William P. McCarthy

According to our database, William P. McCarthy authored at least 11 papers between 2020 and 2026.

Collaborative distances:

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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

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

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

2024

Cognitive Consequences of Physical Assembly

William P. McCarthy

PhD thesis, 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

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

2023

Consistency and Variation in Reasoning About Physical Assembly.

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

Cogn. Sci., December, 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

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

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