Publications


Refereed Journal Papers

Examining the Use of Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Agents
Isaac Wang and Jaime Ruiz. 2021. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction (Mar. 2021), 1–26.


Refereed Conference Papers

“Wow, You Are Terrible at This!” – An Intercultural Study on Virtual Agents Giving Mixed Feedback
Isaac Wang, Lea Buchweitz, Jesse Smith, Lara-Sophie Bornholdt, Jonas Grund, Jaime Ruiz, and Oliver Korn. 2020. 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.

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), October 25–29, 2020, Virtual event, Netherlands. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages.

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). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages.

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 2020 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI’20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages.

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 2020 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI’20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages.

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, Jaime Ruiz. 2019. Experimental Analysis of Single Mode Switching Techniques in Augmented Reality. In Proceedings of the 45th Graphics Interface Conference (GI ’19). Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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

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.

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.

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.


Refereed Posters/Workshops

Staying Alive with Virtual Humans
Sarah Morrison-Smith, Heng Yao, Isaac Wang, Benjamin Lok, and Jaime Ruiz. 2018. To appear in CHI’18 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA.

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.

Opportunities for Supporting Large-Scale Collaborative Projects
Sarah Morrison-Smith, Christina Boucher, Isaac Wang, and Jaime Ruiz. 2016. In Proceedings of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’16): Workshop on Large-scale Collaborative Projects to Affect Societal Change.