Jo Vermeulen

Sr. Principal Research Scientist at the HCI & Visualization Group at Autodesk Research. Mastodon: @[email protected]

[John Thompson @jr_thomp]

Applications are now open for 2027 internships in the Future AI Experiences and HCI & Visualization research groups at Autodesk Research!

Full posting to apply here: https://t.co/9z4sbKcQXh

[Mike Haley @mikebhaley]

Excited and proud of Autodesk Research for Forma and Autodesk Assistant. Project Quill uses sketching, natural language, and annotations to explore concepts and generate CAD models. Visit the AI Experience at AU2026 to design a building and see it 3D printed! #autodeskresearch

[Eric Horvitz @erichorvitz]

Here's a demo of Lumiere, the research prototype that inspired Clippy (the Office Assistant): https://t.co/tHWwZcBhOB

As background: The shipped version operated quite differently. The Office team decided to execute the Bayesian inference component only when there was a user-initiated search. So there was no autonomous initiative for the Bayesian component.

So where did the infamous Clippy behaviors come from? The activations that folks noted and joked about were based in a separate, legacy system that was hooked up to Clippy--relatively simplistic rule-based tips that were a holdover from the "Tip Wizard" system that had been used in earlier versions of Office, where the rules gently lit up a lightbulb icon on a toolbar. So, there were actually two minds behind Clippy--one Bayesian and only executing when a question was asked, and the other a legacy rule-based system designed originally for a quieter bell icon.

[David Ledo @DavLedo]

Excited to be at @acm_chi #CHI2026 with folks from @ADSKResearch. Find me, @kopfnuss, @bon_adriel, and @jozilla and say hi!

[Eric Horvitz @erichorvitz]

Short video on the power & promise of federally funded, curiosity-driven research by the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery. Accompanies the special issue.
https://t.co/xH5XXl96aw

@CACMmag
@TheOfficialACM
@MSFTResearch

[Frederik Brudy @kopfnuss]

Applications are now open for 2026 internships in the HCI & Visualization team at Autodesk Research!
https://t.co/ck5C8TlfDp

[Vivian Liu @viv_lavida]

I CAD'ed the cow in minutes-- it's surreal, the amount generative assistance can help the 3D design process ❣️

try Project Salvador! :) https://t.co/kstIUMx4nC

it's origin: 3DALL-E (research paper and internship with Autodesk HCI&Vis): https://t.co/JfPv50AFB8 🏎️

[Vivian Liu @viv_lavida]

really happy to share that 3DALL-E, a research idea I began at @ADSKResearch as an intern is now in Autodesk Fusion 360 as Project Salvador (thank you to @jozilla, @JustinMatejka for realizing it in the product).
You can generate images to use as blueprints for 3D models!

[Michael Nebeling @michinebeling]

We're doing another PhD in technical HCI office hours (6th Edition): next Wed Nov 20 11-12pm: https://t.co/SqUDmZQeIF Lots of cool new faculty who will join me for Q&A. Please add your questions to the doc! And, please join if you can! RT for other interested students

[Karthik Mahadevan @karthikm0]

I am on the job market, seeking tenure-track or industry research positions starting in 2025. My research combines human-computer interaction and robotics—please visit https://t.co/POmSPUd2H9 for updated publications and CV.

Feel free to reach out if interested. RT appreciated!

[Frederik Brudy @kopfnuss]

Come do an internship in the HCI and Visualisation team at Autodesk Research (@ADSKResearch)!

We're particularly looking for applicants with experience in HCI+AI, creativity support, AR/VR, data vis, novel interaction techniques, and more. Questions? Ask!
https://t.co/0rJz01vITb

[Jo Vermeulen @jozilla]

@StevenHouben @NWONieuws @TUeindhoven @TUE_ID Huge congratulations, @StevenHouben! 👏

[Autodesk Research @ADSKResearch]

Headed to #SIGGRAPH2024 next week? Come visit our booth in the Immersive Pavilion to try out #Reframe, a proof-of-concept for recording and editing motion in virtual reality. Learn more at
https://t.co/IvT1cgHXTl

#virtualreality #vr #animation #media #entertainment

[Tao Long @taolongg]

hi @Autodesk, i’m so over the moon to join as a research intern this summer!! i’m now working with the amazing @jozilla @justinmatejka & @kendrwannamaker

🌁🇩🇰 catch me in SF, NYC, copenhagen… & happy to hang out & drink coffee

📸🧩 some collage from my first day:

[Jo Vermeulen @jozilla]

@HansGellersen Big congratulations, Hans – very well deserved! 👏

[Nic Marquardt @nicmarquardt]

Congratulations to Wendy Mackay for the #CHI2024 Lifetime Research Award — and sharing so many insights in her talk ‘Wendy’s Words of Wisdom’. Here are my #sketchnotes from her wonderful talk

[Kasper Hornbæk @khornbaek]

I will present the @acmtochi paper “Using Feedforward to Reveal Interaction Possibilities in Virtual Reality” at 17:00 today in room 313A (https://t.co/L8aFC9yWBL). The paper offer fresh ideas on how design interaction in VR.

[Damien Masson @damienhci]

Prompting large language models can be tedious when relying solely on words. In our #CHI2024 paper “DirectGPT” (🏅Honorable mention), we introduce and characterize prompting through direct manipulation as a way to facilitate conversations with LLMs. Thread 🧵
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[John Alexis Guerra Gómez @johnguerra.bsky.social @duto_guerra]

Are you also attending @acm_chi and need a map to help you navigate the thousands of papers?

📣 I made a #chi2024 paper explorer for you!
Search by topic, drag to select regions and much more!

👉🏼 https://t.co/vf5xVrELlc 👈🏼

[Saelyne Yang @saelyne_yang]

When watching tutorial videos, I always wanted to just drag a part of the video, ask a question about it, and get an answer. In our upcoming #CHI2024 paper, we studied users' question asking behavior and designed a pipeline that generates answers to questions with visual anchors.