Scholars

Taele, Paul

Instructional Assistant Professor

Positions:

Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering

Research Areas:

Artificial intelligence, Human-computer interaction

UN Sustainable Development Goals:

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Profile Summary

ptaele@tamu.edu

210-327-7783

Co-author Network

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Websites

Personal Website

ORCID

0000-0002-1271-0574

UN Sustainable Development Goals:

Research Areas:

Artificial intelligence, Human-computer interaction

overview

My current research interests are in intelligent user interfaces (IUI), including activity recognition-driven interfaces such as sketch, motion, and navigation. My recent primary focus has been on developing and deploying pen-driven intelligent tutoring systems for improving remote classroom instruction and homework study through instructor-emulated assessment and interactive visual feedback. My research efforts have been published at highly-visible computing conferences and journals such as IAAI, CHI, MobileHCI, TiiS, and IJHCS.

education and training

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) 2019
M.S. in Computer Science, Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) 2010
B.S. in Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin - (Austin, Texas, United States) 2006

selected publications

Academic Articles3

Koh, J. I., Cherian, J., Taele, P., & Hammond, T. (2019). Developing a Hand Gesture Recognition System for Mapping Symbolic Hand Gestures to Analogous Emojis in Computer-Mediated Communication. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems. 9(1), 1-35.
Chien, M., Jheng, C., Lin, N., Tang, H., Taele, P., Tseng, W., & Chen, M. Y. (2015). iCAN: A tablet-based pedagogical system for improving communication skills of children with autism. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 73, 79-90.
Taele, P., & Hammond, T. (2010). LAMPS: A sketch recognition-based teaching tool for Mandarin Phonetic Symbols I. Journal of Visual Languages & Computing. 21(2), 109-120.

Chapters5

Barreto, L., Taele, P., & Hammond, T. (2016). A Stylus-Driven Intelligent Tutoring System for Music Education Instruction. Hammond, T., Valentine, S., & Adler, A. (Eds.), Revolutionizing Education with Digital Ink: The Impact of Pen and Touch Technology on Education. 141-161. Springer International Publishing.
Taele, P., & Hammond, T. (2016). An Intelligent Sketch-Based Educational Interface for Learning Complex Written East Asian Phonetic Symbols. Hammond, T., Valentine, S., & Adler, A. (Eds.), Revolutionizing Education with Digital Ink: The Impact of Pen and Touch Technology on Education. 129-140. Springer International Publishing.
Williford, B., Taele, P., Nelligan, T., Li, W., Linsey, J., & Hammond, T. (2016). PerSketchTivity: An Intelligent Pen-Based Educational Application for Design Sketching Instruction. Hammond, T., Valentine, S., & Adler, A. (Eds.), Revolutionizing Education with Digital Ink: The Impact of Pen and Touch Technology on Education. 115-127. Springer International Publishing.
Kim, H., Valentine, S., Taele, P., & Hammond, T. (2015). EasySketch: A Sketch-based Educational Interface to Support Childrens Self-regulation and School Readiness. Hammond, T., Valentine, S., Adler, A., & Payton, M. (Eds.), The Impact of Pen and Touch Technology on Education. 35-46. Springer International Publishing.
Taele, P., & Hammond, T. (2015). Enhancing Instruction of Written East Asian Languages with Sketch Recognition-Based Intelligent Language Workbook Interfaces. Hammond, T., Valentine, S., Adler, A., & Payton, M. (Eds.), The Impact of Pen and Touch Technology on Education. 119-126. Springer International Publishing.

Conference Papers38

Koh, J. I., Ray, S., Cherian, J., Taele, P., & Hammond, T. (2022). Show of Hands: Leveraging Hand Gestural Cues in Virtual Meetings for Intelligent Impromptu Polling Interactions. 27th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI '22: 27th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. 292-309.
Hammond, T., Brooks, R., Thomas, S., Peak, C. W., Wade, P., Patrick, C., Ray, S., & Taele, P. (2021). A Virtual Community of Practice for Enhanced Teaching and Convergence to Strengthen Student Learning, Engagement, and Inclusion. 2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). 00, 1-8.
Hammond, T. A., Ray, S., Taele, P., Thomas, S., Watson, K., Stanley, C. A., & Polsley, S. (2021). The Disconnect Between Engineering Students’ Desire to Discuss Racial Injustice in the Classroom and Faculty Anxieties. 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference.
Peng, Y., Yu, C., Liu, S., Wang, C., Taele, P., Yu, N., & Chen, M. Y. (2020). WalkingVibe: Reducing Virtual Reality Sickness and Improving Realism while Walking in VR using Unobtrusive Head-mounted Vibrotactile Feedback. Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1-12.
Taele, P., & Hammond, T. (2019). Session details: Workshops. Proceedings of the 2019 on Creativity and Cognition, C&C '19: Creativity and Cognition.