MIT names 3 Dub researchers
“
Young Innovators”
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Graduate student Tapan Parikh additionally won Humanitarian of the Year for his mobile tools for developing economies.
Professor Tadayoshi
Kohno was honored for his work in cryptographic systems
security. Microsoft
Research Scientist and UW Affiliate Professor Desney Tan was
recognized for his work in brain-computer interfaces. 35
scientists and technologists across disciplines in academia and
industry received the award.
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UW LUTE presented with Diana Award for Communication Design
Congratulations to the UW Laboratory for Usability Testing and Evaluation (the LUTE lab), which was recently presented with the Diana Award. The biannual ACM SIGDOC Diana Award is for long-term contribution to the field of communication design.
UW Welcomes New HCI Faculty
 Jacob O. Wobbrock (Information
School, CSE
adjunct) focuses on making mobile devices more
accessible with new user interface
technologies. He also works on simplified gesture
recognition, improving target acquisition for
people with motor impairments, analyzing and
predicting input errors, and quantifying
situational impairments. He received a Ph.D. in Human-Computer
Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University in
2006.
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 James Fogarty
(Computer
Science) investigates
solutions to the human
obstacles surrounding
widespread adoption of
ubiquitous and intelligent
computing technologies.
He has recently tackled
such topics as unobtrusive
home activity recognition,
privacy-sensitive
location-based sensing,
models of human
interruptibility, and
optimization-based display
generation. He received
his PhD in Human
Computer Interaction from
Carnegie Mellon
University in 2006.
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