Headshort of Alexandra Papoutsaki from 2017 in front of the Smith Campus Center

Alexandra Papoutsaki

she/her/hers
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Pomona College
222 Edmunds
Claremont, CA 91711
(909) 607-0969
alexandra.papoutsaki@pomona.edu

Office Hours
In-person/Zoom: TR 1:30-4pm and R 11am-12pm

I am an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Pomona College. In 2020-2021, I was a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Informatics at University of California - Irvine. I received my PhD from the Department of Computer Science at Brown University, under the guidance of Prof. Jeff Huang. I completed my masters at Brown while working with Prof. Benjamin Raphael and hold a B.Sc. from Athens University of Economics and Business.

My research focuses on Human-Computer Interaction and in particular on the methodology of eye tracking. For a long time, my goal has been to democratize eye tracking by using webcams instead of relying on specialized equipment. Recently, I have started looking on the effect of gaze sharing on remote collaborations, a line of research that is supported by NSF. I am also interested in health informatics and crowdsourcing and I used to work on computational biology.

In the Spring of 2023, I am teaching two sections of CS51-A.

Publications

Webcam-based eye tracking to detect mind wandering and comprehension errors
Stephen Hutt, Aaron Wong, Alexandra Papoutsaki, Ryan S. Baker, Joshua I. Gold, Caitlin Mills
Behavior Research Methods, (2023).
Readability Research: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Sofie Beier, Sam Berlow, Esat Boucaud, Zoya Bylinskii, Tianyuan Cai, Jenae Cohn, Kathy Crowley, Stephanie L Day, Tilman Dingler, Jonathan Dobres, Jennifer Healey, Rajiv Jain, Marjorie Jordan, Bernard Kerr, Qisheng Li, Dave B Miller, Susanne Nobles, Alexandra Papoutsaki, Jing Qian, Tina Rezvanian, Shelley Rodrigo, Ben D Sawyer, Shannon M Sheppard, Bram Stein, Rick Treitman, Jen Vanek, Shaun Wallace, Benjamin Wolfe
Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction, (2022), 16(4), 214-324.
Designing Flexible Longitudinal Regimens: Supporting Clinician Planning for Discontinuation of Psychiatric Drugs
Eunkyung Jo, Myeonghan Ryu, Georgia Kenderova*, Samuel So*, Bryan Shapiro, Alexandra Papoutsaki, Daniel A. Epstein
CHI 2022:352 (first round; 12.5% acceptance rate)
The elephant in the room: attention to salient scene features increases with comedic expertise
Ori Amir, Konrad J. Utterback*, Justin Lee*, Kevin S. Lee*, Suehyun Kwon*, Dave M. Carroll*, Alexandra Papoutsaki
Cognitive Processing, (2022), 10.1007/s10339-022-01079-0
Understanding Delivery of Collectively Built Protocols in an Online Health Community for Discontinuation of Psychiatric Drugs
Alexandra Papoutsaki, Samuel So*, Georgia Kenderova*, Bryan Shapiro, Daniel A. Epstein
PACM Human-Computer Interaction 5(CSCW2): 420 (2021)
Case Studies on the Motivation and Performance of Contributors Who Verify and Maintain In-Flux Tabular Datasets
Shaun Wallace, Alexandra Papoutsaki, Neilly H. Tan*, Hua Guo, Jeff Huang
PACM Human-Computer Interaction 5(CSCW2): 448 (2021)
Effects of Shared Gaze on Audio- Versus Text-Based Remote Collaborations
Grete Helena Kütt*, Teerapaun Taprasert*, Jay Rodolitz*, Bernardo Moyza*, Samuel So*, Georgia Kenderova*, Alexandra Papoutsaki
PACM Human-Computer Interaction 4(CSCW2): 136 (2020)
Eye-Write: Gaze Sharing for Collaborative Writing
Grete Helena Kütt*, Kevin Lee*, Ethan Hardacre*, Alexandra Papoutsaki
CHI 2019:497    (24% acceptance rate)
