Selected Publications

Peer-reviewed work on CAD collaboration, design tools, and engineering practice.

• CHI 2026
  Lost in Translation: The Value of Verbalizations in Interpreting 3D Computer-Aided Design Workflows
  Kathy Cheng, Jo Vermeulen, George Fitzmaurice, and Justin Matejka
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• CSCW 2025
  It's a Complete Haystack: Understanding Dependency Management Needs in Computer-Aided Design
  Kathy Cheng, Alison Olechowski, and Shurui Zhou
  PDF DOI
• CSCW 2024
  "A Lot of Moving Parts": A Case Study of Open-Source Hardware Design Collaboration in the Thingiverse Community
  Kathy Cheng, Shurui Zhou, and Alison Olechowski
  PDF DOI OSF
• IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management 2024
  The Personas of Cloud CAD Collaboration: A Case Study of a Team of CAD Professionals
  Chuma Asuzu, Kathy Cheng, and Alison Olechowski
  PDF DOI
• Journal of Mechanical Design 2024
  Analysis of Collaborative Assembly in Multi-User Computer-Aided Design
  Kathy Cheng and Alison Olechowski
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• Journal of Mechanical Design 2024
  Designing Together: Exploring Collaborative Dynamics of Multi-Objective Design Problems in Virtual Environments
  Debrina Roy, Nicole Calpin, Kathy Cheng, Alison Olechowski, Andrea P Argüelles, Nicolás F Soria Zurita, and Jessica Menold
  PDF DOI
• CSCW 2023
  User Perspectives on Branching in Computer-Aided Design
  Kathy Cheng, Phil Cuvin, Alison Olechowski, and Shurui Zhou
  PDF DOI
• CSCW 2023
  In the Age of Collaboration, the Computer-Aided Design Ecosystem is Behind: An Interview Study of Distributed CAD Practice
  Kathy Cheng, Michal Davis, Xiyue Zhang, Shurui Zhou, and Alison Olechowski
  PDF DOI
• Design Science 2022
  Communication patterns in engineering enterprise social networks: an exploratory analysis using short text topic modelling
  Sharon Ferguson, Kathy Cheng, Lauren Adolphe, Georgia Van de Zande, David Wallace, and Alison Olechowski
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