Taele, Paul

Educational Background

- Sketch recognition
- Human-computer interaction
- Artificial intelligence
- Intelligent user interfaces

EAAI-20 New and Future AI Educator Travel Support Grant, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020
Ford Foundation Fellowships 2015 Dissertation Competition Honorable Mention, National Research Council of the National Academies, 2015
National Science Foundation Student Travel Grant, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2014
College of Engineering Graduate Student Travel Fund, Texas A&M University, 2013
National Science Foundation Doctoral Consortium Student Travel Award Grant, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2013
Texas Public Education Grant, Texas A&M University, 2013
Office of Graduate Studies Graduate Presentation Grant, Texas A&M University, 2013
East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2013
East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2012
Graduate Leadership Excellence Award, Texas A&M University Department of Computer Science & Engineering, 2011
Royce E. Wisenbaker ’39 Graduate Fellowship, Texas A&M University Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2009
Texas Aggie Graduate Grant, Texas A&M University, 2008

2020. Taele, P., Koh, J.I., and Hammond, T. "Kanji Workbook: A Writing-Based Intelligent Tutoring System for Learning Proper Japanese Kanji Writing Technique with Instructor-Emulated Assessment." Thirty-Second Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI 2020). New York, New York, USA. February 9-11, 2020. [29%]
2018. Peng, Y.-H., Hsu, M.-W., Taele, P., Lin, T.-Y., Lai, P.-E., Hsu, L., Chen, T., Chen, Y.-A., Wu, T.-Y., Tang, H.-H., Chen, M.Y. SpeechBubbles: Enhancing Captioning Experiences for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People in Group Conversations. 2018 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018). Montreal, Canada. April 21-26, 2018. [25.7%]
2015. Taele, P., Barreto, L., and Hammond, T. "Maestoso: An Intelligent Educational Sketching Tool for Learning Music Theory. The Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence." Austin, Texas, USA. January 27-29, 2015. [27%]
2014. Prasad, M., Taele, P., Hammond, T. and Goldberg, D.W. "HaptiMoto: Turn-by-Turn Haptic Route Guidance Interface for Motorcyclists." ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Toronto, Canada. April 26-May 1, 2014. [22.8%]
2009. Taele, P. and Hammond, T. "Hashigo: A Next-Generation Sketch Interactive System for Japanese Kanji." Twenty-First Innovative Applications Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI 2009), Pasadena, California, July 14-16, 2009. [32%]