Publications

These are some of my writings and publications.

Medium articles

How UX research can get a seat at the table — a case study

As UX researchers, we don’t always get a seat at the decision-making table alongside the technical and business-savvy people in the organization. In this article, I identify six steps we can take to get our discipline that seat and use a research project that I did at Microsoft as a case study.
March 2020.
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Ph.D. dissertation

Programming In the Model: A new perspective in scripting in CAD systems

School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, 2014
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Journal articles

Designing DEVS Visual Interfaces for End-User Programmers

Maryam M. Maleki, Robert F. Woodbury, Rhys Goldstein, Simon Breslav, Azam Khan
SIMULATION: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International (Sage) 91, no. 08, 2015
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Reinterpreting Rasmi Domes with Geometric Constraints: A Case of Goal-seeking in Parametric Systems

Maryam M. Maleki, Robert F. Woodbury
International Journal of Architectural Computing 06, no. 04, 2008
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Conference papers

Liveness, Localization and Lookahead: Interaction elements for parametric design

Maryam M. Maleki, Robert F. Woodbury, Carman Neustaedter
DIS 2014 conference proceedings, Designing Interactive Systems Conference June 2014, Vancouver, Canada
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Programming in the Model: A new scripting interface for parametric CAD systems

Maryam M. Maleki and Robert F. Woodbury
ACADIA 2013 conference proceedings, Association for Computer-Aided Design In Architecture, October 2013, Waterloo, Canada
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Programming in the Model: Combining Task and Tool in Computer-Aided Design

Maryam M. Maleki and Robert F. Woodbury
CAADRIA 2010 conference proceedings, Association of Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research In Asia, April 2010, Hong Kong
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Programming in the Model: Contextualizing Computer Programming in CAD models

Maryam M. Maleki and Robert F. Woodbury
SimAUD 2010 conference proceedings, Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design, April 2010, Orlando, FL
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