Author: nikitasoni2

Nikita Soni is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Human-Centered Computing Program in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida, advised by Dr. Lisa Anthony. Her research focuses on employing user-centered approaches to design natural user interactions for educational technologies for children and families in public spaces such as museums.

Passed my PhD Dissertation Proposal!

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Me interacting with the PufferSphere Multi-touch Spherical Display application!

On April 22nd, 2020 with the support of my amazing PhD committe members: Dr. Lisa Anthony (chair), Dr. Jaime Ruiz, Dr. Sharon Lynn Chu, Dr. Christina Gardner-McCune, and Dr. Kathryn A. Sofer, I passed my PhD dissertation proposal and am now a PhD candidate! yay!

The title of my dissertation proposal is “Designing Interactions for Multi-touch Spherical Displays to Support Collaborative Learning in Museums”. I am looking forward to the next phase of my PhD research in the INIT lab!

P.S: for anyone interested, I will be happy to share my proposal document. Feel free to reach out via email.

CHI 2020 paper accepted!

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I am happy to share that our paper on gestural interaction mental models for spherical displays has been accepted at CHI2020! Check out my recent blog post about it on our TIDESS website. I am really excited as this is my first CHI paper as a first-author. I really want to thank my thesis advisor Dr. Lisa Anthony (co-PI, TIDESS project) and my co-advisor on the TIDESS project Dr. Kathryn A. Stofer (PI, TIDESS project) for all their guidance and feedback throughout.

P.S: Oh, did I mention that the conference is in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi 🙂 Looking forward to exploring this beautiful island.