FIG Lab Receives 4 Innovation by Design Awards

Four projects from the HCII's Future Interfaces Group (FIG Lab) were honored by Fast Company's 2020 Innovation by Design Awards.

Two projects were selected from both the Student-designed and Experimental categories. 

Best student-designed projects category:

• Ubicoustics: Plug-and-play acoustic activity recognition
  Karan Ahuja, Jason Wu, and Gierad Laput, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• ActiTouch: Robust Touch Detection for On-Skin AR/VR Interfaces
  Yang Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University

Experimental design projects category:

• WorldGaze: Enhancing Mobile Voice Assistants
  Future Interfaces Group, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• SurfaceSight: A New Spin on Touch, User, and Object Sensing for IoT Experiences
  Future Interfaces Group, Carnegie Mellon University

Congratulations, FIG Lab!