Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Ph.D.
She did her undergraduate design thesis with Ming-Hung Wang at National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan, obtained her Bachelor degree of Architecture and a Minor on Urban Planning (graduated with Honor, Design Award 1988), R.O.C. and did graduate work with William J. Mitchell at the Harvard Graduate School of Design before joining the PhD program at Georgia Tech.
She has taken a number of courses from College of Computing, and gotten interested in the issues of Human Computer Interaction taught by James D. Foley, and done usability studies at the Graphics, Visualization & Usability Center.
She has been working with Mark D. Gross of Sundance Lab for Computing in Design and Planning, Environmental Design at the University of Colorado at Boulder on developing a pen based computer drawing environment called the Electronic Cocktail Napkin.
In addition to the Electronic Cocktail Napkin Project, she worked on the ARCHIE, a Case Based Design Aid for archtetctural design, lead by Janet L. Kolodner, Eric A. Domeshek, and her advisor Craig M. Zimring.
In Spring 1996, Ellen has taught a week of origami in Mark's Design Theory and Methods class. Other workshops from the DTM class are cardboard furniture design and paper clothing fashion show.
Ellen also taught graduate CAD and Multimedia Design courses (92 - 94) on Alias, an advanced visualization and animation software, for Industrial Design program and the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech, and won a 1994 College of Architeccture Outstanding Teaching Award.
