Category: TIDESS

In June, former INIT Lab PhD student and TIDESS project member Nikita Soni (now a tenure-track assistant professor at UIC) presented our lessons learned in our TIDESS work related to interface design for interactive map-based datasets at a workshop on Map-based Interfaces and Interactions (MAPII) that was held virtually at the Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) […]

INIT Lab undergraduate student Ailish Tierney has been a member of the lab and the TIDESS project since the Fall of 2019. Academic year 2021-2022 was her senior year and we are proud of her for getting accepted into the UF Undergraduate Scholars Program (USP), which provides undergraduates with a funded opportunity to work on […]

This past year, the TIDESS team was also able to publish some of our findings relevant to science learning for adults and children in the International Journal of Science Education: Part B: Communication and Public Outreach (IJSEB). Our paper is entitled “Inland adult and child interest in the ocean” and presents our insights from a […]

The INIT Lab and TIDESS project are proud to announce that our work appeared at the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) in Fall of 2021! This paper reported our investigations into how groups of users (including both adults and children) arranged themselves physically and collaborated with each other while interacting with a multi-touch […]

Fall 2021 saw INIT Lab PhD student Nikita Soni successfully defending her dissertation work “Designing Interactions for Multi-touch Spherical Displays to Support Collaborative Learning in Museums” on October 14th! Defenses remained virtual this past year for safety and convenience during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Nikita’s s committee members were myself (chair), Dr. Christina Gardner-McCune, Dr. […]

Check out our recent blog post on the UF IFAS blogs website!

As part of our TIDESS project, we have been investigating ways in which children and adults interact with interactive spherical displays. As such, we have been porting our tabletop prototype [1] (Figure 1) onto a physical spherical display [2] (Figure 2), as well as to a virtual spherical format (i.e., a globe you interact with […]

The INIT Lab and TIDESS team are proud to report that we’ve recently published a paper in the Research in Science Education journal, entitled “Ocean Data Visualization on a Touchtable Demonstrates Group Content Learning, Science Practices Use, and Potential Embodied Cognition”. The TIDESS team has been investigating how people learn from interactive visualizations of scientific […]

Check out our recent blog post on the TIDESS website!

Check out our recent blog post on the TIDESS website!