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2006

[9/20/06]

GVU Funds Seed Grants for 2006-2007

GVU Seed Grants were awarded to:

Visualized Decision Making: An Application to Shared Decision Making in Cancer Treatment (Jacko and Stasko)

Flock: Interfacing Crowds with Entertainers (Freeman, Dellaert and Balch)

Threads for Development: Computer Education Revolutions for Sub-Saharan Africa (Grinter, Best, and Guzdial)

[7/21/06 News]

GVU Participates in SIGGRAPH 2006

Members of the GVU community are participants in SIGGRAPH 2006, scheduled July 30-Aug. 3 in Boston, Massachusetts:

PAPERS:

James F. O'Brien (GVU alum), Bryan M. Klingner Bryan E. Feldman, Nuttapong Chentanez, University of California, Berkeley, "Fluid Animation With Dynamic Meshes"

Jessica K. Hodgins (former GVU faculty), Sang Il Park, Carnegie Mellon University, "Capturing and Animating Skin Deformation in Human Motion"

Jack Tumblin (GVU alum),Northwestern University; Ramesh Raskar Amit Agrawal, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), "Coded Exposure Photography: Motion Deblurring using Fluttered Shutter"

SKETCHES:

"Constructive Solid Trimming," John Hable, Georgia Institute of Technology and Electronic Arts, Inc; Jarek Rossignac, Georgia Institute of Technology

"Automatic Splicing for Hand and Body Animations," Victor Zordan (GVU alum), University of California, Riverside; Anna Majkowska, Petros Faloutsos, University of California, Los Angeles

"Anticipating Impacts," Ronald Metoyer (GVU alum), Benjamin Hermens, Oregon State University; Victor Zordan (GVU alum), Chun-Chih Wu, Marc Soriano, University of California, Riverside

"Texturing Fluids," Vivek Kwatra (GVU alum), David Adalsteinsson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Nipun Kwatra, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mark Carlson (GVU alum), DNA Productions

"A Texture Synthesis Method for Liquid Animations," James F. O'Brien (GVU alum), Adam W. Bargteil, Funshing Sin, Jonathan Michaels, Tolga G. Goktekin, University of California, Berkeley

"Simultaneous Coupling of Fluids and Deformable Bodies," James F. O'Brien (GVU alum), Nuttapong Chentanez, Tolga G. Goktekin, Bryan E. Feldman, University of California, Berkeley

"Hierarchical Simplification of City Models to Maintain Urban Legibility," William Ribarsky (former GVU faculty), Remco Chang, Thomas Butkiewicz, Caroline Ziemkiewicz, Zachary Wartell (GVU alum), University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Nancy Pollard (GVU alum), Carnegie Mellon University

"traces::," Kevin Quennesson, Ali Mazalek, Georgia Institute of Technology, GVU Center

"GPU-Accelerated Transparent Point-Based Rendering," Yanci Zhang, Renato Pajarola (former GVU post-doc), Universität Zürich

ART GALLERY - Electronically Mediated Performances:

Jam'aa for Haile, Gil Weinberg, collaborators: Scott Driscoll, Travis Thatcher, Georgia Institute of Technology

COURSES:

Procedural Modeling of Urban Environments, co-organizers: Jack Tumbin (GVU alum), Northwestern University; Peter Wonka, Arizona State University (former GVU post-doc)

Computational Photography, co-organizers: Ramesh Raskar, MERL; Jack Tumbin (GVU alum), Northwestern University

[4/05/06 News]

GVU Community Participates in CHI 2006

Several members of the GVU community are participants in CHI 2006. Scheduled April 22-27 in Montréal, Québec, Canada, CHI is the premier conference on human factors in computing systems.

CoC Associate Professor Rebecca Grinter, serves as a papers co-chair and CoC Professor Jim Foley serves as an education co-chair.

Best of CHI Awards
CHI 2006 Award Nominees awarded by SIGCHI:

Giovanni Iachello, Khai Truong, Gregory Abowd, Gillian Hayes, Georgia Institute of Technology ; Molly Stevens, Logical Design Solutions; "Prototyping and Sampling Experience to Evaluate Ubiquitous Computing Privacy in the Real World"

Lena Mamykina, Siemens; Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Georgia Institute of Technology; David R. Kaufman, Columbia University; "Investigating Health Management Practices of Individuals with Diabetes"

PAPERS:

Stephen Voida, W. Keith Edwards, Rebecca E. Grinter, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mark W. Newman, Nicolas Ducheneaut, PARC; "Share and Share Alike: Exploring the User Interface Affordances of File Sharing"

Lena Mamykina, Siemens; Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Georgia Institute of Technology; David R. Kaufman, Columbia University; "Investigating Health Management Practices of Individuals with Diabetes"

Gillian Hayes, Gregory Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology; "Tensions in Designing Capture Technologies for an Evidence-Based Care Community"

Yelena Nakhimovsky, Google & Georgia Institute of Technology; Rudy Schusteritsch, Kerry Rodden, Google; "AdWords Help Center"

Jason A. Day, James D. Foley, Georgia Institute of Technology; "Evaluating Web Lectures as an Alternative Approach to Education: A Case Study from HCI"

Jennifer Mankoff (GVU alumna), Carnegie Mellon University; "Practical Service Learning Issues in HCI"

Catherine Zanbaka (GVU alumna), Paula Goolkasian, Larry Hodges (former GVU faculty), University of North Carolina, Charlotte; "Can a Virtual Cat Persuade You? The Role of Gender and Realism in Speaker Persuasiveness"

Saurabh Bhatia, Scott McCrickard (GVU alumnus), Virginia Tech; "Listening to Your Inner Voices: Investigating Means for Voice Notifications"

Anind K. Dey (GVU alumnus), Carnegie Mellon University; Ed de Guzman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; "From Awareness to Connectedness: The Design and Deployment of Presence Displays"

POSTERS:

Gillian R. Hayes, Georgia Institute of Technology; "Documenting and Understanding Everyday Activities through the Selective Archiving of Live Experiences"

Brandon Brown, Marshini Chetty, Andrea Grimes, Ellie Harmon, Georgia Institute of Technology; "Reflecting on Health: A System For Students to Monitor Diet and Exercise"

Gisele Bennett, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kay H. Connelly, Katie A. Siek Indiana University; Gitte Lindgaard, Bruce Tsuji, Carleton University; "Reality Testing: HCI Challenges in Non-Traditional Environments"

Johanna Brewer, Amanda Williams, University of California, Irvine; Joseph Kaye, Cornell University; Susan Wyche, Georgia Institute of Technology; "Sexual Interactions: Why We Should Talk About Sex in HCI"

Scott Counts, Microsoft; Henri ter Hofte, Telematica Instituut, Netherlands; Ian Smith (GVU alumnus), Intel; "Mobile Social Software: Realizing Potential, Managing Risks"

Amy S. Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology; "A New Perspective on Community and its Implications for Computer-Mediated Communication Systems"

Aditya Chand, Anind Dey (GVU alumnus), Carnegie Mellon University; "Jadoo: A Paper User Interface for Users Unfamiliar With Computers"

Edward C. Clarkson, Jason A. Day, James D. Foley, Georgia Institute of Technology; "An Educational Digital Library for Human-Centered Computing"

Myungcheol Doo, Kent Lyons, Thad Starner, Georgia Institute of Technology; "The Korean Twiddler: One-Handed Chording Text Entry for Korean Mobile Phones"

Mario Romero, Zachary Pousman, Michael Mateas, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Tableau Machine: An Alien Presence in the Home"

Jennifer Wiley, Ja-young Sung, Gregory Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology, "The Message Center: Enhancing Elder Communication"

SESSION CHAIRS:

Thad Starner, Georgia Institute of Technology, for papers session "Mobile Surfing and Effects of Wearables"

Elaine Huang, Georgia Institute of Technology, for interactivity session "Meet the Artists: Music, Dance, and Painting"

Gregory Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology, for experience reports "User-Centered Design for Learning and Education"

PANELISTS:

Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology, for "Managing Deviant Behavior in Online Communities"

JUDGES:

Rebecca Grinter, Georgia Institute of Technology, for the student design competition

2005

[7/25/05 News]

GVU Among Top Contributors to SIGGRAPH 2005

Several members of the GVU community are participants in SIGGRAPH 2005, scheduled July 31-Aug. 4 in Los Angeles, California.

The Papers program, in particular, is the premier forum for presenting the finest research in computer graphics and interactive techniques, according to a June 2005 SIGGRAPH press release. The GVU Center and Georgia Tech are among the leading contributors to this year's Papers program.

PAPERS:

Vivek Kwatra, Irfan Essa, Aaron Bobick and Nipun Kwatra, "Texture Optimization for Example-based Synthesis." To appear in ACM Transactions on Graphics, SIGGRAPH 2005.

Liu Ren, Alexei Efros, Jessica K. Hodgins (former GVU faculty), Carnegie Mellon University; Alton Patrick, Jim Rehg, Georgia Institute of Technology, "A Data Driven Approach to Quantifying Natural Human Motion"

Huamin Wang, Peter J. Mucha, Greg Turk, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Water Drops on Surfaces"

John Hable, Jarek Rossignac, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Blister: GPU-Based Rendering of Boolean Combinations of Free-Form Triangulated Shapes"

Kevin Quennesson, "conscious=camera," as part of SIGGRAPH's "Emerging Technologies" section. Special thanks to LCC Associate Professor Diane Gromala, CoC Assistant Professor Frank Dellaert and CoC Associate Professor Irfan Essa.
Links:

Sung-Eui Yoon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Peter Lindstrom (GVU alum), Valerio Pascucci Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Cache-Oblivious Mess Layouts"

Bryan E. Feldman, James F. O'Brien (GVU alum), Bruan M. Klinger, University of California, Berkeley, "Animating Gases With Hybrid Meshes"

Okan Arikan, David Foryth, James F. O'Brien (GVU alum), University of California, Berkeley, "Fast and Detailed Approximate Glorbal Illumination by Irradiance Decomposition"

Amy A. Gooch, Sven C. Olsen, Jack Tumblin (GVU Alum), Bruce Gooch (Northwestern University), "Color2Gray: Salience-Preserving Color Removal"

REPRISE OF UIST AND 13D PAPERS:

Blair MacIntyre, Maribeth Gandy, Steven Dow, Jay David Bolter, Georgia Institute of Technology, "DART: A Toolkit for Rapid Design Exploration of Augmented Reality Experiences"

SKETCHES:

"Interactive Design and Visualization of Tensor Fields on Surfaces," Eugene Zhane (GVU alum), Oregon Sate University; James Hays (GVU alum), Carnegie Mellon University; Greg Turk, Georgia Institute of Technology

"Digital Paper Cutting," Yanxi Liu, James Hayes (GVU alum), Carnegie Mellon University; Ying-qing Xu, Harry Shum, Microsoft Research Asia

"A Semi-Langrangian Contouring Method for Fluid Simulation," Adam W. Bargteil, Tolga G. Goktekin, James F. O'Brien (GVU alum), John A. Strain, University of California, Berkeley

"Streaming Compression of Triangle Meshes," Martin Isenburg, Jack Snoeyink, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Peter Lindstrom (GVU alum), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

"Light Waving: Estimating Light Positions From Photographs Alone," Holger Winnemoeller, Ankit Mohan, Jack Tumblin (GVU alum), Bruce Gooch, Northwestern University

"Tabletop Computed Lighting for Practical Digital Photography," Ankit Mohan, Jack Tumblin (GVU alum); Bobby Bodenheimer (former GVU post-doc) Vanderbilt University; Reynold Bailey, Cindy Grimm, Washington University in St. Louis/font>

POSTERS:

"Operation Rhinoctopus: A Real-Time Interactive Video Manipulation Device," Paige Taylor, Diane Gromala, Kevin Stamper, Allison Sall, Georgia Institute of Technology

"A Sketch Interface to Support Storyboarding of Augmented Reality Experiences," Peter Presti, Maribeth Gandy, Blair MacIntyre, Steven Dow, Georgia Institute of Technology

COURSES:

Computational Photography, co-organizers: Ramesk Raskar, MERL; Jack Tumbin, Northwestern University (GVU alum)

Modern Techniques for Implicit Modeling, co-organizers: James F. O'Brien (GVU alum), University of California, Berkeley; Terry S. Yoo, National Library of Medicine, NIH

SPECIAL SESSIONS:

"Extreme Fashion: Designers, Artists, and Technologists Present A Glimpse Into the Place Where High Fashion Collides With High Technology." Moderator: Margaret Orth, International Fashinon Machines. Panelists: Elise Co mintymonkey; Katherine Moriwaki, Trinity College Dublin; Thad E. Starner, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jenny Tillotson, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design

BIRDS OF A FEATHER:
Blair MacIntyre and his team (Georgia Institute of Technology) have scheduled a Birds of a Feather gathering for the user community of DART.

Title: DART: The Designer's Augmented Reality Toolkit
Time: 10 am - 12 noon, Thurs., Aug. 4
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 505

PAPERS ADVISORY BOARD:
Jarek Rossignac, Greg Turk, Irfan Essa, Georgia Institute of Technology; Nancy Pollard (GVU alum), Carnegie Mellon University

[5/23/05 News]

> GVU HOSTS ROBOCUP 2005 U.S OPEN
GVU, the College of Computing and Georgia Tech successfully hosted RoboCup U.S. Open 2005 held on campus May 7-10. The robotic competition attracted several schools, colleges, universities and spectators from the nation and around the world to compete in several leagues. The Marietta Daily Journal ran the article, "Robot dog soccer a popular game," about one of the competitions in its May 10, 2005 edition and Reuters ran a television story on the event, focusing on the robotic dog soccer competition (four-legged league) on May 13, 2005.

