https://uxid.ca/ News from the UXID Lab (User Experience and Interaction Design) at Ontario Tech University. en-ca https://uxid.ca/#news-icmi-2026-coread-presented https://uxid.ca/#news-icmi-2026-coread-presented Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Sakil Sarker presented our full paper CoRead: Using Implicit Behavioural Signals for Mixed-Initiative AI Support in Collaborative Academic Reading at the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2026) in Napoli, Italy, 5-9 October 2026. https://uxid.ca/#news-uist-2026-posters https://uxid.ca/#news-uist-2026-posters Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 CiteLen: In-Situ Multi-Lens Citation Analysis for Scholarly Reading, and CTATutor: From Instructor-Guided Computational Thinking Blueprints to Adaptive Algorithm Tutoring, were accepted as posters at UIST 2026 in Detroit. Congratulations to Yasaman and Zeyuan. https://uxid.ca/#news-cog-2026-ridge https://uxid.ca/#news-cog-2026-ridge Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 RIDGE: State-Conditioned Reward Blending for Behavioral Coverage in Deep RL Game Agents was accepted for oral presentation at the IEEE Conference on Games 2026 in Madrid, Spain. Congratulations to Al Muqshith Mohammed Shifan and Kevin Christopher Chua. https://uxid.ca/#news-yasaman-thesis-defence https://uxid.ca/#news-yasaman-thesis-defence Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Yasaman Basti successfully defended her MSc thesis, CiteView: In-Situ Citation Sensemaking for Scholarly Reading, becoming the second graduate student from the UXID Lab to complete her degree this summer. https://uxid.ca/#news-sakil-thesis-defence https://uxid.ca/#news-sakil-thesis-defence Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Sakil Sarker successfully defended his MSc thesis, the first graduate student from the UXID Lab to complete his degree. His thesis has been nominated for the Best Thesis Award. https://uxid.ca/#news-coread-icmi-2026 https://uxid.ca/#news-coread-icmi-2026 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0400 CoRead: Using Implicit Behavioural Signals for Mixed-Initiative AI Support in Collaborative Academic Reading was accepted at ICMI 2026 in Italy. https://uxid.ca/#news-gi-2026-earable https://uxid.ca/#news-gi-2026-earable Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Shimon presented Exploring Above-Neck Unimanual Swipe Gestures for Off-Device Earable Interaction at Graphics Interface 2026 in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. https://uxid.ca/#news-undergrad-thesis-awards-2026 https://uxid.ca/#news-undergrad-thesis-awards-2026 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0400 For the third year in a row a UXID Lab student has received the Best Undergraduate Thesis Award. Congratulations to Alyesha Singh, Kershan Arulneswaran, Rania Rejdal and Alex Lowe on successfully defending their theses.