Writing

Publications & Creative Work

  • West R. Johnson V. Yeh I.C. Thomas Z. Tarlton M. Mendelowitz E. (2018) Experiencing a Slice of the Sky: Immersive Rendering and Sonificaiton of Antarctic Astronomy Data. Electronic Imaging Proceedings of Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality. (Peer-reviewed conference paper Accepted)

 

  • Parola MJ. West R. Herrington R. Adams C. Beyer M. Davis B. Hays K. Hillard L. Kajihara M. Khoja Z. Lane B. Ligon N. Poyser D. Thyagarajan G. Starkweather J. (2018) From Being There to Feeling Real: The Effect of Real World Expertise on Presence in Virtual Environments. Electronic Imaging Proceedings of Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality. (Peer-reviewed conference paper Accepted)

 

  • Lewis J. P. Yeh I.C.* Migalska A. Johnson S. B.* & West R. (2017). Exploring the Definition of Art Through Deep Net Visualization. Presented at the NIPS 2017 Workshop: Interpreting Explaining and Visualizing Deep Learning Long Beach CA. http://www.interpretable-ml.org/nips2017workshop/papers/01.pdf (Peer-reviewed workshop paper)

 

  • West R. Weiss P. Polli A. Kudla A. Cardier B. Cassas N. (2017). Arrays for Measuring and Interacting with the Body and its Associated Microbiomes. UNTP.P0017US.P1 (Patent Provisional)

 

  • Sanandaji A* Grimm C and West R. (2017) Capturing How Data Influences Tool Choice in 3D Volume Segmentation.  ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 16-17 September 2017 Cottbus Germany (Peer reviewed poster)

 

  • Sanandaji A* Grimm C and West R. (2017) Inferring Cross-sections of 3D Objects: A 3D Spatial Ability Test Instrument for 3D Volume Segmentation. ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 16-17 September 2017 Cottbus Germany Peer reviewed conference paper (Peer Reviewed Conference Paper)

 

  • Sanandaji A* Grimm C and West R. (2017) Analyzing Experts’ Low-Level Perception Tasks While Doing 3D Image Segmentation TAPIA Conference September 20-23 2017 Atlanta GA Poster (Peer Reviewed Conference Poster)

 

  • Sanandaji A Grimm C and West  R. (2016) How experts’ mental model affects 3D image segmentation. In Proceedings fo the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP ’16). ACM New York NY USA 135-135. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2931002.2948718

 

  • Ruth West Meghan Kajihara Max Parola Kathryn Hays Luke Hillard Anne Carlew Jeremey Deutsch Brandon Lane Michelle Holloway Brendan John Anahita Sanandaji and Cindy Grimm. 2016. Eliciting Tacit Expertise in 3D Volume Segmentation. In Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI ’16). ACM New York NY USA 59-66.

 

  • Sanandaji A. Grimm C. West R. Parola M. Kajihara M. Deutsch J. Carlew A. and Yates D. Where Do Experts Look While Doing 3D Image Segmentation. In ETRA ‘16 Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications pp. 171-174. Association for Computing Machinery (2016).

 

 

 

 

 

  • Ruth West Laura Monroe Jacquelyn Ford Morie Julieta Aguilera Art Science and Immersion: Data-Driven Experiences . SPIE: The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2013 [Peer-reviewed conference paper]

 

  •  Ruth West Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne Robert Pless. Dynamic Virtual Ecologies: Augmenting Re-photography for Spanning Scales from Cities to Trees. SPIE: The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2013 [Peer-reviewed conference paper]

 

  • Vaughan M West R Grimm C Sowell R Pless R Kobourov S. 2012. Specializing Interfaces for Citizen Science Segmentation of Volumetric Data. Washington University St. Louis Department of Computer Science and Engineering 2012-42. [Technical Report]

 

  • West R Margolis T O’Neill-Dunne J. Mendelowitz E. (2012) MetaTree: Augmented Reality Narrative Explorations of Urban Forests Proceedings of the 22nd Annual IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging 22-26 January 2012 San Francisco CA PAPER #: 8289-15

