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Dr. Lisa Anthony, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of Florida Teacher. Scholar. Academic editing consultant. Jump to: -- About Me -- Research -- Teaching -- Resources -- Contact |
About Me |
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. I teach courses in the Human-Centered Computing (HCC) graduate and Digital Arts & Sciences (DAS) undergraduate and graduate programs. My general research interests involve understanding, designing, and developing natural user interactions, especially for children and families. Natural user interaction (NUI) focuses on allowing users to interact with technology through the wide range of human abilities, such as touch, voice, vision, and motion. Children are still developing their cognitive and physical capabilities, creating unique design challenges and opportunities for interacting in these modalities. My work both integrates and contributes to research in human-computer interaction, child-computer interaction, multimodal interaction, machine learning and artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and interaction design. I seek to understand children's expectations and abilities with respect to NUIs, and to use this understanding to design and develop new multimodal NUIs for children in a variety of contexts, including education, healthcare, and serious games. Recent projects are exploring human-AI interaction for these users and contexts. I couldn't do this work without my great network of collaborators and talented students. For more on my research projects and my students, check out my lab: the Intelligent Natural Interaction Technology (INIT) Lab. Previously, I was a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC) in Baltimore, MD. I received my Ph.D. degree from the Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) in the School of Computer Science (SCS) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. My thesis work focused on the area of handwriting-based interfaces for intelligent tutoring systems for algebra equation-solving and was advised by Jie Yang and Ken Koedinger. In addition to an M.S. in HCI from Carnegie Mellon, I have a B.S. and an M.S. in computer science with concentrations in artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and software engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For my M.S. thesis I used genetic programming to evolve board evaluation functions for computer agent players of the strategy game Acquire. Earlier research involved creating a computer-aided conceptual design tool for engineers called CUP. My industry
work experience includes positions at the User-Centered Interfaces
Group at Lockheed Martin Advanced
Technology Laboratories (LM ATL), where I worked on advanced user
interface technologies such as spoken-language understanding, handwriting
recognition, and gesture recognition; and at the Fuji-Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory (FXPAL),
where I worked on the Collaborative
Exploratory Search project. Conferences
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Research |
For more on my research projects and my students, check out my lab: the Intelligent Natural Interaction Technology (INIT) Lab. For my latest CV and publications, check this page. |
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Teaching |
I rotate among human-centered computing core courses, seminars, and special topics and electives. I have developed the following courses at UF: -- Human-Centered Input Recognition Algorithms -- User Experience Design (and now, Advanced User Experience Design) -- Natural User Interfaces Spring 2025
Spring 2023 Spring
2022 Spring
2022 Fall 2019 Spring
2019 Fall 2018 Spring
2018 Fall 2017 Spring
2017 Fall 2016 Spring
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Senior Projects |
When you email me to request a meeting to discuss me being your senior project advisor (UF courses CEN 4914 or CIS 4914 only), please indicate you have read this page. Alert:
currently I advise Senior Projects only in Spring semester. IF you have taken a class with me, you may still email me
about Fall projects but the probability I can take you on will be low. Also,
I give preference to students who have taken a class with me. I advise two
types of senior projects:
In both cases, students should expect to incorporate elements of Human-Centered Computing into their projects, such as user-centered design, interaction design, user testing (or playtesting if it's a game), etc. Students who are not interested in working with people to make their software better should consider finding a different senior project advisor. If you have an idea for a project in one of the following areas (and are interested in incorporating human-centered computing techniques into your project), I might be the right advisor for you: natural user interfaces, gesture interaction, speech interaction, whole-body interaction, Android apps, mobile apps, Kinect-based apps, games, apps for kids, apps for education, apps for fitness, etc. What you can expect from me: I will meet with you and/or your project team up to every 2 weeks throughout the semester to help keep you on track for your project. I can advise on architecture, algorithms, libraries / frameworks / toolkits, user testing, and design methods; I do not help debug or advise on specifics of your code. I require all students to prepare, with my input, a project timeline and grading scheme (examples here and here) to help guide us through the semester and agree on expectations for grading at the conclusion of the project. Please note: I am only able to advise a fixed number of senior projects per year, and operate on a first-come/first-served basis. If you contact me too late in the fall, I may already be full and unable to take you on, even if it's a very relevant project. I recommend starting to think about your senior project ideas and possible advisors in early November. Existing
Project Needs**:
** These are all very old ideas but give an idea of the kinds of things I work on. |
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Resources |
I've compiled
this list of resources that I share with my UF students. Hope it helps you! General
Advice
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