Stephen MacNeil

According to our database, Stephen MacNeil authored at least 79 papers between 2013 and 2025.

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2025

Helping or Homogenizing? GenAI as a Design Partner to Pre-Service SLPs for Just-in-Time Programming of AAC.

Cynthia Zastudil, Christine Holyfield, Christine Kapp, Kate Hamilton, Kriti Baru, Liam Newsam, June A. Smith, Stephen MacNeil

CoRR, July, 2025

Conversations over Clicks: Impact of Chatbots on Information Search in Interdisciplinary Learning.

Hannah Kim, Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Stephen MacNeil

CoRR, July, 2025

Neurodiversity in Computing Education Research: A Systematic Literature Review.

Cynthia Zastudil, David H. Smith IV, Yusef Tohamy, Rayhona Nasimova, Gavin Montross, Stephen MacNeil

CoRR, April, 2025

Exploring Student Behaviors and Motivations using AI TAs with Optional Guardrails.

Amanpreet Kapoor, Marc Diaz, Stephen MacNeil, Leo Porter, Paul Denny

CoRR, April, 2025

Exploring Engagement Opportunities for Autistic Children: Using AAC as a Controller in a Wizard-of-Oz Coloring Game.

Elizabeth Garrison, Stephen MacNeil, Elizabeth R. Lorah, Christine Holyfield, Slobodan Vucetic

Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2025

Hacking Student Leadership: Peer Mentorship and Leadership Skill Development Among Hackathon Organizers.

Kush Patel, Andrew Tran, Christine Kapp, Daniel Bicalho, Yatri Patel, Chiku Okechukwu, Egi Rama, Stephen MacNeil

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

Exploring Student Reactions to LLM-Generated Feedback on Explain in Plain English Problems.

Chris Kerslake, Paul Denny, David H. Smith, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Brett A. Becker

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

The Evolving Usage of GenAI by Computing Students.

Irene Hou, Hannah Vy Nguyen, Owen Man, Stephen MacNeil

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

Lightweight Social Computing Tools for Undergraduate Research Community Building.

Noel Chacko, Hannah Vy Nguyen, Sophie Chen, Stephen MacNeil

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

Evaluating the Impact of AI-Generated Visual Explanations on Decision-Making for Image Matching.

Albatool Wazzan, Marcus Wright, Stephen MacNeil, Richard Souvenir

Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2025

Neurodiversity in Computing Education Research: A Systematic Literature Review.

Cynthia Zastudil, David H. Smith, Yusef Tohamy, Rayhona Nasimova, Gavin Montross, Stephen MacNeil

Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1, 2025

A Plan for an ACM Task Force Working Group into the Ethical and Societal Impacts of Generative AI in Higher Computing Education.

Janice Mak, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Alison Clear, Tony Clear, Ismaila Temitayo Sanusi, Judy Sheard, Lorenzo Angeli, Matthew Hale Rattigan, Oana Andrei, Samuel Mann, Solomon Sunday Oyelere, Stephen MacNeil, Tingting Zhu

Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 2, 2025

Fostering Responsible AI Use Through Negative Expertise: A Contextualized Autocompletion Quiz.

Stephen MacNeil, James Prather, Rahad Arman Nabid, Sebastian Gutierrez, Silas Carvalho, Saimon Shrestha, Paul Denny, Brent N. Reeves, Juho Leinonen, Rachel Louise Rossetti

Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1, 2025

The Role of Generative AI in Software Student CollaborAItion.

Natalie Kiesler, Jacqueline Smith, Juho Leinonen, Armando Fox, Stephen MacNeil, Petri Ihantola

Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1, 2025

'All Roads Lead to ChatGPT': How Generative AI is Eroding Social Interactions and Student Learning Communities.

Irene Hou, Owen Man, Kate Hamilton, Srishty Muthusekaran, Jeffin Johnykutty, Leili Zadeh, Stephen MacNeil

Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1, 2025

Probing the Unknown: Exploring Student Interactions with Probeable Problems at Scale in Introductory Programming.

