Recently, the INIT Lab learned that one of our collaborators, Dr. Danielle Jake-Schoffman, from UF’s College of Health and Human Performance (HHP) in the Department of Health Education & Behavior, has received an NIH-sponsored R21 grant called “FamilyFit: Promoting Family-Based… Read More
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“Romadoro: Leveraging Nudge Techniques to Encourage Break-Taking” accepted to UIST 2021!
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… Read More
Applying for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Hello! This fall (2020), I wrote and submitted an application for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). There is a lot of information about the NSF GRFP available on the main NSF page as well as… Read More
Nikita gets accepted to ISS 2020 Doctoral Symposium!
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… Read More
Video for CHI’2020: Adults’ and Children’s Mental Models for Gestural Interactions with Interactive Spherical Displays
Check out our remote video presentation for our CHI’2020 paper on the TIDESS website!
Opening Up Access to TIDESS Research Data
Check out our recent blog post on the TIDESS website!
Video for SIGCSE 2020: Dual-Modality Environments
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… Read More
How to Qualitatively Code
As a member of the INIT lab, I’m writing today’s blog post about the qualitative coding of research data. Depending on the type of data, research data can be analyzed either quantitatively or qualitatively. Researchers use quantitative approaches (e.g., means,… Read More
Workshop paper at CSCL 2019
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
TIDESS Museum Learning Project Update: PerDis 2019 Paper Accepted!
Check out our recent blog post on the TIDESS website!