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… Read More
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INIT and Ruiz Labs celebrate Halloween!
A few weeks ago, the UF Department of CISE held their 2nd annual Halloween decorating contest! The INIT and Ruiz Labs participated again this year and the theme was “Haunted Movie Theatre,” in which your favorite scary movie characters come… Read More
Aishat gets accepted to ICMI 2019 Doctoral Consortium!
In previous posts, we have discussed our ongoing work on understanding the differences between child and adult motions to improve recognition of children’s motions. My paper, “Tailoring Motion Recognition Systems to Children’s Motions”, was accepted to the 2019 International Conference… Read More
Paper to appear at VL/HCC 2019!
The INIT Lab is happy to announce that PhD student (and full-time UF CISE lecturer) Jeremiah Blanchard‘s work has been accepted for publication at the upcoming VL/HCC conference: the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages & Human-Centric Computing. The conference will… Read More
Understanding Gestures Project: First Experience of Running User Studies with Young Children
Over the course of the last few weeks, I had my first experience of running a user study with younger children, particularly children age 6 to 7 from PK Yonge Blue Wave After School program. My PhD mentor, Alex Shaw,… Read More
IDC2019 Course on Quantitative Methods for Child-Computer Interaction!
At the recent Interaction Design & Children (IDC) 2019 conference, INIT Lab Director Dr. Lisa Anthony gave a crash course in quantitative research methods, and how to apply and adapt them to child-computer interaction. Topics covered include: the types of… Read More
TIDESS Museum Learning Project Update: PerDis 2019 Paper Accepted!
Check out our recent blog post on the TIDESS website!
INIT Lab co-authored paper appears at IEEE S&P 2019!
The INIT Lab has its first paper on usable privacy and security! In a collaboration with UF FICS (Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research) faculty member Dr. Patrick Traynor, INIT Lab director Dr. Lisa Anthony contributed to a paper investigating the… Read More
Iterating on Our Sphere Prototype – TIDESS Museum Deployment
As part of our ongoing studies with the PufferSphere spherical interface, the TIDESS team has decided to create a prototype that implements many of the same features present in our tabletop prototype, which we’ve discussed previously. This will allow us… Read More
Understanding Gestures Project: Cognitive Development and Touchscreen Interaction in Younger Children
Since I joined the INIT lab, I have been working on preparing a study related to the Understanding Gestures project. The goal of the project is to examine the relationship between previous findings about children’s touch and gesture interactions and… Read More