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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The ELX Lab now has a dedicated YouTube page! Please see the link below to check out our videos – right now you can see many of our recent virtual conference presentations, but expect more content from us in the future! ELX Lab Youtube

ELX Lab student Sarah Brown was nominated by the CISE department to apply for the prestigious Google Ph.D. Fellowship. Let’s all wish her luck in competing nationally with other nominees! More information on the Google Ph.D. Fellowship can be found here.

The ELX (Embodied Learning and Experience) Lab is recruiting 3 undergraduate research assistants for Fall 2020. These will be paid hourly positions offered as part of the National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates program. All the undergraduate research assistants will be required to attend project-specific meetings and the weekly lab meeting. Undergraduate students for […]

Congratulations to ELX Lab student Sarah Brown and Texas A&M collaborating student Niloofar Zarei for their papers being accepted to the 13th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling! More details on the papers can be found below.   Sarah’s paper is titled Capturing User Emotions in Interactive Stories: Comparing a Diegetic and a Non-Diegetic Approach […]

Congratulations to Qing Li, Sharon Lynn Chu, Nanjie Rao, and Mahsan Nourani, the authors of Understanding the Effects of Explanation Types and User Motivations on Movie Recommender System Use for their full paper submission being accepted to the eighth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2020)! This is Qing’s first paper accepted as […]

Our lab’s director, Dr. Sharon Lynn Chu, recently received the NSF CAREER Award to investigate wearable technologies across informal and formal learning contexts! The full article made the front page of our department’s website, where more information on the award is mentioned. Congratulations Dr. Chu!

Congratulations to Sarah Anne Brown, Dr. Sharon Lynn Chu, and Neha Rani for the acceptance of their paper, Externalizing Mental Images by Harnessing Size-Describing Gestures: Design Implications for a Visualization System, into the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI)! Shown is the teaser figure provided to describe the vision of the paper, which you […]