Judith E. Fan

According to our database, Judith E. Fan authored at least 73 papers between 2014 and 2026.

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2026

Gesturing Toward Abstraction: Multimodal Convention Formation in Collaborative Physical Tasks.

Kiyosu Maeda, William P. McCarthy, Ching-Yi Tsai, Jeffrey Mu, Haoliang Wang, Robert D. Hawkins, Judith E. Fan, Parastoo Abtahi

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

Data Literacy for the 21st Century: Perspectives from Visualization, Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Education.

Lily W. Ge, Michael S. Horn, Duri Long, Judith E. Fan, Matthew Kay

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

Presenting Large Language Models as Companions Affects What Mental Capacities People Attribute to Them.

Allison Chen, Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Angel Nathaniel Franyutti-Cintron, Amaya Dharmasiri, Kushin Mukherjee, Olga Russakovsky, Judith E. Fan

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

2025

Diagnosing Bottlenecks in Data Visualization Understanding by Vision-Language Models.

Alexa R. Tartaglini, Satchel Grant, Daniel Wurgaft, Christopher Potts, Judith E. Fan

CoRR, October, 2025

Understanding Human Limits in Pattern Recognition: A Computational Model of Sequential Reasoning in Rock, Paper, Scissors.

Logan Matthew Cross, Erik Brockbank, Tobias Gerstenberg, Judith E. Fan, Daniel L. K. Yamins, Nick Haber

CoRR, August, 2025

CHART-6: Human-Centered Evaluation of Data Visualization Understanding in Vision-Language Models.

Arnav Verma, Kushin Mukherjee, Christopher Potts, Elisa Kreiss, Judith E. Fan

CoRR, May, 2025

mrCAD: Multimodal Refinement of Computer-aided Designs.

William P. McCarthy, Saujas Vaduguru, Karl D. D. Willis, Justin Matejka, Judith E. Fan, Daniel Fried, Yewen Pu

CoRR, April, 2025

Humans Select Subgoals That Balance Immediate and Future Cognitive Costs During Physical Assembly.

Felix J. Binder, Marcelo Gomes Mattar, David Kirsh, Judith E. Fan

Cogn. Sci., 2025

mrCAD: Multimodal Communication to Refine Computer-aided Designs.

William P. McCarthy, Saujas Vaduguru, Karl D. D. Willis, Justin Matejka, Judith E. Fan, Daniel Fried, Yewen Pu

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, 2025

SketchAgent: Language-Driven Sequential Sketch Generation.

Yael Vinker, Tamar Rott Shaham, Kristine Zheng, Alex Zhao, Judith E. Fan, Antonio Torralba

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2025

Investigating children's performance on object- and picture-based vocabulary assessments in global contexts: Evidence from Kisumu, Kenya.

Rebecca Zhu, Tabitha Nduku, Joab Ochieng Arieda, Arnav Verma, Judith E. Fan, Michael C. Frank

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Linking student psychological orientation, engagement, and learning in college-level introductory data science.

Kristine Zheng, Erik Brockbank, Shawn T. Schwartz, David Yeager, Christopher Bryan, Carol S. Dweck, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Measuring and predicting variation in the difficulty of questions about data visualizations.

Arnav Verma, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Exploring the mechanisms that enable multimodal reasoning about data visualizations in vision-language models.

Alexa R. Tartaglini, Christopher Potts, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Measuring sustained attention across timescales to predict learning in real-world environments.

Shawn T. Schwartz, Kristine Zheng, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Using Gesture and Language to Establish Multimodal Conventions in Collaborative Physical Tasks.

Kiyosu Maeda, Ching-Yi Tsai, Judith E. Fan, Parastoo Abtahi

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Minds at School: Advancing cognitive science by measuring and modeling human learning in situ.

Judith E. Fan, Kristine Zheng, Benjamin A. Motz, Shayan Doroudi, Ji Son, Candace Thille

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Perception as a Foundation for Common-Sense Theories of the World.

Abdul-Rahim Deeb, Kevin A. Smith, Shari Liu, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

What makes people think a puzzle is fun to solve?

Junyi Chu, Kristine Zheng, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Minds in the Making: Cognitive Science and Design Thinking.

Junyi Chu, Arnav Verma, Guy Davidson, Robbie Fraser, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Portraying Large Language Models as Machines, Tools, or Companions Affects What Mental Capacities People Attribute to Them.

