Publications – Brandon Haworth, PhD

* shared first authorship

Book Chapters

Haworth, B., Johnson, C., & Schwartz, M. (2023). Universal Design of Signage Through Virtual Human Simulation. In Cultural Space on Metaverse (pp. 53-67). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
Usman, M., Haworth, B., Berseth, G., Faloutsos, P., & Kapadia, M. (2021). Towards Democratizing Human-Building Simulation and Analytics in F. S. Roberts and I. A. Sheremet (Eds.), Resilience in the Digital Age LNCS 12660 (pp. 157–171). Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Berseth, G., Kapadia, M., Haworth, B., & Faloutsos, P. (2016). SteerFit: Automated Parameter Fitting for Steering Algorithms In N. Pelechano, J. M. Allbeck, M. Kapadia, & N. I. Badler Editor (Ed.), Simulating Heterogeneous Crowds with Interactive Behaviours (pp. 197–213). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group.

Journal Articles

Schwartz, M., Haworth, B., Faloutsos, P., & Kapadia, M. (2024). Comparison of design education documents and the disconnect between designer priorities, tools, and occupant assumptions. Architectural Science Review, 1-13.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00038628.2024.2383360
Marney, B., Haworth, B. (2024). Toward comprehensive Chiroptera modeling: A parametric multiagent model for bat behavior. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 35(3), e2251.
https://doi.org/10.1002/cav.2251
Johnson, C., Haworth, B. (2022), Cognitive Model of Agent Exploration with Vision and Signage Understanding. Computer Graphics Forum, 41: 143-154.
https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14631
- Journal publication of Johnson, C., Haworth, B. (2022, September). Cognitive Model of Agent Exploration with Vision and Signage Understanding. In Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGGRAPH / EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2022). ACM.
Kremer, M., Caruana, P., Haworth, B., Kapadia, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2022). Automatic estimation of parametric saliency maps (PSMs) for autonomous pedestrians. Computers & Graphics, 104, 86-94.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2022.03.010
Hu, K.*, Haworth, B.*, Berseth, G., Pavlovic, V., Faloutsos, P., Kapadia, M. (2021). Heterogeneous Crowd Simulation using Parametric Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2021.3139031
Usman, M., Haworth, B., Faloutsos, P., & Kapadia, M. (2021). Simulation‐as‐a‐Service: Analyzing Crowd Movements in Virtual Environments. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, e1990.
https://doi.org/10.1002/cav.1990
Kremer, M., Haworth, B., Kapadia, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2021). Modelling distracted agents in crowd simulations. The Visual Computer, 37(1), 107-118.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-020-01969-4
[Featured Article, Best Paper 2021 Runner-up] Haworth, B., Usman, M., Schaumann, D., Chakraborty, N., Berseth, G., Faloutsos, P., & Kapadia, M. (2020). Gamification of Crowd-Driven Environment Design. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 41(4), 107-117.
https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2020.2965069
Berseth, G.*, Haworth, B.*, Usman, M.*, Schaumann, D., Khayatkhoei, M.*, Kapadia, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2019). Interactive Architectural Design with Diverse Solution Exploration. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 27(1), 111-124.
https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2019.2938961
Zhang, X., Schaumann, D., Haworth, B., Faloutsos, P., & Kapadia, M. (2019). Coupling agent motivations and spatial behaviors for authoring multiagent narratives. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 30(3-4), e1898.
https://doi.org/10.1002/cav.1898
Kearney, E., Haworth, B., Scholl, J., Faloutsos, P., Baljko, M., & Yunusova, Y. (2018). Treating Speech-Movement Hypokinesia in Parkinson’s Disease: Does Movement Size Matter? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61(11), 2703-2721.
https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_JSLHR-S-17-0439
Haworth, B., Kearney, E., Faloutsos, P., Baljko, M., & Yunusova, Y. (2018). Electromagnetic articulography (EMA) for real-time feedback application: computational techniques. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization, Advance Online Publication.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681163.2018.1434423
Kearney, E., Giles, R., Haworth, B., Faloutsos, P., Baljko, M., & Yunusova, Y. (2017). Sentence-Level Movements in Parkinson’s Disease: Loud, Clear, and Slow Speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60(12), 3426-3440.
https://doi.org/10.1044/2017_JSLHR-S-17-0075
Haworth, B., Usman, M., Berseth, G., Khayatkhoei, M., Kapadia, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2017). CODE: Crowd‐optimized design of environments. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 28(6), e1749.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cav.1749
Haworth, B., Usman, M., Berseth, G., Kapadia, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2017). On density–flow relationships during crowd evacuation. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 28(3-4), e1783.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cav.1783
Yunusova, Y., Kearney, E., Kulkarni, M., Haworth, B., Baljko, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2017). Game-based augmented visual feedback for enlarging speech movements in Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60(6S), 1818-1825.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2017_JSLHR-S-16-0233
Berseth, G., Usman, M., Haworth, B., Kapadia, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2015). Environment optimization for crowd evacuation. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 26(3-4), 377-386.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cav.1652

