Today, the INIT Lab is proud to announce that PhD student Jeremiah Blanchard defended his dissertation work “Building Bridges: Dual-Modality Instruction and Introductory Programming Coursework” this afternoon! We held the defense virtually due to the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions. Jeremiah’s committee… Read More
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Opening Up Access to TIDESS Research Data
Check out our recent blog post on the TIDESS website!
How to Calculate Interrater Reliability using Fleiss’ Kappa
In a previous post, we discussed the process of calculating interrater reliability (IRR) on qualitatively coded data using Cohen’s kappa. However, there are many different tests that can be used to calculate IRR, depending on the type of qualitative coding… Read More
Aishat and Nikita both pass dissertation proposals this week!
This week was a big one for the INIT lab! Two PhD students, Aishat Aloba, and Nikita Soni, both in the UF CISE Human-Centered Computing (HCC) PhD program successfully defended their dissertation proposals! Aishat’s topic is centered around whole-body interaction… Read More
How to Calculate Interrater Reliability using Cohen’s Kappa
In a previous post, we discussed the process of analyzing qualitative data using a codebook and codes. A code is a word or phrase that helps define a piece of qualitative data as belonging to a category to help draw… Read More
INIT Lab PhD student Alex Shaw defends his dissertation!
The INIT lab is proud to share that PhD student Alex Shaw defended his dissertation work “Automatic Recognition of Children’s Touchscreen Stroke Gestures” earlier today! Due to the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions, we held the defense virtually. Alex’s committee members were… Read More
Video for SIGCSE 2020: Dual-Modality Environments
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… Read More
TIDESS Museum Learning Project Update: CHI 2020 Paper Accepted!
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Upcoming paper to appear at SIGCSE’2020!
INIT Lab PhD student (and full-time UF CISE lecturer) Jeremiah Blanchard‘s latest paper on hybrid blocks- and text-based programming environments for introductory computing classes at the college level has been accepted to the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science… Read More
Creating the KiMoViz Toolkit for Visualizing Motions in the Kinder-Gator Dataset
In a previous post, I mentioned that we were working on selecting a representative set of motions from our Kinder-Gator dataset [1] to help us test recognition of whole-body motions. We have since designed a toolkit to visualize this representative… Read More