The University of Auckland | The Department of Computer Science | SERG | HCI Research

Rachel Blagojevic
(nee Rachel Patel)
Email: rpat088 AT aucklanduni.ac.nz
Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Supervisor: Beryl Plimmer

Research Interests

Publications

    Journal papers
  • Chang, S. H.-H., R. Blagojevic, et al. (2012). RATA.Gesture: A Gesture Recognizer Developed using Data Mining. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing (AI EDAM) 26(3): p 351-366.
  • Blagojevic R., B. Plimmer, J. Grundy, Y. Wang, Using Data Mining for Digital Ink Recognition: Dividing Text and Shapes in Sketched Diagrams, 2011, Volume 35, Issue 5, Computers & Graphics, p 976–991.
  • Plimmer B., P. Reid, R. Blagojevic, A. Crossan, S. Brewster, Signing on the tactile line: A multimodal system for teaching handwriting to blind children, 2011, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), Volume 18, Issue 3, 29 pgs.

  • Long papers
  • Blagojevic, R., and Plimmer, B., (2013). CapTUI: Geometric Drawing with Tangibles on a Capacitive Multi-touch Display. In Proceedings of the 14th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2013), Cape Town, South Africa, accepted in press.
  • Stevens, P., Blagojevic, R., & Plimmer, B. (2013). Supervised Machine Learning for Grouping Sketch Diagram Strokes. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling (SBIM '13). Eurographics Association, Anaheim, USA, accepted in press.
  • B. Plimmer, R. Blagojevic, et al. (2012). RATA: Codeless Generation of Gesture Recognizers. Proceedings of BCS HCI 2012, p 137-146
  • Zhen, J.S., R. Blagojevic, and B. Plimmer. (2012). Automated Labeling of Ink Stroke Data. in SBIM. Annecy, France: EG and ACM.
  • Blagojevic R., B. Plimmer, J. Grundy, Y. Wang, Building Digital Ink Recognizers using Data Mining: Distinguishing Between Text and Shapes in Hand Drawn Diagrams, 2010, Volume 6096, Trends in Applied Intelligent Systems, p 358-367.
  • Blagojevic R., S. Chang, B. Plimmer, The Power of Automatic Feature Selection: Rubine on Steroids , 7th Eurographics Symposium on Sketch Based Interfaces and Modelling (SBIM ’10), 2010, Annecy, France, p 79-86.
  • Chang S., B. Plimmer R. Blagojevic, Rata.SSR: Data Mining for Pertinent Stroke Recognizers , 7th Eurographics Symposium on Sketch Based Interfaces and Modelling (SBIM ’10), 2010, Annecy, France, p 95-102.
  • Schmieder P., B. Plimmer, R. Blagojevic, Automatic Evaluation of Sketch Recognizers, Sketch Based Interfaces and Modeling (SBIM '09), New Orleans, USA, 2009, pp. 85-92.
  • Plimmer, B., S. Brewster, A. Crossan, R. Blagojevic, Multimodal collaborative handwriting training for visually-impaired people, SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI ’08), Florence, Italy, 2008, Recipient of Best Paper Award.
  • Blagojevic, R., B. Plimmer, J. Grundy, Y. Wang, A Data Collection Tool for Sketched Diagrams, 5th Eurographics Conference on Sketch Based Interfaces and Modelling (SBIM ’08), Annecy, France, 2008.
  • Patel, R., B. Plimmer, J. Grundy, R. Ihaka, Ink Features for Diagram Recognition, 4th Eurographics Conference on Sketch Based Interfaces and Modelling (SBIM ’07), University of California, Riverside, USA, 2007.

  • Short papers
  • Zhen, S. J., Blagojevic, R., and Plimmer, B., (2013). Tangeo: Geometric Drawing with Tangibles on an Interactive Table-Top. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM annual conference extended abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI EA '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, p 1509-1514.
  • Blagojevic, R., Chen, X., Tan, R., Sheehan, R., and Plimmer, B. (2012). Using tangible drawing tools on a capacitive multi-touch display. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual BCS Interaction Specialist Group Conference on People and Computers (BCS-HCI '12). British Computer Society, Swinton, UK, UK, 315-320.

  • Workshop papers
  • Blagojevic, R., P. Schmieder, B. Plimmer, Towards a Toolkit for the Development and Evaluation of Sketch Recognition Techniques, Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI’09) Sketch Recognition Workshop, Florida, USA, 2009.
  • Blagojevic, R., B. Plimmer, J. Grundy, Y. Wang, Development of Techniques for Sketched Diagram Recognition, Graduate Consortium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VLHCC '08), Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany, 2008, pp.258-259.
  • Blagojevic, R., Development of Techniques for Sketched Diagram Recognition, Australasian Artificial Intelligence (AI’08) Graduate Consortium, 2008, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Patel, R., B. Plimmer, J. Grundy, R. Ihaka, Exploring Better Techniques for Diagram Recognition, 5th NZ Computer Science Research Student Conference (NZCSRSC '07), University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 2007.

Updated: 16-03-2012