Dr. Jianwei Lai

Assistant Professor

School Information Technology

Office

Old Union - OU 215A

Office Phone

(309) 438-7671office
phone

jlai12@ilstu.eduemail

About
Education
Research

Biography

Jianwei Lai is an assistant professor in the School of Information Technology at Illinois State University. She received her Ph.D. in Information Systems in 2016 from University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She also earned her master's degree in Psychology from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, in 2009.

Current Courses

214.001Social, Legal, And Ethical Issues In Information Technology

367.001Designing The User Interface

367.002Designing The User Interface

214.002Social, Legal, And Ethical Issues In Information Technology

214.003Social, Legal, And Ethical Issues In Information Technology

Teaching Interests & Areas

Jianwei is interested in teaching courses related to Web development, user interface design, human-computer interaction, research methodology, usability, user experience, and mobile computing.

Research Interests & Areas

Jianwei Lai's research interests lie in the fields of Human-Computer-Interaction, Mobile Computing and Applications, and User Behavioral and Cognitive Activities. She is interested in both foundational issues and practical innovations of user interaction with digital devices, particularly the design of novel interfaces and interaction techniques. She is also very interested in accessibility issues.

Ph D Information Systems

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Baltimore, MD

MS Information Systems

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Baltimore, MD

MS Educational and Developmental Psychology

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Beijing, China

BA English

University of Science & Technology, Beijing

Beijing, China

Conference Proceeding

Lai, J., Rajabi, N., & Javadi, E. A Shortcut for Caret Positioning on Touch-Screen Phones. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (2019)

Lai, J., Zhang, D., Wang, S., Kilic, I., & Zhou, L. A Thumb Stroke-Based Virtual Keyboard for Sight-Free Text Entry on Touch-Screen Mobile Phones. Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2018): 293-302.

Javadi, E., & Lai, J. Attribution Apprehension, Automated Attribution, and Creative Integration. 4 (EDs). Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (2017)

Zhang, D., Kang, Y., Zhou, L., & Lai, J. Continuous User Authentication on Touch-Screen Mobile Devices: Toward More Secure and Usable M-Commerce. the Fifteenth Workshop on e-Business (WeB 2016) (2016)

Journal Article

Lai, J., Zhang, D., Wang, S., Yakut Kilic, I., Zhou, L., & . ThumbStroke: A Virtual Keyboard in Support of Sight-Free and One-Handed Text Entry on Touchscreen Mobile Devices. ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems 10.3 (2019): 11.

Lai, J., Zhang, D., & Wang, S. ContextZoom: A Single-Handed Partial Zooming Technique for Touch-Screen Mobile Devices. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction 33.6 (2017): 475-485.

Zhou, L., Kang, Y., Zhang, D., & Lai, J. Harmonized Authentication based on ThumbStroke Dynamics on Touch Screen Mobile Phones. Decision Support Systems 96 (2016): 14-24.

Presentations

"Science Literacy for General Education at ISU: A Pilot Study". Illinois State University Annual Teaching & Learning Symposium. (2020)

Jin. G, Wodika, A., Darner, R., Lai, J.W., Cihlar, J. & Moore, M.(2020) “Pedagogical Tools Developed to Foster Accuracy-Oriented Reasoning”, 20^th SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities) Conference (Virtual), July 30-August 2.

Implicit One-handed Mobile User Authentication by Induced Thumb Biometrics on Touch-screen Handheld Devices. NSF 2019 Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Principal Investigators' Meeting. NSF. (2019)

A Thumb Stroke-Based Virtual Keyboard for Sight-Free Text Entry on Touch-Screen Mobile Phones. 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. (2018)

Attribution Apprehension, Automated Attribution, and Creative Integration. Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. ACM. (2017)

Grants & Contracts

SoTL URG: Science Literacy for General Education at ISU: A Pilot Study with HSC 156: Environmental Health in the 21st Century. Illinois State University. Illinois State University. (2019)

SaTC: CORE: Medium: Implicit Single-handed User Authentication by Induced Thumb Biometrics on Touchscreen Mobile Devices. NSF. Federal. (2017)

University Research Grant (URG). Search Results College of Applied Science and Technology. Illinois State University. (2017)

New Faculty Startup. Illinois State University. (2016)