Archive for January, 2008

Informatics at UC Irvine - January 31st, 2008

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Congratulations to the entire Informatics department, but especially Prof. Gillian Hayes who spearheaded the effort, on getting a paper published at CHI 2008. This type of paper, a Research Landscape paper, is a little different than most, because it is a summary of the work that is going on in a department presented as an academic paper. Prof. Hayes took some of the more HCI focussed work and synthesized it into a nice overview of the things that we are passionate about here in the LUCI lab and the Informatics department. You can read the pre-publication version here
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P. Dourish, G. R. Hayes, L. Irani, C. P. Lee, S. Lindtner, B. Nardi, D. J. Patterson, and W. M. Tomlinson, “Informatics at UC, Irvine,” in CHI Research Landscapes, April 2008.

Abstract
“Computer Science, as a single discipline, can no longer speak to the broad relevance of digital technologies in society. The Department of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at
the University of California, Irvine, serves as the institutional home for research on relationships between technological, organizational, and social aspects of information technology. Here, we describe the research landscape of the Department of Informatics and its relation to the diverse field of Human-Computer Interaction. “

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Workshop on multi-touch interaction techniques for coupled displays - January 30th, 2008

ppd

The PPD 08 (Public and Private Displays) workshop focuses on the research challenges and opportunities afforded by the combination of touch sensitive small private input displays coupled with large touch sensitive public displays. Different touch-enabled devices rely on different types of touches (passive stylus, active stylus, fingers and tangible objects), the motivating question for this workshop is how do users switch between these devices and how to facilitate fluid transition from a collection of multiple displays to a single integrated multi-display environment.

More info

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IBM Summer Internships - January 30th, 2008

“IBM Research is pleased to announce the 2008 Summer Intern Program in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematical Sciences at its United States locations. We are seeking highly motivated graduate and undergraduate students who are interested in pursuing an exciting summer of research, prototyping, and exploring new frontiers of these and related disciplines. Students will have the opportunity to work closely with an outstanding research team on challenging problems that range from leading-edge exploratory work to real-world systems and applications. With a summer internship, students can experience the dynamic technical environment of the largest industrial research organization in the world and network with other top students from many different fields and universities.”

Lots of LUCI students have taken advantage of this. Ask around if you are interested.
Click on the image on the left for more details.

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Group Sensemaking - January 29th, 2008

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Congratulations to grad student Steve Abrams and research scientist Charlotte Lee , on having had a paper accepted to a workshop at CHI 2008:

Lee, Charlotte P. and Steve Abrams. “Group Sensemaking.” 2008. Position paper for workshop on Sensemaking. ACM Conference on Human Factors and Usability (CHI), Florence, Italy, April 2008.

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Keeping in touch by technology: Maintaining friendships after a residential move - January 25th, 2008

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Congratulations to post-doc Irina Shklovski, on having had a paper accepted to CHI 2008:

Shklovski, I., Kraut, R. & Cummings, J., (2008). Keeping in touch by technology: Maintaining friendships after a residential move. In proceeding of Human Factors in Computer Systems (CHI 2008), New York: ACM Press.

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Imagine Cup 2008: User Interface Contest - January 23rd, 2008

Imagine Cup – Interface Design Guidelines

“Creativity, innovative ideas, and usability – when these three elements come together for users of software or Web applications it becomes pure magic. The experience that the artist and developer can create with a well designed user interface can make or break the application that it sits in front of.

First Place $8,000″

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Hayes receives award from Autism Speaks to develop a visual schedule system - January 21st, 2008

March 09 journal page

“Professor of informatics Gillian Hayes has received an award from Autism Speaks for her proposal, “Technology Support for Interactive and Collaborative Visual Schedules”.

Hayes work will focus on developing a digital repository and visual schedule system for use in schools and homes by individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).”

Full Press Release

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Intern Positions in Multimedia, Mobile Computing and HCI - January 14th, 2008

Nuria Oliver, a former Microsoft Research employee, is looking for interns and researchers for an R&D outfit in Barcelona Spain. There could be worse gigs.

“Interested in doing research in a top team while living in vibrant Barcelona (Spain)? The newly formed Multimedia Research Group at Telefonica R&D is accepting intern applications to carry out research in the areas of:
Multimedia Data Analysis, Retrieval and Search
Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
Multi-modal User Interfaces
User Modeling and Personalization”

and

“The newly formed research group on Multimedia at Telefónica R&D* Barcelona invites for
applications for Researcher positions in the areas of Multimedia Data Analysis, Search and
Retrieval, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing and Human Computer Interaction.
We are looking for dynamic, creative and resourceful individuals to join our research efforts
in Multimedia Computing. The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary and
international team of scientists dedicated tsolve challenging user-oriented problems. ”

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Exploring the Role of the Reader in the Activity of Blogging - January 11th, 2008

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Congratulations to grad student Eric Baumer and faculty member Bill Tomlinson on having had a paper accepted to CHI 2008:
Baumer, E., M. Sueyoshi, B. Tomlinson. 2008. Exploring the Role of the Reader in the Activity of Blogging. In: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008). Florence, Italy. 8 pages. (to appear)

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Pervasive Computing @ Home Workshop - January 8th, 2008

Pervasive Computing @ Home Workshop
Pervasive 2008
The Sixth International Conference
on Pervasive Computing
Sydney, Australia
May 19-22, 2008

Organizers:
A.J. Brush – Microsoft Research, ajbrush@microsoft.com
Shwetak Patel – Georgia Tech, shwetak@cc.gatech.edu
Brian Meyers – Microsoft Research, brianme@microsoft.com
Albrecht Schmidt – University of Duisburg-Essen, albrecht.schmidt@acm.org

Overview:
The Pervasive Computing @ Home workshop will focus on Pervasive Technology
as applied specifically to a home environment. We will discuss what
distinguishes the home from other sites of technological innovation,
approaches to studying behavior in a home setting including in-situ studies
and living laboratories, and lessons learned from building and studying
pervasive technologies intended for use in homes. We encourage participants
who have previously placed technology in the home or living laboratory or
who are planning on doing so in the future to apply to this workshop.

Selecting Workshop Participants:
Selection of participants will be based on refereed submissions. We are
soliciting 2-4 page position paper submissions (single spaced, size 10 font)
and expect to accept 15-20 participants. We ask authors to focus their
paper submissions on challenges they faced deploying pervasive technology
for home environments with an emphasis on lessons learned. Authors should
also include a short biography at the end of the paper submission (included
in 4-page limit).

Submissions should be emailed to ajbrush@microsoft.com by January 25, 2008
(11:59 EST) to be considered for review. If you are considering submission
we encourage you to email any one of the organizers

Important Dates:
November 23, 2007 Workshop call posted
January 25, 2008 (11:59 EST) Workshop paper deadline
February 29, 2008 Notification of acceptance/rejection of papers

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