Refereed Conference Papers

Ferreira, D., Shatzel, L., & Haworth, B. (2024, November). Deformable Elliptical Particles for Predictive Mesh-Adaptive Crowds. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction, and Games (pp. 1-11).
https://doi.org/10.1145/3677388.3696329
Kremer, M., Caruana, P. N., Haworth, B., Schwartz, M., Kapadia, M., Faloutsos, P. (2023, May). Saliency Driven Gaze Control for Autonomous Pedestrians. In Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2023.
Schwartz, M., Haworth, B., Usman, M., Kapadia, M., Faloutsos, P., (2022, September). Impact of Manikin Display on Perception of Spatial Planning. In Proceedings of SAP ’22: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception. ACM.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3548814.3551457
Johnson, C., Haworth, B. (2022, September). Cognitive Model of Agent Exploration with Vision and Signage Understanding. In Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGGRAPH / EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2022). ACM.
Kremer, M., Caruana, P., Haworth, B., Kapadia, M., Faloutsos, P. (November, 2021). PSM: Parametric Saliency Maps for Autonomous Pedestrians. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games. ACM.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3487983.3488299
Ferreira, D., Haworth, B. (2021, October). DeepSolfège: Recognizing Solfège Hand Signs Using Convolutional Neural Networks. In International Symposium on Visual Computing (pp. 39-50). Springer, Cham.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90439-5_4
Haworth, B.*, Berseth, G.*, Moon, S., Faloutsos, P., & Kapadia, M. (2020, October). Deep Integration of Physical Humanoid Control and Crowd Navigation. In Proceedings of the 13^th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games. ACM.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3424636.3426894
Kremer, M., Haworth, B., Kapadia, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2020, October). Watch Out! Modelling Pedestrians with Egocentric Distractions. In Proceedings of the 13^th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games. ACM.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3424636.3426910
Usman, M., Schaumann, D., Haworth, B., Kapadia, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2019, October). Joint Exploration and Analysis of High-Dimensional Design–Occupancy Templates. In Proceedings of the 12^th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games (p. 35). ACM.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3359566.3360086
Zhang, X., Schaumann, D., Haworth, B., Faloutsos, P., Kapadia, M. (2019, April). Multi-Constrained Authoring of Occupant Behavior Narratives in Architectural Design. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture & Urban Design.
Usman, M., Schaumann, D., Haworth, B., Kapadia, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2019, June). Joint Parametric Modeling of Buildings and Crowds for Human-Centric Simulation and Analysis. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures (pp. 279-294). Springer, Singapore.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8410-3_20
Schaumann, D., Sohn, S., Usman, M., Haworth, B., Faloutsos, P., & Kapadia, M. (2019, June). Spatio-Temporal Affordance Maps for Occupancy Simulation in Architectural Design. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures.
Usman, M., Schaumann, D., Haworth, B., Berseth, G., Kapadia, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2018, November). Interactive Spatial Analytics for Human-Aware Building Design. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Motion, Interaction, and Games (p. 13).
https://doi.org/10.1145/3274247.3274503
Usman, M., Haworth, B., Berseth, G., Kapadia, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2017, November). Perceptual evaluation of space in virtual environments. In Proceedings of the 10^th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Motion in Games (p. 16). ACM.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3136457.3136458
Chakraborty, N.*, Haworth, B.*, Usman, M., Berseth, G., Faloutsos, P., & Kapadia, M. (2017, November). Crowd sourced co-design of floor plans using simulation guided games. In Proceedings of the 10^th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Motion in Games (p. 1). ACM.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3136457.3136463
Haworth, B., Usman, M., Baljko, M., & Hamidi, F. (2016, July). The Use of Working Prototypes for Participatory Design with People with Disabilities. In Proceedings of the 16^th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (pp. 134-141). Springer, Cham.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41264-1_19
Haworth, B., Usman, M., Berseth, G., Khayatkhoei, M., Kapadia, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2016, May). Towards computer assisted crowd aware architectural design. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2119-2125). ACM.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892360
Haworth, B., Usman, M., Berseth, G., Kapadia, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2015, November). Evaluating and optimizing level of service for crowd evacuations. In Proceedings of the 8^th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Motion in Games (pp. 91-96). ACM.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2822013.2822040
Berseth, G., Haworth, B., Kapadia, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2014, November). Characterizing and optimizing game level difficulty. In Proceedings of the 7^th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Motion in Games (pp. 153-160). ACM.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2668084.2668100
Berseth, G., Kapadia, M., Haworth, B., & Faloutsos, P. (2014, July). SteerFit: Automated parameter fitting for steering algorithms. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (pp. 113-122). Eurographics Association.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/sca.20141129
Haworth, B., Baljko, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2012, December). PhoVR: a virtual reality system to treat phobias. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry (pp. 171-174). ACM.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2407516.2407560
Shtern, M., Haworth, B., Yunusova, Y., Baljko, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2012, November). A game system for speech rehabilitation. In Proceedings of the 5^th International Conference on Motion in Games (pp. 43-54). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34710-8_5
Haworth, B., Baljko, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2012, November). Treating Phobias with Computer Games. In Proceedings of the 5^th International Conference on Motion in Games (pp. 374-377). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34710-8_36

