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Paper accepted at the International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction!

Thursday July 17, 2025

Congrats to Dr. Sharon Chu, Abhishek Kulkarni, and all other co-authors for the recent publication of their paper in the latest volume of IJCCI! Kulkarni, A., Magda, D., Ward, R., Jimenez, Y., Hernandez, M., Liu, T., Gardner-McCune, C., Quek, F., Schlegel, R. and Chu, S.L., 2025. Deploying computation-based Making projects in authentic public school classrooms […]

Another paper accepted at ICALT 2023!

Saturday June 10, 2023

Congratulations to Nanjie (Jimmy) Rao, Qing Li, Shaina Murphy, and Dr. Sharon Lynn Chu for their paper. Rao, N., Li, Q., Murphy, S., and Chu, S. L.(2023). The Context for Contextualizing – Design Implications for Adaptive Teacher Support Systems for More Relevant Instruction. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT). Orem, […]

Papers accepted at ICALT 2023!

Wednesday May 31, 2023

Congratulations to Neha Rani, Dr. Sharon Lynn Chu, and Yadi Qian for their paper. Rani, N. and Chu, S. L.(2023). Does the Type of Recommender System Impact Users’ Trust? Exploring Context-Aware Recommender Systems in Education. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT). Orem, Utah. IEEE. Rani, N., Qian, Y. and Chu, S. L. (2023). […]

Journal paper accepted at IJCCI 2022!

Wednesday November 2, 2022

Congratulations to Trystan Loustau and Dr. Sharon Lynn Chu for their paper, Characterizing the research-practice gap in children’s interactive storytelling systems, being accepted to the International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction 2022 (IJCCI)!

Paper accepted at ICALT 2022!

Saturday April 2, 2022

Congratulations to Abhishek Kulkarni, Dr. Sharon Lynn Chu, Neha Sharma, and Swarada Sathe for their paper, Interest-Based Learning through a Contextualizing Chatbot for Video-Based Online Learning Platforms, being accepted to the 2022 International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)! Congratulations to Abhishek, Neha, Swarada, and Dr. Chu!

Paper accepted at CHI LBW 2022!

Thursday March 3, 2022

Congratulations to Neha Rani, Dr. Sharon Lynn Chu, and Victoria Rene Mei for their paper, Investigating the Effects of Different Levels of User Control on the Effectiveness of Context-Aware Recommender Systems for Web-Based Search, being accepted to the 2022 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Late-Breaking Work! Congratulations to Neha, Victoria, and […]

Paper accepted to ICIDS 2021!

Thursday October 28, 2021

Congratulations to Sarah Brown and Dr. Sharon Lynn Chu for their paper, “You Write Your Own Story”: Design Implications for an Interactive Narrative Authoring Tool to Support Reflection for Mental Health in College Students, being accepted to the 2021 International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS)! See the abstract below: Mental health therapy often involves […]

ICALT 2021 – Best Short Paper Nomination!

Monday June 28, 2021

Congratulations to Nanjie ‘Jimmy’ Rao, and Dr. Sharon Lynn Chu for getting their submission titled Enhancing the Visual Efficiency for Communicating Students’ Personal Relevant Information nominated for “Best Short Paper” in the 21st IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies! An abstract of the work can be found below: During instruction, using information that is […]

ELX Lab Spring 2021 Undergraduate Presentations

Saturday May 1, 2021

Now that the semester has concluded, it is time for us to acknowledge the amazing work of the undergraduate students who joined us this past Spring! Please check out their semester wrap-up presentations on our lab’s YouTube channel. Thank you to all our undergraduate students for your hard work and contribution to our lab – […]

Short paper accepted to ICALT 2021!

Thursday April 22, 2021

Congratulations to Nanjie ‘Jimmy’ Rao, and Dr. Sharon Lynn Chu for the acceptance of their submission titled Enhancing the Visual Efficiency for Communicating Students’ Personal Relevant Information into the 21st IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies! An abstract of the work can be found below: During instruction, using information that is directly relevant to […]

ELX Students Receive Department Scholarships!

Tuesday March 30, 2021

Congratulations to Sarah Brown and Nanjie (Jimmy) Rao for being awarded the prestigious Gartner Group Graduate Fellowship! This award is given to outstanding Ph.D. students in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, to be given in the Fall of 2021. Winners are chosen based on their GPA, quality of publications, awards, and […]

Short Paper Accepted to IDC!

Monday March 29, 2021

Congratulations to Sarah Brown, Dr. Sharon Lynn Chu, and Pengfei Yin for the acceptance of their submission titled A Survey of Interface Representations in Visual Programming Language Environments for Children’s Physical Computing Kits into the ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference! An abstract of the work can be found below: Physical computing toolkits for children […]

Papers Accepted to CHI LBW and IJHCI!

Friday February 26, 2021

Congratulations to Neha Rani, Dr. Sharon Lynn Chu, Yvette Williamson, and Sindy Wu for their late-breaking works paper, Curiosity-Inspired learning: Insitu versus Post-Event Approaches to Recall and Reflection, being accepted to the 2021 ACM CHI Virtual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021)! See the abstract below: We often get questions about the […]

ELX Lab Papers Accepted to HCII 2021!

Thursday December 17, 2020

Congratulations to Neha Rani and Nanjie (Jimmy) Rao for their paper acceptances to HCII 2021 in Washington DC! Read more about the papers below: User Perception of Wearables in Everyday Learning Contexts: The Impact of Prior Device Experience by Neha Rani and Sharon Lynn Chu Wearable devices are typically strapped on the body of users […]

ELX Lab Programming + Science Study!

Wednesday December 2, 2020

Are you interested in having your child participate in a fun science activity that teaches programming? The Embodied Learning and Experience (ELX) Lab at the University of Florida is looking for children to help us design computer programming apps to conduct science experiments. WHO WE NEED – Children, ages 10-11. – All children welcomed. No […]

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