Mike Christel's Publications

Journal, Conference, and Workshop Papers

Christel, M., Shi, A., Finkel, J., Baxter, H., Wang, H.-J., Wu, Y., Washington, R., Maher, B., and Balash, J. Power Core Values: Teaching Racial Bias Awareness through a Stealth Game and Workshop. In: Haahr, M., Rojas-Salazar, A., Göbel, S. (eds) Serious Games. JCSG 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14309. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023, pp. 243-256. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44751-8_19. See also: 3.2 MB PDF slide deck for the conference talk, of which slides 25 to 37 are screen shots for the two-engineer folding activity as described in the Teacher's Guide for the Power Core Values game.

Xiao, S., Cui, X., Fan, Y., Lu, B., Wu, H., Christel, M., Saldamarco, S., and Kaufman, G. Playing through Microaggressions on a College Campus with “Blindspot”. 2021 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 2021, pp. 1-4. DOI: 10.1109/CoG52621.2021.9619151.

DOI: 10.1145/3341215.3358244.

Wiener, S., Murphy, T.K., Goel, A., Christel, M.G., and Holt, L.L. Incidental learning of non-speech auditory analogs scaffolds second language learners' perception and production of Mandarin lexical tones. Proceedings of the International Conference on Phonetic Sciences (Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 2019). (Link to PDF.)

Ramesh, R., Wang, X., Wolpow, D., Zhu, Y., Zheng, Y., Christel, M., and Stevens, S. Prism, a Game to Promote Autism Acceptance Among Elementary School Students. Serious Games: 4th Joint International Conference, JCSG 2018 Darmstadt, Germany, Nov. 7-8, 2018 Proceedings LNCS 11243, S. Göbel et al. Eds. Springer Nature, 2018, pp. 101-106. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-02762-9_11.

DOI: 10.1145/2967934.2968103.

Nakamura, C.M., Murphy, S.K., Christel, M.G., Stevens, S.M. and Zollman, D.A. Automated Analysis of Short Responses in an Interactive Synthetic Tutoring System for Introductory Physics. Physical Review Physics Ed. Research 12(1), 010122 (2016). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.12.010122.

Christel, M., Trybus, J., Shah, S.D., Chang, B.H., Dave, R., Pavani, A., Sawant, O.D., Song, J., Inglis, J., Kairamkonda, S.S., Karrs, C., Ke, X., Kron, E., and Lu, X. Bringing Biome Exploration into the Classroom through Interactive Tablet Experiences. Serious Games: First Joint International Conference, JCSG 2015 Huddersfield, UK, June 3-4, 2015 Proceedings LNCS 9090, S. Göbel, M. Ma, J. B. Hauge, M. F. Oliveira, J. Wiemeyer and V. Wendel, Eds. Springer International Publishing, 2015, pp. 91-102. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-19126-3_8. See also: 4.56 MB PDF slide deck for the conference talk.

NOTE: Here is a PDF version with corrected Figure 7, DOI: 10.1145/2656719.2656726.

DOI: 10.1145/2658537.2658684.

Christel, M., Stevens, S., Champer, M., Balash, J., Brice, S., Maher, B., Hausmann, D., Bastida, N., Bhargava, C., Huo, W., Zhang, X., Collier, S., Aleven, V., Koedinger, K., Dow, S., Rosé, C., Sewall, J., Fathollahpour, M., Reid, C., Flynn, J.B., Glenn, A., and Harpstead, E. Beanstalk: A Unity Game Addressing Balance Principles, Socio-Emotional Learning and Scientific Inquiry. Proc. 2013 International Games Innovation Conference (IGIC) (Vancouver, BC, Sept. 2013), pp. 36-39. DOI: 10.1109/IGIC.2013.6659126.

Navarro, P., Johns, M. L., Lu, T.-H., Martin, H., Poduval, V., Robinson, M., Roxby, A., and Christel, M. Webz of War: A Cooperative Exergame Driven by the Heart. Proc. 2013 International Games Innovation Conference (IGIC) (Vancouver, BC, Sept. 2013), pp. 187-190. DOI: 10.1109/IGIC.2013.6659125.

Kimball, G., Cano, R., Feng, J., Feng, L., Hampson, E., Li, E., Christel, M., Holt, L. L., Lim, S., Liu, R., and Lehet, M. Supporting Research into Sound and Speech Learning through a Configurable Computer Game. Proc. 2013 International Games Innovation Conference (IGIC) (Vancouver, BC, Sept. 2013), pp. 110-113. DOI: 10.1109/IGIC.2013.6659172.

