Wenzhou-Kean University
Department of Computer Science

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Publications

In May 2015, after years of preparations, the Autism Research Network, the city’s only research center and one of the few in China, was founded to facilitate service-based learning and undergraduate research at this young, vibrant and highly promising university in the city of Wenzhou. So far, a number of researchers from both within WKU and around the world have joined our efforts. Over the past months, a number of our computer science students have been working on a wide variety of applications for technology-enabled diagnosis, assessment and intervention on autism under our supervision.

Today, less than a year after the center has been founded, our works have been recognized nationally and internationally. We have published five papers in international conferences including the prestigious 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (ACM UbiComp 2015) and 2016 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII’2016). One of the projects supervised by another Computer Science faculty Dr. Pinata Winoto has recently taken the third prize in China as part of the high-profile Microsoft Imagine Cup 2016, the world’s premier student technology competition!

Published Papers:

1. Tiffany Y. Tang and David Flatla. (2016) Autism Awareness and Technology-Based Intervention Research in China: the Good, the Bad, and the Challenging. In Proc. of Workshop on Autism and Technology – Beyond Assistance & Intervention, in conjunction with the 34th ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’2016), May 7 – 12 at San Jose, CA, USA. To appar.
2. Pinata Winoto, Clerk Nuo Xu and Adam An Zhu. (2016). “Look to Remove”: a Virtual Reality Application on Word Learning for Chinese Children with Autism. In Proc. of 2016 Human-Computer Interaction International Conference (HCII’2016), Springer, to appear.
3. Tiffany Y. Tang, Maldini Yefan He, Vince Lineng Cao. (2016). “One Doesn’t Fit All”: A Comparative Study of Various Finger Gesture Interaction Methods. In Proc. of 2016 Human-Computer Interaction International Conference (HCII’2016), Springer, to appear.
4. Tiffany Y. Tang, Mary Falzarano, and Patricia A. Morreale. (2016). Engaging Chinese Children with Autism to Interact with Portable Hand- and Finger-Gesture Based Applications: Experiment and Reflections. In Proc. of 2016 Human-Computer Interaction International Conference (HCII’2016), Springer, to appear.
5. Tiffany Y. Tang, Relic Y. Wang, Yuhui You, Leila Zeqiang Huang and Christine Piao Chen. (2015). Supporting Collaborative Play via an Affordable Touching + Singing Plant for Children with Autism in China. In Proc. of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing/ the International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ACM UbiComp/ISWC ’15), Adjunt, September 7-11, 2015, Osaka, Japan. ACM Press, pp. 373-376.

More to come...

Faculty Researchers:

Dr. Tiffany Tang	Program Coordinator, Dept. of Computer Science, WKU
Dr. Pinata Winoto	Dept. of Computer Science, WKU
Dr. Patricia Morreale	Program Chair
Dept. of Computer Science, Kean University
Dr. Mary Falzarano	Registered Occupational Therapist (OTR)
Dept. of Occupational Therapy, Kean University
Prof. Keith C. Chan	Director, Student Affairs Office
Full Professor, Dept. of Computing
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Prof. Yuming Zhou	Dept. of Computer Science and Technology
Nanjing University, China
Dr. David Flatla	School of Computing
University of Dundee (UK)
Dr. Grace Ngai	Dept. of Computing
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dr. Bart Knijnenburg	Assistant Professor in Human Centered Computing, Clemson University, USA

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