Category: Papers & Talks

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 […]

I am excited to share that the our poster “Romadoro: Leveraging Nudge Techniques to Encourage Break-Taking” was accepted to the 34th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST). In our poster, we present a Chrome plugin designed to encourage healthy break-taking through the implementation of technology-mediated nudges [1] coupled with the Pomodoro Technique […]

Former INIT Lab PhD student Jeremiah Blanchard is continuing to wrap up publication of his final dissertation-related studies and data analysis. We are proud to announce that he has recently had a paper accepted to the upcoming ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium! His final study focused on investigating the […]

In previous posts, we have discussed our ongoing work on the TIDESS project related to understanding how children and adults interact and learn from science data visualizations around large interactive surfaces.  For my dissertation work, my plan is to focus on understanding the Human-Computer Interaction questions related to how multi-generational groups collaborate and interact around […]

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 […]

Check out our remote video presentation for our CHI’2020 paper on the TIDESS website!

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 link: https://youtu.be/xns1I0Wymm4 I’ll continue to follow up on this work and hope to see everyone […]

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 Education (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium 2020. Not only has it been accepted, but it has received […]

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 towards more direct-interaction-based learning comes new research opportunities for designing touch-based gestural interactions that are […]

INIT Lab PhD student Jeremiah Blanchard recently attended the VL/HCC 2019 conference in Memphis, TN, to present his paper: “Effects of Code Representation on Student Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Programming,” which was announced in a previous blog post here. At the conference, he received an “Honorable Mention” award, which represents his hard work and the […]