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The ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, was recently held in Istanbul, Turkey. My co-author Radu-Daniel Vatavu presented the poster for our paper entitled “Gesture Heatmaps: Understanding Gesture Performance with Colorful Visualizations,” which you can check out here. I was sorry not to be able to attend this year, but perhaps next year (it will… (read on…)
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I’m excited to announce I’ve been invited to be a keynote speaker at the upcoming University of Iowa Obermann Center Working Symposium entitled “Designing the Digital Future: A Human-Centered Approach to Informatics.” I’ll be giving a version of my research talk, “Understanding, Designing, and Developing Natural User Interfaces for Children.” I’m honored to be part… (read on…)
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I have received a gift of equipment from Intel’s Software Academic Program to support my class on Natural User Interfaces. The tablets will be used in my class by the students to design and develop more natural interfaces that use touch and gesture interaction for their projects. With the class being so large, this equipment… (read on…)
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My colleagues, Radu-Daniel Vatavu and Jacob O. Wobbrock, and I have had another paper accepted for publication! This paper continues our efforts to understand patterns and inconsistencies in how people make touchscreen gestures. This time, we introduced a way to use heatmap-style visualizations to examine articulation patterns in gesture datasets, and our paper “Gesture Heatmaps:… (read on…)
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In a previous post, we announced our Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing article “Designing Smarter Touch-based Interfaces for Educational Contexts” was accepted for publication. We’re pleased that the definitive version is finally available online here. Please cite this version wherever applicable. (read on…)
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Recently, a new colleague Katie Stofer and I visited Hatfield Marine Science Center, a research site affiliated with Oregon State University, in Newport, OR, to conduct an observational study of how visitors to a public science center use gestures to interact with tech-enabled exhibits. In our case, we looked at exhibits running on a touch… (read on…)
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Master’s student Karen Rust recently presented our poster “Understanding Child-Defined Gestures and Children’s Mental Models for Touchscreen Tabletop Interaction” at the Interaction Design for Children (IDC) conference, in Aarhus, Denmark. Check out the poster here. We’re looking forward to IDC 2015 in Boston, MA! (read on…)