 

  • West R Lewis JP Margolis T Schulze JP Gossmann J Tenedorio D Singh R. (2009) Algorithmic Object As Natural Specimen: Meta Shape Grammar Objects From Atlas In Silico Leonardo Electronic Almanac Vol. 6 Issue 6 – 7 October 2009. (Peer reviewed journal article)

 

  • Mun M Reddy S Shilton K Yau N Boda P Burke J Estrin D Hansen M Howard E West R. (2009). PEIR the Personal Environmental Impact Report as a Platform for Participatory Sensing Systems Research. Mobisys 2009: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference On Mobile Systems Applications And Services pp. 55 – 68. (Peer reviewed conference paper)

 

  • West R Gossmann J Margolis T Schulze JP Lewis JP Tenedorio D. (2009). Sensate abstraction: hybrid strategies for multi-dimensional data in expressive virtual reality contexts. Proceedings of the 21st Annual SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 18-22 January 2009 San Jose California Volume 7238 pp. 72380I-72380I-11 (2009). DOI: 10.1117/12.806928 (Peer reviewed conference paper)

 

  • J. Gossman B. Hackbarth and R. West with T. Margolis J.P. Lewis and I. Mostafavi. (2008) Sclable Auditory Data Signatures for Discovery Oriented Browsing in an Expressive Context. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Auditory Display June 24 – 28 2008 Paris France.

 

  • West R. “Working With Wetware: Biology and an Expressive Context.” In: Context Providers: Conditions Of Meaning In Media Arts. Eds. Margot Lovejoy Christiane Paul Victoria Vesna. University of Minnesota Press. in press (Invited book chapter).

 

  • Fong LL Larson SD Gupta A Condit C Bug WJ Chen L West R Lamont S Terada M Martone ME (2007) An Ontology-Driven Knowledge Environment for Subcellular Neuroanatomy OWL: Experiences and Directions Innsbruck Austria CEUR Workshop Proceedings ISSN 1613-0073 http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-258/ June 6-7 2007 (Peer reviewed conference paper)

 

  • Lewis JP Mostafavi I Sosinsky G Martone ME and West R. (2007) Shape Priors by Kernel Density Modeling of PCA Residual Structure. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2007. ICIP 2007. Vol. 4 pp 333 ñ 336. (Peer reviewed conference paper)

 

  • Smalheiser NR Torvik VI Bischoff-Grethe A Burhans LB Gabriel M Homayouni R Kashef A Martone ME Perkins GA Price DL Talk AC West R. (2006) Collaborative development of the Arrowsmith two node search interface designed for laboratory investigators. J Biomed Discov Collab. 1(1). (Peer reviewed journal article)

 

  • Singh R Schwarz N Taesombut N Lee D Jeong B Renambot L Lin AW West R Otsuka H Peltier ST Martone ME Nozaki K Leigh J Ellisman MH (2005). Real-time multi-scale brain data acquisition assembly and analysis using an end-to-end OptIPuter FGCS Special iGrid 2005 Issue 1032-1039. (Peer reviewed journal article)

 

  • West R Burke J Kerfeld C Mendelowitz E Holton T Lewis JP Drucker E Yan W. (2005) Both and Neither: in silico v1.0 Ecce Homology. Leonardo 38 (4): 286-293 MIT Press. (Peer reviewed journal article)

 

  • Korenberg JR Kawashima H Pulst SM Ikeuchi T Ogasawara N YamamotoK Schonberg SA West R Allen L Magenis E Ikawa K Taniguchi N and Epstein CJ. (1990) Molecular Definition of a Region of Chromosome 21 that Causes Features of the Down Syndrome Phenotype. American Journal of Human Genetics 47: 236-246. (Peer reviewed journal article)

 

  • Korenberg JR Pulst SM Neve RL West R. (1989) The Alzheimer Amyloid Precursor Protein Maps to Human Chromosome 21 Bands q21.105 – q21.05. Genomics 5:124-127. (Peer reviewed journal article)

 

