DUB will have another great year at CHI, with 35 of 57 papers accepted (61%) and 12 paper awards, including 4 best paper/note winners. This marks the fourth straight year of increased submissions from dub (from 2008: 30, 36, 45, 57) and dub's highest overall acceptance rate (from 2008: 53%, 50%, 38%, 61%). In addition, the University of Washington now has 10 best paper winners since CHI began issuing the awards in 2005, the most of any university.

James Landay is the Short-Dooley Professor of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) at the University of Washington (UW). His research over the past two decades has included contributions in the areas of automated usability evaluation, demonstrational interfaces, ubiquitous computing, user interface design tools, and web design. As a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, he began creating tools to support fluid user interface design and development through sketching. From 1997-2003, he was a professor at UC Berkeley, where he was tenured after creating a strong HCI research community and continuing to develop tools for non-programmers that explored the then novel design spaces of web site, pen and speech interaction. He moved to Seattle in 2003 to join the faculty in CSE at UW and to direct the Intel Research Seattle lablet, which focused under his leadership on technologies and applications of ubiquitous computing. He has continued his leadership in developing tools for designers, adding to his long list of publicly available design tools through the investigation of location-aware computing, activity-based computing and ubicomp in the home. He was a founding member of the cross-university DUB Group at UW, which under his leadership has quickly become an international power in HCI research. He is currently helping to establish an HCI research center at Microsoft Research Beijing. He has also had success in commercialization efforts. His research contributions and those of his current and former students are alone worthy of election into the CHI Academy. But James' most lasting legacy will be his outstanding ability to create communities of HCI researchers (Berkeley, Intel Research Seattle, Washington) with international prominence and lasting impact.

A link to the article is here: http://www.sigchi.org/about/awards/2011-sigchi-awards#james-landay

We won both the Multidisciplinary Privacy Award award and an honorable mention at the 2011 Computers, Privacy & Data Protection conference in Brussels, Belgium.

The CPDP multi-disciplinary award selects amongst papers published at any conference in 2010. Graduate students Alexei Czeskis, Iva Dermendjieva, and Hussein Yapit won the award for their work on balancing privacy and value tensions in mobile parenting technologies (published at SOUPS 2010 with co-authors Alan Borning, Batya Friedman, Brian Gill, and Tadayoshi Kohno). PhD Student Tamara Denning won an honorable mention for her work on analyzing human values and security for wireless implantable medical devices (published at CHI 2010 with co-authors Alan Borning, Batya Friedman, Brian Gill, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William Maisel).