Allison Chen, Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Amaya Dharmasiri, Olga Russakovsky, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

How do we get to know someone? Diagnostic questions for inferring personal traits.

Erik Brockbank, Tobias Gerstenberg, Judith E. Fan, Robert D. Hawkins

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Consequences of prior experience on visual problem solving.

Sean P. Anderson, Lionel Wong, Maddy Bowers, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Portraying Large Language Models as Machines, Tools, or Companions Affects What Mental Capacities Humans Attribute to Them.

Allison Chen, Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Amaya Dharmasiri, Olga Russakovsky, Judith E. Fan

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

2024

Understanding Physical Dynamics with Counterfactual World Modeling.

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

Proceedings of the Computer Vision - ECCV 2024, 2024

Probabilistic simulation supports generalizable intuitive physics.

Haoliang Wang, Khaled Jedoui, Rahul Mysore Venkatesh, Felix Jedidja Binder, Josh Tenenbaum, Judith E. Fan, Daniel Yamins, Kevin A. Smith

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

Evaluating human and machine understanding of data visualizations.

Arnav Verma, Kushin Mukherjee, Christopher Potts, Elisa Kreiss, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

How does assembling an object affect memory for it?

William P. McCarthy, Sean P. Anderson, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

COGGRAPH: Building bridges between cognitive science and computer graphics.

Kartik Chandra, Anne H. K. Harrington, Katherine M. Collins, Christopher J. Kymn, Kushin Mukherjee, Sean P. Anderson, Arnav Verma, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

Without his cookies, he's just a monster: a counterfactual simulation model of social explanation.

Erik Brockbank, Justin Yang, Mishika Govil, Judith E. Fan, Tobias Gerstenberg

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

Communicating Design Intent Using Drawing and Text.

William P. McCarthy, Justin Matejka, Karl D. D. Willis, Judith E. Fan, Yewen Pu

Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Creativity & Cognition, 2024

How do video content creation goals impact which concepts people prioritize for generating B-roll imagery?

Holly Huey, Mackenzie Leake, Deepali Aneja, Matthew Fisher, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Creativity & Cognition, 2024

2023

Consistency and Variation in Reasoning About Physical Assembly.

William P. McCarthy, David Kirsh, Judith E. Fan

Cogn. Sci., December, 2023

Counterfactual World Modeling for Physical Dynamics Understanding.

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

CoRR, 2023

Physion++: Evaluating Physical Scene Understanding that Requires Online Inference of Different Physical Properties.

Hsiao-Yu Tung, Mingyu Ding, Zhenfang Chen, Daniel Bear, Chuang Gan, Josh Tenenbaum, Dan Yamins, Judith E. Fan, Kevin A. Smith

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

SEVA: Leveraging sketches to evaluate alignment between human and machine visual abstraction.

Kushin Mukherjee, Holly Huey, Xuanchen Lu, Yael Vinker, Rio Aguina-Kang, Ariel Shamir, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

Learning Dense Correspondences between Photos and Sketches.

Xuanchen Lu, Xiaolong Wang, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, 2023

Marks and Meanings: new perspectives on the evolution of human symbolic behavior.

Kristian Tylén, Mathias Sablé-Meyer, Judith E. Fan, Michelle C. Langley

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Evaluating machine comprehension of sketch meaning at different levels of abstraction.

Kushin Mukherjee, Xuanchen Lu, Holly Huey, Yael Vinker, Rio Aguina-Kang, Ariel Shamir, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

How does the mind discover useful abstractions?

Marcelo Gomes Mattar, Judith E. Fan, Wai Keen Vong, Lionel Wong

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Measuring and Modeling Physical Intrinsic Motivation.

Julio Martinez, Felix Jedidja Binder, Haoliang Wang, Nick Haber, Judith E. Fan, Daniel Yamins

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

What is graph comprehension and how do you measure it?

Hannah Lloyd, Holly Huey, Erik Brockbank, Lace M. K. Padilla, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

How do communicative goals guide which data visualizations people think are effective?

Holly Huey, Lauren Oey, Hannah Lloyd, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Humans choose visual subgoals to reduce cognitive cost.

