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Recently, the INIT Lab learned that one of our collaborators, Dr. Danielle Jake-Schoffman, from UF’s College of Health and Human Performance (HHP) in the Department of Health Education & Behavior, has received an NIH-sponsored R21 grant called “FamilyFit: Promoting Family-Based Physical Activity and Weight Gain Prevention through Mobile Technology.” Dr. Jake-Schoffman directs the EXHale Lab, […]

I am excited to share that the our poster “Romadoro: Leveraging Nudge Techniques to Encourage Break-Taking” was accepted to the 34th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST). In our poster, we present a Chrome plugin designed to encourage healthy break-taking through the implementation of technology-mediated nudges [1] coupled with the Pomodoro Technique […]

Hello! This fall (2020), I wrote and submitted an application for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). There is a lot of information about the NSF GRFP available on the main NSF page as well as on many NSF how-to pages (like Mallory’s blog or Alex’s website). I’m going to use […]

In previous posts, we have discussed our ongoing work on the TIDESS project related to understanding how children and adults interact and learn from science data visualizations around large interactive surfaces.  For my dissertation work, my plan is to focus on understanding the Human-Computer Interaction questions related to how multi-generational groups collaborate and interact around […]

Check out our remote video presentation for our CHI’2020 paper on the TIDESS website!

Check out our recent blog post on the TIDESS website!

As I was not able to present my paper (Dual-Modality Instruction and Learning: A Case Study in CS1) at SIGCSE 2020 due to travel restrictions and social distancing directives, I prepared a video presentation which can be watched at the link: https://youtu.be/xns1I0Wymm4 I’ll continue to follow up on this work and hope to see everyone […]

As a member of the INIT lab, I’m writing today’s blog post about the qualitative coding of research data. Depending on the type of data, research data can be analyzed either quantitatively or qualitatively. Researchers use quantitative approaches (e.g., means, standard deviations, statistical tests) to quantify certain patterns in numeric data. On the other hand, […]

Both formal and informal educational venues such as classrooms and public science centers are increasingly using touchscreen interfaces for differing sizes and form factors such tablets, multi-touch flatscreen tabletops, and interactive spherical displays for learning purposes [1,2]. With this shift towards more direct-interaction-based learning comes new research opportunities for designing touch-based gestural interactions that are […]

Check out our recent blog post on the TIDESS website!