Thanks go to Kuka Robotics, who served as the sponsor of the event. Winner results follow:

Four-legged League:

First place - CMDash '05, Carnegie Mellon University
Second place - UPennalizers, University of Pennsylvania
Third place - UT Austin Villa, University of Texas at Austin

Small-size League:

First place - Wingers, University of Buffalo
Second place - RoboCats, Ohio University
Third place - Robocup Laval, Laval University, Canada

3D Simulation League:

First place - UTUtd, University of Tehran, Iran
Second place - Caspian, Iran University of Science and Technology
Third place - MRL, Qazvin Islamic Azad University Mechatronics Research Laboratory

2D Simulation League:

First place - Robosina, Bu-Ali-Sina University
Second place - Apollo, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Third place - SEU_T, Southeast University, China

Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) League:

First place - Red Knight RoboRescue Squad, Benilde-St. Margarets School, Minnesota
Second place - NIIT-Blue, Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan
Third place - RAPTOR, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh

OTHER AWARDS

U.S./German Championship:

First place - Microsoft Hellhounds, Dortmund University, Germany

Urban Search and Rescue League:

"Best in Class" Mobility - Raptor, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh
"Best in Class" Autonomy - Raptor, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh

I. Media

> REGENTS PROFESSOR RON ARKIN (COC)
He is featured on the cover of Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine, Spring 2005 issue. The feature story, "Robots & Ethics," quoted him extensively on the state of robotic research today and what is ahead on the horizon. Arkin is director of the Mobile Robot Lab. The article also mentions CoC Assistant Professor Charles Isbell. The same story contains a sidebar on CoC Assistant Professor Tucker Balch and his team's research on the behavior of bees to ultimately inspire the design of robots and computers.

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR REBECCA GRINTER (CoC)
Her group's study on sharing digital music in the workplace, which was presented in a paper at CHI 2005, continues to garner press. NewScientist.com posted the article, "Digital music-sharing stirs social tensions," which also mentions CoC graduate student Amy Voida, on May 16, 2005.

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BLAIR MACINTYRE (COC)
He was interviewed for "Smart City," a National Public Radio show that aired on April 16, 2005. The 10-minute segment discussed his and his team's augmented reality research, including the Voices of Oakland project in Oakland Cemetery with LCC Professor Jay Bolter, grad students Jaemin Lee and Steven Dow; the DART project with Jay, Steven and Maribeth Gandy, research scientist; and the Augmented Office project with Elizabeth Mynatt, CoC associate professor. Click here to listen to the broadcast.

II. Conferences

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AMY BRUCKMAN (CoC)
She and CoC graduate student James Hudson are co-authors of a paper accepted at ECSCW'05 (9th European Conference of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, to be held Sept. 18-22 in Paris, France. The paper title is "Empirical Approaches to Internet Research Ethics." CoC Associate Professors Rebecca Grinter and Keith Edwards, as well as GVU alumnus Anind Dey, serve on the program committee.

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR RICHARD CATRAMBONE (Psych)
He will give a tutorial at the INTERACT '05 conference in Rome, Sept. 12-16. The tutorial title is "Improving Interfaces, Instructions, and Training Materials Through Task Analysis."

> STEPHEN VOIDA (CoC Ph.D. Student)
He presented a workshop position paper entitled, "Context Histories, Activities, and Abstractions: Ubiquitous Computing Support for Individual and Collaborative Work," co-authored with CoC Associate Professor Elizabeth Mynatt at the 1st International Workshop on Exploiting Context Histories in Smart Environments. The workshop was held in connection with the Pervasive 2005 Conference in Munich, Germany, May 8-13, 2005. Lonnie Harvel, an affiliated member of GVU and ECE senior research scientist, was also one of the workshop organizers.

III. Honors/Awards/Grants

> GVU MEMBERS RECEIVE COC AWARDS
Several members of the GVU community were honored at the College of Computing's 14th Annual Awards Celebration held Tues., April 26, 2005:

Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant - Mary Ellen (Ellie) Harmon

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant - Jason Elliott

Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant - Vivek Kwatra

Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation - Gabriel Brostow

Outstanding Senior Faculty Research - Irfan Essa

The Raytheon Faculty Fellowship - Jim Rehg (GVU) and Wenke Lee (CoC)

William A. "Gus" Baird Faculty Teaching Award - John Stasko

Boeing Scholarship - Mark DeJesus

IBM Eclipse Award - Mary Jean Harrold

NSF Career Awards - Tucker Balch, Blair MacIntyre, Frank Dellaert

NSF Graduate Research Fellowships - Shwetak Patel, Chris Wojtan

Georgia Tech Service Recognition Awards - Janet Kolodner (25 years of service)

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JOHN STASKO (CoC)
He is the recipient of a new NSF grant from the HCI program titled, "Expanding the Desktop: Transforming Personal Computing through Large Pixel-Space Displays." The grant amount total is $483,687 for three years.

[4/22/05 News]

I. Media

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GREGORY ABOWD (CoC)
He is the guest editor of an upcoming special issue of IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine on the topic of smart phones. In that same issue, CoC Ph.D. students Gillian R. Hayes and Khai N. Truong have an article on experience buffers and technology support for autism titled, "Autism, Environmental Buffers, and Wearable Servers."

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR REBECCA GRINTER (CoC)
Her group's study on sharing digital music in the workplace, which was presented in a paper at CHI 2005, ran in news spots across the U.S. beginning with the April 1, 2005 Georgia Tech Research News release, "You Are What You Listen to: Users of Digital Music Sharing System Judge Others by their Playlists" Several similar stories followed. Here is just a sampling: Atlanta Journal/Constitution, April 5, 2005 article, "Co-workers find clues to you in your iTunes," (Living section, p. E2) which also mentioned CoC Associate Professor Keith Edwards and CoC graduate student Amy Voida; online in the technology section on nbc4.com on April 5, 2005; San Francisco Chronicle online article on April 18, 2005; Washington Post online article also on April 18; and in the April 18, 2005 edition of Georgia Tech's The Whistle.

In addition, Amy Voida gave a live television interview on CNN International on Thurs., April 21, 2005, about the iTunes research that she conducted while interning with Grinter at the Palo Alto Research Center. The interview aired during the Tech Watch segment of "CNN Today" which is broadcast on CNN International.

> ZIA KAHN (CoC Ph.D. STUDENT)
His article, "MCMC-Based Particle Filtering for Tracking a Variable Number of Interacting Targets," co-authored with CoC Assistant Professors Tucker Balch, and Frank Dellaert, was accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2005.

II. Conference/Papers

> SIGGRAPH 2005
Several members of the GVU community are participants in SIGGRAPH 2005, scheduled July 31-Aug. 4 in Los Angeles, California. A more comprehensive list of GVU participants in SIGGRAPH will be forthcoming in a future special edition of "Eye." Here is a sampling:

PAPERS:

Vivek Kwatra, Irfan Essa, Aaron Bobick and Nipun Kwatra, "Texture Optimization for Example-based Synthesis." To appear in ACM Transactions on Graphics, SIGGRAPH 2005.

Liu Ren, Alton Patrick, Alexei Efros, Jessica Hodgins, Jim Rehg, "Quantifying Natural Human Motion" (title subject to change)

----OTHER CONFERENCE NEWS----

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR RICHARD CATRAMBONE (PSYCH)
He has been selected to present a tutorial at the INTERACT 2005 (International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction), to be held Sept. 12-16 in Rome, Italy. The title of the tutorial is "Improving Interfaces, Instructions, and Training Materials Through Task Analysis."

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TUCKER BALCH (CoC)
He has been invited to give a plenary talk at AAAI 2005 (National Conference on Artificial Intelligence) to be held July 9-13 in Pittsburgh, PA. He will discuss ongoing research in the BORG Lab to model the behavior of multi-agent systems. Balch is also an invited speaker at Oxford University as part of the Gordon Research Conference on Neuroethology in August.

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FRANK DELLAERT (CoC)
He and his research team have had several papers accepted recently at conferences. Two papers were accepted at the new "Robotics, Science and Systems" conference, scheduled June 8-11, 2005, at MIT: "Data driven MCMC for Appearance-based Topological Mapping," authors: Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert and "Square Root SAM," author: Frank Dellaert. Two were accepted at the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2005,) to be held June 20-25 in San Diego: "Mixture Trees for Modeling and Fast Conditional Sampling with Applications in Vision and Graphics," authors: Frank Dellaert, Vivek Kwatra, and Sang Min Oh and "Multi-target Tracking with Split and Merged Measurements," authors: Zia Khan, Tucker Balch and Frank Dellaert. Three were accepted at ICRA 2005 (International Conference on Robotics and Automation), held April 18-22 in Barcelona, Spain: "A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach to Closing the Loop in SLAM," authors: Michael Kaess and Frank Dellaert; "Using Hierarchical EM to Extract Planes from 3D Range Scans," authors: Rudolph Triebel, Wolfram Burgard and Frank Dellaert; and "What Are the Ants Doing?," authors: M. Egerstedt, T. Balch, F. Dellaert, F. Delmotte, and Z. Khan

> JILL COFFIN (DIGITAL MEDIA Ph.D. STUDENT)
Her paper, "Transfer of Open Source Culture to Diverse Collaborative Communities," has been accepted to DIAC (Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing) 2005, held May 20-22 at Stanford University.

> MARCELA MUSGROVE (HCI MASTER'S DEGREE STUDENT)
She presented a paper at the "Seeing, Understanding, Learning in the Mobile Age" conference in Budapest, Hungary, on April 28, 2005.

> KEITH O'HARA (CoC Ph.D. STUDENT)
He presented the paper, "Physical Path Planning Using the GNATs," co-authored with Victor L. Bigio, Eric R. Dodson, Arya J. Irani, Daniel B. Walker and Tucker R. Balch, at ICRA 2005 (International Conference on Robotics and Automation). The conference was held April 18-22 in Barcelona, Spain.

III. Honors/Awards/Grants

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FRANK DELLAERT (CoC)
He is a recipient of a $90K NSF CAREER award for "Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for Large Scale Correspondence Problems in Computer Vision and Robotics." The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of integrated contributions to research and education.

> GVU STUDENTS WIN UROC SYMPOSIUM 2005
Andrew Guillory, CoC undergraduate student, won the Judges' Award for first place in the annual 2005 Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing (UROC) Symposium for "Learning Behavior Models from Observations and Low Level Knowledge." He also won the People's Choice First Place Award for the same research project. His prizes included $500, an Intel laptop and an Intel Axim Palmtop. His advisor is CoC Assistant Professor Tucker Balch. Undergrads Jeffrey Crenshaw & Jeremy Townsend won the People's Choice Second Place Award and an Intel Axim Palmtop for "ABL/UT Infrastructure." Their advisor is LCC Assistant Professor Michael Mateas. The symposium was held Wed., April 13, 2005 and is supported by a generous gift from Intel. The UROC Program was founded in 1998 to encourage College of Computing undergraduates to become involved in research.

> JILL COFFIN (DIGITAL MEDIA Ph.D. STUDENT)
She has been awarded a funded year of study at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. She has been accepted into the Wearable Computing Lab at ETH to conduct research for the year.

> PAM HASSEBROEK (PUBLIC POLICY, Ph.D. Student)
Georgia Tech's School of Public Policy honored her as its Doctoral Student of the Year. Her research applies organization theory to information security to better understand how social factors influence security. Her work holds promise for illuminating the role of non-technical factors in this important policy area.

> JUSTIN JANG (CoC Ph.D. STUDENT)
He has been accepted to the 2005 NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) program for U.S. graduate students in science and engineering. He will spend the summer at National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan, June 26 - August 20, 2005, where he will receive an NSF stipend of $3000, along with travel to Taiwan, plus funds for living expenses. The primary goals of EAPSI are to introduce students to East Asia and Pacific science and engineering in the context of a research laboratory, and to initiate personal relationships that will better enable them to collaborate with foreign counterparts in the future.

> KRIS NAGEL (CoC Ph.D. STUDENT)
She has been selected as a winner of the Google 2005 Anita Borg Scholarship. The scholarship promotes Dr. Anita Borg's (1949-2003) vision of inspiring and motivating women to embrace the technological revolution as active participants and leaders. The award is part of Google's commitment to further Dr. Borg's vision by encouraging women to pursue careers in computing and technology. A total of four scholarships ($10,000 each) were awarded based on the strength of candidates' academic background, their responses to short essay questions and letters of recommendation.

> GVU STUDENTS RECEIVE 2005 NSF GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
Shwetal Patel, Erika Sheehan, Chris Wojtan and James Hayes (a GVU Alumnus, BS '03) are recipients of 2005 Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Ph.D. student Nick Diakopoulus received an honorable mention. The purpose of the fellowship program is to ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science, technology, engineering and mathematics in the United States and to reinforce its diversity by offering 1,000 graduate fellowships in this competition. The prestigious fellowship provides three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based master's or doctoral degrees. Awards are given based on the students intellectual merit and the impact of their research.

[3/18/05 News]

I. Media

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TUCKER BALCH (CoC)
He was quoted in the Discovery Channel online news brief, "Robots Reveal Rat Behavior," on Feb. 24, 2005. He comments on how he and his team are using robots to study insect behavior.

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BRUCE WALKER (CoC AND PSYCH)
He was interviewed for an Atlanta Business Chronicle article, "Work, interrupted," on the growing addiction of being connected. Professor Walker discussed the need to unplug and unwind, despite the pulls to remain reachable at all times.

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GIL WEINBERG (MUSIC)
His paper, "Interconnected Musical Networks - Towards a Theoretical Framework," was accepted for publication in the Computer Music Journal and his paper, "Voice Networks - Exploring the Human Voice as a Creative Medium for Music Collaboration," was accepted for publication in Leonardo Music Journal.