Refereed Workshop Papers

Haworth, B., Schwartz, M. (2022, August). Universal Design of Signage through Virtual Human Simulation. In The 4th Cultural DNA Workshop.
Haworth, B., Kapadia, M., Faloutsos, P. (2021, November). Representative Synthetic Crowds for Inclusive Environment Design. At the Modeling and Animating Realistic Crowds and Humans Workshop. 4th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality.
https://doi.org/10.1109/AIVR52153.2021.00035
Wang, Y., Haworth, B. (2021, July). MASAI: Multi-agent Summative Assessment Improvement for Unsupervised Environment Design. At the Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning Workshop. International Conference on Machine Learning 2021.
(Invited talk) Haworth, B. (2021, January). Learning to Move – Reinforcement Learning in Navigation. At the Neuro-Cognitive Modeling of Humans and Environments Workshop. 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 17th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Berseth, G., Haworth, B., Kapadia, M., Faloutsos, P. (2019, December). Multi-Agent Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Humanoid Navigation. At the Deep Reinforcement Learning Workshop. 33^rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
Haworth, B., Usman, M., Berseth, G., Kapadia, M., Faloutsos, P. (2017, August). Static and Dynamic Analysis in Computer-Aided Human-Centric Environment Design. At the Cognition and Artificial Intelligence for Human-Centred Design Workshop. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence.
Haworth, B., Usman, M., Chakraborty, N., Berseth, G., Faloutsos, P., Kapadia, M. (2017, August). Crowd Sourced Co-design of Floor Plans using Simulation Guided Games. At the Cognition and Artificial Intelligence for Human-Centred Design Workshop. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence.
Haworth, B., Usman, M., Berseth, G., Khayatkhoei, M., Kapadia, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2016, March). Using synthetic crowds to inform building pillar placements. In Virtual Humans and Crowds for Immersive Environments, (VHCIE) (pp. 7-11). IEEE.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/VHCIE.2016.7563566
Moghaddam, A., Haworth, B., Kearney, E., Baljko, M., Faloutsos, P., Yunusova, Y. (2015, August). Artifact Removal Techniques for 3d Electromagnetic Articulography. At the 3^rd International Workshop on Biomechanical and Parametric Modeling of Human Anatomy. Parametric Human Project.
Haworth, B., Kearney, E., Baljko, M., Faloutsos, P., & Yunusova, Y. Electromagnetic articulography in the development of ‘serious games’ for speech rehabilitation. At the 2^nd International Workshop on Biomechanical and Parametric Modeling of Human Anatomy. Parametric Human Project.
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Refereed Posters

