Björn Hartmann
Associate Professor
Creates user interface design tools, end-user programming environments and AI-assisted feedback for programming education.
Björn Hartmann's lab at UC Berkeley works on interfaces & interaction techniques, learning & education technology and language & society. 27 papers since 2023, 16 at top venues, mostly CHI and UIST. 6 PhD students and 1 master's student. 33 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 7/ year
- at T1 venues
- 59%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- 33
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 4 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 9 papers2025 · T1 6
- 7 papers2024 · T1 7
- 7 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CHI, UIST, DIS, IUI
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Language & society1 paper
- programming1 paper
- Interfaces & interaction techniques0 papers
- Learning & education technology0 papers
- user interface0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20264 papers
- CCArtographer: a Curatorial Interface for Art Space Exploration (opens in a new tab)
- PLATEAUBridging the gap to autoformalize free-form human reasoning
- CHI (T1)Noise Pilot: Enabling Artistic Workflow Composition with Diffusion-Based Image Generation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Computer JanRevisiting Systems Principles for the Era of Generative AI (opens in a new tab)
20259 papers
- SIGCSE TS61A Bot Report: AI Assistants in CS1 Save Students Homework Time and Reduce Demands on Staff. (Now What?) (opens in a new tab)
- CompEdA Knowledge-Component-Based Methodology for Evaluating AI Assistants (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Beyond Code Generation: LLM-supported Exploration of the Program Design Space (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Creativity Supportive Ecosystems: A Framework for Understanding Function and Disruption in Online Art Worlds (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Dreamcrafter: Immersive Editing of 3D Radiance Fields Through Flexible, Generative Inputs and Outputs (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)Generative Trigger-Action Programming with Ply (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Reimagining Misuse as Creative Practice: Impressions and Implications of Usage Norms on Digital Artists (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)Steering Semantic Data Processing With DocWrangler (opens in a new tab)
- ITICSESupporting Students in Prototyping AI-backed Software with Hosted Prompt Template APIs (opens in a new tab)
20247 papers
- CHI (T1)Design Space Exploration for Board-level Circuits: Exploring Alternatives in Component-based Design (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Generating Automatic Feedback on UI Mockups with Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Prompting for Discovery: Flexible Sense-Making for AI Art-Making with Dreamsheets (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Rambler: Supporting Writing With Speech via LLM-Assisted Gist Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)UICrit: Enhancing Automated Design Evaluation with a UI Critique Dataset (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)What's the Game, then? Opportunities and Challenges for Runtime Behavior Generation (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)Who Validates the Validators? Aligning LLM-Assisted Evaluation of LLM Outputs with Human Preferences (opens in a new tab)
20237 papers
- DISDual Body Bimanual Coordination in Immersive Environments (opens in a new tab)
- DISHerding AI Cats: Lessons from Designing a Chatbot by Prompting GPT-3 (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)Interactive Flexible Style Transfer for Vector Graphics (opens in a new tab)
- DISNFT Art World: The Influence of Decentralized Systems on the Development of Novel Online Creative Communities and Cooperative Practices (opens in a new tab)
- ICEDVR or Not? Investigating Interface Type and User Strategies for Interactive Design Space Exploration (opens in a new tab)
- IUIWe present a tool to collate and contextualize both text and verbal feedback on slide presentations
- CHI (T1)Why Johnny can’t prompt: how non-AI experts try (and fail) to design LLM prompts (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went33 listed
Apply to UC BerkeleyFall 2027
UC Berkeley EECS Computer Science PhD
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