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The EnCoDe Lab volunteered at Wiregrass Elementary STEAM Night October 23rd 2025! The lab has been participating in this yearly event since Fall 2022. We were also highlighted on the Bellini College Facebook and Instagram Page! https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BFwtTLutT/ Read more

The USF Bellini College of AI, Cybersecurity, and Computing published a news article on Maria’s internship at Apple this Summer 2025! The article talks about Maria’s past experiences, her time at USF and the EnCoDe Lab, and her internship at Apple. Check out the article! Read more

Alejandro and Mehedi traveled to Yokohama Japan in April 2025 to present at CHI 2025! They presented our paper “Because we are human, we use hands”: Understanding People’s Expectations and Mental Models of Virtual Object Interaction in AR Headsets, which was accepted as at CHI 2025 as Late Breaking… Read more

Our paper “Because we are human, we use hands”: Understanding People’s Expectations and Mental Models of Virtual Object Interaction in AR Headsets was accepted for CHI 2025 as Late Breaking Work! We conducted an unconstrained AR headset elicitation study with 30 adults. We examined the participants’ expectations and mental… Read more

Our paper “Are you smart?”: Children’s Understanding of “Smart” Technologies was accepted for IDC 2024! We presented the paper last week at IDC 2024 in Delft Netherlands. We found that children expect smart technologies to have advanced intelligence, human-like characteristics, immersive experiences, and serve multiple purposes. Furthermore, children thought… Read more

Congratulations to Tanzila Milky for presenting her work at the USF Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 12th (Spring 2024). She presented her work on “Beyond the Screen: Investigating Design Principles in AR Mobile Applications for Children”. She will be continuing her research during Summer 2024. Read more

Congratulations to Kai for being selected as a NSF CREST SFS Scholar! CREST, which stands for Cybersecurity Research and Education for Service in Government, is a CyberCorps Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) program at USF funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Kai is interested in combining his interests of human-computer interaction… Read more

Dr. Julia Woodward had a great time presenting our paper “Designing Textual Information in AR Headsets to Aid in Adults’ and Children’s Task Performance” at ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC) 2023 in Chicago this past week! This paper was in collaboration with Dr. Jaime Ruiz from the University… Read more

The Engaging Computing Design (EnCoDe) Research Lab is excited to welcome Kai Quander! Kai is a Computer Science and Engineering PhD Student at USF.  He received a B.S. in Computer Science from The University of Maryland Global Campus in 2021, and a M.S. in Cybersecurity Intelligence & Information Security… Read more

The Engaging Computing Design (EnCoDe) Research Lab is currently recruiting students (PhD, Masters, and Undergraduate). We are looking for motivated students interested in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Natural User Interfaces (NUI), Augmented Reality (AR), or Child-Computer Interaction. Master’s and Undergraduate students must already be students at the University of South… Read more