On May 29, I completed and passed my PhD dissertation proposal defense. The proposal defense process can vary widely among institutions and even among departments in the same institution, so in this post I outline the process I followed in… Read More
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INIT Lab paper on children’s touchscreen collaborations to appear at CSCW 2018!
We are proud to be able to say that our lab has had a paper accepted to the upcoming ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW) 2018 conference! This paper presents an analysis of children interacting around a large… Read More
Understanding Gestures Project: Implementing the $-family gesture recognizers
This summer, I have been working on a project related to the $-family of gesture recognizers. The $-family is a series of simple, fast, and accurate gesture recognizers designed to be accessible to novice programmers. $1 [1] was created by… Read More
TIDESS Museum Learning Project: PufferSphere prototype development
The TIDESS Team has been investigating the natural and intuitive ways users interact with spherical displays by continuing to prototype on the PufferSphere. In my understanding as a new member of the team, the TIDESS project primarily aims to investigate… Read More
Tips for Writing the UF CISE Qualifying Exam
I just completed my qualifying exam and in this blog post, I will detail what I think I learned from the qualifying exam (quals) process. In the CISE department at UF, the qualifying exam is the first milestone used to… Read More
UXPA article on children’s touchscreen interactions now live!
And now for something a little different! The INIT Lab has long been conducting research on how children’s physical capabilities (e.g., motor skills development) affects their interactions with touchscreen devices like iPads and smartphones. Other researchers, like Alexis Hiniker and… Read More
INIT Lab collaboration results in new gesture recognizer to appear at MobileHCI’2018!
We are excited to announced that there is a new member of the $-family of gesture recognizers! A paper on a new super-quick recognizer optimized for today’s low-resource devices (e.g., wearable, embedded, and mobile devices) that I (Lisa) co-wrote with… Read More
INIT Lab director Lisa Anthony honored to receive an undergraduate mentoring award!
I am pleased to be able to say that I was recently honored with the UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Faculty Advising/Mentor of the Year Award for 2017-2018. This award focuses on undergraduate research and mentoring, an activity which… Read More
Pose Project: Dataset paper accepted to Eurographics 2018
In a previous post, we discussed conducting a study in which we used the Kinect to track the motions of ten children and ten adults performing whole-body gestures, for example, wave your hand and jumping jacks. From this study, we… Read More
Word Error Rate (WER) for Recognition of Natural Interactions
In the INIT Lab, we focus on natural user interaction for children. Many of these modalities, such as touch, gesture, and speech, involve some type of recognition process to understand what the user input is. To determine how accurate a… Read More