II. Conferences
MARK GUZDIAL (CoC ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR)
He was very busy at ACM SIGCSE, the technical symposium of computer science education, held Feb. 23-27, 2005, in St. Louis, MO:

He presented a paper, "Design Process for a a Non-Majors Computing Course," co-authored with Andrea Forte on how they designed the course, "Introduction to Media Computation" (CS1315)
Allison Tew presented a paper along with Charles Fowler and Guzdial on how the results of CS1315 transferred to Gainesville College when they adopted the course. Paper title: "Tracking an Innovation in Introductory CS Education from a Research University to a Two-Year College."
Barbara Ericson presented a paper with Maureen Biggers and Guzdial on the high school teachers workshops CoC has offered. Paper title: "A Model for Improving Secondary CS Education."

See http://home.cc.gatech.edu/guzdial/39 for more paper information and links.

Also for the symposium, he was on a panel on CS Education Research challenges; a panel on comparing the experiences of women in CS at various institutions; co-chair of the Doctoral Consortium; and invited to present in an NSF Showcase of highlighted CS education projects.

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GIL WEINBERG (MUSIC)
He was asked to serve on the paper review panel for the International Computer Music Conference to be held in Barcelona, Sept. 5-9, 2005, and serve on the paper review panel for the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression to be held in Vancouver, May 26-28, 2005.

> RAFFAY HAMID (CoC Ph.D. STUDENT)
He, along with a few authors including Aaron Bobick and Charles Isbell, recently had a paper accepted in CVPR 2005, the International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, scheduled June 20-26 in San Diego, CA. The citation follows:

Raffay Hamid, Amos Johnson, Samir Batta, Aaron Bobick, Charles Isbell, and Graham Coleman. Detection and Explanation of Anomalous Activities: Representing Activities as Bags of Event n-Grams. To appear in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2005.

III. Honors/Awards/Grants

> GILLIAN HAYES (CoC Ph.D. STUDENT)
She is the recipient of the Don Bratcher Human Relations Award which she will accept at the Student Honors Luncheon on Thurs., April 21, 2005. The award honors members of the Georgia Tech campus community who are engaging in exemplary human relations work. The award grants one faculty/staff member $3,000 and one undergraduate/graduate student $1,500.

> KRIS NAGEL (CoC Ph.D. STUDENT)
She has been selected as a finalist for the Google 2005 Anita Borg Scholarship. The scholarship promotes Dr. Anita Borg's (1949-2003) vision of inspiring and motivating women to embrace the technological revolution as active participants and leaders. The award is part of Google's commitment to further Dr. Borg's vision by encouraging women to pursue careers in computing and technology. A total of four scholarships ($10,000 each) will be awarded based on the strength of candidates' academic background, their responses to short essay questions and letters of recommendation.

IV. Visits

> PROFESSOR JAREK ROSSIGNAC (CoC)
On Mon., Feb. 28, 2005, he hosted a visit for Dr. Kirk Kanter, Professor of Surgery and Chair in Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, at Emory University's School of Medicine. Kanter is interested in the Twister shape manipulation technique that Rossignac developed in collaboration with CoC Research Scientist Chris Shaw and Ph.D. student Ignacio Llamas. Ignacio also demonstrated Twister to middle school students during their visit to the BORG Lab on Thurs, Feb. 17, 2005 and subsequently to high school students during the Cool Computing@GT event on Fri., Feb. 25, 2005.

[3/11/05 News - CHI 2005 Special Edition]

Several members of the GVU community are participants in CHI 2005, scheduled April 2-7 in Portland, Oregon:

CoC Associate Professor Rebecca Grinter will be the CHI 2006 Papers Co-Chair along with Professor Tom Rodden from the University of Nottingham, UK.

FULL PAPERS:

"Is Your Web Page Accessible? A Comparative Study of Methods for Assessing Web Page Accessibility for the Blind," Jennifer Mankoff (GVU alum), Carnegie Mellon University (USA); Holly Fait, Exploratoreum (USA); Tu Tran, University of California, Berkeley (USA)

"Location Disclosure to Social Relations: Why, When, & What People Want to Share," Sunny Consolvo, Ian E. Smith (GVU alum), Tara Matthews, Anthony LaMarca, Jason Tabert, Pauline Powledge, Intel Research Seattle (USA)

"Privacy and Proportionality: Adapting Legal Evaluation Techniques to Inform Design in Ubiquitous Computing," Giovanni Iachello, Gregory D. Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)

"Six Themes of the Communicative Appropriation of Photographic Images," Amy Voida, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)

"Listening In: Practices Surrounding iTunes Music Sharing," Amy Voida, Rebecca E. Grinter, W. Keith Edwards, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA); Nicolas Ducheneaut, Mark W. Newman, Palo Alto Research Center (USA)

"Examining Task Engagement in Sensor-Based Statistical Models of Human Interruptibility," James Fogarty, Andrew J. Ko, Htet Htet Aung, Elspeth Golden, Karen P. Tang, Scott E. Hudson (GVU alum), Carnegie Mellon University (USA)

"Extensible Input Handling in the subArctic Toolkit," Scott Hudson (GVU alum), Jennifer Mankoff (GVU alum), Carnegie Mellon University (USA); Ian Smith (GVU alum), Intel Research (USA)

"Digital Family Portrait Field Trial: Support for Aging in Place," Jim Rowan, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)

"A Study on the Manipulation of 2D Objects in a Projector/Camera-Based Augmented Reality Environment," Stephen Voida, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA); Mark Podlaseck, Rick Kjeldsen, Claudio Pinhanez, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (USA)

"When Participants Do the Capturing: The Role of Media in Diary Studies," Scott Carter, University of California, Berkeley (USA); Jennifer Mankoff (GVU alum), Carnegie Mellon University (USA)

"Camera Talk: Making the Camera a Partial Participant," K.K. Lamberty, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA), Janet L. Kolodner, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)

SHORT PAPERS:

"An Empirical Study of Typing Rates on mini-QWERTY Keyboards," Edward Clarkson, James Clawson, Kent Lyons, Thad Starner, Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing and GVU Center (USA)

"Wizard of Oz Interfaces For Mixed Reality Applications," Steven Dow, Jaemin Lee, Christopher Oezbek, Blair MacIntyre, Jay Bolter, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)

"Experience Buffers: A Socially Appropriate, Selective Archiving Tool for Evidence-Based Care," Gillian Hayes, Khai Truong, Gregory Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA); Trevor Pering, Intel Research, USA

"mudibo: Multiple Dialog Boxes for Multiple Monitors," Dugald Hutchings, John Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)

"Preliminary Evaluation of the Interactive Drama Facade," Rachel Knickmeyer, Michael Mateas, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)

"Indexing Unstructured Activities with Peripheral Cues," Heather Richter, Andrew Skaggs, Gregory Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)

"Virtual Rear Projection: Do Shadows Matter?," Jay Summet, Gregory D. Abowd, Gregory M. Corso, James M. Rehg, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)

"Flipper: a New Method of Digital Document Navigation," Liyang Sun, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA); François Guimbretière, University of Maryland, College Park (USA)

"Conveying Values Between Families and Designers," Amy Voida, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)

"Indexing Unstructured Activities with Peripheral Cues," Heather Richter, Andrew Skaggs, Gregory D. Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)

DOCTORIAL CONSORTIUM:

"Design and Analysis of Groupware for Large Displays," Elaine Huang, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)

PANELS:

"The Book as User Interface: Lowering the Entry Cost to Email for Elders"
Scott Davidoff, Carson Bloomberg, Ian Li, Jennifer Mankoff (GVU alum), Susan Fussell, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)

"A Gesture-Based American Sign Language Game for Deaf Children"
Valerie Henderson, Seungyon Lee, Helene Brashear, Thad Starner, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA); Harley Hamilton, Atlanta Area School for the Deaf (USA)

"StoryGrid: A Tangible Interface for Student Expression"
Tom Moher, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA); Ben Watson (GVU alum), Northwestern University (USA); Janet Kim, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA); Claudia Hindo, Louis Gomez, Northwestern University (USA); Stephen Fransen, Roberto Clemente High School (USA); Tim McEneany, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA)

WORKSHOPS:

"Distributed Display Environments"
Organizers: Dugald Ralph Hutchings, John Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA); Mary Czerwinski, Microsoft Research (USA).
Accepted workshop papers:
- "Creating a Broad, Interdisciplinary HCI Experience: A View of the HCI Certificate Program at Virginia Tech," D. Scott McCrickard (GVU alum), C. M. Chewar, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
"Graduate Education in Human-Computer Interaction"
Organizers: Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Université Paris-Sud (France); James Foley, Georgia Tech University (USA); Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft Research (USA); James Hollan, University of California San Diego (USA); Scott Hudson (GVU alum), Carnegie Mellon University (USA); Judy Olson, University of Michigan (USA); Bill Verplank, Stanford University (USA)
"Tool Support for Divisible Interfaces"
Jeffrey S. Pierce, Heather E. Mahaney, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
Accepted paper for the CHI 2005 Workshop, "The Future of User Interface Tools"
"Tools for Designing Computational Spaces"
Steven Dow, Maribeth Gandy, Blair MacIntyre, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
Accepted paper for the CHI 2005 Workshop, "The Future of User Interface Tools"
"End-User Programming: Empowering Individuals to Take Control of their Environments"
Anind K. Dey (GVU alum), Carnegie Mellon University
Accepted paper for the CHI 2005 Workshop, "The Future of User Interface Tools"
"Leveraging 1,000 and 10,000-Fold Increases: Considering the Implications of Moores law on Future UI Tools Research"
Scott E. Hudson (GVU alum), Carnegie Mellon University
Accepted paper for the CHI 2005 Workshop, "The Future of User Interface Tools"
"Designing for Place in Urban Cemeteries"
Steven Dow, Susan Wyche, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
Accepted paper for the CHI 2005 Workshop, "Engaging the City: Public Interfaces as Civic Intermediary"

REVIEWERS:

Doctoral Consortium: Anind Dey (GVU alum), Carnegie Mellon University (USA)

Interactivity: Quan Tran, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)

Papers: Gregory Abowd, Amy Bruckman, Mark Guzdial, Elizabeth Mynatt, Jeffrey Pierce, John Stasko, Elaine Huang, Carlos Jensen, James Rowan, Michael Terry, Quan Tran, Joe Tullio, Amy Voida, Stephen Voida, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA); Doug Bowman (GVU alum), Virginia Tech (USA); Anind Dey (GVU alum), Carnegie Mellon University (USA); Lena Mamykina (GVU alum), Siemens Corporate Research (USA); Jennifer Mankoff (GVU alum), Carnegie Mellon University (USA); Scott McCrickard (GVU alum), Virginia Tech (USA); David Nyugen (GVU alum), Nokia Research Center (USA); Ian Smith (GVU alum), Intel Research Seattle (USA); Benjamin Watson (GVU alum), Northwestern University (USA)

[2/28/05 News]

I. Media

> THE AWARE HOME
The Washington Post, Jan. 30, 2005 edition, printed a story on the Aware Home, "Surf City, Here She Comes," quoting CoC Associate Professor Elizabeth Mynatt. The piece is about older adults and their attitudes and use of technology with regards to aging.

> REGENTS PROFESSOR RON ARKIN (CoC)
He was the guest speaker at Yale University on Feb. 2, 2005 as part of a Technology and Ethics Working Research Group Workshop.> He spoke on "Bombs, Bonding, and Bondage: Issues in Human-Robot Interaction."

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BLAIR MACINTYRE (CoC)
His Augmented Environments Lab was highlighted in the Technology Review.com article, "Augmented Reality: Another (Virtual) Brick in the Wall" on Feb. 15, 2005. The story mentions the research projects "Voice of Oakland" and DART. The article was picked up by the ACM TechNews in its "Top Stories for Wed., Feb. 16, 2005" edition.

> GILLIAN HAYES (CoC Ph.D. STUDENT)
She is featured and quoted in the 2004 Georgia Tech Foundation Annual Report on p. 14, under "Endowment Sponsored Programs.

II. Conferences

> CHI 2005
Several members of the GVU community are participants in CHI 2005, held April 2-7 in Portland, OR. Stay tuned for a special issue of this email, titled "Eye on GVU - CHI 2005 Edition" focused on the conference, to be released next week.

III. Honors/Awards/Grants

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GREGORY ABOWD (CoC)
He received a grant from the Cure Autism Now Foundation (CAN) and was named to their advisory board for innovative technologies for autism (CAN-ITA).

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JEFF PIERCE (CoC)
He received a $50K gift from Microsoft Research for his proposal "Expanding the Computing Curriculum Beyond the Desktop Computer," as part of the Microsoft Research University Relations Tablet PC and Computing Curriculum Request for Proposals 2005.

> PROFESSOR JAREK ROSSIGNAC (CoC)
He was invited to give a lecture as part of Texas A&M University's Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series on Feb 16, 2005.

> SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST CHRIS SHAW (CoC)
Georgia Tech CoC Undergrads are selected to appear at the 2005 Independent Games Festival Student Showcase, scheduled March 9-11 in San Francisco, for their work,"Team Robot," developed by Devin Cline, Dusty Embrey, Kyle Mahan and Tommy Parry. The project, created for the Fall 2004 offering of CS4455 Video Game Design and Programming, will be awarded $500 travel allowance by IGF to help offset the costs associated with attending the festival. This is the fourth year in a row that a Georgia Tech team has been selected for the Independent Games Festival Student Showcase. Past selections are: "XenoHammer" in 2002; "Doggone Catastrophe" in 2003; "Kube Kombat" and "Growbot" in 2004. Georgia Tech is the winningest university in the annual IGF Student Showcase, with five selections in the five years that the showcase has existed.

