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Lisa Anthony (she/her/hers)
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Associate Professor at University of Florida. Research: natural user interaction, human-AI interaction, child-computer interaction for children, families, learning, and health.
I'm proud to share that our lab will be starting a new project on Human Centered Interactive Machine Learning focusing on plant science applications as of October 1 😊 This is a huge team effort with Alina Zare in ECE, Kathryn Stofer in Ag Ed/science learning, Jeremy Waisome in Engineering ed, and Felix Fritschi from U Missouri in plant science! I'm especially excited about our plans to work with youth from underrepresented groups in 4H in the state of FL.
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Thank you so much to the entire #IDC2023 team that gave us such a great conference! I had missed this conference and am so glad I came this year. Hope to get together again next year, in Delft, the Netherlands! ❤️
The final social event of #IDC2023 was the widely-recommended Chicago River Architecture Tour, and it did not disappoint!!
However, Dr. Kirkorian during Q&A noted that more recent studies are showing that kids are exhibiting less of this so-called "video deficit" as they are growing up more familiar with screens. For tasks that are harder cognitively, though, the video deficit still happens. #IDC2023
Dr. Heather Kirkorian showed us research that found kids up to five years of age are worse at understanding information they see in video than in real life, which seems to have interesting implications for screen time and Baby Einstein etc. Interactivity in the experience can improve their understanding; however, STORIES have the real power since "real-world learning is interactive, dynamic, and messy." #IDC2023
It's fascinating that child development research shows that kids learn more education content from story-based educational videos when they understand more about the STORY (e.g., narrative content). But there's no effect when just the education content is emphasized for them. Great keynote by Dr. Heather Kirkorian at #IDC2023
Last but not least is the closing keynote for #IDC2023 -- Dr. Heather Kirkorian, an expert on child psychology and developmental science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, speaking on early learning in the digital age. So important to remember how our work in child-computer interaction affects and is affected by child development in the real world. https://childdevelopmentlab.wisc.edu/staff/kirkorian-heather/
I love the idea to have a Research & Design Challenge summary paper written by the co-chairs to appear in the proceedings to help retain community knowledge and reflect on the success of the challenge each year. I know many conferences already do something like this for their challenges and workshops etc. 2/2
One of the best and most unique aspects of the IDC conference is the Research & Design Challenge which solicits design ideas and solutions from kids themselves around a different theme each year. The theme for #IDC2023 was "how can smart machines help create more compassion within our communities?" 1/2