Christel, M., Stevens, S., Klishin, A., Brice, S., Champer, M., Collier, S., Fan, Y., Khattar, S., Maher, B., Mehta, N., and Ni, M. Helios: An HTML5 Game Teaching Proportional Reasoning To Child Players. Proc. 2013 18th International Conference on Computer Games (CGAMES) (Louisville, KY, July-Aug. 2013), pp. 96-102. DOI: 10.1109/CGames.2013.6632614.

Sciannameo, N., Cano, R., Durkin, N., Hamel, E., Hsu, J., Lee, A., Stevens, S., Harger, B., and Christel, M. Atomic Zone: An Immersive Interactive Web Documentary Built with the Unity3D Game Engine. Proc. 2013 18th International Conference on Computer Games (CGAMES) (Louisville, KY, July-Aug. 2013), pp. 191-196. Sadly, the IEEE made a mistake in entering this paper from CGAMES 2013 into their digital archive. It is mistakenly appended to the end of the prior paper in the proceedings. The prior paper DOI will show as its last six pages (pages 191 to 196) the contents of the "Atomic Zone" paper. Unfortunately, searching the authors and title for the "Atomic Zone" paper will not produce the result from the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. CGAMES organizers tried to fix the problem through communication with IEEE. After a year of waiting for a proper fix, I have given up a clean resolution and am posting the link to the DOI for the paper where this "Atomic Zone" one is also (mistakenly) found. If you're curious about DOI mistakes, here's one, a DOI pointing to two papers!

Aleven, V., Dow, S., Christel, M., Stevens, S., Rosé, C., Koedinger, K., Myers, B., Flynn, J.B., Hintzman, Z., Harpstead, E., Hwang, S., Lomas, D., Reid, C., Yannier, N., Fathollahpour, M., Glenn, R., Sewall, J., Balash, J., Bastida, N., Bhargava, C., Brice, S., Champer, M., Collier, S., Feng, J., Hausmann, D., Koh, M. H., Huo, W., Ma, Q., Maher, B., Tian, W., and Zhang, X. Supporting Social-Emotional Development in Collaborative Inquiry Games for K-3 Science Learning. Proc. Games+Learning+Society Conference 9.0 (Madison, WI, June 2013), pp. 53-60. (Link to proceedings.)

Christel, M., Stevens, S., Maher, B., Brice, S., Champer, M., Jayapalan, L., Chen, Q., Jin, J., Hausmann, D., Bastida, N., Zhang, X., Aleven, V., Koedinger, K., Chase, C., Harpstead, E., and Lomas, D. RumbleBlocks: Teaching Science Concepts to Young Children through a Unity Game. Proc. 2012 17th International Conference on Computer Games (CGAMES) (Louisville, KY, July-Aug. 2012), pp. 162-166. DOI: 10.1109/CGames.2012.6314570.

Christel, M., Stevens, S., Li, H., Zollman, D., and Adrian, B. High School Physics Pathway: Teachers Helping Teachers through Synthetic Interviews. Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (New York, NY, June-July 2009), pp. 954-957. DOI: 10.1109/ICME.2009.5202654.

Hauptmann, A., Christel, M., and Yan, R. Video Retrieval based on Semantic Concepts. Proceedings of the IEEE 96(4): 602-622 (April 2008). DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2008.916355.

Christel, M., and Hauptmann, A. Exploring Concept Selection Strategies for Interactive Video Search. Proc. First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC'07) (Irvine CA, Sept. 2007), pp. 344-354. DOI: 10.1109/ICOSC.2007.4338368.

Hauptmann, A., Chen, M.-Y. Christel, M., Lin, W-H., and Yang, J. A Hybrid Approach to Improving Semantic Extraction of News Video. Proc. First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC'07) (Irvine CA, Sept. 2007), pp. 79-86. DOI: 10.1109/ICOSC.2007.4338335.

Hauptmann, A., Yan, R., Lin, W-H., Christel, M., and Wactlar, H. Can High-Level Concepts Fill the Semantic Gap in Video Retrieval? IEEE Trans. Multimedia 9(5): 958-966 (Aug. 2007). DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2007.900150.

Christel, M. Examining User Interactions with Video Retrieval Systems. Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6506 Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems (San Jose, CA, Feb. 2007). DOI: 10.1117/12.713383.

