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 | Congrats to TJ and his wife, Julie, who just gave birth to a baby boy named Jayden, today.
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| Congratulations to Ubicomp Group alum Shwetak Patel for being named one of MIT Technology Review's Top Innovators under 35!
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| Congratulations to Gregory Abowd for being the holder of the George Professor in Health Systems and officially the Director of Health Systems Institute!
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| Congratulations to Dr. Mario Romero, who graduated with his Ph.D. today! Best wishes!
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| Mario Romero passed his Ph.D. defense today. Congratulations! He is set to graduate in August this year.
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| Congratulations to Mayank Garg, Mayank Goel, Sidhant Gupta, and Yi Han who graduated with their Master's Degrees in CS today! Mayank Garg will work for Dell in Austin, TX, and Sidhant Gupta will be starting as a Ph.D. student at University of Washington. Additional congrat is for Hyorim Park who received her Master's Degree in Human Computer Interaction at today's commencement! Best wishes to all!
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| As usual, there was an Abowd academic family reunion at the CHI 2009 conference in Boston. Family members really enjoyed themselves. One of the things that Gregory Abowd brought back from the CHI 2009 was a caricature of Julie, Gregory and Shwetak playing whirlyball. What a great masterpiece!
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| VisWeek organizers have again used Mario Romero's visualization as part of their cover. The front page of VisWeek 2009 includes his visualization.
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| Congratulations to Julie Kientz and Shwetak Patel for their engagement! Romantic news from Seattle! Currently, they are assistant professors at University of Washington.
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| Congratulations to our Grand Poobah! Gregory Abowd was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to ubiquitous computing research, with emphasis on applications for education, home and health.
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| There is a news article from ABC on Julie's FETCH project.
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| Congratulations to Julie and Shwetak, who graduated with their Ph.D.s on August 1st, 2008!
Julie and Shwetak moved from Georgia Tech and joined the faculty at the University of Washington.
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| Congratulations to Julie Kientz and Shwetak Patel for passing Ph.D. defenses! They are set to graduate in this summer.
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| Congratulations to Shwetak Patel for winning a Best Paper Award at the Pervasive Computing 2008.
The winning paper was:
Shwetak Patel, Matt Reynolds, and Gregory Abowd. Detecting Human Movement by Differential Air Pressure Sensing in HVAC System Ductwork: An Exploration in Infrastructure Mediated Sensing. In the Proceedings of Pervasive 2008. Sydney, Australia. 2008.
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| Congratulations to Sunyoung Kim who graduated with her Master's Degree in Human-Computer Interaction today! Sunyoung is an intern at Intel Research this summer and will be starting as a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University's HCI Institute in the fall. Best wishes, Sunyoung!
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| Congratulations to our fearless leader, Gregory Abowd, for receiving two more honorable distinctions this year. At CHI 2008, he was named to the prestigious CHI Academy, which consists of individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of HCI. In addition, Gregory has received the Georgia Tech Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor award, for his success in graduating a number of Ph.D. students throughout his career.
In honor of Gregory's success and his inspiration as a wonderful mentor, his current and former students wore bracelets at CHI that bore the phrase "What Would Gregory Do?" to remind us of our advisor and aim to give us insight into how to handle difficult situations.
Congrats again to Gregory. We're proud of you!
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| Congratulations to Jay Summet who received his Ph.D. at today's commencement. Additional congrats are in order for two Ubicomp master's students, Arwa Tyebkhan and Dounia Berrada. Jay will be staying at Georgia Tech as a post doc, Arwa will be going to Microsoft, and Dounia will be going to Google. Best wishes to all!
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| Congratulations to Ubicomp Group Alum Giovanni Iachello and his wife Sarah, who just had a new baby girl. Agata Iachello was born at 3:35 a.m. in Bolzano, Italy. Best wishes to the new family!