[1/20/05 News]

I. Media

> THE AWARE HOME
The Aware Home is featured in GEMC Georgia magazine, January 2005 issue, in the story, "Aging in Place: Georgia Tech's Aware Home helps keep elderly in touch," on p. 34.

> REGENTS PROFESSOR RON ARKIN (COC)
Georgia Tech's Tech Topics magazine, Winter 2004 issue, p. 14, printed the article, "Shall We Dance?: Robots will serve, entertain," focusing on his research on human-robot interaction. Also as director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory, Arkin says interaction with robots will become more prevalent.

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR REBECCA GRINTER (CoC)
She has an article published on usability and security in the Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. The reference follows:

Dourish, P., Grinter, R. E., Delgado de la Flor, J. and M. Joseph (2004) "Security in the Wild: User Strategies for Managing Security as an Everyday, Practical Problem." Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 8(6) 391-401.

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MARK GUZDIAL (CoC)
His new book, "Introduction to Computing and Programming in Python, A Multimedia Approach," released Mon., Dec. 27, 2004, is available at Amazon.com. It is published by Prentice Hall.

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JULIE JACKO (ISyE)
She and other Georgia Tech researchers work with designing software for computer users with low vision is featured in Research Horizons, a Georgia Tech publication. The story, "One Size Doesn't Fit all: Software under development would customize graphics-based computer interaction for people with low vision," ran in the Fall 2004 issue on p. 24.

> PROFESSOR JANET MURRAY (LCC)
She was member of the jury that judged the 2004 AFI Television Programs of the Year. Unlike any other film or television award currently given, the AFI Awards selections are made through AFI's unique 13-person jury process in which scholars, artists, critics and AFI trustees discuss, debate and determine the most outstanding achievements of the year, as well as provide a detailed rationale for each selection. The awards were given Fri., Jan. 14, 2005, in Los Angeles.

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR COLIN POTTS (COC)
He is quoted in the "Quote, Unquote" section of The Whistle, Georgia Tech's faculty/staff newspaper, Dec. 13, 2004 edition. He comments on the reliability of information found on the Internet. The quote was picked up by the Associated Press: "I thought this was hilarious and filed it away in a scrapbook for my lecture next semester... I also forwarded it to several people. Unfortunately, as another colleague informed me by e-mail a few minutes later, it's a hoax."

> ED PRICE (IMTC DIRECTOR)
Georgia Tech's Research Horizons magazine ran a story on his work heading the development of an integrated, searchable online catalog of moving images. The story, "Motion Picture History: Moving images project offers access to archived video and film," was printed in the Fall 2004 issue, p. 21. The project is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR THAD STARNER (CoC)
His group's work with wearable computing appeared in a Technology Review on-line article, "Wearable Computing for the Commons," on Wed., Dec. 1, 2004.The same story was picked up by several other web sites including: ExectTech News, News Target Network and Smart Mobs. Also, Kent Lyons, one of Thad's researchers, was quoted extensively in the Technology Research News online article, "Conversations control computers," about prototype handheld computer applications that tap keywords from conversations.

> JASON BROTHERTON (GVU ALUMNUS)
He appeared in a BBC interview on RFID tags which was part of a piece on technology advances of 2004. The segment aired on the weekly show, "Go Digital with Tracey Logan," on Mon., Jan. 3, 2005. The interview is available from that site at http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/progs/05/go_digital/03jan.ram (go to 17:30 minutes into the show for Jason's interview).

> JAMES O'BRIEN (GVU ALUMNUS)
He was featured in the Time magazine article, "What Does Wind Really Look Like?" published in the Jan. 10, 2005 issue in its "Innovators" section.

II. Conferences/Papers

> PROFESSOR DIANE GROMALA (LCC)
She has or will present in several conferences::

In Beijing, China, she presented an invited paper at the 6th International Research Conference, Consciousness Reframed: Qi and Complexity, held Wed., Nov. 24, 2004. The paper, "Ecstasis: Beyond Skin but Not Out of Body," examined the ways in which new technologies can enhance sensorial awareness. She also presented "The Visceral Dimension: Physically Provocative Technologies" at Peking University, School of Software, Thurs., Nov. 25, 2004. Her exhibition: "Call" was held at the Red Gate Gallery, one of the foremost museums of contemporary art in mainland China. The Red Gate Gallery is situated within the remaining gate house in the 500-year-old Wall of Beijing.

In Atlanta, she will present a paper at the annual College Art Association's conference, scheduled Feb. 14-16, 2005. Her paper, "Re-enervating Flesh: Organic Matter and Visceral Sensations of BioTechnologies" will be in the panel, "Hybridity: Arts, Sciences, and Cultural Effects."

In Ahmedabad, India, Professor Ravi Mokashi, Professor Gromala, and her graduate students Sunil Parihar and Madhur Khandelwal co-authored papers entitled, "Design Visions: Centers of Synergetic and Dynamic Interfaces between Education Centers and Society," and "Collaborative Agents of Design: Interdisciplinary Research Design Education," which have been accepted at ICOGRADA's International Design conference DETM, to be held at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India, March 2-4, 2005.

At SIGGRAPH '05, Professor Gromala has been selected as a jury member of the Emerging Technologies venue, held July 31 - Aug. 4 in Los Angeles.

III. Honors/Awards/Grants

> PROFESSOR JAMES FOLEY (CoC)
He was elected to the board of directors of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents. The Council is an organization of presidents, presidents-elect, and recent past presidents of about 60 scientific federations and societies whose combined membership numbers more than 1.4 million scientists and science educators, according to its web site, http://www.cssp.us/. Since 1973, CSSP has served as a strong national voice in fostering wise science policy, in support of science and science education, as the premier national science leadership development center, and as a forum for open, substantive exchanges on emerging scientific issues. Council membership spans the top elected officers of the full spectrum of physical, mathematical, and life sciences, and science and mathematics education.

> PROFESSOR JAREK ROSSIGNAC (CoC)
He gave a distinguished lecture at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles, "Interactive Design and Compression of 3D Shapes and Animations," on Wed., Dec., 1, 2004. He also had a paper published in the Computer-Aided Design Journal. The reference is:

"Education-Driven Research in CAD," Jarek Rossignac. Computer-Aided Design Journal (CAD), Vol 36/14 pp 1461-1469, 2004. GVU Tech. Report GIT-GVU-03-26.

2004

[11/19/04 News]

I. Media

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR REBECCA GRINTER (CoC)
She has two articles published on the topic of usability and security. The references follow:

Balfanz D., Durfee, G., Grinter R. E. and D. K. Smetters (2004) "In Search of Usable Security - Five Lessons from the Field," IEEE Security & Privacy, Special Issue on Usable Security. September/October. 19-24.

Balfanz, D., Durfee, G., Grinter, R. E., Smetters, D. K., and P. Stewart (2004) "Network-in-a-Box: How to Set Up a Secure Wireless Network in Under a Minute" accepted to USENIX Security Symposium 2004. San Diego, California. August 9-13. 207-222.

> PROFESSOR JAREK ROSSIGNAC (CoC)
An article on the Delphi prediction for his Edgebreaker 3D compression that he co-authored with Dr. Volker Coors from Stuttgart University, appeared in The Visual Computer, Vol. 20, Numbers 8-9, November 2004 issue, pp. 507-520. The article was published online Wed., Sept. 15, 2004.

II. Conferences

> UIST
Several members of the GVU community were participants in UIST 2004, held Oct. 24-27 in Santa Fe, NM:

Papers:

"A Gesture-based Authentication Scheme for Untrusted Public Terminals." Shwetak N. Patel, Jeffrey S. Pierce, and Gregory D. Abowd.

"Augmenting Conversations using Dual-Purpose Speech." Kent Lyons, Christopher Skeels, Thad Starner, Cornelis Snoeck, Benjamin Wong and Daniel Ashbrook (Georgia Tech)

"Automatic Projector Calibration with Embedded Light Sensors." Johnny Lee (CMU), Paul Dietz (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs), Dan Maynes-Aminzade (Stanford University), Ramesh Raskar (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs), and Scott Hudson (CMU and GVU alumnus)

"DART: A Toolkit for Rapid Design Exploration of Augmented Reality Experiences." Blair MacIntyre, Maribeth Gandy, Steven Dow and Jay David Bolter (Georgia Tech)

"A Toolkit for Managing User Attention in Peripheral Displays." Tara Matthews (UC Berkeley), Anind Dey (Intel-Berkeley Research Lab, GVU alumnus), Jennifer Mankoff (GVU alumna), Scott Carter and Tye Rattenbury (UC Berkeley)

"Using Light Emitting Diode Arrays as Touch-Sensitive Input and Output Devices." Scott Hudson (CMU, GVU alumnus)

"Haptic Pen: A Tactile Feedback Stylus for Touch Screens." Johnny Lee (CMU), Paul Dietz, Darren Leigh, William Yerazunis (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs) and Scott Hudson (CMU, GVU alumnus)

Session:

Blair MacIntyre, CoC assistant professor, was chair of the session on 'Gestures"

Poster:

"The Sharing Palette: A User Interface for File and Service Sharing." Stephen Voida (Georgia Tech), W. Keith Edwards (PARC) and Mark W. Newman (PARC/UC Berkeley)

Sponsored Demonstrations:

"Fast, Detailed Inference of Diverse Daily Human Activities." Matthai Philipose, Sunny Consolvo, Tanzeem Choudhury, Kenneth Fishkin, Ian Smith (Intel Research Seattle, GVU alumnus), Dieter Fox, Henry Kautz and Donald Patterson (Univ. of Washington)
"Place Lab: Wide-scale Device Positioning Using Radio Beacons in the Wild." Anthony LaMarca, Yatin Chawathe, Ian Smith (GVU alumnus), Sunny Consolvo, Jeff Hightower, James Scott, Tim Sohn, Pauline Powledge, Anand Balachandran, Gaetano Borriello and Bill Schilit (Intel Research Seattle)

------OTHER CONFERENCE NEWS--------------

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR THAD STARNER (CoC)
He and Kent Lyons, CoC Ph.d. student, taught a tutorial ("Wearable and Mobile Human Computer Interaction") on mobile interfaces during ISWC'04 (International Symposium on Wearable Computers), held Oct. 31 - Nov. 3 in Arlington, VA. Also for the conference, Starner arranged a panel session of DARPA/ONR/NIST/NSF/NIDDR program managers on funding opportunities for wearables and Augmented Reality. He served on the ISWC program and technical committees. In addition, the following were accepted at ISWC:

Long paper: "Expert Chording Text Entry on the Twiddler One-Handed Keyboard," Kent Lyons, Daniel Plaisted, Thad Starner

Short paper: "FreeDigiter: A Contact-Free Device for Gesture Control," Christian Metzger, Matt Anderson, Thad Starner

Poster: "Augmenting a pH Medical Study with Wearable Video for Treatment of GERD," Thad Starner, Ashbrook Daniel

> Abstracts and other info

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BRUCE WALKER (PSYCH)
Software developed in his Sonification Lab to turn scientific data into auditory graphs has been put to a new use. Multimedia artist Tom Dukich has used the "Sonification Sandbox" to sonify 1800 days (5 years) of weather data from Seattle and Spokane as part of an art installation called "Visualize and Sonify." The exhibit is at the GoodWorks gallery in Spokane during November 2004.

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GIL WEINBERG (MUSIC)
He presented two papers at the International Computer Music Conference. The first paper, "Georgia Tech Music Department - Studio Report," describes the recent developments and new research projects in the Music Technology Program at Tech. The second paper, "Voice Networks," describes a set of applications for networked music collaboration based on the human voice. As part of the conference Professor Weinberg's interactive composition, "iltur," was performed in a concert by a group of musicians, including LCC student Matthew Warne.

> ELAINE HUANG (CoC Ph.D. STUDENT)
She presented her work, "Design and Analysis of Groupware for Large Displays," at the CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) Doctoral Colloquium, held Sat., Nov. 6 in Chicago, IL, as part of CSCW 2004.

> DUKE HUTCHINGS (CoC Ph.D. STUDENT)
He and CoC Associate Professor John Stasko, along with yesterday's GVU Brown Bag speaker, Mary Czerwinski from Microsoft Research, will host a workshop on "Distributed Display Environments" at CHI 2005. Workshop submissions will be accepted soon. CHI 2005 is held in Portland, OR, April 2-7.

> GIOVANNI IACHELLO (CoC Ph.D. STUDENT)
At Mobile HCI 2004, on Sept. 14-17, he presented the full paper,"The Personal Audio Loop: Designing a Ubiquitous Audio-Based Memory Aid," a user study and privacy analysis of a mobile, personal short-term voice recorder that is always active. This work was done with Gillian Hayes, Shwetak Patel, Khai Truong, Julie Kientz, Rob Farmer and CoC Associate Professor Gregory Abowd. Also at the conference on Sept. 13, Iachello organized with GVU alumnus Ian Smith (Intel Seattle Research, USA) and Mika Raento (University of Helsinki, Finland), the Workshop on Location System Privacy and Control. The workshop addressed privacy issues in location technologies from a multidisciplinary, human-centered perspective, integrating an analysis of their technical characteristics with relevant usability, social and legal considerations. HCI 2004 was held Oct. 13-16 at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.

> JESSICA PARADISE (CoC Ph.D. STUDENT)
She presented the paper, "Designing a cognitive aid for the home: a case-study approach," co-authored with CoC Associate Professor Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Cliff Williams and John Goldthwaite, Georgia Tech senior research scientist at ASSETS '04, held Oct. 18-20 in Atlanta, GA.