The Eye of the Typer: A Benchmark and Analysis of Gaze Behavior during Typing
Alexandra Papoutsaki, Aaron Gokaslan*, James Tompkin, Yuze He, Jeff Huang
ETRA 2018:16    (34% acceptance rate)
Remotion: A Motion-Based Capture and Replay Platform of Mobile Device Interaction for Remote Usability Testing
Jing Qian, Arielle Chapin*, Alexandra Papoutsaki, Fumeng Yang, Klaas Nelissen, Jeff Huang
ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, (2018) 2(2), 77
Lessons Learned from Two Cohorts of Personal Informatics Self-Experiments
Nediyana Daskalova, Karthik Desingh, Alexandra Papoutsaki, Diane Schulze*, Han Sha, Jeff Huang
ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, (2017) 1(3): 46
SearchGazer: Scalable Webcam Eye Tracking for Remote Studies of Web Search
Alexandra Papoutsaki, James Laskey*, Jeff Huang
CHIIR 2017    (42% acceptance rate, Best Paper Finalist)
WebGazer: Scalable Webcam Eye Tracking Using User Interactions
Alexandra Papoutsaki, Patsorn Sangkloy, James Laskey*, Nediyana Daskalova, Jeff Huang, James Hays
IJCAI 2016    (25% acceptance rate)
Crowdsourcing from Scratch: A Pragmatic Experiment in Data Collection by Novice Requesters
Alexandra Papoutsaki, Hua Guo, Danae Metaxa-Kakavouli*, Connor Gramazio, Jeff Rasley, Wenting Xie*, Guan Wang, Jeff Huang
HCOMP 2015    (30% acceptance rate, Best Paper Finalist)
Scalable Webcam Eye Tracking by Learning from User Interactions
Alexandra Papoutsaki
CHI 2015 Extended Abstracts
Genome-Wide Survival Analysis of Somatic Mutations in Cancer
Mark D.M. Leiserson, Fabio Vandin, Hsin-Ta Wu, Jason R. Dobson, Jonathan V. Eldridge*, Jacob L. Thomas*, Alexandra Papoutsaki, Younhun Kim, Beifang Niu, Michael McLellan, Michael S. Lawrence, Abel Gonzalez-Perez, David Tamborero, Yuwei Cheng, Gregory A. Ryslik, Nuria Lopez-Bigas, Gad Getz, Li Ding, Benjamins J. Raphael
Nature Genetics, (2015) 47(2): 106-114
Accurate Computation of Survival Statistics in Genome-Wide Studies
Fabio Vandin, Alexandra Papoutsaki, Benjamin Raphael, Eli Upfal
PLoS Computational Biology, (2015) 11(5): e1004071
Genome-Wide Survival Analysis of Somatic Mutations in Cancer
Fabio Vandin, Alexandra Papoutsaki, Benjamin Raphael, Eli Upfal
RECOMB 2013    (19.2% acceptance rate, Best Paper Award)
*: Denotes undergraduate student at the time of writing.

Teaching Experience

CS 051-A: Intro to Computer Science with Topics in AI, Spring 2019,Spring 2022, Spring 2023
Co-Instructor, Department of Computer Science - Pomona College
CS 062: Data Structures and Advanced Programming, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2021
Co-Instructor, Department of Computer Science - Pomona College
CS 124: User Interfaces and User Experience, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2021
Instructor, Department of Computer Science - Pomona College
CS 190: Computer Science Senior Seminar, 2018-2019, 2019-2020
Instructor, Department of Computer Science - Pomona College
CS 188: Computer Science Colloquium, 2019-2020
Instructor, Department of Computer Science - Pomona College
CS1950N: Topics in 2D Games, Fall 2016
Co-Instructor, Department of Computer Science - Brown University
CS0931: Introduction to Computation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Fall 2015
Instructor, Department of Computer Science - Brown University
Seminar in Human Computer Interaction, Spring 2015 and Spring 2014
Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science - Brown University
Instructor: Prof. Jeff Huang
Brown Computer Science without Borders, Spring 2012 and Spring 2013
Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science - Brown University