Wendy Yang to Start MS in Public Health at Johns Hopkins!
Congratulations to STAR undergrad Wendy Yang, who will starting a Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH) in Social and Behavioral Interventions in the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins University‘s Bloomberg School of Public Health in Fall 2014! Broadly, I hope to incorporate social/behavioral theory from the public health standpoint to design technologies […]
Andrea Lau to Start MS in HCI at Georgia Tech!
Congratulations to STAR undergrad Andrea Lau, who will starting a Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction at Georgia Tech in Fall 2014! Andrea will be in the Interactive Computing Track.
Hayes Named Faculty Director for UCI’s New Civic and Community Engagement Program!
Congrats to Gillian Hayes, who was named the Faculty Director for the new Civic and Community Engagement program at UC Irvine! The minor in civic and community engagement is open to all undergraduate majors on campus. The minor is a chance to use your academic experience to make a difference in the world and get […]
Registration is Open for Autism AppJam
Make a difference! Win cash Prizes! Build an application for persons with Autism. Open to all majors, schools, and campuses. Register HERE. Students can apply as individuals, pairs, trios, or teams of up to 5, and we will arrange final teams of 5 from those submissions. You do not have to have any background in autism nor […]
Haimson Wins Infographic Contest!
Congrats to Oliver Haimson, who won Infogr.am‘s Pi Day Pie Chart Contest with this infographic about cheese pizza. We held a pie party in LUCI to celebrate and to eat the contest prize: $50 in pie. You can read more about the whole ridiculous affair here, here, and here.
Gilbert Awarded ACM-W Scholarship to Attend CHI 2014!
Congratulations to Anita Marie Gilbert, who has been awarded an ACM-W Scholarship to attend CHI 2014! ACM-W provides support for women undergraduate and graduate students in Computer Science and related programs to attend research conferences. This exposure to the CS research world can encourage a student to continue on to the next level (Undergraduate to […]
Hayes Receives Google Glass Accessibility Award!
Congratulations to Gillian Hayes and her collaborators Don Patterson (UCI Informatics) and Monica Tentori (CICESE, Ensenada, Mexico), whose proposal “Wearable Visual Supports for People with Autism Spectrum and other Neurodevelopmental Disorders” has been accepted to receive a Google Glass Accessibility Award from Google Inc.! Gillian, Don, and Monica will receive Google Glass devices as well […]
Haimson to Intern at eBay Research Labs!
Congratulations to Oliver Haimson, who has accepted a summer 2014 internship at eBay Research Labs in San Jose! He will be working in the HCI Research Group with Elizabeth Churchill and Atish Das Sarma.
Ringland and Haimson to Present Research at AGS Symposium!
Congratulations to Kate Ringland and Oliver Haimson, who were both selected to present at the first annual UC Irvine AGS Symposium. The Symposium will be held on April 18, 2014 on the first floor of the UCI Student Center. Kate will be presenting her SensoryPaint research, and Oliver will be presenting his work on analyzing […]
STAR Work-in-Progress and Workshop Papers Accepted to CHI!
Congratulations to Kate Ringland, who has a Work-in-Progress and a workshop paper accepted to CHI 2014! Work-in-Progress SensoryPaint: A Natural User Interface Supporting Sensory Integration in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders Kathryn E Ringland, Rodrigo Zalapa, Megan Neal, Lizbeth Escobedo, Monica Tentori, and Gillian R Hayes Natural User Interfaces (NUI) offer an innovative approach to sensory […]