Hi, I'm Ivonne Monarca!

I am a Mexican Ph.D. student at CICESE

I have a background in Computer Science, I have experience in human-computer interaction and interaction design, with a specific focus on interactive surfaces, voice assistants, and haptic interfaces.

My research focused on how the interactions with natural user interfaces can uncover digital markers to support the screening of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. I am looking at if the affordances of such natural interfaces can reveal unknown and unmeasurable “red flags” or behaviors that are atypical for children and are more distinctive of children with autism.

When I'm not working, I really enjoy running or walking around the city, you ca watch a video about me in YT, I like K-pop and K-dramas.

Current Work

Feel and Touch

About 90% of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have atypical sensory processing . Those differences can be a potential marker of ASD. Until now, tactile processing has been little explored due to the lack of tools to assess it. However, with the growth of haptic interfaces, there is an untapped potential to understand and assess the tactile processing of individuals with ASD and uncover haptic digital markers.

We designed a mobile haptic game augmented with vibrotactile patterns to assess tactile processing, called Feel and Touch. The goal of Feel and touch is to help a hungry spider to rebuild its web destroyed in a storm mimicking the storytelling of the itsy bitsy spider nursery rhyme. To be able to eat, the spider first needs to build its web. Feel and touch, has 3 activities: build the web, feed the spider, and dancing on the web.

Related publications:

Monarca, Ivonne; Tentoru, Monica; Cibrian, Franceli L.. Feel and touch: a haptic mobile game to assess tactile processing. Avances en Interacción Humano-Computadora, [S.l.], n. 1, p. 31-35, nov. 2021. ISSN 2594-2352. Available at: <http://aihc.amexihc.org/index.php/aihc/article/view/83>. Date accessed: 08 feb. 2022. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.47756/aihc.y6i1.83.

Recent Activities and Participations

Demonstration of Feel and Touch demo to high school students- CICESE 2022
Primary associate chair (1AC)- CHI 2022 Late-Breaking Work (LBW) Program Committee.
Digitalize in Stockholm 2021, Future Digileader.
"Haptics in iOS"- Chapman University 2021 invited talk
Student Volunter UbiComp’ 21
"Natural user interfaces for the prediction of neurological disorders"- 1st International Online Conference on Emerging Information Techologies. BUAP 2020
Video Chair -UbiComp’20,

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