In previous posts, we have talked about our observations of museum visitors interacting with Google Earth on touch-enabled large-screen displays mounted on the wall or as a tabletop. We are pleased to announce that our paper, “Gestures by Children and… Read More
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MTAGIC Project: CHI Presentation
In the last post, we mentioned that our paper on the MTAGIC study – “Characterizing How Interface Complexity Affects Children’s Touchscreen Interactions” – was accepted to CHI 2016, a top conference for Human Computer Interaction! The paper focused on whether… Read More
IPES Museum Learning Project: User study
Since the last update, we’ve completed the first iteration of the IPES Museum Learning Project prototype and deployed it at the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) in an observational user study (http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/). The goal of this project is to… Read More
Kids Application Survey Project
The main purpose of the Kids Application survey project is to help generate constructive recommendations for designing touchscreen interfaces specifically tailored towards kids. In our current study, we are taking inspiration by surveying interfaces of existing kid’s applications and are… Read More
POSE Project: User study underway!
One of the projects our lab has been working on is the POSE project. This project is a transition from the FunFitTech project where we were more interested with creating a proof of concept prototype that would motivate kids to… Read More
IPES Museum Learning Project: Continued prototyping and user study
The IPES Museum Learning Project prototype has been substantially improved and almost ready for the first deployment since the last update. We are preparing to use the prototype in the Florida Museum of Natural History for an observational user study.… Read More
Understanding Gestures Project: Late Breaking Work on children’s gestures accepted to CHI!
One of the projects our lab has been working on has been a qualitative analysis of the children’s gesture data from our MTAGIC project. We submitted an extended abstract about this work to CHI and it was accepted! In the… Read More
MTAGIC Project: CHI 2016 paper accepted!
In the last post, we had submitted our paper on the MTAGIC study findings and were waiting to find out if it was accepted. Our paper, “Characterizing How Interface Complexity Affects Children’s Touchscreen Interactions”, was accepted to CHI 2016, a… Read More
Bridging Languages Project: Summer camp study
Over the summer, I ran a study with children ages 7-12 at a gaming summer camp in Winter Park, FL. The aim of this study was to begin to identify programming constructs students find motivating, and those they struggle with,… Read More
MTAGIC Project: Gesture analysis
In our last post we discussed how we were working on replicating analyses from previous studies. We have completed these analyses and written and submitted a paper on our findings. When our paper is accepted, we will post the abstract… Read More