Category: News

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 […]

ELX Lab Ph.D. student Nanjie (Jimmy) Rao presented a poster at IEEE VR this week…… in VR! The title of the publication is Investigating the Necessity of Meaningful Context Anchoring in Augmented Reality Smart Glasses Interaction for Everyday Learning, with co-authors Lina Zhang, Dr. Sharon Lynn Chu, Katarina Jurczyk, Chelsea Candelora, Samantha Su, and Cameron […]

One of our lab’s projects was accepted to a workshop at IEEE VR 2020! The project lead is Nanjie (Jimmy) Rao, with his co-authors Lina Zhang, Dr. Sharon Lynn Chu, Katarina Jurczyk, Chelsea Candelora, Samantha Su, and Cameron Kozlin! The title of the work is Investigating the Necessity of Meaningful Context Anchoring in Augmented Reality […]

We’re excited to announce that our lab has recently been awarded 3 grants from the National Science Foundation! These awards go a long way to fund our research efforts, and a link to each award’s abstract is included if you are interested in learning more. The received awards are as follows:   Bridging Formal and […]

Our lab recently had a paper accepted to the workshop Where Art Meets Technology: Integrating Tangible and Intelligent Tools in Creative Processes, being held as part of CHI 2020 in Honolulu, Hawaii! The title of our submission was In the Flow of Creative Practice: Multimodality and Embodiment for Creativity Support Tools, submitted by Sarah Brown […]

ELX Lab’s very own Sarah Brown will be presenting a late-breaking works poster at CHI 2020 this April, on behalf of co-authors Dr. Sharon Lynn Chu and Neha Rani. The paper is titled: Harnessing Gestures to Externalize Discourse Ideas for Common Ground: Design Implications from a Frame of Reference Analysis. It’s our first paper published […]

Sarah Brown and Nanjie Rao both presented at the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling this year, presenting two short papers and one poster. The paper citations can be found below! Sarah’s presentation was recorded and posted publicly, you can see it here: Brown, S. A., Chu, S. L., & Loustau, T. (2019, November). Embodying […]