III. Talks/Lectures

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BLAIR MACINTYRE (CoC)
He gave a talk titled "Design Exploration of Interactive Augmented Reality," on Tues., Oct. 26, 2004, as part of the Applied Complexity Lecture Series at the Santa Fe Institute. The talk abstract follows: Applied Complexity developers are often tasked to visually present agent-based models back to organizations for validation and iterative refinement. I will discuss our work with Augmented and Mixed Reality (AR/MR). A major part of our work is understanding how to support new media designers during exploration and design of these complex, 3D experiences that mix physical and virtual worlds. This support has manifested itself in The Designer's Augmented Reality Toolkit (DART), a design environment for AR experience. Our work focuses on supporting early design activities, especially a rapid transition from storyboards to working experience, so that the experiential part of a design can be tested early and often. DART allows designers to specify complex relationships between the physical and virtual worlds, and supports 3D animatic actors (informal, sketch-based content) in addition to more polished content.

> PROFESSOR JAREK ROSSIGNAC (CoC)
He delivered a Distinguished Lecture at the Ohio State University Department of Computer Science and Engineering, where he presented his work on human-shape interaction and on the compression of 3D shapes and animations.

[10/20/04 News]

I. Media

> GVU HOSTS ASIMO VISIT TO GEORGIA TECH
The GVU Center hosted the inaugural launch of the Honda Motor Corporation's ASIMO humanoid robot national university tour, Sept. 23-25, 2004, at Ferst Center on the campus of Georgia Tech. The tour is designed to encourage the study of science and engineering and to educate the public about the tremendous possibilities in the field of robotics. GVU also hosted related events surrounding the visit, including presentations to prospective high school students about the Center's research and a private ASIMO demonstration and reception for the GVU community. The event received local television coverage. The Whistle, Georgia Tech's newspaper for faculty and staff, ran a front page blurb on the event in the Sept. 20, 2004 edition.

> AWARE HOME ON CNN EXPLORER
CNN aired a segment on Fri., Oct. 8, 2004, on the Aware Home, featuring the Digital Family Portrait and Cook's Collage research projects. For more information on the Aware Home, see http://www.awarehome.gatech.edu/index.html.

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AMY BRUCKMAN (CoC)
A story on The Turing Game was posted online at CNN.com on Oct. 13, 2004. The article, "Can you prove you're not a machine," mentions how GVU alumnus Josh Berman and CoC Associate Professor Amy Bruckman created the online game in the late '90s to help understand issues of online identity such as gender and race.

> PROFESSOR RAMESH JAIN (ECE & CoC)
ACM Ubiquity published an interview of him in their latest webzine, Issue 29, Vol. 5, Sept. 15-21, 2000. The article, "Refining the Search Engine," has already been picked up by leading search bloggers such as John Batelle's Searchblog in the story, "Ramesh Jain: the Search Steering Wheel."

> ASSISANT PROFESOR BLAIR MACINTYRE, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ELIZABETH MYNATT (CoC)
They and GVU student Stephen Voida (together with other CoC faculty and students) had an article featured in an issue of IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine. The abstract for the article quotes that "a major challenge facing ubiquitous computing R&D is the difficulty of writing software for complex, distributed applications. Automatic application partitioning can help development teams rapidly prototype distributed ubiquitous computing systems." The citation follows:

Liogkas, N., MacIntyre, B., Mynatt, E.D., Smaragdakis, Y., Tilevich, E., and Voida, S. (2004, July-Sept.) Automatic partitioning for prototyping ubiquitous computing applications. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 3(3), pp. 40-47.

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MICHAEL MATEAS (CoC)
His research is discussed in the Gamespot story, "Redefining Games: How Academia is Reshaping Games." The article describes Michael's AI-based approach to game research and describes current projects in the Experimental Game Lab. The article also includes interviews with LCC Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Janet Murray and IDT alum Gonzalo Frasca. In addition, his and Andrew Stern's interactive drama Facade is discussed in "I Kill You," an article on video game violence at Idle Thumbs. In the story, Facade is presented as an example of a game that moves beyond simple violence-based game mechanics.

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GIL WEINBERG (Music)
His interactive composition "iltur" was performed at the NWEAMO (New West Electro-Acoustic Music Organization) Festival in San Diego, Oct. 1-9, 2004. The mission of NWEAMO is to forge connections between the classical electronic avant garde and artists working at the experimental fringes of electronica.

> JAY SUMMET, MATTHEW FLAGG (CoC Ph.D. STUDENTS)
Their work, advised by CoC Associate Professors Jim Rehg and Gregory Abowd, was featured in the ProAV magazine article, "Projecting a Good Image," by Tim Kridel, in the August 2004 issue, vol. 21 no. 8, pp. 78-79. See a PDF scan of the article at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~summetj/papers/ProAV2004-VRP.pdf.

II. Conferences

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BLAIR MACINTYRE (CoC)
His group's research on DART (The Designer's Augmented Reality Toolkit) will be featured in a number of conferences this fall:

At Ubicomp 2004, held Sept. 7-10 in Nottingham, UK, Steven Dow demonstrated how DART can be used for prototyping ubicomp and mixed reality experiences (Steven Dow, Blair MacIntyre, Maribeth Gandy and Jay David Bolter. "Prototyping Applications for the Physical World Using Integrated Capture/Playback Facilities").

At UIST 2004, MacIntyre will present a paper on the design of DART. During the UIST demo and poster session, his team will demonstrate DART to conference attendees. UIST is held in Santa Fe, NM, Oct. 24-27.

At ISMAR 2004, the DART team will demonstrate DART's advanced capabilities for handling multiple sensors and fusing them together in a simple and useful way. The symposium is held Nov. 2-5, 2004 in Arlington, VA, co-located with ISWC04 (8th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers).

At Presence 2004, MacIntyre presented a paper on the concept of "aura" and the importance of real places and objects (Blair MacIntyre, Jay David Bolter and Maribeth Gandy, "Presence and the Aura of Meaningful Places"). The conference was held Oct. 13-15 in Valencia, Spain.

Also, at ISMAR 2004, Enylton Coelho will present a paper on the design of OSGAR, a 3D toolkit for AR, built on top of OpenSceneGraph (Enylton Machado Coelho, Blair MacIntyre and Simon Julier "OSGAR: A Scene Graph with Uncertain Transformations"). Integrating uncertain transformations into a 3D scene graph is vital for building AR applications that function in realistic environments. OSGAR provides a high-level abstraction to programmers for representing uncertainty and building applications that adapt as uncertainty changes. They will demonstrate OSGAR as part of the ISMAR demo session. The conference is held Oct. 24-28 in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL.

> PROFESSOR JAREK ROSSIGNAC (CoC)
He gave an invited lecture on Mesh Compression at the 13th International Meshing Round Table in Williamsburg, VA, Sept. 19-22, 2004. In 1992, Sandia National Laboratories started the Meshing Roundtable as a small meeting of like-minded companies and organizations striving to establish a common focus for research and development in the field of mesh and grid generation.

> IDRIS HSI (CoC Ph.D. STUDENT)
He has an accepted paper, "Measuring the Conceptual Fitness of an Application in a Computing Ecosystem," to be published in the proceedings of the Workshop on Interdisciplinary Software Engineering Research (WISER) which is co-located with the ACM SIGSOFT Conference "Foundations of Software Engineering-12." The paper discusses how methods of ontological excavation can be combined with use cases to approximate the conceptual fitness and usefulness of an application. The conference and workshop are held in Newport Beach, CA, Nov. 2-5, 2004.

> DELPHINE NAIN (CoC Ph.D. STUDENT)
Her paper, "Vessel Segmentation Using a Shape Driven Flow" co-written by Anthony Yezzi and CoC Associate Professor Greg Turk, was presented as an oral presentation at MICCAI 2004 (7th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention) in St Malo, France, Sept. 27-29.

> STEPHEN VOIDA (CoC Ph.D. STUDENT)
He is presenting a poster co-authored by CoC Assistant Professor Keith Edwards at the UIST 2004 conference, held in Santa Fe, NM, Oct. 24-27. The poster is entitled, "The Sharing Palette: A User Interface for File and Service Sharing," and represents work that he did as a summer co-op at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) this past summer.

III. HONORS/AWARDS/GRANTS

> ASSISTANT PROFESSORS TUCKER BALCH, FRANK DELLAERT, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JIM REHG (CoC)
They won, along with Magnus Egerstedt (ECE), a $2 million DARPA contract: "Learning Perception, Controllers, and Visual Feature Graphs for Ground Robots."

> DELPHINE NAIN (CoC Ph.D. STUDENT)
She has been selected as a MacArthur Fellow by the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs for 2004-2005. The purpose of this program is to strengthen scientific and technical advice on international peace and security policy. The fellowship supports scientists, computer scientists and engineers to study the challenging field of international security policy and relate their technical expertise and area of research to the field of security policy. Selected fellows receive useful exposure to national security subjects through weekly seminars, professional field trips, research projects and a two-week summer workshop. Participants will also have the opportunity to showcase their research under the MacArthur program fellowship in Washington and at a forum held at Georgia Tech.

> KUDOS FOR "VOICES OF OAKLAND" DEMO
Assistant Professor Blair MacIntyre (CoC), Professor Jay Bolter (LCC), and a group of students and research scientists from CoC, LCC and IMTC, including Steven Dow, Maribeth Gandy, Jaemin Lee and Danny Muller, participated in a live demonstration of "The Voices of Oakland," an audio augmented reality tour of Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta's oldest cemetery and the most historically important cemetery in the South. The demo took place during "Sunday in the Cemetery," held on Oct. 3, 2004. The annual festival is held on the grounds of Oakland Cemetery. Many others helped with the experience, but could not be there during the demo, especially Christopher Ozbek and Susan Bryan. Thanks also go to Markus Haas, who provided some last minute voice talent!

[9/22/04 News]

I. Media

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TUCKER BALCH (CoC)
His team's (CoC Assistant Professor Frank Dellaert and students) work on a computer vision and automated analysis system to track movements of social insects is mentioned in a blurb in Research Horizons magazine, Spring/Summer 2004 issue in the "Faculty Research in the News," section on p. 47.

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IRFAN ESSA (CoC)
He was appointed on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Patter Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) as an associate editor.

> PROFESSOR JIM FOLEY (CoC)
As chairman of the Computing Research Association, he was interviewed for a story on CNET News.com which went live on Sept. 21, 2004. In a Q&A format, Foley responds to questions on the falling number of graduates receiving doctorates in computer science and engineering and falling enrollment at top U.S. undergraduate computer science departments.

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MARK GUZDIAL (CoC)
His work in pioneering an introductory programming course for non-computer science and non-engineering students at Georgia Tech, was featured along with a photo, in Tech Topics magazine, Fall 2004 issue, p. 19. In June, the College of Computing began teaching workshops based on the course to strengthen the technology skills of high school teachers who teach AP computer science classes. The workshops are a collaborative effort between the College of Computing and the Georgia Department of Education.

> PROFESSOR MARY JEAN HARROLD (CoC)
News of her receiving a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring was mentioned in Research Horizons magazine, Spring/Summer 2004 in the "Faculty Awards and Honors" section on p. 46. The award was given on behalf of the Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research, which she co-chairs.

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JIM REHG (CoC)
He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV).

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR THAD STARNER (CoC)
He was featured in the article, "Tech Professor Applies Research to Reality," in the Summer 2004 issue of Piedmont Profiles, a publication of Piedmont Hospital on p. 15. Starner was diagnosed with severe acid reflux, a condition monitored through a pH study and the synchronization of the clock in his wearable computer to identify when his pH levels were high during the day. The synchronization was an idea suggested by his students. By tracking his activities for 24 hours and comparing it with the pH data, Starner learned what activities triggered the reflux and was able to modify his behavior accordingly. In addition, his work on tracking mobile technology trends is printed in the October 2004 issue of Popular Science magazine. See http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~thad/trends1990-2003.pdf for the graph the work is based on.

> PROFESSOR WENDY ROGERS (PSYCH)
She was quoted in the Research Horizons magazine article, "Aging in Place," that ran in the Spring/Summer 2004 issue. Rogers presented in a recent conference preliminary findings of a study on adults ages 65 to 75 who viewed technologies designed to help older adults live independently longer.

> FORMER GVU FACULTY MEMBER LARRY HODGES
He was mentioned in the Aug. 18, 2004 Atlanta Journal-Constitution article, "Psychologist helps people deal with fears." The article was a "close-up" profile on Barbara Rothbaum, a co-founder along with Hodges of Virtually Better, a company that uses virtual reality to cure phobias such as fear of heights. Hodges is currently a professor and Department of Computer Science chair at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

> ANIRUDH MOUDGAL, GVU ALUMNUS
He completed most of the user interface work on the Simputer, a low-priced handheld computer. The computer was designed to bring the Internet revolution to the rural population in India. BBC News online ran the March 29, 2004 article, "Simputer for poor goes on sale." Moudgal received an HCI master's degree from the College of Computing in 2001.

II. Conferences

> UBICOMP 2004
Members of the GVU community were participants in UBICOMP 2004, held September 8-10 in Nottingham, U.K:
Papers:

"Personalized Peripheral Information Awareness through Information Art," Associate Professor John Stasko (CoC) and students Todd Miller, Chris Plaue, Zachary Pousman, Osman Ullah

"CAMP: A Magnetic Poetry Interface for End-User Programming of Capture Applications for the Home," Khai Truong, Elaine Huang, Gregory Abowd, associate professor (CoC)

"Designing Capture Applications to Support the Education of Children with Autism." To appear in the Proceedings of UBICOMP 2004. Hayes, G.R., Kientz, J.A., Truong, K.N., White, D.R., Abowd, G.D., Pering, T.

------OTHER CONFERENCE NEWS--------------

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JOHN STASKO (CoC)
He and Ph.D. student Bob Amar co-authored the paper, "A Knowledge Task-Based Framework for Design and Evaluation of Information Visualizations," which won the Best Paper Award at InfoVis '04, the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization. The conference is October 10-12 in Austin, TX.