Paul Denny, Viraj Kumar, Stephen MacNeil, James Prather, Juho Leinonen

Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1, 2025

Feedstack: Layering Structured Representations Over Unstructured Feedback to Scaffold Human-AI Conversation.

Hannah Vy Nguyen, Yu-Chun Grace Yen, Omar Shakir, Hang Huynh, Sebastian Gutierrez, June A. Smith, Sheila Jimenez, Salma Abdelgelil, Stephen MacNeil

Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 2025

2024

Beyond the Hype: A Comprehensive Review of Current Trends in Generative AI Research, Teaching Practices, and Tools.

James Prather, Juho Leinonen, Natalie Kiesler, Jamie Gorson Benario, Sam Lau, Stephen MacNeil, Narges Norouzi, Simone Opel, Vee Pettit, Leo Porter, Brent N. Reeves, Jaromír Savelka, David H. Smith IV, Sven Strickroth, Daniel Zingaro

CoRR, 2024

Breaking the Programming Language Barrier: Multilingual Prompting to Empower Non-Native English Learners.

James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, João Orvalho, Amin Alipour, Ali Alfageeh, Thezyrie Amarouche, Bailey Kimmel, Jared Wright, Musa Blake, Gweneth Barbre

CoRR, 2024

Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Solving Visual Graph and Tree Based Data Structure Problems using Large Multimodal Models.

Sebastian Gutierrez, Irene Hou, Jihye Lee, Kenneth Angelikas, Owen Man, Sophia Mettille, James Prather, Paul Denny, Stephen MacNeil

CoRR, 2024

LLM-itation is the Sincerest Form of Data: Generating Synthetic Buggy Code Submissions for Computing Education.

Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Olli Kiljunen, Stephen MacNeil, Sami Sarsa, Arto Hellas

CoRR, 2024

Integrating Natural Language Prompting Tasks in Introductory Programming Courses.

Chris Kerslake, Paul Denny, David H. Smith IV, James Prather, Juho Leinonen, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Stephen MacNeil

CoRR, 2024

Prompts First, Finally.

Brent N. Reeves, James Prather, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Brett A. Becker, Andrew Luxton-Reilly

CoRR, 2024

Interactions with Prompt Problems: A New Way to Teach Programming with Large Language Models.

James Prather, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, David H. Smith IV, Brent N. Reeves, Stephen MacNeil, Brett A. Becker, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Thezyrie Amarouche, Bailey Kimmel

CoRR, 2024

Imagining Computing Education Assessment after Generative AI.

Stephen MacNeil, Scott Spurlock, Ian Applebaum

CoRR, 2024

Synthetic Students: A Comparative Study of Bug Distribution Between Large Language Models and Computing Students.

Stephen MacNeil, Magdalena Rogalska, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Arto Hellas, Xandria Crosland

Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Virtual Global Computing Education Conference V. 1, 2024

Discussing the Changing Landscape of Generative AI in Computing Education.

Stephen MacNeil, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Natalie Kiesler, Arto Hellas, James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Michel Wermelinger, Karen Reid

Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2024

Integrating Natural Language Prompting Tasks in Introductory Programming Courses.

Chris Kerslake, Paul Denny, David H. Smith, James Prather, Juho Leinonen, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Stephen MacNeil

Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Virtual Global Computing Education Conference V. 1, 2024

Using Large Language Models for Teaching Computing.

Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Paul Denny, Arto Hellas

Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2024

Context or Clutter? Efficiently Matching Objects Across Scenes.

Albatool Wazzan, Imtiaz Ahmad, Stephen MacNeil, Richard Souvenir

Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, 2024

Beyond the Hype: A Comprehensive Review of Current Trends in Generative AI Research, Teaching Practices, and Tools.

