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It’s not easy to keep on top of updating a static list of publications, so here are a few snapshots of our efforts.

Top-Cited Articles
  • [122] Julia Woodward, Zari McFadden, Nicole Shiver, Amir Ben-hayon, Jason C. Yip, and Lisa Anthony. 2018. Using Co-Design to Examine How Children Conceptualize Intelligent Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 575, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174149
  • [80] Nikita Soni, Aishat Aloba, Kristen S. Morga, Pamela J. Wisniewski, and Lisa Anthony. 2019. A Framework of Touchscreen Interaction Design Recommendations for Children (TIDRC): Characterizing the Gap between Research Evidence and Design Practice. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 419–431. https://doi.org/10.1145/3311927.3323149
  • [78] Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Lisa Anthony, and Jacob O. Wobbrock. 2018. $Q: A super-quick, articulation-invariant stroke-gesture recognizer for low-resource devices. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 23, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3229434.3229465
  • [77] Lisa Anthony, Quincy Brown, Berthel Tate, Jaye Nias, Robin Brewer, and Germaine Irwin. 2014. Designing smarter touch-based interfaces for educational contexts. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 18, 6 (2014), 1471–1483. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-013-0749-9
  • [73] Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Lisa Anthony, and Quincy Brown. 2015. Child or Adult? Inferring Smartphone Users’ Age Group from Touch Measurements Alone. In Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2015, Part IV, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 9299. Springer, Cham, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22723-8_1
Most Recent Articles
  • Jeremy A. Magruder Waisome, Teresa Myrthil, Alea Atkinson, Brent Allen Broaddus, Alina Zare, Lisa Anthony, Diandra Ojo, Mahiboobe Ayesha Naikodi, Dinank Bista, Kathryn A. Stofer, and Yu-Peng Chen. 2026. Annotators Increased Research Career Interest After Participating in Human Labeling Tasks for AI/ML Research. In 2026 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. ASEE Conferences, Charlotte, NC. https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2–59499
  • Kathryn M. Ross, Andrea Brockmann, Meena N. Shankar, Jaime Ruiz, Yu-Peng Chen, Lisa Anthony, and Michael G. Perri. 2026. The Benefit of Daily and “Real-Time” Logging of Dietary Intake for Weight Loss. Annals of Behavioral Medicine 60 (2026), S152–S152.
  • Kathryn M. Ross, Meena N. Shankar, Peihua Qiu, Zibo Tian, Jaime Ruiz, Lisa Anthony, and Michael G. Perri. 2025. Adaptive vs Monthly Support for Weight-Loss Maintenance: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Network Open 8, 9 (2025), e2532681. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.32681
  • Heting Wang, Yu-Peng Chen, Dinank Bista, Rodrigo Calvo, Niriksha Regmi, Xuanpu Zhang, Tempestt Neal, Jaime Ruiz, and Lisa Anthony. 2025. “Over Time Everyone’s Gonna Be Open to It”: User Attitudes Toward Security and Privacy in Continuous Authentication for Smart Homes. IEEE Access 13 (2025), 140629–140643. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3596512
  • Kathryn M. Ross, Meena N. Shankar, Zibo Tian, Peihua Qiu, Jaime Ruiz, Lisa Anthony, and Michael G. Perri. 2025. Evaluation of an Adaptive Intervention for Promoting Long-Term Weight Loss Maintenance. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine 32, Suppl. 1 (2025), 176.
  • Alexander Barquero, Niriksha Regmi, Oluwatomisin Obajemu, Rohith Venkatakrishnan, Christina Boucher, Lisa Anthony, and Jaime Ruiz. 2025. How Hand Constraints Influence User-Defined Gestures in Mixed Reality. In Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2025. Article 16, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3769872.3769888
  • Xiaolei Guo, Alina Zare, Lisa Anthony, and Felix B. Fritschi. 2025. Interactive Segmentation with Prototype Learning for Few-Shot Root Annotation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 63 (2025), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2025.3556799
  • Kathryn M. Ross, Meena N. Shankar, Peihua Qiu, Zibo Tian, Taylor N. Swanson, Armaan Shetty, Jaime Ruiz, Lisa Anthony, and Michael G. Perri. 2024. Design of Project STAR: A randomized controlled trial evaluating the impact of an adaptive intervention on long-term weight-loss maintenance. Contemporary Clinical Trials 146 (2024), Article 107707. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cct.2024.107707
Best Paper Awards
  • [best paper honorable mention] Soni, N., Tierney, A., Jurczyk, K., Gleaves, S., Schreiber, E., Stofer, K.A., and Anthony, L. 2021. Collaboration around Multi-touch Spherical Displays: A Field Study at a Science Museum. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 5, Issue CSCW2 (CSCW’2021), October 23-27, article no.326, 34 pp.
  • [2nd best paper, research track] Blanchard, J., Gardner-McCune, G., and Anthony, L. 2019. Dual-Modality Instruction and Learning: A Case Study in CS1. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCSE Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE’2020), p.818-824.
  • [best paper honorable mention] Blanchard, J., Gardner-McCune, C., and Anthony, L. 2019. Effects of Code Representation on Student Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Programming. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages & Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC’2019), p.127-131.
  • [best paper honorable mention] Vatavu, R.-D., Anthony, L., and Wobbrock, J.O. 2018. $Q: A Super-Quick, Articulation-Invariant Stroke Gesture Recognizer for Low-Resource Devices. Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI’2018), article no.23.
  • [best student paper award] Shaw, A., Ruiz, J., and Anthony, L. 2017. Comparing human and machine recognition of children’s touchscreen stroke gestures. Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI’2017), p.32-40.
  • [best student paper nominee] Shaw, A. and Anthony, L. 2016. Analyzing the articulation features of children’s touchscreen gestures. Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI’2016), p.333-340.
  • [best paper award] Anthony, L., Kim, Y., and Findlater, L. 2013. Analyzing User-Generated YouTube Videos to Understand Touchscreen Use by People with Motor Impairments. Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’2013), p.1223-1232.
  • [10-year impact award 2021] Anthony, L., Brown, Q., Nias, J., Tate, B., and Mohan, S. 2012. Interaction and Recognition Challenges in Interpreting Children’s Touch and Gesture Input on Mobile Devices. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS’2012), p.225-234.
  • [best paper award / 10-year impact award 2022] Vatavu, R.-D., Anthony, L., and Wobbrock, J.O. 2012. Gestures as Point Clouds: A $P Recognizer for User Interface Prototypes. Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI’2012), p.273-280.