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| Congratulations to Shwetak Patel for winning both Best Paper and Best Presentation at Ubicomp 2007 in Innsbruck, Austria. The winning paper was:
- Patel, S.N., T. Robertson, J.A. Kientz, M. Reynolds, G.D. Abowd. At the Flick of a Switch: Detecting and Classifying Unique Electrical Events on the Residential Power Line. In the Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2007), Innsbruck, Austria, September 2007, pp. 271-288.
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| Congratulations to Dr. Gillian Hayes, who graduated with her Ph.D. today! Gillian will be moving on from Georgia Tech and joining the faculty at the School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. We will miss you, Gillian!
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| Congratulations to Ubicomp Member Jay Summet for passing his Ph.D. defense today! Jay's thesis is on Virtual Rear Projection, and he is set to graduate in December this year.
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| At the CHI 2007 conference, Gregory Abowd was awarded the CHI 2007 Social Impact Award for his work in technology for individuals with autism. As part of this award, he gave a keynote talk which was recorded.
Also at CHI 2007, Julie Kientz presented a paper on the design requirements for technology for supporting tracking development of young children. This talk was also recorded.
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| Today was the College of Computing's Annual Awards Celebration, and there are many kudos to be had for the Ubicomp Group:
- Shwetak Patel was named Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant
- Francine Lyken, Gregory's administrative assistant, was named Outstanding Support Staff
- Gregory Abowd was recognized for his Don Bratcher Human Relations Award, which was awarded last week (see photo below), and for his CHI Social Impact Award, to be awarded at CHI 2007 this year
- Lana Yarosh was recognized for her AT&T Fellowship
- Julie Kientz was recognized for her Google and P.E.O. Fellowships
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| Gregory Abowd has been promoted to full professor! To celebrate, the Ubicomp Group has decorated his office with a large port-o-potty and tastefully adorned his office with tin foil. Congrats, Gregory!
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| Congratulations to Gillian Hayes for successfully defending her Thesis!
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| Congratulations to Julie Kientz for passing her thesis proposal today!
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| Congratulations to Shwetak Patel for passing his thesis proposal today!
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| Congrats to Mario Romero and his wife, Natalia, who just gave birth to a baby boy today. They have named their son Gabriel. Gabriel was born on Saturday September 2nd at 6:05 am at Emory Crawford Long Hospital. He weighed 3.44 kg (7 pounds 9 ounces) and measured 52 cm (20.5 in). Both Gabriel and Natalia are in good health and are expecting to go home Tuesday morning.
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| Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Jay Summet who successfully proposed.
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| Congrats to Kris Nagel, who received her Ph.D. at today's graduation ceremony! Kris will be taking a faculty position at Clayton State University. Also, congratulations to Roman Savaryn, an undergraduate working in our group who just received his bachelor's degree and will be working for Microsoft in Seattle.
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| Congratulations to Kris Nagel for successfully defending her dissertation today!
The title of her dissertation is: "Using Availability Indicators to Enhance Context-Aware Family Communication Applications"
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| Congratulations to Ubicomp group member, Giovanni Iachello, who just graduated with his Ph.D. today! We would also like to congratulate close friend of the Ubicomp group, Elaine Huang from Beth Mynatt's Everyday Computing Lab, who also obtained her Ph.D. today. We wish the both of you the best of luck in your new careers!
Giovanni shakes hands with GT's President Dr. Clough
Giovanni and Gregory
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The work our group has been doing on technology for children with autism has been featured in a pair of local news stories by 11Alive's Donna Lowry.
Article on autism technology in schools:
Article on autism technology in homes (at the Aware Home):
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| Congratulations to Gregory Abowd for receiving the College of Computing's Outstanding Senior Faculty Research Award! This award is given annually to an associate or full professor who has made outstanding research contributions over the last year. Gregory received this award for guiding research efforts on the Aware Home, technologies for children with autism, and technical contributions such as the Capture Resistant Environment.
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| Congratulations to lab member Gillian Hayes, for receiving both the IBM Research Fellowship and the Anita Borg Google Fellowship!
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| Giovanni Iachello's Defense of Dissertation is scheduled at 9AM today!