Christel, M., and Conescu, R. Mining Novice User Activity with TRECVID Interactive Retrieval Tasks. LNCS 4071, Proc. International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) (Tempe, AZ, July 2006), pp. 21-30.

Christel, M. Evaluation and User Studies with Respect to Video Summarization and Browsing. Multimedia Content Analysis, Management and Retrieval 2006, Proceedings of IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging Vol. 6073 (San Jose, CA, January 2006). (7 MB PowerPoint slide set shown at conference)

Christel, M., and Hauptmann, A. The Use and Utility of High-Level Semantic Features. LNCS 3568, Proc. International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) (Singapore, July 2005), pp. 134-144.

Christel, M., Huang, C., Moraveji, N., and Papernick, N. Exploiting Multiple Modalities for Interactive Video Retrieval. Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (Montreal, Canada, May 2004), Vol. III, pp. 1032-1035.

Derthick, M., Christel, M., Hauptmann, A., and Wactlar, H. Constant Density Displays Using Diversity Sampling. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis 2003) (Seattle, WA, October 2003), pp. 137-144.

Christel, M.G., and Huang, C. Enhanced Access to Digital Video through Visually Rich Interfaces. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) (Baltimore, MD, July 2003), pp. III-21 - III-24.

Christel, M.G. and Warmack, A.S. The Effect of Text in Storyboards for Video Navigation. Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (Salt Lake City, UT, May 2001), Vol. III, pp. 1409-1412 (slides).

Christel, M.G., Olligschlaeger, A.M, and Huang, C. Interactive Maps for a Digital Video Library. IEEE MultiMedia 7(1): 60-67 (2000).

Christel, M.G., and Olligschlaeger, A.M. Interactive Maps for a Digital Video Library. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia Computing and Systems , D. Martin, ed. (Florence, Italy, June 1999), pp. 381-387.

Christel, M.G., Hauptmann, A.G., Warmack, A.S., and Crosby, S.A. Adjustable Filmstrips and Skims as Abstractions for a Digital Video Library. Proceedings of the IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries Conference (Baltimore, MD, May 1999), pp. 98-104.

Wactlar, H.D., Christel, M.G., Gong, Y., and Hauptmann, A.G. Lessons Learned from the Creation and Deployment of a Terabyte Digital Video Library, IEEE Computer 32(2): 66-73 (1999).

Christel, M. and Martin, D. Information Visualization within a Digital Video Library. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems 11(3): 235-257 (1998). (Preliminary version in Adobe PDF) (Figures in paper as color JPEG images)

Christel, M.G., Smith, M.A., Taylor, C.R, and Winkler, D.B. Evolving Video Skims into Useful Multimedia Abstractions. Proceedings of the CHI '98 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, C. Karat, A. Lund, J. Coutaz and J. Karat, eds. (Los Angeles, CA, April 1998), pp. 171 - 178. (Adobe PDF version) (html version)

Christel, M.G., Winkler, D.B., and Taylor, C.R. Improving Access to a Digital Video Library. Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT '97: IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 14th-18th July 1997, Sydney, Australia, S. Howard, J. Hammond and G. Lindgaard, eds. London: Chapman and Hall, 1997, pp. 524-531.

Christel, M. The Role of Visual Fidelity in Computer-Based Instruction. Human-Computer Interaction, 9:183-223 (1994). DOI: 10.1207/s15327051hci0902_2.

Wood, D., Christel, M., and Stevens, S. A Multimedia Approach to Requirements Capture and Modeling. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Requirements Engineering. (Colorado Springs, CO, April 1994), pp. 53-56.

Christel, M., Wood, D., and Stevens, S. Applying Multimedia Technology to Requirements Engineering. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Software Technology Conference. Salt Lake City, UT: Software Technology Support Center, April, 1994 (CD-ROM proceedings).

Little, T.D.C., Christel, M., Gibbs, S., Breiteneder, C., and De Mey, V. Novel Applications of Multimedia. IEEE Multimedia, 1(1):82-83 (1994).

Christel, M., Wood, D., and Stevens, S. AMORE: The Advanced Multimedia Organizer for Requirements Elicitation. Software Engineering Institute Technical Report CMU/SEI-93-TR-12. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University, June, 1993.

Christel, M. Experiences with an Interactive Video Code Inspection Laboratory. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 640: Software Engineering Education SEI Conference Proceedings, C. Sledge, ed. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, October, 1992, pp. 395-411.

Christel, M. and Kang, K. Issues in Requirements Elicitation. Software Engineering Institute Technical Report CMU/SEI-92-TR-12. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University, September, 1992.

