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AnchoR: Toward Asynchronous Collaboration and Guided Exploration for Mobile AR Visualizations
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GazeQ-GPT: Gaze-Driven Question Generation for Personalized Learning from Short Educational Videos
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LangEye: Vocabulary Learning From the World Around You
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Card-IT Language Learning
A novel approach to training and testing Italian verb morphology by developing a flashcard application with a finite-state morphological (FSM) analyzer which both analyzes a user’s input and dynamically generates specific verb forms (flashcards).
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Academia is Tied in Knots
A data visualization project aimed at giving visibility to the issue of sexual harassment in the academic community.
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Tilt-Responsive Techniques for Digital Drawing Boards
An investigation into a range of app-specific transitions on tilt-adjustable drawing boards in response to changes in display angle such as reading vs. writing (annotation), public vs. personal, and shared person-space vs. task-space, among others.
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Research Blog
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AI Meets the Piano: How LLMs Are Transforming Sight-Reading Practice
Learning to play the piano is a deeply rewarding journey, but it comes with a notoriously steep hurdle: sight-reading. Sight-reading is the ability to read and play a piece of sheet music fluently on the first look, much like reading a book out loud in your native language. While essential ...Read More
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Can Eye Tracking Predict How Good You Are at Video Games?
When you jump into a competitive online game, finding balanced matches is everything. Competitive games need ways to distinguish different levels of player proficiency. But what if a computer could estimate your skill level simply by observing where your eyes move across the screen? In his honours ...Read More
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Beyond Menu Hopping: How “Magic Pen” Automatically Detects Your Pen Mode
When reading, grading, or editing a document with a digital stylus, your workflow can be interrupted by a frustrating problem: having to stop, move your hand across the screen, and select a toolbar option just to switch between writing notes, highlighting keywords, or underlining text. In ...Read More
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Case Study: Querying a Video Dataset Using Explainable A.I.
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is an emerging field of artificial intelligence that focuses on the development an AI models that can explain their behavior on some level to human collaborators. These explanations can be developer-focused to help in understanding, designing, and improving ...Read More
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Your Webcam Might Be the Secret to Solving Your Back Pain
We’ve all been there: deeply focused on a project, only to realize hours later that our neck is stiff, our shoulders are hunched, and we’ve essentially transformed into a human pretzel. In our increasingly sedentary world, “chair-work” has become the norm, and while we’ve known for over 300 years ...Read More
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Beyond the Static Page: A New Framework for Interactive Conference Posters
Poster sessions are a staple of academic conferences, offering a fantastic space to share research and spark informal conversations. However, standard printed posters have some major limitations: they aren’t very memorable, they can’t be easily saved for later, and their charts are stuck in a ...Read More
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Rethinking the Search Bar: How “Slow” Visual Interfaces Help Scholars Explore the Humanities
We all take the single-line search bar for granted. You type in a few keywords, hit enter, and instantly get millions of results. But this familiar model relies on a major assumption: it presumes you already know exactly what you are looking for. For researchers in the humanities and social ...Read More
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News & Updates
- Technology for AI-Supported Learning: Ontario Tech Student Showcases Research at Prestigious GI ’25 Conference in Kelowna
- Ontario Tech students propose generative AI platform to preserve Indigenous languages
- Vialab members to have largest ever presence at the IEEE VIS Conference
- Vialab members presenting award-winning work at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Vialab member Menna El-Assady to present ‘ThreadReconstructor: Modeling Reply-Chains to Untangle Conversational Text through Visual Analytics’ at EuroVis 2018 in Brno.
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