Ph.D., University of Florida, 2021
M.S., Clemson University, 2013
B.S., Claflin University, 2010

Research Interests:

Human-Centered Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Adaptive Learning Technologies, Conversational User Interfaces, Computer Science Education, Broadening Participation in Computing, Virtual Reality, Robotics, and Social Media Data Analytics.

My main research interest is to study the ways Artificial Intelligence will and has impacted humans and how we can design, build, and evaluate multimodal, interactive, intelligent systems that are usable, acceptable, and beneficial to humans, as well as respect human values.

Selected Publications (Total: 20, h-Index: 5, i10-index: 2, citations: 65):

• Mack, N. A., Rembert, D. G. M., Cummings, R., & Gilbert, J. E. (2019, June). Co-Designing an Intelligent Conversational History Tutor with Children. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (pp. 482–487). IDC ’19. Boise, ID, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/3311927.3325336.
• Mack, N. A., Cummings, R., Huff, E. W., Gosha, K., & Gilbert, J. E. (2019, July). Exploring the Needs and Preferences of Underrepresented Minority Students for an Intelligent Virtual Mentoring System. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 213–221). Springer.
• Mack, N. A., Womack, K., Huff Jr., E. W., Cummings, R., Dowling, N., & Gosha, K. (2019, February). From Midshipmen to Cyber Pros: Training Minority Naval Reserve Officer Training Corp Students for Cybersecurity. In Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (pp. 726–730). SIGCSE ’19. Minneapolis, MN, USA: ACM.
• McClendon, J. L., Mack, N. A., & Hodges, L. F. (2014, May). The Use of Paraphrase Identification in the Retrieval of Appropriate Responses for Script Based Conversational Agents. In The Twenty-Seventh International Flairs Conference.
• Darnell, S. S., Mack, N. A., Jackson, F., Alnizami, H., James, M., Ekandem, J. I., . . . Gilbert, J. E. (2014). Human-Computer Interfaces for Speech Applications. In Computing Handbook, Third Edition: Computer Science and Software Engineering (92: 1–15).
• Bertrand, J., Dukes, L. C., Dukes, P., Ebrahimi, E., Hayes, A., Mack, N., . . . Hodges, L. F. (2013, March). Serious Games for Training, Rehabilitation and Workforce Development. In 2013 IEEE Virtual Reality (VR) (pp. 195–196). doi:10.1109/VR.2013.6549427.