Haworth, B., Kapadia, M., Faloutsos, P. (2017, November). Footstep Action Identification and Clustering from Motion Capture. Poster presented at the 10^th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Motion in Games.
Yunusova, Y., Kearney, E., Scholl, J., Janik-Jones, C., Haworth, B., Roberts, E., Faloutsos, P., Baljko, M. (2017, September). Game-Based Augmented Visual Feedback Treatment for Apraxia of Speech After Stroke. Poster presented at the 11^th World Stroke Congress. CPSR.
Usman, M., Haworth, B., Berseth, G., Kapadia, M., Faloutsos, P. (2017, July). Understanding spatial perception and visual modes in the review of architectural designs. Poster presented at the 16^th annual ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation. Eurographics Association.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3099564.3108164
Kearney, E., Haworth, B., Scholl, J., Faloutsos, P., Baljko, M., Yunusova, Y. (2017, November). Game-based Speech Therapy using Visual Feedback in Parkinson’s Disease. Poster presented at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Research Day. UHN: TRI.
Giles, R., Kearney, E., Haworth, B., Faloutsos, P., Baljko, M., Yunusova, Y. (2017, November). Acoustic – Kinematic Relationships in Speech: Improving Assessment and Treatment of Speech Disorder in Parkinson’s Disease. Poster presented at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Research Day. UHN: TRI.
Kearney, E., Yunusova, Y., Haworth, B., Faloutsos, P., & Baljko, M. (2014, February). Articulatory Working Space as a Kinematic Target in Augmented Feedback Applications. Poster presented at the 17^th Biennial Motor Speech Conference.
Haworth, B., Kearney, E., Yunusova, Y., Faloutsos, P., & Baljko, M. Rehabilitative Speech Computer Game Calibration Using Empirical Characterizations of Articulatory Working Space (AWS). Poster presented at the 17^th Biennial Motor Speech Conference.
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Haworth, B., Yunusova, Y., Kearney, E., Faloutsos, P., & Baljko, M. (2013, November). Enabling Serious Games for Speech Rehab: Movement Space Transformation. Poster presented at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Research Day. UHN: TRI.
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Kearney, E., Haworth, B., Faloutsos, P., Baljko, M., & Yunusova, Y. (2013, November). Towards Development of Augmented Visual Feedback Targets for Speech Rehabilitation: Articulatory Working Space. Poster presented at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Research Day. UHN: TRI.
Haworth, B., Baljko, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2012, November). Treating phobias with computer games using consumer level hardware and software components. Poster presented at the 5^th International Conference on Motion in Games.
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Posters (Non-Refereed)

“Computer Games for Speech Rehabilitation:Your Tongue as a Game Controller”, Haworth, B., Supervisors: Faloutsos, P., & Baljko, M., Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Research Poster Day, 2013.
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Refereed Presentations

Johnson, C., Haworth, B. (2022, September). Cognitive Model of Agent Exploration with Vision and Signage Understanding. Paper presented at the 21st ACM SIGGRAPH / EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2022).
Haworth, B., Kapadia, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2021, November). Representative Synthetic Crowds for Inclusive Environment Design. Workshop paper presented at the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR 2021).
Haworth, B. (2021, January). Learning to Move – Reinforcement Learning in Navigation. Invited talk at the Neuro-Cognitive Modeling of Humans and Environments Workshop. 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 17th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2021).
Haworth, B.*, Berseth, G.*, Moon, S., Faloutsos, P., & Kapadia, M. (2020, October). Deep Integration of Physical Humanoid Control and Crowd Navigation. Paper presented at the 13^th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games (MIG 2020). ACM.
Diamant, R.*, Haworth, B.* (2019, July). Reading the Shelves: The Politics of Creating a Diverse Comics Library. The 2^nd Annual Conference of the Comics Studies Society – COMICS/POLITICS.
Chakraborty, N., *Haworth, B., Usman, M., Berseth, G., Faloutsos, P., Kapadia, M. (2017, November). Crowd Sourced Co-design of Floor Plans using Simulation Guided Games. Paper presented at the 10^th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Motion in Games. ACM.
Haworth, B., Usman, M., Berseth, G, Kapadia, M. & Faloutsos, P. (2017, May). On Density – Flow Relationships During Crowd Evacuation. Paper presented at the 30^th Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents.
Inampundi, B. C., Zhang, X., Geraci, F., Badler, N. I., & Kapadia, M. (2017, May). Memory Reconstruction From Autobiographic Memories of Autonomous Virtual Agents. Paper presented at the 30^th Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents. (Presenter).
Haworth, B., Usman, M., Berseth, G., Khayatkhoei, M., Kapadia, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2016, May). CODE: Crowd Optimized Design of Environments. Paper presented at the 29^th Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents.
Berseth, G., Kapadia, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2016, May). ACCLMesh: Curvature-Based Navigation Mesh Generation. Paper presented at the 29^th Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents. (Presenter).
Krontiris, A., Bekris, K. & Kapadia, M. (2016, May). ACUMEN: Activity-Centric Crowd Authoring Using Influence Maps. Paper presented at the 29^th Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents. (Presenter).
Haworth, B., Baljko, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2012, December). PhoVR: A Virtual Reality System to Treat Phobias. Paper presented at the 11th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry.
Shtern, M., Haworth, B., Yunusova, Y., Baljko, M., & Faloutsos, P. (2012, November). A Game System for Speech Rehabilitation. Paper presented at the 5^th International Conference on Motion in Games.