Felix Jedidja Binder, Marcelo Gomes Mattar, David Kirsh, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Advancing Cognitive Science and AI with Cognitive-AI Benchmarking.

Felix Jedidja Binder, Logan Matthew Cross, Yoni Friedman, Robert D. Hawkins, Daniel L. K. Yamins, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

2022

Identifying concept libraries from language about object structure.

Catherine Wong, William P. McCarthy, Gabriel Grand, Yoni Friedman, Josh Tenenbaum, Jacob Andreas, Robert D. Hawkins, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Communicating understanding of physical dynamics in natural language.

Haoliang Wang, Jane Yang, Ronen Tamari, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Generalizing physical prediction by composing forces and objects.

Haoliang Wang, Kelsey R. Allen, Ed Vul, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Decomposing objects into parts from vision and language.

Maneesha Nagabandi, Justin Yang, Holly Huey, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

From Images to Symbols: Drawing as a Window into the Mind.

Kushin Mukherjee, Holly Huey, Timothy T. Rogers, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Developmental changes in the semantic part structure of drawn objects.

Holly Huey, Bria Long, Justin Yang, Kaylee R. George, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

How do people incorporate advice from artificial agents when making physical judgments?

Erik Brockbank, Haoliang Wang, Justin Yang, Suvir Mirchandani, Erdem Biyik, Dorsa Sadigh, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

2021

Visual resemblance and communicative context constrain the emergence of graphical conventions.

Robert D. Hawkins, Megumi Sano, Noah D. Goodman, Judith E. Fan

CoRR, 2021

Physion: Evaluating Physical Prediction from Vision in Humans and Machines.

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

CoRR, 2021

Visual scoping operations for physical assembly.

Felix J. Binder, Marcelo M. Mattar, David Kirsh, Judith E. Fan

CoRR, 2021

Physion: Evaluating Physical Prediction from Vision in Humans and Machines.

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

Proceedings of the Neural Information Processing Systems Track on Datasets and Benchmarks 1, 2021

Visual communication of object concepts at different levels of abstraction.

Justin Yang, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Theory Acquisition as Constraint-Based Program Synthesis.

Haoliang Wang, Ed Vul, Nadia Polikarpova, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Learning part-based abstractions for visual object concepts.

Haoliang Wang, Nadia Polikarpova, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Connecting perceptual and procedural abstractions in physical construction.

William P. McCarthy, Marcelo Gomes Mattar, David Kirsh, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Learning to communicate about shared procedural abstractions.

William P. McCarthy, Robert D. Hawkins, Haoliang Wang, Cameron Holdaway, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Predicting children's and adults' preferences in physical interactions via physics simulation.

George Kachergis, Samaher Radwan, Bria Long, Judith E. Fan, Michael Lingelbach, Daniel M. Bear, Daniel L. K. Yamins, Michael C. Frank

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

How do the semantic properties of visual explanations guide causal inference?

Holly Huey, Caren M. Walker, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Improvised Numerals Rely on 1-to-1 Correspondence.

Sebastian Holt, David Barner, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Measuring and predicting variation in the interestingness of physical structures.

Cameron Holdaway, Daniel M. Bear, Samaher Radwan, Michael C. Frank, Daniel L. K. Yamins, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Visual scoping operations for physical assembly.

Felix Jedidja Binder, Marcelo Gomes Mattar, David Kirsh, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

2020

Schema and Metadata Guide the Collective Generation of Relevant and Diverse Work.

Xiaotong (Tone) Xu, Judith E. Fan, Steven P. Dow

Proceedings of the Eighth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 2020

Learning to build physical structures better over time.

William P. McCarthy, David Kirsh, Judith E. Fan

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

2019

collabdraw: An Environment for Collaborative Sketching with an Artificial Agent.

Judith E. Fan, Monica Dinculescu, David Ha

Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 2019

2018

Common Object Representations for Visual Production and Recognition.

Judith E. Fan, Daniel L. K. Yamins, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne

Cogn. Sci., 2018

Drawings as a window into developmental changes in object representations.

Bria Long, Judith E. Fan, Michael C. Frank

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

2015

Common object representations for visual recognition and production.

Judith E. Fan, Daniel Yamins, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

2014

Mapping core similarity among visual objects across image modalities.

Judith E. Fan, Daniel Yamins, James J. DiCarlo, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne

Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference, 2014