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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…)
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The MTAGIC Project, which is studying differences in how children and adults interact with touchscreen devices, has released a new open-source app to help developers implement the design recommendations we included in our research papers. Based on findings from our studies of children and adults using mobile touchscreen devices, we found that children have more… (read on…)
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This Spring I co-taught CAP4053 “Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games” with my colleague Doug Dankel. Doug has taught this course for many years and it’s always been a highly popular tech elective for undergraduates in our department. Doug will be retiring this December, and I’ll be taking on the class. We taught two sections with… (read on…)
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More work with my University of Maryland collaborators, including assistant professor Leah Findlater, has been accepted for publication! Look for our short paper “Understanding Child-Defined Gestures and Children’s Mental Models for Touchscreen Tabletop Interaction” to appear at the upcoming Interaction Design and Children (IDC) 2014 conference. We extended prior work by Jacob O. Wobbrock and… (read on…)
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In April, I received a very nice email from Computing Reviews, a joint publication of the ACM and ThinkLoud, that our CHI 2013 paper “Analyzing User-Generated YouTube Videos to Understand Touchscreen Use by People with Motor Impairments” was acknowledged as a notable paper in computer science for 2013! Out of all the papers published in… (read on…)
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Recently I had the pleasure to help organize “Computer Science Day” as part of the University of Florida‘s Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) group’s week-long summer day camp they were hosting for local middle-school girls, sponsored by the Florida Museum of Natural History. The goal of the camp was to expose the girls to… (read on…)