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Isaac Wang, Ph.D.

Alumni Ph.D. Student

I’m a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Florida, currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing under Dr. Jaime Ruiz. I graduated in 2015 with a B.S. in Computer Science from Seattle Pacific University.

Currently, my research focuses on communicating with computers through gesture interaction and the use of expressive virtual agents. I am also developing an intelligent video annotation tool, called EASEL, that uses gesture segmentation and recognition to automate and improve the process of analyzing non-verbal gestures and intents in video.

Isaac defended his thesis and graduated with his PhD in Summer 2022.

MMGatorAuth: A Novel Multimodal Dataset for Authentication Interactions in Gesture and Voice

Sarah Morrison-Smith, Aishat Aloba, Hangwei Lu, Brett Benda, Shaghayegh Esmaeili, Gianne Flores, Jesse Smith, Nikita Soni, Isaac Wang, Rejin Joy, Damon L. Woodard, Jaime Ruiz, and Lisa Anthony. 2020. In Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 370–377. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3382507.3418881

User-Aware Shared Perception for Embodied Agents

David White, Ross Beveridge, Bruce Draper, Francisco Ortega, Rahul Bangar, Dhruva Patil, James Pustejovsky, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Kyeongmin Rim, Jaime Ruiz, and Isaac Wang. 2019. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Humanized Computing and Communication (HCC), Laguna Hills, CA, USA, 2019, pp. 46-51.

Exploring Virtual Agents for Augmented Reality

Isaac Wang, Jesse Smith, and Jaime Ruiz. 2019. In 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (CHI 2019), May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. ACM, New York, NY, USA. Paper 281, 10 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300511

Cooperating with Avatars Through Gesture, Language and Action

Pradyumna Narayana, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Isaac Wang, Rahul Bangar, Dhruva Patil, Gururaj Mulay, Kyeongmin Rim, Ross Beveridge, Jaime Ruiz, James Pustejovsky, and Bruce Draper. 2018.  In Intelligent Systems and Applications (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing), 272–293.

Staying Alive with Virtual Humans

Sarah Morrison-Smith, Heng Yao, Isaac Wang, Benjamin Lok, and Jaime Ruiz. 2018. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper LBW038, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188477

EASEL: Easy Automatic Segmentation Event Labeler

Isaac Wang, Pradyumna Narayana, Jesse Smith, Bruce Draper, Ross Beveridge, and Jaime Ruiz. 2018. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3172944.3173003

Exploring the Use of Gesture in Collaborative Tasks

Isaac Wang, Pradyumna Narayana, Dhruva Patil, Gururaj Mulay, Rahul Bangar, Bruce Draper, Ross Beveridge, and Jaime Ruiz. 2017. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2990–2997. https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3053239