Gavindya

@HimarshaJ @phonedude_mln @weiglemc @acnwala @ErikaFrydenlund Congratulations 🎉🎊

Excited to share that I passed my PhD proposal defense on April 24, 2026 -- another step closer to finishing my PhD 🎓 🛝: slideshare.net/slideshow/infr… Special thanks to my dissertation committee: @weiglemc, @phonedude_mln, @acnwala, & @ErikaFrydenlund for their guidance & support.

Today, I presented our paper titled "Susceptibility to High-Fidelity Misinformation: An Eye-Tracking Analysis" at GenEAI workshop @ETRA_conference. Co-authors: @Gavindya2 @OpenMaze Dr. Enkelejda Kasneci Workshop: geneai.edu.sot.tum.de #ETRA26 @NirdsLab @WebSciDL @oducs @odu

@jaceksg @lishi_ut @UTiSchool @IXlab_UT Thank you for your immense support @jaceksg !

Postdoctoral Research Fellow @Gavindya2 did a beautiful job presenting our paper on "Effects of Working Memory Capacity and Search Task Complexity on Cognitive Load" at #CHIIR2026 co-authored with @lishi_ut and me. @UTiSchool @IXlab_UT

The very first paper presentation at #CHIIR2026 conference by Dan Zhang, my doctoral student from @UTiSchool. Perspective paper co-authored with @Gavindya2 @jaceksg Congrats to Dan on her first successful conference presentation! @ACM_CHIIR @IXlab_UT

Dr. Gavindya Jayawardena is now presenting “EFFECTS OF WORKING MEMORY CAPACITY AND SEARCH TASK COMPLEXITY ON COGNITIVE LOAD” at #CHIIR2026 @accessodu @WebSciDL

TL;DR WebMCP turns web UIs into APIs. Soon, software will have both backend and WebMCP APIs. For developers - this means you'll have to build not just backend APIs, but also WebMCP APIs for UIs. It's a matter of time before both these APIs converge to just one MCP API. (5/5)

WebMCP is coming to Chrome! (1/5) developer.chrome.com/blog/webmcp-epp Here's a video of how it works. youtu.be/xQAYZBDV5jg?si… via @YouTube

We built @marketrix_ai to make software self supporting. Self resolving support. Self operating QA. Self updating docs. Self driven walkthroughs. @yasithdev and I demo it tomorrow, Feb 13 at 4PM, at the Artifact Festival by @fdotinc at Fort Mason.

🎉 Accepted papers for CHIIR 2026 are now live! Take a look at the exciting research we’ll be featuring this year 👉 chiir2026.github.io/accepted-paper… Huge thanks to the authors and reviewers!

Step inside Project Genie: our experimental research prototype that lets you create, edit, and explore virtual worlds. 🌎

Two full papers accepted to @ACM_CHIIR 2016! Great work @IXlab_UT team! @Gavindya2 @lishi_ut @UTiSchool

New journal paper! with my post doc @Gavindya2 and @yasithdev Jayawardena, G., Jayawardana, Y., & Gwizdka, J. (2025). Measuring Mental Effort in Real Time Using Pupillometry. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 18(6), 70. doi.org/10.3390/jemr18… mdpi.com/1995-8692/18/6…

Six years, countless experiments, and many lessons, I finally wrapped up my Ph.D. journey at @ODUCS! 👨‍🎓 Read my story about how curiosity led to multi-user eye tracking using webcams. @WebSciDL @NirdsLab ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025-1…

@phonedude_mln @Hussam_A_Hallak @WebSciDL Congratulations!!!

Hussam Hallak (@Hussam_A_Hallak) passed his candidacy exam on Thursday, 2025-07-21, and then advanced his avatar on the @WebSciDL crush board. Congrats!

🔥 The #ETRA2026 is coming to beautiful Marrakesh, Morocco 🇲🇦 in early June! 📝 Call for Papers now released 📚 Journal publication options available (PACM CGIT/HCI) ⚠️ Note: ACM transitioning to 100% Open Access in 2026 #EyeTracking #Research #Morocco #HCI #ComputerVision

Lecturer in Data Science (#F1048A) @ODUDataScience non-TT position, starting Fall 2025 4+4 teaching load reviews start on 2025-06-23 jobs.odu.edu/postings/23300

Congratulations Dr. Mahanama! @mahanama94 🥳

🚢✨ What an incredible evening at the #ETRA2025 conference banquet! Our dinner cruise in Tokyo Bay was the perfect setting to celebrate eye tracking research with colleagues from around the world. Amazing Japanese cuisine, sake, and unforgettable conversations! 🍶🗾 #EyeTracking

This work introduces a real-time measure of the ambient/focal coefficient K, robust parametrization and an alternative estimation method, along with two real-time measures analogous to K. More information here dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.11… #etra2025