Publications

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

“Wow, You Are Terrible at This!” - An Intercultural Study on Virtual Agents Giving Mixed Feedback
2020. “Wow, You Are Terrible at This!” - An Intercultural Study on Virtual Agents Giving Mixed Feedback. In IVA ’20: Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA ’20), October 19–23, 2020, Virtual Event, Scotland, UK. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3383652.3423887

Evaluation of Activities of Daily Living Testbeds for Assessing Prosthetic Device Usability
J. Park, M. Zahabi, D. Kaber, J. Ruiz and H. Huang, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS), Rome, Italy, 2020, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ICHMS49158.2020.9209553.

Examining Fitts’ and FFitts’ Law Models for Children’s Pointing Tasks on Touchscreens
Julia Woodward, Jahelle Cato, Jesse Smith, Isaac Wang, Brett Benda, Lisa Anthony, and Jaime Ruiz. 2020. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '20). September 28– October 2, 2020, Ischia, Italy. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3399715.3399844

Evaluating the Scalability of Non-Preferred Hand Mode Switching in Augmented Reality
Jesse Smith, Isaac Wang, Winston Wei, Julia Woodward, and Jaime Ruiz. 2020. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '20). September 28– October 2, 2020, Ischia, Italy. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3399715.3399850

Examining the Presentation of Information in Augmented Reality Headsets for Situational Awareness
Julia Woodward, Jesse Smith, Isaac Wang, Sofia Cuenca, and Jaime Ruiz. 2020. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '20). September 28– October 2, 2020, Ischia, Italy. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3399715.3399846

Challenges and barriers in virtual teams: a literature review
Morrison-Smith, S., Ruiz, J. SN Appl. Sci. 2, 1096 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-020-2801-5

Diana's World: A Situated Multimodal Interactive Agent
Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Pradyumna Narayana, Rahul Bangar, Kyeongmin Rim, Dhruva Patil, David McNeely-White, Jaime Ruiz, Bruce Draper, Ross Beveridge, and James Pustejovsky. 2020. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 34, 09: 13618–13619. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i09.7096

Are You Going to Answer That? Measuring User Responses to Anti-Robocall Application Indicators
Imani N. Sherman, Jasmine D. Bowers, Keith McNamara Jr., Juan E. Gilbert, Jaime Ruiz, and Patrick Traynor. 2020. In Proceedings 2020 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. https://doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2020.24286

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. User-Aware Shared Perception for Embodied Agents. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Humanized Computing and Communication (HCC), Laguna Hills, CA, USA, 2019, pp. 46-51.

Experimental Analysis of Single Mode Switching Techniques in Augmented Reality
Jesse Smith, Isaac Wang, Julia Woodward, and Jaime Ruiz. 2019. In Proceedings of the 45th Graphics Interface Conference on Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2019 (GI ‘19). Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society, Waterloo, CAN, Article 20, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.20380/GI2019.20

Exploring Virtual Agents for Augmented Reality
Isaac Wang, Jesse Smith, and Jaime Ruiz. 2019. To appear 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

Investigating Separation of Territories and Activity Roles in Children’s Collaboration around Tabletops
Julia Woodward, Shaghayegh Esmaeili, Ayushi Jain, John Bell, Jaime Ruiz, and Lisa Anthony. 2018. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 2, CSCW, Article 185 (November 2018). ACM, New York, NY. 21 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3274454

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 CHI '18 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA

Using Co-Design to Examine How Children Conceptualize Intelligent Interfaces
Julia Woodward, Zari McFadden, Nicole Shiver, Amir Ben-hayon, Jason C. Yip, and Lisa Anthony. 2018. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 575, 14 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174149

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

Human-Centered Recognition of Children's Touchscreen Gestures
Alex Shaw, Jaime Ruiz, and Lisa Anthony. 2017. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2017). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 32-40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3136755.3136810

Tablets, tabletops, and smartphones: cross-platform comparisons of children’s touchscreen interactions
Julia Woodward, Alex Shaw, Aishat Aloba, Ayushi Jain, Jaime Ruiz, and Lisa Anthony. 2017. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2017). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5-14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3136755.3136762

Examining the Link between Children's Cognitive Development and Touchscreen Interaction Patterns
Ziyang Chen, Yu-Peng Chen, Alex Shaw, Aishat Aloba, Pavlo Antonenko, 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, 635–639. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3382507.3418841

Communicating and Acting: Understanding Gesture in Simulation Semantics
Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Pradyumna Narayana, Isaac Wang, Kyeongmin Rim, Rahul Bangar, Dhruva Patil, Gururaj Mulay, Ross Beveridge, Jaime Ruiz, Bruce Draper, and James Pustejovsky. 2017. In 12th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2017)--Short papers.

EGGNOG: A Continuous, Multi-modal Data Set of Naturally Occurring Gestures with Ground Truth Labels
Isaac Wang, Mohtadi Ben Fraj, Pradyumna Narayana, Dhruva Patil, Gururaj Mulay, Rahul Bangar, J. Ross Beveridge, Bruce A. Draper, and Jaime Ruiz. 2017. In 2017 12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face Gesture Recognition (FG 2017), 414–421. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/FG.2017.145

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). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2990-2997. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3053239

Exploring Non-touchscreen Gestures for Smartwatches
Shaikh Shawon Arefin Shimon, Courtney Lutton, Zichun Xu, Sarah Morrison-Smith, Christina Boucher, and Jaime Ruiz. 2016. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3822-3833. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858385

Using Audio Cues to Support Motion Gesture Interaction on Mobile Devices
Sarah Morrison-Smith, Megan Hofmann, Yang Li, and Jaime Ruiz. 2016. ACM Trans. Appl. Percept. 13, 3, Article 16 (May 2016), 19 pages. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2897516

Exploring User-Defined Back-Of-Device Gestures for Mobile Devices
Shaikh Shawon Arefin Shimon, Sarah Morrison-Smith, Noah John, Ghazal Fahimi, and Jaime Ruiz. 2015. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 227-232. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2785830.2785890

Elucidating the Role and Use of Bioinformatics Software in Life Science Research
Sarah Morrison-Smith, Christina Boucher, Andrea Bunt, and Jaime Ruiz. 2015. In Proceedings of the 2015 British HCI Conference (British HCI '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 230-238. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2783446.2783581

Using Audio Cues to Support Motion Gesture Interaction on Mobile Devices
Sarah Morrison-Smith and Jaime Ruiz. 2014. In CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1621-1626. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2581236