STAR Paper Wins Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2014!
Congratulations to Amy Voida, Lynn Dombrowski, Gillian Hayes, and Melissa Mazmanian, whose paper “Shared Values/Conflicting Logics: Working Around E-Government Systems” won an Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2014! Abstract: In this paper, we describe results from fieldwork conducted at a social services site where the workers evaluate citizens’ applications for food and medical assistance submitted […]
Dombrowski Passes Topic Proposal!
Congratulations to Lynn Dombrowski, who successfully passed her dissertation topic proposal defense on Friday, February 14, and is now ABD (All But Dissertation)! Her topic is Food Justice and Interaction Design: As a domain, human computer interaction and interaction design of issues of moral and ethical import. Frequently, the topics of social justice (e.g., hunger, […]
Brubaker Chosen as Finalist for Facebook Fellowship!
Congratulations to Jed Brubaker, who was chosen as a finalist for the highly-competitive 2014-2015 Facebook Graduate Fellowship Award! Brubaker was among the top 35 applicants worldwide.
Ringland Awarded NSF Summer Funding to Study in Japan!
Congratulations to Kate Ringland, who was awarded a fellowship to study in Japan this summer as part of the National Science Foundation’s East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute! She will be working with Dr. Norimune Kawai in the Graduate School of Education at Hiroshima University. She will be facilitating participatory design workshops to help design […]
Ringland and Haimson Awarded AGS Travel Grants
Congratulations to Kate Ringland and Oliver Haimson, who were awarded travel grants from UC Irvine Associated Graduate Students! The funding will support their travel to Berlin, Germany to present their research as part of iConference 2014.
Gillian Hayes Honored as Part of 2014 ICS Dean’s Awards
The ICS Dean’s awards have been announced, and Gillian won the Dean’s Mid-Career Award for Research in recognition of the STAR group’s research efforts! Dean’s Award for Research: Michael Goodrich For his contributions in the area of parallel and distributed algorithms Dean’s Mid-Career Award for Research: Gillian Hayes For her contributions in the area of human-computer interaction […]
Brubaker Accepted for CHI 2014 Doctoral Consortium!
Congratulations to Jed Brubaker, who was accepted as a participant in the CHI 2014 Doctoral Consortium! The CHI 2014 Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for Doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of distinguished researchers. Jed also co-organized a workshop that was accepted […]
STAR Team Accepted for Social Media Expo!
Congratulations to Oliver Haimson and Kate Ringland, whose team project was accepted for inclusion in the 2014 Social Media Expo, sponsored by Microsoft FUSE Labs. The Social Media Expo is part of the iConference in Berlin, Germany, and Oliver and Kate’s team will receive a travel award to attend the conference. The project is titled […]
STAR CHI 2014 Papers
STAR group members will be presenting three papers at CHI this year: Brubaker, J. R., Dombrowski, L., Gilbert, A., Kusumakaulika, N., & Hayes, G. R. (2014). Stewarding a Legacy: Responsibilities and Relationships in the Management of Post-mortem Data. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014. Haimson, O. L., Brubaker, J. R., & […]
Interactive Technologies for Autism, New Book Co-Authored by Hayes, Published Online!
The new book Interactive Technologies for Autism: Synthesis Lectures on Assistive, Rehabilitative, and Health-Preserving Technologies, co-authored by Gillian Hayes and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers, is now published online! Development, deployment, and evaluation of interactive technologies for individuals with autism have been rapidly increasing over the last decade. There is great promise for the […]