Category: Biometrics

In a previous tweet from 2020, INIT lab director Lisa Anthony shared the news that we were collaborating with UF Health researchers, including Dr. Mamoun Mardini from UF College of Medicine’s Department of Aging & Geriatric Research, to investigate the use of smartwatches and other wearables to detect problematic face-touching behaviors that could contribute to […]

The INIT Lab and Ruiz HCI lab at UF have a new NSF grant, in collaboration with Dr. Tempestt Neal and Dr. Shaun Canavan at USF, to pursue a project to understand users’ mental models of continuous (passive) authentication in smart environments, as well as to evaluate a proof-of-concept system with current sensing technologies. Continuous […]

The INIT Lab and Ruiz HCI Lab have a joint paper to appear at the upcoming ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), which will be held as a virtual event in October of 2020. The work behind this paper was led by former Ph.D. student Dr. Sarah Morrison-Smith, now a teaching and research fellow […]

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 that you have done. In this post, I will discuss using Fleiss’ kappa, including when […]

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 conclusions from the data [1]. This process can essentially be split into three stages. 1) […]

I have noticed undergraduate students get involved outside of the classroom to develop skills that the classroom setting cannot teach. This gives students the chance to develop professionally and make their resumes more diverse and appealing for the path they choose to pursue next, whether it be graduate school or a career in their field. […]