Ailie Fraser

Senior Research Engineer

Seattle

Ailie is a Senior Research Engineer at Adobe working in Human-Computer Interaction. Her research focuses on storytelling and interactive experiences for video and audio creation. She aims to support peoples’ creativity by designing intuitive workflows that leverage the power of generative AI and media understanding. Before joining Adobe, Ailie completed her PhD in Computer Science from UC San Diego, and her BSc in Math, Computer Science, & Music from the University of Toronto.

Details about Ailie’s previous projects and publications can be found on her website.

Publications

“It’s more of a vibe I’m going for”: Designing Text-to-Music Generation Interfaces for Video Creators

Hammad, Noor., Fraser, Ailie., Harpstead, Erik., Hammer, Jessica., Dontcheva, Mira. (Jul. 4, 2025)

ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2025)

ReMap: Lowering the Barrier to Help-Seeking with Multimodal Search

Fraser, Ailie., Markel, Julia., Basa, N.., Dontcheva, Mira., Klemmer, Scott. (Oct. 20, 2020)

ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)

Temporal Segmentation of Creative Live Streams

Fraser, Ailie., Kim, Joy., Shin, Hijung., Brandt, Joel., Dontcheva, Mira. (Apr. 23, 2020)

ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (SIGCHI)

Sharing the Studio: How Creative Livestreaming can Inspire, Educate, and Engage

Fraser, C.., Kim, Joy., Thornsberry, Alison., Klemmer, Scott., Dontcheva, Mira. (Jun. 24, 2019)

ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C)

RePlay: Contextually Presenting Learning Videos Across Software Applications

Fraser, C.., Ngoon, Tricia., Dontcheva, Mira., Klemmer, Scott. (May. 6, 2019)

Honorable Mention

ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (SIGCHI)

Interactive Guidance Techniques for Improving Creative Feedback

Ngoon, Tricia., Fraser, C.., Weingarten, Ariel., Dontcheva, Mira., Klemmer, Scott. (Apr. 16, 2018)

Honorable Mention

Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (SIGCHI)

DiscoverySpace: Suggesting Actions in Complex Software

Fraser, C.., Dontcheva, Mira., Winnemöller, Holger., Ehrlich, Sheryl., Klemmer, Scott. (Jun. 6, 2016)

ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)

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