James Prather, Juho Leinonen, Natalie Kiesler, Jamie Gorson Benario, Sam Lau, Stephen MacNeil, Narges Norouzi, Simone Opel, Vee Pettit, Leo Porter, Brent N. Reeves, Jaromír Savelka, David H. Smith, Sven Strickroth, Daniel Zingaro

Proceedings of the 2024 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2024

How Instructors Incorporate Generative AI into Teaching Computing.

James Prather, Juho Leinonen, Natalie Kiesler, Jamie Gorson Benario, Sam Lau, Stephen MacNeil, Narges Norouzi, Simone Opel, Virginia Pettit, Leo Porter, Brent N. Reeves, Jaromír Savelka, David H. Smith IV, Sven Strickroth, Daniel Zingaro

Proceedings of the 2024 on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 2, 2024

Analyzing Students' Preferences for LLM-Generated Analogies.

Seth Bernstein, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Matt Littlefield, Arto Hellas, Stephen MacNeil

Proceedings of the 2024 on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 2, 2024

"Like a Nesting Doll": Analyzing Recursion Analogies Generated by CS Students Using Large Language Models.

Seth Bernstein, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Lauren Kan, Arto Hellas, Matt Littlefield, Sami Sarsa, Stephen MacNeil

Proceedings of the 2024 on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1, 2024

Desirable Characteristics for AI Teaching Assistants in Programming Education.

Paul Denny, Stephen MacNeil, Jaromír Savelka, Leo Porter, Andrew Luxton-Reilly

Proceedings of the 2024 on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1, 2024

The Widening Gap: The Benefits and Harms of Generative AI for Novice Programmers.

James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Arisoa S. Randrianasolo, Brett A. Becker, Bailey Kimmel, Jared Wright, Ben Briggs

Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2024

WIP: Identifying Tutorial Affordances for Interdisciplinary Learning Environments.

Hannah Kim, Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Stephen MacNeil

Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2024

The Silicon Ceiling: Auditing GPT's Race and Gender Biases in Hiring.

Lena Armstrong, Abbey Liu, Stephen MacNeil, Danaë Metaxa

Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, 2024

Comparing Traditional and LLM-based Search for Image Geolocation.

Albatool Wazzan, Stephen MacNeil, Richard Souvenir

Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2024

Predictive Anchoring: A Novel Interaction to Support Contextualized Suggestions for Grid Displays.

Cynthia Zastudil, Christine Holyfield, June A. Smith, Hannah Vy Nguyen, Stephen MacNeil

Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2024

Exploring the use of Generative AI to Support Automated Just-in-Time Programming for Visual Scene Displays.

Cynthia Zastudil, Christine Holyfield, Christine Kapp, Xandria Crosland, Elizabeth R. Lorah, Tara Zimmerman, Stephen MacNeil

Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2024

Decoding Logic Errors: A Comparative Study on Bug Detection by Students and Large Language Models.

Stephen MacNeil, Paul Denny, Andrew Tran, Juho Leinonen, Seth Bernstein, Arto Hellas, Sami Sarsa, Joanne Kim

Proceedings of the 26th Australasian Computing Education Conference, 2024

The Effects of Generative AI on Computing Students' Help-Seeking Preferences.

Irene Hou, Sophia Mettille, Owen Man, Zhuo Li, Cynthia Zastudil, Stephen MacNeil

Proceedings of the 26th Australasian Computing Education Conference, 2024

More Robots are Coming: Large Multimodal Models (ChatGPT) can Solve Visually Diverse Images of Parsons Problems.

Irene Hou, Owen Man, Sophia Mettille, Sebastian Gutierrez, Kenneth Angelikas, Stephen MacNeil

Proceedings of the 26th Australasian Computing Education Conference, 2024

2023

Prompt Middleware: Mapping Prompts for Large Language Models to UI Affordances.

Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Tran, Joanne Kim, Ziheng Huang, Seth Bernstein, Dan Mogil

CoRR, 2023

Memory Sandbox: Transparent and Interactive Memory Management for Conversational Agents.

Ziheng Huang, Sebastian Gutierrez, Hemanth Kamana, Stephen MacNeil

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

Experiences from Using Code Explanations Generated by Large Language Models in a Web Software Development E-Book.

Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Tran, Arto Hellas, Joanne Kim, Sami Sarsa, Paul Denny, Seth Bernstein, Juho Leinonen

Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Volume 1, 2023

Automatically Generating CS Learning Materials with Large Language Models.

Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Tran, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Joanne Kim, Arto Hellas, Seth Bernstein, Sami Sarsa

Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Volume 2, 2023

The Implications of Large Language Models for CS Teachers and Students.

Stephen MacNeil, Joanne Kim, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Seth Bernstein, Brett A. Becker, Michel Wermelinger, Arto Hellas, Andrew Tran, Sami Sarsa, James Prather, Viraj Kumar

Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Volume 2, 2023

Transformed by Transformers: Navigating the AI Coding Revolution for Computing Education: An ITiCSE Working Group Conducted by Humans.

James Prather, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Brett A. Becker, Ibrahim Albluwi, Michael E. Caspersen, Michelle Craig, Hieke Keuning, Natalie Kiesler, Tobias Kohn, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Petersen, Raymond Pettit, Brent N. Reeves, Jaromír Savelka

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 2, 2023

The Robots Are Here: Navigating the Generative AI Revolution in Computing Education.

James Prather, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Brett A. Becker, Ibrahim Albluwi, Michelle Craig, Hieke Keuning, Natalie Kiesler, Tobias Kohn, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Petersen, Raymond Pettit, Brent N. Reeves, Jaromír Savelka

Proceedings of the 2023 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2023

Comparing Code Explanations Created by Students and Large Language Models.

Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Stephen MacNeil, Sami Sarsa, Seth Bernstein, Joanne Kim, Andrew Tran, Arto Hellas

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1, 2023

Using Large Language Models to Automatically Identify Programming Concepts in Code Snippets.

Andrew Tran, Linxuan Li, Egi Rama, Kenneth Angelikas, Stephen MacNeil

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2023

Generative AI in Computing Education: Perspectives of Students and Instructors.

Cynthia Zastudil, Magdalena Rogalska, Christine Kapp, Jennifer Vaughn, Stephen MacNeil

Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2023

Generating Multiple Choice Questions for Computing Courses Using Large Language Models.

Andrew Tran, Kenneth Angelikas, Egi Rama, Chiku Okechukwu, David H. Smith IV, Stephen MacNeil

Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2023

Freeform Templates: Combining Freeform Curation with Structured Templates.

Stephen MacNeil, Ziheng Huang, Kenneth Chen, Zijian Ding, Alexander Yu, Kendall Nakai, Steven P. Dow

Proceedings of the Creativity and Cognition, 2023

CausalMapper: Challenging designers to think in systems with Causal Maps and Large Language Model.

Ziheng Huang, Kexin Quan, Joel Chan, Stephen MacNeil

Proceedings of the Creativity and Cognition, 2023

DesignNet: a knowledge graph representation of the conceptual design space.

Ziheng Huang, Stephen MacNeil

Proceedings of the Creativity and Cognition, 2023

Fluid Transformers and Creative Analogies: Exploring Large Language Models' Capacity for Augmenting Cross-Domain Analogical Creativity.

Zijian Ding, Arvind Srinivasan, Stephen MacNeil, Joel Chan

Proceedings of the Creativity and Cognition, 2023

2022

Expert Goggles: Detecting and Annotating Visualizations using a Machine Learning Classifier.

Stephen MacNeil, Parth Patel, Benjamin E. Smolin

Proceedings of the Adjunct Publication of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2022

A Context-Aware Browser Extension for Just-in-Time Learning of Data Literacy Skills.