> PROFESSOR GIL WEINBERG (Music)
His interactive composition, ³iltur 1,² was chosen by an international adjudication committee to be presented in the International Computer Music Conference in Miami. Also, he gave an invited talk at the Computer Science Department at the Hebrew University Jerusalem, titled "Interconnected Musical Networks."

> GILLIAN HAYES (COC GRADUATE STUDENT)
She has a paper accepted to Mobile HCI 2004 that Giovanni Iachello will be presenting. The citation follows:

Hayes, G.R., Patel, S.N., Truong, K.N., Iachello, G., Kientz, J.A., Farmer, R., Abowd, G.D. The Personal Audio Loop: Designing a Ubiquitous Audio-Based Memory Aid. To appear in the Proceedings of Mobile HCI 2004: The 6th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (September 13-16, Glasgow, Scotland), 2004.

III. HONORS/AWARDS/GRANTS

> PROFESSORS TUCKER BALCH, FRANK DELLAERT, JIM REHG (CoC)
They have been awarded a $2 million DARPA contract for their proposal, "Learning Perception, Controllers and Visual Feature Graphs for Ground Robots." Magnus Egerstedt of ECE is also a member of the team.

> PROFESSOR GIL WEINBERG (Music)
He is the recipient of the GTF/CoA grant, as well as a special research grant from the Provost office. Also, Weinberg was elected as a member of the adjudication panel for the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS).

> GABRIEL BROSTOW (CoC Ph.D. STUDENT)
He is a recipient of the College of Computing Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2004-04 for "Novel Skeletal Representation for Articulated Creatures." His advisor is Associate Professor Irfan Essa (CoC). The dissertation is one of two selected by a panel organized by Assistant Professor Tucker Balch (CoC). In addition, Brostow has been nominated by the College for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. He will undergo the ACM evaluation process where his dissertation will compete against others from around the world.

[7/23/04 News]

I. Media

> PROFESSOR RON ARKIN (CoC)
His book, Behavior-Based Robotics, is cited in a blurb about Sidney Perkowitz's book, The Rise of 'Digital People,' posted online at the ACM News Service. Arkin's book citation "contends that it is enough that artificial beings merely boast a semblance of consciousness, not actual consciousness."

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MARK GUZDIAL (CoC)
He and his group designed computer science workshops for high school teachers based on the "Introduction to Media Computation" course. The workshops are a collaborative effort between the College of Computing and the Georgia Department of Education to strengthen the technology skills of teachers who teach AP computer science classes. The Atlanta Journal/Constitution ran an article on the workshops, as well as the Cherokee Tribune, and The Whistle. Also, WXIA-TV Atlanta aired a story on the workshops on their morning program on Mon. June 21, 2004. The Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine, Summer 2004 issue, ran a story, along with a photo on the effort in, "Innovative Partnership: Tech joins state to target high school computer literacy," on p. 11.

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR THAD STARNER (CoC)
He is the "Visiting Futurist" for the September 2004 issue of Popular Science magazine. Every month, the publication runs a short column, "Headline from the Future," showcasing predictions from leading researchers who speculate how their fields of research might change the way we live 10, 15 or more years from now. Also, his mobile technology trends graph is being used in their article on how battery technology lags behind the development of other mobile technologies. IEEE Spectrum Online, in its "Sensor Nation" special report, mentions him and Assistant Professor Blair MacIntyre in the feature article, "Mike Villas's World: The augmented-reality wonderland of Pyramid Hill and Fairmont High School is taking shape today."

II. Conferences

> SIGGRAPH 2004
Several members of the GVU community are participants in SIGGRAPH 2004, scheduled August 8-12 in the Los Angeles Convention Center in California:

Associate Professor Irfan Essa (CoC) is the session chair for papers on video-based rendering to be presented Wed., Aug. 11.

Associate Professor Diane Gromala (LCC) will speak at two Artists' Roundtables at SIGGRAPH, "Synaethesia," on August 8 and "Research in the Arts: Researching the Future," on August 9 in the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Mark Carlson is presenting his paper, "Rigid Fluid: Animating the Interplay Between Rigid Bodies and Fluid" (Mark Carlson, Peter J. Mucha and Greg Turk). The paper and animations can be found at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~carlson also.

Michael Terry, Gabriel Brostow, Diane Gromala Grace Ou, Jaroslav Tyman (Georgia Tech) present the sketch, "Making Space for Time in Time-Lapse Photography."

Vivek Kwatra (Georgia Tech), Wen-Chieh Lin, James Hays, Chenyu Wu and Yanxi Liu (Carnegie Mellon University) have the poster, "A Comparison Study of Four Texture Synthesis Algorithms on Near-Regular Textures."

Several GVU alumni and former faculty are presenting sketches and papers:

Sketches:

James F. O'Brien (GVU alumnus) and David A. Forsyth (both from the University of California, Berkeley) present the sketch, "Skeletal Parameter Estimation From Optical Motion Capture Data." O'Brien has another sketch, "Refolding Planar Polygons," with Haley N. Iben (University of California, Berkeley) and Erik D. Demaine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Jessica Hodgins (former GVU faculty member now at Carnegie Mellon University), has the sketch, "Learning Silhouette Features for Control of Human Motion," with Liu Ren (Carnegie Mellon University), Gregory Shakhnarovich (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Hanspeter Pfister (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories) and Paul Viola (Microsoft Research).

Victor Zordan (GVU alumnus now at the University of California, Riverside) has the sketch, "Model and Control of Simulated Respiration for Animation," with Bhrigu Celly, Bill Chiu and Paul DiLorenzo (University of California, Riverside).

Papers:

"Flow-Based Video Synthesis and Editing," Kiran S. Bhat, Jessica K. Hodgins (former GVU faculty member), Pradeep K. Khosla, Carnegie Mellon University; Steven M. Seitz University of Washington.
"Deformation Transfer for Triangle Meshes," Robert Sumner (GVU alumnus), Jovan Popovic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"A Method for Animating Viscoelastic Fluids," Tolga G. Goktekin, Adam W. Bargteil, James F. O'Brien (GVU alumnus), University of California, Berkeley.
"Synthesizing Physically Realistic Human Motion in Low-Dimensional, Behavior-Specific Spaces," Alla Safonova, Jessica K. Hodgins (former GVU faculty member), Nancy S. Pollard (GVU alumna), Carnegie Mellon University. Nancy is also the chair for this session on data-drven character animation.
"Synthesizing Animations of Human Manipulation Tasks," Katsu Yamane, University of Tokyo; James Kuffner, Jessica K. Hodgins (former GVU faculty member), Carnegie Mellon University.
Jack Tumblin (GVU alumnus), Northwestern University, is the session chair for papers on HDR and perception to be presented Thurs., Aug. 12.
"Supra-Threshold Control of Peripheral LOD," Benjamin Watson (GVU alumnus), Northwestern University; Neff Walker (former GVU faculty member), UNAIDS; Larry F. Hodges (former GVU faculty member), University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
"Interpolating and Approximating Implicit Surfaces From Polygon Soup," Chen Shen, James F. O'Brien (GVU alumnus), Jonathan R. Shewchuk, University of California, Berkeley.

------OTHER CONFERENCE NEWS--------------

> THE BORG LAB
BORG Lab Ph.D. students Matt Powers, Keith O'Hara, along with CoC Assistant Professor Tucker Balch, had papers accepted for presentation at the 2004 Workshop on Distributed Autonomous Robot Systems (DARS) held in Toulouse, France, June 23-25. The papers titles are, "Value-Based Communication Preservation for Mobile Robots," and "Pervasive Sensor-less Networks for Cooperative Multi-Robot Tasks." Also, BORG Lab students Matt Powers, Ram Ravichandran, Eric Dodson, Victor Kovalev, Bart Presnell and Alan Wagner prepared a team of four Sony AIBO robots to compete in RoboCup 2004 in Lisbon, Portugal. They traveled to Lisbon with Balch for the competition held June 27 - July 5.

> SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST LONNIE HARVEL (ECE)
He gave an invited talk as part of a plenary panel at the Syllabus 2004 Conference on July 20:
"Pushing Technology into the Background--Services for Useful Collaborations"
Moderator: William Riffee
Panelists: Lois Brooks, William Griswold, Lonnie Harvel
The "gee whiz" factor is gone from the transmission and display of data bits, as well it should be. Today's students can rightfully expect technology to serve their needs effectively and unobtrusively. What are the collaborative tools and services your institution should offer, and how can these applications now operate ubiquitously in the background--behind the walls and in the air? This panel will discuss their views on evolving technologies and services--including collaboration technologies and resource services such as music and film elements. Which systems and services will influence instructional delivery most in the years to come? Together, the panelists will predict a timeline for development and adoption of next-generation collaboration tools.

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MICHAEL MATEAS (CoC)
His and Andrew Stern's paper, "Natural Language Understanding in Façade: Surface-text Processing," describing the natural language understanding infrastructure for the interactive drama Facade, won best paper at TIDSE 2004 (Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment). TIDSE was held July 24-26 in Darmstadt, Germany.

> PROFESSOR JARK ROSSIGNAC (CoC)
He chaired the International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications 2004 in Genova, Italy, June 7-9. He will chair the ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling at MIT in June 2005.

> PROFESSOR JOHN STASKO (CoC) and RICHARD CATRAMBONE (PSYCH)
They, along with Jun Xiao, had a paper accepted to the Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-2004) conference, held July 19-23 in New York City. Jun presented the paper titled, "An Empirical Study of the Effect of Agent Competence on User Performance and Perception."

III. Talks

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR RICHARD CATRAMBONE (PSYCH)
He gave the invited talk,"Proactive and Reactive Interface Agents: The Effect of Competence on User Perception," at the Knowledge Media Research Centre (KMRC) at the University of Tuebingen in Tuebingen, Germany on July 13. While there, he gave an invited talk to the psychology department, "Improving Problem Solving by Teaching Subgoals." Also, he presented a talk at the special interest meeting of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) titled "Teaching Subgoals to Students Improves Learning: Evidence from Problem Solving Performance and Talk Aloud Protocols."

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ELIZABETH MYNATT AND ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BLAIR MACINTYRE (CoC)
They visited Tamagawa University in Tokyo to give two 3-hour lectures (entitled "From Ubiquitous Computing to Everyday Computing" and "Augmented Reality Experiences", respectively) as part of the Tamagawa yearly invited lecture series. While in Japan, Mynatt and MacIntyre gave invited talks ("As We May Live -- Designing An Aware Home" and "Designing Dramatic Augmented Reality Experiences") at Sony's CSL in Tokyo, and NTT Science and Core Technology Lab in Atsugi, and NiCT/ATR in Kyoto.

IV. Honors/Awards/Grants

> GVU ANNOUNCES SEED GRANT RECIPIENTS FOR 2004-05

Gregory D. Abowd (COC) and Sha Xin Wei (LCC): "Technology Support to Better Understand the Everyday Life of Children with Autism"

Amy S. Bruckman (COC), Richard Barke (Public Policy), and Andrea Forte (COC): "Students as Authors of History: Using the Internet to Increase Student Motivation and Critical Thought in the Class 'American Government'"

Michael Mateas (COC/LCC) and Irfan A. Essa (COC): "Synthesizing Humanoids Using Hybrids of Procedural and Data-Driven Models for Interactive Story"

Gil Weinberg (Music), Tucker Balch (COC), and Daniel Walker (COC): "Robotic Musicianship"

> PROFESSOR JOHN STASKO (CoC)
He has been selected to be on a national panel advising a new program, the National Visual Analytics Center (NVAC). The Department of Homeland Security's Science & Technology Directorate established NVAC to provide scientific guidance and coordination for research and development of new tools and methods that enable analysis of enormous volumes of diverse, distributed, and dynamic data. NVAC is comprised of an interdisciplinary team of experts from academia, industry, government, and the Department of Energy National Laboratories to create a National R&D Agenda for Visual Analytics. This agenda will guide future research and development of visual analytics tools and technologies targeted at discovery and prevention of terrorist threats. The NVAC, led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), will include activities in four major areas: Research and Development; Education; Evaluation and implementation of technologies; and Integration of R&D efforts.

> PAM HASSEBROEK (PUBP Ph.D. CANDIDATE)
She has been awarded a $2500 scholarship by Cisco Systems for her research in network security. The Critical Infrastructure Assurance Group (CIAG) of Cisco Systems, Inc. awards a scholarship each semester to four students across the U.S. who are making a significant contribution in the field of Information Security. Students must be pursuing a course of study and/or have declared a major in one of the scientific, technical, or managerial disciplines related to computer and network security, with a concentration in an information assurance function.

[6/18/04 News]

I. Media

> GVU CENTER
Smart Technologies Inc., the provider of the interactive "Smart Boards" in e-Classroom (formerly Classroom 2000), hosted a media event at the GVU Center showcasing GVU research on Tues, June 8, 2004. The invited guests included 10-15 media contacts who learned about the SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard and its research with virtual rear projection (VRP). CoC Associate Professor Gregory Abowd gave a project overview and Matt Flagg, Ph.D. candidate, conducted the demo. CoC Associate Professor James Rehg and Jay Summet, Ph.D. candidate, are also leading the research and development efforts of VRP.

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR RICHARD CATRAMBONE (PSYCH)
News of his receiving the Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teacher Award at Georgia Tech was printed in Tech Topics, Summer 2004 issue, in the article, "Faculty, Staff Recognized at Luncheon" (p.18). The award is one of two Class of 1940 awards presented each year to faculty members who have taught at least six semester hours during the previous academic year. Each recipient receives a $10,000 stipend. Criteria used for judging teaching excellence include extraordinary efforts in teaching, inspiration transmitted to students, direct impact and involvement with students, intellectual integrity and scholarship, and impact on post graduate success of students.

> SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST CHRIS SHAW (CoC)
His research with the virtual firefighting project was featured in the April 2004 issue of Fire Rescue magazine. The article, "Virtual Fire: The next level in company officer training," was written by Bill May of the Atlanta Fire Department. See the PDF.

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JOHN STASKO (CoC)
The May 3, 2004 edition of The Whistle ran a story on Stasko and his team of students in the front page story, "Computing senior design project aims to 'Cut Our hunger' while reducing grocery bills." Stasko is the faculty advisor for the team who made the Cut Out Hunger web site more functional for its users and easier to maintain for Stephanie Nelson, founder of Cut Out Hunger

> ROBIN MURPHY, GVU ALUMNUS
The June 6, 2004 issue of Time magazine has selected her as one of its four innovators of Artificial Intelligence in a series of articles on "Machines: Forging the Future." The article, "Rescuer by Remote: Need Help? Send in the Robot," focuses on her work with rescue robots. She is a professor and director of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue at the University of South Florida.

II. Conferences

> PROFESSOR JIM FOLEY (CoC)
He gave the opening keynote talk at the joint conference VRCAI 2004 (Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry) and Graphite 2004 (International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and Southeast Asia) in Singapore on June 16. The talk title was "Grand Challenges in Computer Graphics." He also met in Korea with the President of the Korean Academy of Engineering, Dr. KiJun Lee, to discuss issues surrounding off-shoring of computing jobs.

> PROFESSOR JAREK ROSSIGNAC (CoC)
He and his colleagues from the Graphics and Robotics group at the University Polytechnic of Catalunya received the Best Paper Award for "Optimal Iso-surfaces," at the Computer-Aided Design (CAD'04) conference held in May in Thailand.

[5/20/04 News]

I. Media

> PROFESSOR JANET MURRAY (LCC)
CNN interviewed her for a science and technology story on Google which aired on the Next@CNN program, May 1-2, 2004. Also, her eTV Prototyping Group created an interactive timeline for the April 21, 2004 PBS premiere of the documentary, "Love and Diane." The project was part of a year-long collaboration with the PBS award-winning documentary series, POV. The timeline is featured as a special resource on the PBS web site. Click here for credits and project description and here for more information about the eTV Group.

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JIM REHG (CoC)
He now serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Computer Vision.

> PROFESSOR WENDY ROGERS (PSYCH)
She was interviewed for the Georgia Tech Research News story, "Aging in Place with Technology: Study Reveals Older Adults will Sacrifice Some Privacy to Remain in their Homes Longer," released online May 6, 2004. Rogers presented preliminary findings of the Aging in Place study at CHI 2004 (an international conference for human-computer Interaction), held April 24-29 in Vienna, Austria.

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR THAD STARNER (CoC)
He and his research with wearable computing were mentioned on Forbes.com in the May 7, 2004 article, "Wearable Wireless Displays Are In Sight," as part of "The Future of Digital Imaging" series. His work is also mentioned in the book, Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies and the Future of Human Intelligence, by author by Andy Clark who was on campus recently to give a talk about his book.

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JOHN STASKO (CoC)
The College of Computing ran a story on Stasko and his team of students in the April 24, 2004 release, "Computing Students at Georgia Tech Re-Design 'Cut Out Hunger' Website." Stasko is the faculty advisor for the team who made the site more functional for its users and easier to maintain for Stephanie Nelson, the founder of Cut Out Hunger. Georgia Tech is mentioned in the related April 29, 2004 story, "Saving Scheme: Coupon Clipping Plan Can Save You Big," on the ABC News website.

II. Conferences

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GREGORY ABOWD (CoC)
He was a keynote speaker for Graphics Interface 2004, the top HCI conference in Canada. The talk, "Ubiquitous Computing: It's All in the Family," was given Wed., May 19 in London, Ontario. Also, he is a featured speaker at the George Washington University Symposium on Pervasive Computing in the Smart Home on Thurs., May 20, 2004. He will discuss the general research agenda in the Georgia Tech Aware Home Research Initiative.

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DIANE GROMALA (LCC)
She was invited to present her paper, "Thresholds of The Visceral Sense" at the international electronic art conference, CIBERART, in Bilbao, Spain. Prof. Gromala's paper, "Expressing the Immeasurable: A Methodology for Developing a Visualization Tool for Patients' Assessment of Pain" was also presented at the CHI 2004 workshop, "Cross Dressing and Border Crossing," in Vienna, Austria, on April 26, 2004.

> ASSISTANT PROFESSORS JEFF PIERCE AND CHARLES ISBELL (CoC)
They presented two papers at the 2nd International Conference on Appliance Design (2AD), held May 11-13, 2004 in Bristol, UK:

"Supporting Routine Decision-Making with a Next-Generation Alarm Clock"
Landry, Pierce, and Isbell

"From Devices to Tasks: Automatic Task Prediction for Personalized Appliance Control"
Isbell, Omojokun, and Pierce

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JIM REHG (CoC)
He and his students have three papers accepted at the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 04) held June 27 - July 2, in Washington, D.C.:

"A Flexible Projector-Camera System for Multi-Planar Displays"
Mark Ashdown, Matthew Flagg, Rahul Sukthankar, James M. Rehg

"Automatic Cascade Training with Perturbation Bias"
Jie Sun, James M. Rehg, and Aaron Bobick (GVU Director)

"Asymmetrically Boosted HMM for Speech Reading"
Pei Yin, Irfan Essa, and James M. Rehg

They will also present the demo, "Applications for Multi-Planar Projected Displays," during the conference's demo session.

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BRUCE WALKER (PSYCH)
He will be presenting the following papers with psychology, HCI and CoC students in the coming months:

At the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD '04), in Sydney, Australia in July:

"Creating functional and livable soundscapes for peripheral monitoring of dynamic data"
Brad Mauney & Bruce N. Walker

"The Audio Abacus: Representing a wide range of values with accuracy and precision"
Bruce N. Walker & Jeff Lindsay

"Individual differences, cognitive abilities, and the interpretation of auditory graphs"
Bruce N. Walker & Lisa Mauney (Siebenaler)

At the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES '04) annual meeting in New Orleans in September:

"Eye movement and reaction time are both important in assessment of dialog box usability"
Bruce N. Walker & Ray Stanley

"Effects of training and auditory context on performance of a point estimation sonification task"
Daniel Smith & Bruce N. Walker

"Designing systems for the creation and evaluation of dynamic peripheral soundscapes: A usability study"
Brad Mauney & Bruce N. Walker

At the American Psychological Society (APS) annual meeting in Chicago in May:

"Individual Differences and the Interpretation of Auditory Graphs: Cognitive Abilities and Demographics"
Bruce N. Walker & Lisa Siebenaler

At the Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology Society of America (RESNA '04) Conference in Orlando in June:

"Sonification Sandbox: A graphical toolkit for auditory graphs"
Bruce N. Walker & Mandy Lowey

> JAMES BOWRING (CoC Ph.D. STUDENT)
His work represents a collaboration between Software Engineering and Intelligent Systems/Machine Learning. He will present the following papers at RAMSS'04 and ISSTA 2004:

"TRIPWIRE: Mediating Software Self-Awareness"
J. Bowring, J. Rehg, M. J. Harrold
Proceedings of the 2nd ICSE Workshop on Remote Analysis and Measurement of Software Systems (RAMSS '04). May 2004. (To appear)

Abstract
Conference: ICSE 2004
Workshop: RAMSS'04

"Active Learning for Automatic Classification of Software Behavior"
J. Bowring, J. Rehg, M. J. Harrold
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2004). July 2004. (To appear)

Abstract

> GABRIEL BROSTOW (CoC Ph.D. STUDENT)
He presented the following paper at the 8th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2004), held May 11-14 in Prague, Czech Republic:

"Novel Skeletal Representation For Articulated Creatures"
Gabriel J. Brostow, Irfan Essa, Drew Steedly, Vivek Kwatra
Also, Assistant Professors Frank Dellaert and Tucker Balch (CoC) presented two posters at the conference.

> RAFFAY HAMID (CoC Ph.D. STUDENT)
His paper with Professor Aaron Bobick (GVU Director) and Prof. Anthony Yezzi (ECE), titled, "Audio-Visual Flow - A Variational Approach To Multi-Modal Flow Estimation," was accepted to appear in the 12th International Conference on Image Processing 2004. Here is the citing information:

R. Hamid, A. Bobick, A. Yezzi. Audio-Visual Flow - A Variational Approach to Multi-Modal Flow Estimation.
To appear in 12th International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) Oct. 24-27, 2004.

> GIOVANNI IACHELLO (COC Ph.D. STUDENT)
A Nunn Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Giovanni participated in the panel, "Global Cyber-Security: Confronting New & Reemerging Threats," as part of the Women In International Security (WIIS) and the Sam Nunn Security Program at Georgia Tech. The panel was held Wed., May 5, 2004, in Washington, D.C. Other panelists included: Susan W. Brenner (University of Dayton); Jean Camp (Harvard University); Seymour Goodman (Georgia Tech); Betty Shave (U.S. Department of Justice); and John Endicott, moderator (Georgia Tech).

> ARI LAMSTEIN (CoC Ph.D. STUDENT)
His workshop paper, "A Search-Based Drama Manager," co-authored with Assistant Professor Michael Mateas (CoC), was accepted in the AAAI-04 Workshop on Challenges in Game AI, scheduled July 25-26 at the 19th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence in San Jose, CA.

III. Awards/Honors/Grants

> CoC AWARDS CEREMONY
Several members of the GVU community were recognized at the College of Computing's 13th Annual Awards Celebration held Thurs., April 29, 2004:

The Dean's Award - Joan Morton, GVU administrative officer (one of three recipients)

Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant - Yoichiro Endo

IBM Research Fellowships (2003-04) - Yaxin Liu

Intel Fellowship Scholars (2003-04) - Veronica Peshterianu

Nortel Networks Scholarship - Joseph Uhl

NSF Graduate Research Fellowships - Valerie Henderson, Julie Kientz, Stephanie Brubaker, Zhen Hao (Howard) Zhou

10 Years of Service to Georgia Tech - Gregory Abowd, Chrissy Hendricks

[4/23/04 News]

I. Media

> GVU CONVOCATION AND RESEARCH REVIEW DAY
The GVU Center was highlighted in a photo and long caption in the April 5, 2004 edition of The Whistle, Georgia Tech's faculty and staff newspaper. The photo is a demo of the Smartboard, one of the more than 80 demos showcased as part of GVU's celebration of the past, present and future on March 24-25, 2004. The occasion was also an opportunity for GVU to show off its new home in Technology Square. Read the Convocation and Research Review Day Recap.

> SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST CHRIS SHAW (CoC)
His work with virtual firefighting and the Atlanta Fire Department was featured in the Georgia Tech Research Horizon magazine article, "Virtual Firefighting," Winter 2004 issue, p. 7. Also, the May 2004 issue of GameInformer, a video game magazine, printed the article, "Phase 1: Get it Together," p. 61. As a teacher of a video game programming and design class, he comments on where prospective game developers should get started to plan a game.

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR THAD STARNER (CoC)
His column on wearable computing, titled "Powerful Change Part 1: Batteries and Possible Alternatives for the Mobile Market," ran in the March 2, 2004 issue of IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine. Read the PDF.

II. Conferences

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MARK GUZDIAL (CoC)
He gave several talks at the ACM Special Interest Group in CS Education (SIGCSE) Conference, April 5-7,2004, in Norfolk, VA. They are: two panel discussions, "But it looks right: The bugs students don't see" and "Great Principles of Computing;" a workshop, "Multimedia Projects in Computer Science Classes; and a paper, "A C51 Course Designed to Address Interests of Women."

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FRANK DELLAERT (COC)
An overview of four of his recently published papers at CVPR '04 (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) and ECCV '04 (8th European Conference on Computer Vision) is available at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~dellaert/html/2004_highlights.html.

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JEFF PIERCE (CoC)
He presented the paper, "Navigation with Place Representations and Visible Landmarks," at IEEE Virtual Reality (VR) 2004 held March 27-31 in Chicago, IL.

> SUNG PARK (PSYCHOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT)
The paper he co-authored with Psychology Associate Professor Richard Catrambone, "Represented and Representing Dimensions in Relational Information Displays" was accepted as a full paper (oral presentation) in IV '04 (8th International Conference on Information Visualization), scheduled for July 14-16 in London, UK.

III. Awards

> WANDA ABBOTT, GVU STAFF MEMBER
She was recognized for her efforts in going above and beyond the call of duty in promoting minorities in computer science at the Georgia Tech MiCS (Minorities in Computer Science) Recognition Night event, held Wed., April 21, 2004 in the Student Success Center. CoC Assistant Professor Charles Isbell was the guest speaker. Earlier that day, Wanda was recognized for her contributions to the GVU Center and the HCI Master's Degree Program during a retirement reception held in her honor. After 22 years of service to Georgia Tech, Wanda's official last day is Fri., April 30, 2004. Well wishes on your retirement!

[3/30/04 News]

I. Media

> THE AWARE HOME
The Wall Street Journal featured the Aware Home in a full-page article in its Feb. 23, 2004 edition. The story, "Inside the Home of the Future," focused on emerging technologies that make domestic life easier and extend the independence of older homeowners. Also, recent Aware Home demos at the Center for Aging Services Technologies in Washington, D.C., generated the March 19, 2004 Wired News article, "RFID Keeps Track of Seniors." The story describes two RFID projects, Georgia Tech's Memory Mirror and Intel's Caregiver's Assistant.