  • Mehrabian M Schumaker VN Fareed GC West R Johnson DF Kirschgessner T Lin H Wang X. Ma Y Mendiaz E and Lusis AJ. (1985) Human Apolipoprotein B: Identification of cDNA Clones and Characterization of mRNA. Nucleic Acids Research 13: 6937-6953. (Peer reviewed journal article)

 

  • Lusis AJ West R Mehrabian M Reuben MA Le BouefRC Kapstein JS Johnson DF Schumaker VN Yuhasz MP Schotz MC and Elovson J. (1985) Cloning and Expression of Apolipoprotein B the Major Protein of Low and Very Low Density Lipoproteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 82: 4597-4601. (Peer reviewed journal article)

Conference Presentations

  • Boldon A. West R. Rudin T. Kahane M. (2017). Cities as Labs for Innovation Tackling Global Challenges: Transdiciplinarity and the Future of the University. A2RU National Conference Boston. (Peer-reviewed conference abstract/presentation)

 

  • West R Malina R Diamond S Lapointe FJ (2015) Challenges Best Practices and the Future of Transdisciplinary Collaboration in Media Art Science and Technology. Re-Create: Theories Methods and Practices of Research-Creation in the Histories of Media Art Science and Technology Montréal 5-8 November 2015

 

  • Alpert CL. Liarakos CD. O’Neil-Dunne J. Punyasena SW. Winter J. Kner P. West R. Burnett A. Rosa-Molinar E. (2015) When Experts Collide: Driving Cross-Cutting Innovation in Bio-Imaging & Informatics Proc. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2015

 

  • West R Halley A Gordon D O’Neil-Dunne J Pless R. (2013) Collaborative Rephotography. Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 40th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques July 21-25 Anaheim CA. Talks Article No. 20. DOI: 10.1145/2503673.2503693

 

  • West R. Margolis T O’Neil-Dunne Pless R. Seeing the Forest Through the Trees: Augmenting Urban Forest Monitors through Socially Mediated Citizen Science (2012). Conference presentation: 63rd Annual Meeting of the Histochemical Society Woodshole Marine Biological Laboratory March 20 – 23 2012.

 

  • West R. Margolis T O’Neil-Dunne Pless R. Seeing the Forest Through the Trees: Augmenting Urban Forest Monitors through Socially Mediated Citizen Science (2012). Conference presentation: 63rd Annual Meeting of the Histochemical Society Woodshole Marine Biological Laboratory March 20 – 23 2012.

 

  • Dolinsky M Morie J Ruzanko S Shaw C West R. (2009) VR and Art: Hyp-er-Reality? Panel presentation IEEE VR Conference Lafayette Louisiana March 14-18 2009. (Invited panelist)

 

  • West R Margolis T Mostafavi I Lewis JP Gossmann J Hackbarth B Horn AS Fernald S Schulze J Li W Henthorn T Yamada T Singh R Chheng T Cassey T Lien J. (2007) ATLAS in silico. Animation: From the Avant-Garde to Popular Culture Symposium November 13 2007 (Invited installation and panel presentation)

 

  • C.K. Liang J.P. Schulze R. West M. Martone M. Zwicker (2007) Bridging the Resolution Gap: Superimposition of Multiple Multi-Channel Volumes. ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Posters Visualization Session; Article 121 (Peer reviewed conference abstract)

 

  • Singh R Mostafavi I Schulze J and West R. Integrated Collaborative Cyberinfrastructure and NCMIR Multiscale Imaging Portal (2006). Supercomputing 2006 November 11 – 17 2006 Tampa Florida (Conference demonstration project)

 

  • L. Fong L. Chen R. West M. Wong S. Lamont A. Gupta M. E. Martone. (2006) OntoQuest: A Dynamic Knowledge Base for Neuroscience. Neuroscience Conference Proceedings October 14 – 18 2006. (Peer reviewed conference abstract)

 

  • L. Fong L. Chen R. West M. Wong S. Lamont A. Gupta M. E. Martone. (2006) Image Annotation for Electron Tomogrphic Data. 4th International Congress on Electron Tomography November 5 – 8 2006. (Conference abstract))

