Welcome to the Interactive Computing Experiences Research Cluster at the University of Central Florida. Our mission is to develop innovative techniques, tools, and applications that improve the overall experience between humans and machines. The vision of this cluster is to be a world class research leader in the innovative development and evaluation of interactive technology experiences that benefit humanity.

Research Cluster Goals:
  • explore and develop core technologies to improve beneficial interactive technology user experiences and study their effectiveness
  • foster multidisciplinary research in beneficial interactive user experiences
  • disseminate research findings in top conferences and journals
  • foster collaboration with industry
  • support entrepreneurship activities based on ISUE activities
  • provide a continual stream of skilled graduates to partake in high-tech interactive technology jobs.

More specifically, we are interested in the creation and evaluation of advanced interfaces that support education, entertainment, and general work productivity.

We are always looking for undergraduate, Masters, and Ph.D. students to come work in our lab. If you're interested in the things you see on this site, contact Dr. LaViola.

Latest News

  • January 16, 2026
    Congratulations to Jacob Belga, Dr. Ryan McMahan, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Insights into Virtual Reality Fidelity Differences Using the Fidelity-based Presence Scale", accepted to ACM CHI 2026.
  • January 16, 2026
    Congratulations to Matt Gottsacker, Yohan Hmaiti, Mykola Maslych, Hiroshi Furuya, Jasmine Joyce DeGuzman, Dr. Gerd Bruder, Dr. Greg Welch, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "From One World to Another: Interfaces for Efficiently Transitioning Between Virtual Environments", accepted to ACM CHI 2026.
  • January 14, 2026
    Congratulations to Akashdeep Chakraborty and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "From Narrative to Numbers: Evaluating Survey Questionnaires with Large Language Models", accepted to ACM IUI 2026.
  • Sept 7, 2025
    Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for winning an NSF grant, "MetaSim: Developing and Assessing Metacognitive Skills using Simulated Learners during Complex Problem Solving in an Interactive Learning Environment". This is a joint project with Dr. Roger Azevedo (PI).
  • August 13, 2025
    Congratulations to Matt Gottsacker, Yahya Hmaiti, Mykola Maslych, Dr. Bruder, Dr. LaViola, and Dr. Welch for having their workshop paper, "XR-First Design for Productivity: A Conceptual Framework for Enabling Efficient Task Switching in XR", accepted to IEEE ISMAR Adjunct 2025.
  • July 25, 2025
    Congratulations to Xinyu Hu, Dr. Ryan McMahan, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "MAGIC: A Method for Analyzing the Grammar of Incomplete Cues", accepted to IEEE ISMAR 2025.
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