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I just posted the final game presentations for students in my Spring 2015 offering of CAP4053 “Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games.” In this class, students learn about game design, game development, user interfaces for games, and how to effectively incorporate AI techniques to make games more fun and challenging to the player. You can check… (read on…)
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The INIT Lab has applied for and received a gift of several high-resolution tablets from Wacom, Inc. This work will help us examine more features of children’s touch and gesture interaction using the specialized sensors available with this technology. Stay tuned for the results of this exciting new research! Thank you, Wacom! (read on…)
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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…)