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HCII Researchers Earn "Best of CHI" Awards

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Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute earned a total of seven awards when the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) CHI2015 conference announced its "Best of CHI" winners March 1. The institute received one Best Paper award and six Honorable Mentions. The conference's 21 total Best Paper awards recognized the top one percent of research submissions, while the 98 Honorable Mentions recognized the next top five percent of submissions.

HCII papers honored include the following.

Best Paper
  • "Acoustruments: Passive, Acoustically Driven, Interactive Controls for Handheld Devices," Gierad Laput (HCII Ph.D. student); Eric Brockmeyer (Disney Research); Scott E Hudson (HCII Professor) Chris Harrison (HCII Assistant Professor).
Honorable Mention
  • "A Layered Fabric 3D Printer for Soft Interactive Objects," Huaishu Peng (Cornell University), Jennifer Mankoff (HCII Associate Professor), Scott E. Hudson (HCII Professor), James McCann (Disney Research)
  • "Gauging Receptiveness to Social Microvolunteering," Erin L. Brady (University of Rochester), Meredith R. Morris (Microsoft Research), Jeffrey P. Bigham (HCII Associate Professor)
  • "Learning from Mixed-Reality Games: Is Shaking a Tablet as Effective as Physical Observation?" Nesra Yannier (HCII Ph.D. student), Kenneth R. Koedinger (HCII Professor), Scott E. Hudson (HCII Professor)
  • "Expanding and Refining Design and Criticality in HCI," James Pierce (HCII Ph.D. student), Phoebe J. Sengers (Cornell University), Tad Hirsch (University of Washington), Tom Jenkins (Georgia Tech), William W. Gaver (Goldsmiths College), Carl DiSalvo (Georgia Institute of Technology).
  • "An Architecture for Generating Interactive Feedback in Probabilistic User Interfaces," Julia Schwarz (HCII Ph.D. alumna), Jennifer Mankoff (HCII Associate Professor), Scott E. Hudson (HCII Professor)
  • "Apparition: Crowdsourced User Interfaces That Come to Life As You Sketch Them," Walter S. Lasecki (University of Rochester), Juho Kim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Nick Rafter (Independent), Onkur Sen (Stanford), Jeffrey P. Bigham (HCII Associate Professor), Michael S. Bernstein (Stanford University).

The HCII researchers are joined by three other CMU winners. Tong Lu, a Ph.D. student in the Mechanical Engineering Department, and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Carmel Majidi received a Best Paper award for their work "iSkin: Flexible, Stretchable and Visually Customizable On-Body Touch Sensors for Mobile Computing." Liang He, a master's student in computational design, earned an Honorable Mention for "New Interaction Tools for Preserving an Old Language," while Madeline Gannon, a Ph.D. candidate in computational design, received an honorable mention for "Tactum: A Skin-Centric Approach to Digital Design and Fabrication."

For more than 30 years, CHI has attracted the world’s leading human-computer interaction researchers and practitioners to share groundbreaking research and innovations related to how humans interact with digital technologies. The weeklong event, scheduled for April 18–23 in Seoul, Korea, will feature the very best of HCI research and practice.

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