Christel, M. Virtual Reality on a PC. Instruction Delivery Systems, 6(4):6-9 (1992).

Christel, M. and Stevens, S. Rule Base and Digital Video Technologies Applied to Training Simulations. Software Engineering Institute Technical Review '92. Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, 1992. PDF version.

Stevens, S. and Christel, M. Embedding Knowledge in Continuous Time Media. Proceedings of the 1991 Continuous Time Media Workshop. Pittsburgh, PA: Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 1991.

Christel, M. A Digital Video Interactive Course on Code Inspections. Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference on Technology and Innovations in Training and Education. Colorado Springs, CO: American Defense Preparedness Association, March, 1990, pp. 303-313.

Stevens, S., Christel, M., and Chiswell, J. Advanced Learning Technologies. Proceedings of the Third Annual Ada Software Engineering Education and Training Symposium. Denver, CO: Ada Information Clearinghouse, June, 1988.

Books and Chapters

Davidson, D., et al. Creative Chaos: Learning Lessons on Inclusion & Innovation, 2nd Edition. Pittsburgh, PA: ETC Press, 2022. ISBN: 978-1-387-84077-9, free eBook download

Christel, M.G. Automated Metadata in Multimedia Information Systems: Creation, Refinement, Use in Surrogates, and Evaluation. San Rafael, CA: Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2009. DOI: 10.2200/S00167ED1V01Y200812ICR002

Christel, M.G. Amplifying Video Information-Seeking Success through Rich, Exploratory Interfaces. New Directions in Intelligent Interactive Multimedia, G.A. Tsihrintzis, M. Virvou, R.J. Howlett and L.C. Jain, Eds. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2008, pp. 21-30.

Hauptmann, A., Yan, R., Lin, W.-H., Christel, M., and Wactlar, H. Filling the Semantic Gap in Video Retrieval: An Exploration. Semantic Multimedia and Ontologies, Y. Kompatsiaris and P. Hobson, Eds. Berlin: Springer, 2008, pp. 253-278. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84800-076-6_10.

Christel, M.G. Accessing News Libraries through Dynamic Information Extraction, Summarization, and Visualization. Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries LNCS 2539, K. Börner and C. Chen, Eds. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2002, pp. 98-115. LNCS 2539, © Springer-Verlag, and others in the LNCS series are available through the publisher.

Christel, M.G. Visual Fidelity: Designing Multimedia Interfaces for Active Learning. Encyclopedia of Microcomputers, Volume 20, Allen Kent and James G. Williams, Exec. Eds. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1997, pp. 1-13.

Christel, M., Stevens, S., Kanade, T., Mauldin, M., Reddy, R., and Wactlar, H. Techniques for the Creation and Exploration of Digital Video Libraries. Chapter 8 of Multimedia Tools and Applications, B. Furht, ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996.

Recent Keynote Talks, Conference Demonstrations and Posters

See also Mike Christel's invited talks page.

Girdhar, V., Tseng, C.-Y., Wang, S., Yang, R., Ye, Z., Christel, M.G., Stevens, S.M., and Evans, M. The INTENT Game: An Interactive Tool for Empathy in Neurotypicals. In: Plass, J.L., Ochoa, X. (eds) Serious Games. JCSG 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15259. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025, pp. 433-439. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-74138-8_35. (Winner of Best Poster & Demo at JCSG 2024 as presented by Morgan Evans.)

(The keynote talk was for WebMedia 2013, Salvador, Brazil, Nov. 2013, with the abstract in the ACM Digital Library.)

A Sampling of Historic (Ancient) Electronic Publications

Christel, M., Naphade, M.R., Natsev, A., and Tesic, J. Assessing the Filtering and Browsing Utility of Automatic Semantic Concepts for Multimedia Retrieval. Int'l Workshop on Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia (SLAM) Workshop, in assoc. with CVPR 2006 (New York, NY, June 2006). See also the SLAM 2006 web page.

Christel, M.G., and Pendyala, K. Informedia Goes to School: Early Findings from the Digital Video Library Project. D-Lib Magazine, September, 1996.

Christel, M.G. Addressing the Contents of Video in a Digital Library. Electronic Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Effective Abstractions in Multimedia: Layout, Presentation, and Interaction, November, 1995.

Hauptmann, A.G., Witbrock, M.J., and Christel, M.G. News-on-Demand: an Application of Informedia Technology. D-Lib Magazine, September, 1995.