I’m still figuring out what I’m going to do after the event (as in, for the whole summer), but I do know I’m going to CHI at the end of the month. Once there, I’ll get to revel in success of students and faculty. Eli Blevis, who has helped me considerably on this doctoral journey, earned an extra pat on the back from CHI 2007 with the highest honor “Best of CHI” for his paper on a framework for sustainable design.
From the 2007 program (PDF):
The SIGCHI “Best of CHI†Program is designed to recognize outstanding work in the field of human-computer interaction by selecting and honoring exceptional submissions to SIGCHI sponsored conferences. This year, the Papers and Notes committees took part in this program, nominating up to 5% of their submissions as Award Nominees. A separate awards committee then chose a select group of these submissions — no more than 1% of the total submissions — to receive a “Best†designation. We are proud to congratulate the award winners and nominees for their outstanding contributions to CHI 2007 and to our field.
In addition to Eli’s paper—”Sustainable Interaction Design: Invention & Disposal, Renewal, & Reuse”—other top papers include:
- “Authoring Sensor-Based Interactions by Demonstration with Direct Manipulation and Pattern Recognition”
by Bjoern Hartmann, Leith Abdulla, Stanford University, USA Manas Mittal, MIT, USA Scott R. Klemmer, Stanford University, USA - “Consuming Video on Mobile Devices”
by Kenton O’Hara, Hewlett-Packard, UK; April Slayden Mitchell, Alex Vorbau, Hewlett-Packard, USA - “MultiView: Improving Trust in Group Video Conferencing Through Spatial Faithfulness”
by David Nguyen, John Canny, University of California, Berkeley, USA - “Shift: A Technique for Operating Pen-Based Interfaces Using Touch”
by Daniel Vogel, University of Toronto, Canada; Patrick Baudisch, Microsoft, USA - “Software or Wetware? Discovering When and Why People Use Digital Prosthetic Memory”
by Vaiva Kalnikaite, Steve Whittaker, The University of Sheffield, UK
Congratulations to Eli, and the rest.