Download a complete bibtex file with all INIT lab publications here. Lisa’s Google Scholar link is here.

INIT Lab Theses
Graduate Theses
  • Chen, Yu-Peng. 2026. Enabling the Design of [a] Human-Centered Digital Health Tool Incorporating an AI-Powered Virtual Assistant to Reduce Intervention[ist]s’ Workload in a Behavioral Weight Management Program. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida. May 2026. [PDF]
  • Soni, N. 2021. Designing Interactions for Multi-touch Spherical Displays to Support Collaborative Learning in Museums. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida. December 2021. [PDF]
  • Aloba, Aloba. 2021. Tailoring Motion Recognition Systems to Children’s Motions. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida. August 2021. [PDF]
  • Blanchard, Jeremiah. 2020. Building Bridges: Dual-Modality Instruction and Introductory Programming Coursework. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida. May 2020. [PDF]
  • Shaw, Alex. 2020. Automatic Recognition of Children’s Touchscreen Stroke Gestures. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida. March 2020. [PDF]
Undergraduate Theses
  • Pilley, Emily. 2022. Modifying $P Recognition Algorithm for Children’s Gestures. Senior Honors thesis, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida. April 2022. [PDF]
  • Almeida, Angelica. 2022. Design Recommendations for eHealth interventions for People with Eating Disorders. Senior Honors thesis, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida. April 2022. [PDF]
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