 

  • Lee D Ellisman M West R Martone M Lamont S Peltier S Hutton T Deerinck R Leigh J Schwarz N RenambotL Johnson A) Jeong B Singh R Vishwanath V He E Xiong C Taesombut N Wu X Weigle E Chien A Mambretti J Chen J Yeh F Grossman R Akiyama T Date S Nozaki K Shimojo S Mori H Yamada N Koike A Naito S Otsuka H ShiWei L Lin F Lin S de Laat C Stolk B Koo G. (2005) Real-Time Multi-Scale Brain Data Acquisition Assembly and Analysis using an End-to-End OptIPuter iGRID 2005 Computing Conference September 26 – 29 San Diego. (Demonstration Project and Technical Challenge Project) (Conference presentation)

 

  • West R Burke J Kerfeld C Mendelowitz E Holton T Lewis JP Drucker E Yan W. (2004) Ecce Homology. Design and Visual Communications: Sketches. SIGGRAPH August 8 – 12. (Conference paper)

 

  • Campbell M West R Wolbring G. (2004) Mind Over Kitchen: The Future of Thought Controlled Personal Environments. HorizonZero 14:March/April. http://www.horizonzero.ca (Canadian new media online magazine)

 

  • West R Burke J Kerfeld C Mendelowitz E Holton T Lewis JP Drucker E Yan W. (2004) in silico v1.0: A Discovery Based Model For Art-Science Collaboration. College Art Association February 18-21. (Conference paper)

 

  • West R. (2002) DNA Dice and Origami Bases: A Genetics and Culture Curriculum. ASCI Art & Science Collaboration Symposium New York NY December. (Conference presentation)

 

  • West R. (1995) Addressing Cultural Diversity: A Model For Interpreter Services. American Hospital Association – Society For Ambulatory Care Professionals Baltimore Maryland May. (Conference paper)

 

  • Korenberg JR Pulst SM West R Kojis T. (1989) Physical Mapping of DNA Sequences Linked to Familial Alzheimer Disease. American Academy of Neurology April. (Conference paper)

 

  • Korenberg JR Pulst SM Kawashima H Ikeuchi T Yamamoto K Ogasawara N Schonberg SA West R Kojis T and Epstein CJ. (1988) Familial Down Syndrome With Normal Karyotype: Molecular Definition of the Region. American Journal Of Human Genetics 43:A110. (Conference paper)

 

  • Pulst SM Korenberg JR Pribyl T Steward GS Tanzi RE Van Broekhoven C West R and Kojis T. (1988) Chromosome 21 Physical Map: Familial Alzheimer-linked DNA Sequences Cluster in a Probable Hot Spot of Recombination. American Journal of Human Genetics 43:A156. (Conference paper)

 

  • Korenberg JR Pulst SM West R. (1988) The Alzheimer Precursor Protein Gene maps to Chromosome 21 sub-bands q21.15 – q21.2. American Association of Neurology. April. (Conference paper)

 

  • Korenberg JR Pulst SM Kawashima H Ikeuchi T Yamamoto K West R Schonberg SA and Epstein CJ. (1988) Down Syndrome With Normal Chromosomes: The Genes for Superoxide Dismutase and the Amyloid Precursor Protein Are Not Duplicated. American Federation for Clinical Research 36:404A Washington D.C. April 29 to May 2. (Conference paper)

 

  • Lusis AJ West R Mehrabian M Reuben MA Le Bouef RC Kapstein JS Johnson DF Schumaker VN Yuhasz MP Schotz MC and Elovson J. (1985) Cloning and Expression of Apolipoprotein B the Major Protein of Low and Very Low Density Lipoproteins. Proceedings Federation of American Scientists and Experimental Biologists 44: 5548 Anaheim California April 21-26. (Conference paper)

 

  • A.J. Lusis K. Reue L. Metza R. West and R.C. LeBoeuf. (1984) Regulation of Apolipoprotein E Gene Expression in the Mouse. American Society of Biological Chemists St. Louis Missouri June 6. (Conference paper)