FIG Lab Receives 4 Innovation by Design Awards
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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!