Ateneo Laboratory for the Learning Sciences

The ALLS Lecture Series
Thursday, 31 August 2017, 3:00 to 4:30
Ateneo de Manila University, F-223

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Advances in RGB-camera based hand tracking and gesture recognition
Antonio Rafael Umali

Abstract:
While hand tracking and gesture recognition is relatively easy to perform using specialized equipment and sensors, achieving it in a more human-like manner, that is from pure RGB vision, has proven to be a difficult task. This talk will discuss and focus on real-time methods for hand tracking and gesture recognition using fast feature detection and hand model construction. This talk will also discuss interpreting different hand gestures based on the model state and using them as inputs for various applications.

Antonio Rafael Umali finished his BS in Computer Science, majoring in Interactive Multimedia at the Ateneo de Manila University in 2013. He spent 1 year working at a game development startup, called Skillshot Labs, before moving to the Worcester, Massachusetts to pursue a graduate degree in Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2014. He graduated with his masters, specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, in 2016. His graduate master’s thesis was accepted as a publication at ICRA 2017, and was presented last June 2017. Antonio Rafael Umali is currently working at the Ateneo de Manila University as a part time lecturer and project assistant, working on a hand-gesture recognition project.

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The 25th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2017) is organized by the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE). ICCE 2017 will be held in the Rydges Latimer hotel, Christchurch, New Zealand, from December 4th to 8th 2017 (Mon to Fri).

Below is the complete ALLS ICCE 2017 lineup.

Full papers

• Jenilyn Agapito and Ma. Mercedes Rodrigo. Designing an Intervention for Novice Programmers Based on Meaningful Gamification: An Expert Evaluation
• Cristina Dumdumaya, Michelle Banawan, Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo, Noburo Matsuda, Evelyn Yarzebinski and Amy Ogan.   Investigating the effects of Cognitive and Metacognitive Scaffolding on Learners using a Learning by Teaching Environment

Short papers

• Michelle Banawan, Ma. Mercedes Rodrigo and Juan Miguel Andres.  Predicting Student Carefulness within an Educational Game for Physics using Support Vector Machines
• Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo. Exploratory Analysis of Discourses between Students Engaged in a Debugging Task
• Maureen Villamor and Ma. Mercedes Rodrigo.  Impact of Both Prior Knowledge and Acquaintanceship on Collaboration and Performance: A Pair Program Tracing and Debugging Eye-Tracking Experiment

Posters

• Maureen Villamor and Ma. Mercedes Rodrigo.  Exploring Lag Times in a Pair Tracing and Debugging Eye-Tracking Experiment
• Mikaela Malit and Ma. Mercedes Rodrigo.  Leveraging An Existing Learning Management System For Alternative Learning

The 10th International Conference on Computers on Educational Data Mining and the 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education were held last June 25 to 28 and June 29 to July 1 in Wuhan, China. In attendance were six members of the Ateneo Laboratory for the Learning Sciences: Dr. Ma. Mercedes Rodrigo, May Marie P. Talandron, Cristina E. Dumdumaya, Maureen Mamilic-Villamor, Cristina Enriquez and Yancy Paredes.

The following conference papers and poster papers were accepted into the conference and presented that week:1. Characterizing Collaboration in the Pair Program Tracing and Debugging

1. Characterizing Collaboration in the Pair Program Tracing and Debugging
   Eye-Tracking Experiment by Maureen Villamor and Dr. Rodrigo — short paper,
   EDM
2. Assessing the Collaboration Quality in the Pair Program Tracing and
   Debugging Eye-Tracking Experiment by Maureen Villamor, Yancy Vance Paredes, Japeth Duane Samaco, Joanna Feliz Cortez, Joshua Martinez, and Ma. Mercedes Rodrigo – poster, AIED
3. Modeling the Incubation Effect among Students Playing an Educational Game
   for Physics by May Marie P. Talandron, Ma. Mercedes Rodrigo, and Joseph Beck
   – full paper, AIED
4. Regional Cultural Differences in How Students Customize Their Avatars in
   Technology-Enhanced Learning by Cristina E. Dumadaya, Evelyn Yarzebinski,
   Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo, Noboru Matsuda, and Amy Ogan – poster, AIED
5. Proficiency and Preference Using Local Language with a Teachable Agent
   by Cristina E. Dumadaya, Amy Ogan, Evelyn Yarzebinski, Roberto De Roock, Ma.
   Mercedes Rodrigo, and Michelle Banawan – poster, AIED
6. Constraint-Based Modelling as a Tutoring Framework for Japanese Honorifics by Zachary Chung, Takehito Utsuro, and Ma. Mercedes Rodrigo – poster, AIED