjoern Hartmann, Can Liu

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024

"Sit on me please": Investigating Perception of Furniture Robotic Movements Using Video Prototyping.

Ray LC, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Natalie Friedman, Kexue Fu, Yanheng Li, Wendy Ju

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024

Prompting for Discovery: Flexible Sense-Making for AI Art-Making with Dreamsheets.

Shm Garanganao Almeda, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Kyu Won Kim, Pradeep Mani Rathnam, Bjoern Hartmann

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024

2023

Conversation Regression Testing: A Design Technique for Prototyping Generalizable Prompt Strategies for Pre-trained Language Models.

J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Bjoern Hartmann, Qian Yang

CoRR, 2023

Towards Image Design Space Exploration in Spreadsheets with LLM Formulae.

J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Shm Garanganao Almeda, Kyu Won Kim, Bjoern Hartmann

Proceedings of the Adjunct Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2023

Detecting disparities in police deployments using dashcam data.

Matt Franchi, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Wendy Ju, Emma Pierson

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 2023

Why Johnny Can't Prompt: How Non-AI Experts Try (and Fail) to Design LLM Prompts.

J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Richmond Y. Wong, Bjoern Hartmann, Qian Yang

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023

Herding AI Cats: Lessons from Designing a Chatbot by Prompting GPT-3.

J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Heather Wei, Amy Xiao, Kitty Gu, Grace Jung, Matthew G. Lee, Bjoern Hartmann, Qian Yang

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2023

2022

Trucks Don't Mean Trump: Diagnosing Human Error in Image Analysis.

J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Jerry Chen, Emily Wen, Allison Koenecke, Nikhil Garg, Emma Pierson

Proceedings of the FAccT '22: 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Seoul, Republic of Korea, June 21, 2022

2021

Crowdsourcing County-Level Data on Early COVID-19 Policy Interventions in the United States: Technical Report.

Jacob Ritchie, Mark E. Whiting, Sorathan Chaturapruek, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Madhav V. Marathe, Achla Marathe, Stephen G. Eubank, Michael S. Bernstein

CoRR, 2021

Fake It to Make It: Exploratory Prototyping in HRI.

J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, David Sirkin, David Goedicke, Ray LC, Natalie Friedman, Ilan Mandel, Nikolas Martelaro, Wendy Ju

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2021

Democratizing Design and Fabrication Using Speech: Exploring co-design with a voice assistant.

Andrea Cuadra, David Goedicke, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira

Proceedings of the CUI 2021, 2021

2020

Tracking Urban Mobility and Occupancy under Social Distancing Policy.

Wendy Ju, Sharon Yavo-Ayalon, Ilan Mandel, Federico Saldarini, Natalie Friedman, Srinath Sibi, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Jorge Ortiz

Digit. Gov. Res. Pract., 2020

Make This! Introduction to Electronics Prototyping Using Arduino.

Nikolas Martelaro, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, David Goedicke, Wendy Ju

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020

2019

Heimdall: A Remotely Controlled Inspection Workbench For Debugging Microcontroller Projects.

Mitchell Karchemsky, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Kuan-Ju Wu, François Guimbretière, Bjoern Hartmann

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019

How People Experience Autonomous Intersections: Taking a First-Person Perspective.

Sven Krome, David Goedicke, Thomas J. Matarazzo, Zimeng Zhu, Zhenwei Zhang, J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Wendy Ju

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, 2019