In Spring of 2022, the INIT Lab had its first two undergraduate research assistants complete their senior theses! While we have had a long history of including undergraduates in our research, some of whom have led projects, first-authored papers, and… Read More
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#laterpub AVI’2020 paper published on Fitts’ Law for kids!
In 2020, the INIT Lab collaborated with the Ruiz HCI lab, in particular lead Ph.D. student author Julia Woodward, on a study to understand how well Fitts’ Law and FFitts’ Law applies to children’s touching behaviors on touchscreen devices. This… Read More
New survey paper from INIT Lab graduate Alex Shaw, Ph.D.!
Dr. Alex Shaw graduated with his Ph.D. and moved on from the INIT Lab in Spring 2020. We are pleased to share that a survey paper Alex produced as part of his dissertation work has recently appeared in the Interacting… Read More
Understanding Gestures Project: Paper on children’s cognitive development and touchscreen interactions published at ICMI 2020
We are pleased to share that our paper “Examining the Link between Children’s Cognitive Development and Touchscreen Interaction Patterns” was accepted as a short paper to ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI). The INIT Lab and Ruiz HCI Lab… Read More
Understanding Gestures Project: My take-aways from running user studies with children ages 4 to 7
In my previous post, I mentioned that I have been able to observe the process of running user studies with younger children and have started assisting in person with my teammates, Alex Shaw and Ziyang Chen. After observing the process… Read More
INIT Lab PhD student Alex Shaw defends his dissertation!
The INIT lab is proud to share that PhD student Alex Shaw defended his dissertation work “Automatic Recognition of Children’s Touchscreen Stroke Gestures” earlier today! Due to the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions, we held the defense virtually. Alex’s committee members were… Read More
Understanding Gestures Project Update: Cognitive Development and Touchscreen Interaction Data Analysis
Since my last post about our study, the Cognitive Development and Touchscreen Interaction project has gone through several rounds of study recruiting and running. We have recruited our participants from many interested local families with children aging between 4 to… Read More
Understanding Gestures Project: Getting started in the field of touchscreen gestures and preparing for running studies with young children
The cognitive development project, which is related to the Understanding Gestures project, is one of the projects in which I have been taking part since joining the INIT Lab. As introduced in the previous post, the goal of the project… 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
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