Title: Design by Proportionality
Time: Friday, March 3rd, 9:00AM EST
Location: TSRB 132
UPDATE: Giovanni did a great job and passed his defense. Congratulations!!!
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| Congratulations to Ubicomp member Lonnie Harvel, who received his Ph.D. at commencement today. Lonnie will remain at Georgia Tech for the time being as a researcher in the ECE department.
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| The Ubicomp Group's Capture Resistant Environment was named one of the New York Times Magazine's "Top Ideas of the Year". See our article at the New York Times website (requires login), obtain a copy of the New York Times Sunday, Dec. 11 paper, or view the article printed to PDF. See the main article for the full list of the year's top ideas.
Congratulations to Khai, Shwetak, Jay, and Gregory for this great honor!
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| Ubicomp Group member Shwetak Patel has designed a way to use your phone's camera as a way of using physical gestures for phone based games and applications, which was mentioned on the blog engadget.com.
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| Today there will be an Aware Home Grad Tea Chili Cook-off hosted in part by the Ubicomp Group! If you are interested in entering the contest, please RSVP for Chili Cookoff.
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| The Ubicomp Group will be sponsoring a pumpkin carving contest at the CoC Graduate Programs Grad Tea.
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| Gillian is married today!!!
Many many congratulations from the ubicomp group to you and Steve!
Some pictures of the wedding: http://luca.cc.gt.atl.ga.us/misc/GilliansWedding/
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| CRE featured in Optics magazine
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| Giovanni presented his research on the challenges of security management in ubiquitous computing applications at the Information Security Curriculum Development conference held at Kennesaw State University. The presentation included material that will eventually be part of a security management textbook.
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| The Capture Resistant Environment is also featured in an article by ABC News under the Technology Headline.
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| Group member Shwetak Patel is quoted in a headline article on CNET's technology news site on the Capture Resistant Environment work he did with Khai Truong and Jay Summet. The group's work is also featured in an article on TRN Research Group's Technology News roundup.
CNET's article has been spreading fast! The article has been slashdotted as well as appeared on ACM's tech news, on Gizmodo, and on p2pnet.
Ph.D. student Jay Summet will present his research titled “Virtual Rear Projection: Technology & Evaluation” at the 2005 IBM Symposium on User Interface and Signal Processing Technologies. Only 35% of hundreds of outstanding nominations were accepted. The symposium will take place at the IBM T.J. Watson Center on September 19th, 2005 in Yorktown Heights, New York . His faculty advisors on the project are Dr. Jim Rehg and Dr. Gregory Abowd. More information about his research is available here.
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| Ubicomp Group members Shwetak Patel, Julie Kientz and Giovanni Iachello will be presenting their respective papers at the Ubicomp conference starting today in Tokyo.
Shwetak will present his paper "Preventing Camera Recording by Designing a Capture-Resistant Environment" authored with Khai N. Truong, Jay W. Summet and Gregory D. Abowd
Julie will present her paper "Abaris: Evaluating Automated Capture Applied to Structured Autism Interventions" authored with Sebastian Boring (University of Munich), Gregory D. Abowd and Gillian R. Hayes
Giovanni will present his paper "Control, Deception, and Communication: Evaluating the Deployment of a Location-Enhanced Messaging Service" authored with Ian Smith, Sunny Consolvo (Intel Research), Gregory D. Abowd, Jeff Hughes, James Howard, Fred Potter (University of Washington), James Scott (Intel Research Cambridge), Timothy Sohn (UCSD), Jeffrey Hightower and Anthony LaMarca (Intel Research)
Sebastian and Julie will also be presenting a demo of the Abaris system at Ubicomp.
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| New Scientist magazine wrote an article about our Capture Resistant Environment work.
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| Congratulations to Ubicomp Group member Khai Truong, who received his Ph.D. today at commencement. Khai will be joining the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto as an assistant professor in January of 2006.
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| Long time Ubicomp Group member Heather Richter received her Ph.D. today at commencement. Heather will be starting as as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Software and Information Systems at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the Fall of 2005. Congratulations, Heather!
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