Stephen MacNeil, Joshua Withka, Aaron Wile, Parth Patel, Emily Jao, Margaret Hanley

Proceedings of the ICER 2022: ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, Lugano and Virtual Event Switzerland, August 7, 2022

Generating Diverse Code Explanations using the GPT-3 Large Language Model.

Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Tran, Dan Mogil, Seth Bernstein, Erin Ross, Ziheng Huang

Proceedings of the ICER 2022: ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, Lugano and Virtual Event Switzerland, August 7, 2022

2021

Finding Place in a Design Space: Challenges for Supporting Community Design Efforts at Scale.

Stephen MacNeil, Zijian Ding, Ashley Boone, Anthony Bryce Grubbs, Steven P. Dow

Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2021

ProbMap: Automatically constructing design galleries through feature extraction and semantic clustering.

Stephen MacNeil, Zijian Ding, Kexin Quan, Ziheng Huang, Kenneth Chen, Steven P. Dow

Proceedings of the UIST '21: The Adjunct Publication of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2021

The "Active Search" Hypothesis: How Search Strategies Relate to Creative Learning.

Srishti Palani, Zijian Ding, Stephen MacNeil, Steven P. Dow

Proceedings of the CHIIR '21: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2021

CoNotate: Suggesting Queries Based on Notes Promotes Knowledge Discovery.

Srishti Palani, Zijian Ding, Austin Nguyen, Andrew Chuang, Stephen MacNeil, Steven P. Dow

Proceedings of the CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

Framing Creative Work: Helping Novices Frame Better Problems through Interactive Scaffolding.

Stephen MacNeil, Zijian Ding, Kexin Quan, Thomas J. Parashos, Yajie Sun, Steven P. Dow

Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 2021

2019

Semi-automated Analysis of Reflections as a Continuous Course.

Nasrin Dehbozorgi, Stephen MacNeil

Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2019

IneqDetect: A Visual Analytics System to Detect Conversational Inequality and Support Reflection during Active Learning.

Stephen MacNeil, Kyle Kiefer, Brian Thompson, Dev Takle, Celine Latulipe

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Global Computing Education, 2019

2018

Evolving a Data Structures Class Toward Inclusive Success.

Celine Latulipe, Stephen MacNeil, Brian Thompson

Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2018

Design and Implementation of an Activity-Based Introductory Computer Science Course (CS1) with Periodic Reflections Validated by Learning Analytics.

Mohsen Dorodchi, Aileen Benedict, Devansh Desai, Mohammad Javad Mahzoon, Stephen MacNeil, Nasrin Dehbozorgi

Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2018

A Comparison of Lecture-based and Active Learning Design Patterns in CS Education.

Nasrin Dehbozorgi, Stephen MacNeil, Mary Lou Maher, Mohsen Dorodchi

Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2018

2017

Tools to Support Data-driven Reflective Learning.

Stephen MacNeil

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2017

Using spectrums and dependency graphs to model progressions from introductory to capstone courses.

Stephen MacNeil, Mohsen Dorodchi, Nasrin Dehbozorgi

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2017

Dimensional Reasoning and Research Design Spaces.

Stephen MacNeil, Johanna Okerlund, Celine Latulipe

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 2017

2016

Exploring Lightweight Teams in a Distributed Learning Environment.

Stephen MacNeil, Celine Latulipe, Bruce Long, Aman Yadav

Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education, 2016

Leveraging Context to Create Opportunistic Co-Located Learning Environments (Abstract Only).

Stephen MacNeil, Celine Latulipe

Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education, 2016

2015

Learning in Distributed Low-Stakes Teams.

Stephen MacNeil, Celine Latulipe, Aman Yadav

Proceedings of the eleventh annual International Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2015

2013

Visualization Mosaics for Multivariate Visual Exploration.

Stephen MacNeil, Niklas Elmqvist

Comput. Graph. Forum, 2013