Category: Yu-Peng Chen

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 the Ruiz HCI Lab have been collaborating with Dr. Kathryn Ross in the College of Public Health and Health Professions at UF to investigate research questions related to Mobile Health (mHealth) applications on the MyTrack+ project (Project STAR). The World Health Organization defines Mobile Health (mHealth) as the use of mobile […]

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 have been collaborating with Dr. Pavlo Antonenko from the UF College of Education to investigate […]

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 of running the user studies and assisting my teammates in the user studies more than […]

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 is to investigate the relationship between children’s cognitive development and their interactions with touchscreens, and […]