STAR :: Social and Technological Action Research Group

Congratulations to David Nguyen, STAR’s first PhD graduate as he has just accepted an offer from Nokia Research Silicon Valley in Sunnyvale, CA as a Senior Researcher. Congratulations David!

Congratulations to Garnet Hertz for successfully debuting Outrun in Denmark!

Bren latest Spotlight highlights Star’s new Ph.D. student, Sen Hirano. The article highlights Hirano’s recent NSF Fellowship award and Hirano’s research and graduate work. The article can be found here: http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/spotlight/spotlight_hirano.php Congratulations Sen!

Congratulations to Lucas Kam for being awarded the UCI undergraduate award of “Outstanding Contribution to Research”. Kam has done research with a variety of graduate students, including working Jed Brubaker and his social media and identity projects and Lynn Dombrowski and her backyard bounty project. Again, congratulations to Lucas Kam!

Congrats to Boaz Grudin and team for winning $5000.00 in this year’s Butterworth Competition. More information about the competition: http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/events/butterworth/

Congratulations to David Resnick for showcasing Pulse in ACE 2011! Pulse will be on display until June 11th, 2011. About ACE 2011: Electromotive is an interactive exhibition featuring the masters thesis projects of students in the Arts Computation Engineering program in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science at UC Irvine. Please come [...]

On Friday May 20, 2011, David Nguyen successfully defended his thesis: Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Tracking and Recording Technologies in Everyday Life Technologies and tools for electronic tracking and recording personal data have become easier to use, less expensive, and more pervasive in recent years. These tracking and recording technologies (TRTs) often work implicitly, in [...]

We would like to congratulate one of our newest STAR members, Robert Greg Rodriguez, and his team, for taking second place at the IEEE’s Student Ethics Competition! Well Done Robert! Photos of the event. IEEE’s Student Ethics Competition UCI IEEE

Congrats to Leslie Liu who now joins the ever growing ranks of STAR researchers winning prestigious fellowships. Leslie will be continuing her studies as a PhD student in Biomedical Informatics at the University of Washington next year, supported by an NLM training program.

Congratulations to STAR member, Sen Hirano, for being accepted into the coveted National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) for 2011. Congratulations, Sen!