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GREGORY ABOWD (CoC)
The Wall Street Journal featured the Aware Home in a full-page article in its Feb. 23, 2004 edition. The story, He gave two talks at the University of Notre Dame, "If a classroom could listen, would anyone care? A retrospective on the eClass project" and "Realizing the dreams of ubiquitous computing: It's all in the family." On March 11, he visited Intel in Hillsborough, Oregon, to give a talk on the Aware Home. Also, he is a guest editor of a special issue on Technology for Successful Aging that will appear in an upcoming issue of the IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine.

> PROFESSOR RON ARKIN, ASSISANT PROFESSORS TUCKER BALCH AND FRANK DELLAERT (CoC)
Their work with robots was featured on the front page of The Whistle, March 22, 2004 edition, in the article "Model Behavior: Robots move toward the mainstream." The story is the latest in "Innovations @ Georgia Tech," an ongoing series focused on current research.

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TUCKER BALCH (CoC)
His research on bees and social behavior was featured, along with a photo, in the short article "Busy Bees," printed as part of a "Georgia Tech Buzz" spread in the Georgia Technology Exchange section of TechLinks, March/April 2004 issue, pp. 80-81.

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FRANK DELLAERT (CoC)
He was quoted in the March 8, 2004 Atlanta Journal/Constitution article, "Dessert derby pits robot against robot." He comments on the DARPA Grand Challenge, a 200-mile robotic road race over rough terrain sponsored by the Department of Defense. His comment was also printed in the "Quote-UnQuote" section in the March 15, 2004 edition of The Whistle.

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BLAIR MACINTYRE (CoC)
He gave an invited talk on Feb. 24, 2004, on the topic "Applications of Augmented Reality to Architecture and Construction," at Information Mobility 2004. The event was a technology transfer symposium co-sponsored by the Construction Technology Center Atlantic, Inc. for the Atlantic Canadian architectural, engineering and construction industries.

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MICHAEL MATEAS (CoC)
He and Andrew Stern wrote the chapter, "A Behavior Language: Joint Action and Behavioral Idioms" for the recently released book, Life-Like Characters: Tools, Affective Function, and Applications, edited by Helmut Prendinger and Mitsuru Ishizuka. An article on Michael's work in interactive drama ran in the March 19, 2004 edition of the Technique, Georgia Tech's student newspaper. Also, he hosted an open house for the Experimental Game Lab on Feb. 27, 2004. More than 200 people came to the event, including faculty from a number of departments around campus and representatives from local industry.

> PROFESSOR JANET MURRAY (LCC)
The March 1, 2004 "Quote-UnQuote" section of The Whistle ran her quote on on the emerging academic class known as "ludology," or the study of games. The quote was picked up by the Associated Press.

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ELIZABETH MYNATT (CoC)
She presented demonstrations of Aware Home technologies for the Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) Technology Demo on Capitol Hill on March 16, 2004. The event was the first-ever demonstration of multiple technology inventions and applications addressing the health care needs of 76 million aging baby boomers and their parents. The event offered a glimpse at the future of elder care and a first look at technologies that are moving from the lab into the living room.

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SHA XIN WEI (LCC)
The Topological Media Lab's "Softwear" group presented fashionable wearables at the CTIA (Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association) "Fashion in Motion" Show in the Atlanta World Congress Center, March 22-24, 2004. The softwear garments feature texture of sound and light which dance to the wearer's movement and gesture. The clothing uses a broad spectrum of body-imaging and sensing technologies, from fiber optics to TinyPS wireless sensor platforms.

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR THAD STARNER (CoC)
He wrote an article on wearable computing for the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction which is using a photo of his eye with the MicroOptical display eyeglasses for the cover. It is scheduled for release in June 2004. The book is edited by William Sims Bainbridge of the National Science Foundation.

> GABRIEL BROSTOW (CoC Ph.D. CANDIDATE)
News of his receiving the Marshal Sherfield Fellowship was featured in the article, "Graduate Student Wins Fellowship," with a photo, in the Spring 2004 issue of Tech Topics, p. 20 . He is one of two recipients of the Commission's post-doctoral fellowships in science and engineering. As a fellow, he will undertake post-doctoral research for a period of one to two academic years at a British university or research institute. See the Georgia Tech release at http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/release.php?id=231.

II. Conferences

> CHI 2004
Several members of the GVU community are participants in CHI 2004, held April 24-29 in Vienna, Austria:

Professor Jim Foley is chair of the CHI Awards Committee and will be presenting the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award and announcing the newly-elected members of the CHI Academy.

Assistant Professor Thad Starner will be doing a late breaking result of "Use of Mobile Appointment Scheduling Devices" (co-authors Cornelis M. Snoeck, Benjamin A. Wong, and R. Martin McGuire).

Workshops:

Joe Tullio, Bo Begole (Sun Labs Europe), Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research), Elizabeth Mynatt (Organizers); Thad Starner
"Presence and Availability Forecasting"
See http://www.chi2004.org/program/prog_workshops.html#ws17 or http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fce/ecl/chi-ws-call.html.
Lena Mamykina, Jakob E. Bardram, Ilkka Korhonen, Elizabeth Mynatt, Wanda Pratt
"HCI and Homecare: Connecting Families and Clinicians"
Jay Lundell, Margaret Morris, Intel Research, USA Stephen Intille, MIT, USA (Organizers); Wendy Rogers (LCC)
"Home Technologies to Keep Elders Connected"

Panels:

Wendy Rogers, Arthur D. Fisk, Elizabeth Mynatt, Anne Sophie Melenhorst
"Realizing the Potential of Aware Home Technology to Enhance Functional Independence for Older Adults"

Full Papers:

Elaine M. Huang, Daniel M. Russell, Alison E. Sue
"IM Here: Public Instant Messaging on Large, Shared Displays for Workgroup Interactions." Read the PDF.
Michael Terry, Elizabeth Mynatt, Kumiyo Nakakoji, Yasushiro Yamamoto
"Variation in Element and Action: Supporting Simultaneous Development of Alternative Solutions." This paper presents Parallel Pies, a tool that allows users to simultaneously explore multiple solution paths in parallel. Parallel Pies address the need to develop sets of alternatives when it is unclear which solution will prove the "best" for a particular problem.
Kent Lyons, Thad Starner, Daniel Plaisted, James Fusia, Amanda Lyons, Aaron Drew, E. W. Looney
"Twiddler Typing: One-Handed Chording Text Entry for Mobile Phones"
Julie A. Jacko, Leon Barnard, Thitima Kongnakorn, Kevin P. Moloney, Paula J. Edwards, V. Kathlene Emery, François Sainfort
"Isolating the effects of visual impairment: Exploring the Effect of AMD on the Utility of Multimodal Feedback"
Anind K. Dey, Intel Research Berkeley; Raffay Hamid, Georgia Institute of Technology; Chris Beckmann, Daniel Hsu, UC Berkeley; Ian Li, University of Washington
"a CAPPElla: Programming by Demonstration of Context-Aware Applications." CHI Letters 6(1): to appear. April 24-29, 2004. Raffay worked on the project for Intel Research Lab in Berkeley California as a summer research intern.
Carlos Jensen, Colin Potts
"Privacy Policies as Decision-Making Tools: A Usability Evaluation of Online Privacy Notices"

Short Papers:

Khai N. Truong, Heather Richter, Gillian R. Hayes, Gregory D. Abowd
"Devices for sharing thoughts and affection at a distance." In Proceedings of CHI 2004, Vienna, Austria, April 2004. Short paper. To appear.
Khai N. Truong, Elaine M. Huang, Molly M. Stevens, Gregory D. Abowd
"How do users think about ubiquitous computing?" In Proceedings of CHI 2004, Vienna, Austria, April 2004. Short paper. To appear.
Amy Voida, Elizabeth Mynatt, Thomas Erickson, Wendy Kellogg
"Interviewing Over Instant Messaging." Read the PDF.

HCI Overviews, Special Needs and Aging:

Session Chair: Julie Jacko
Wendy A. Rogers, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sara J. Czaja, University of Miami
"CREATE: Center for Research and Education on Aging and Technology Enhancement"

Interactive Posters:

Carlos Jensen
"Designing for Privacy: A Method for Structured Analysis of Privacy Vulnerabilities," (in the User-Centered Design category)

------OTHER CONFERENCE NEWS--------------

> GRAPHICS INTERFACE 2004
The conference, scheduled May 17-19, 2004, is held in conjunction with the Computer and Robot Vision 2004 (CRV) and Artificial Intelligence 2004 (AI) conferences in London, Ontario, Canada.

CoC Ph.D. student Duke Hutchings and CoC Associate Professor John Stasko's paper on window management is the conference's fourth highest-rated paper. The title is, "Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words?" A second full paper, "Revisiting Display Space Management: Understanding Current Practice to Inform Next-generation Design," was accepted also.

Chris Plaue, Todd Miller and Stasko received kudos for their glanceability study.

Associate Professor Gregory Abowd gives a keynote talk, "Realizing the Dreams of Ubiquitous Computing: It's All in the Family," on Wed., May 19, 2004.

Former GVU faculty member Jessica Hodgins, GVU alumnae Nancy Pollard and Alla Safanova have a paper accepted, "Segmenting Motion Capture Data into Distinct Behaviors," co-authored with Jernej Barbic, Jia-Yu Pan and Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University)

> PAPERS ACCEPTED/PRESENTED
Assistant Professor Frank Dellaert (COC) and two of his students had papers accepted at ECCV, to be held in Prague, May 11-14, 2004:

"Multiview Reconstruction of Piecewise Smooth Subdivision Curves with a Variable Number of Control Points," (M. Kaess, R. Zboinski, and F. Dellaert)

"An MCMC-based Particle Filter for Tracking Multiple Interacting Targets," Z. Khan, T. Balch and F. Dellaert

Duke Hutchings also has one full-length paper and two short papers appearing at the ACM Advanced Visual Interfaces conference in Gallipoli, Italy, May 25-28, 2004, each with many collaborators. John Stasko is an author for one of the short papers. Duke is the first author on two of the three papers:

"Display Space Usage and Window Management Operation Comparisons between Single Monitor and Multiple Monitor Users," D. R. Hutchings, G. Smith, B. Meyers, M. Czerwinski, and G. Robertson
"Scalable Fabric: Flexible Task Management," G. Robertson, E. Horvitz, M. Czerwinski, P. Baudisch, D. Hutchings, B. Meyers, D. Robbins, and G. Smith

"Shrinking Operations for Expanding Display Space," D. R. Hutchings and J. Stasko

Smitha Barki, a second-year IDT student, and Punit Gupta, a first-year HCI student, presented the paper "Scrubs" - an enthnographic study in designing an effective communication tool for residents," at the Georgia Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference in Athens, Georgia on Feb 21, 2004. Smitha also presented the paper, "Cultural Identity Issues of Children of Indian Diaspora," at the conference.

Associate Professor Gregory Abowd (CoC) and his group will be presenting two papers at the Pervasive 2004 conference in Vienna, Austria, April 18-23:

Khai N. Truong and Gregory D. Abowd
"INCA: A software infrastructure to facilitate the construction and evolution of ubiquitous capture and access applications". In Proceedings of Pervasive 2004: The 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Vienna, Austria, April 2004. To appear.
Lonnie D.harvel, Gregory D. Abowd and Ling Liu
"Context Cube: Flexible and effective manipulation of sensed context data." In Proceedings of Pervasive 2004: The 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Vienna, Austria, April 2004. To appear.

III. Awards/Honors/Grants
> ASSISTANT PROFESSORS TUCKER BALCH AND BLAIR MACINTYRE (CoC)
They are recipients of NSF CAREER awards. The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers the National Science Foundation¹s most prestigious awards for new faculty members. The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. Tucker's award amount is $500,000. Blair's award amount is $545,000 for "CAREER: Supporting Design Exploration, Prototyping and Testing of Creative Augmented Reality Experiences." His award runs from March 1, 2004 for five years.

> ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR RICHARD CATRAMBONE (PSYCH)
He is a recipient of the Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teacher Award at Georgia Tech. Two awards are presented each year to faculty members who have taught at least six semester hours during the previous academic year. Each recipient receives a $10,000 stipend provided by the Class of 1940. Criteria used for judging teaching excellence include extraordinary efforts in teaching, inspiration transmitted to students, direct impact and involvement with students, intellectual integrity and scholarship, and impact on post graduate success of students.

> ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FRANK DELLAERT (CoC)
He received an equipment donation from Xilinx to support the 100-robot project (with Tucker Balch, CoC) and the SWAN project (with Bruce Walker, Psych). The donation consisted of 100 high-end FPGA devices and software worth $27,000.

> VALERIE HENDERSON (CoC GRADUATE STUDENT)
She received a NSF Graduate Fellowship Award for 2004. The fellowships offer recognition and three years of support for advanced study to approximately 900 outstanding graduate students in the mathematical, physical, biological, engineering, and behavioral and social sciences, including the history of science and the philosophy of science, and to research-based Ph.D. degrees in science education. Approximately 90 awards are given in the Women in Engineering (WENG) and Women in Computer and Information Science (WICS) components.

> ANKUR KALRA (CoC UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT)
Ankur won third place and a check for $2,000 (see photo below) in the U.S. Intel Student Research Contest held March 12, 2004, in Portland, Oregon. The title of his project is "Multi-Modal Capture of Complex Human Motion."

[2/20/04 News]

SAVE THE DATE: The GVU Convocation is scheduled on Thursday, March, 25, 2004.

I. Media
> THE AWARE HOME
MSNBC shot footage of the Aware Home on Thurs., Feb. 19, 2004. The footage included brief interviews and demos of Aware Home projects such as the Digital Family Portrait, Deja Vu Displays and Audio Notes.

> PROFESSOR MICHAEL MATEAS (CoC & LCC)
Facade, an AI-based interactive drama developed by Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern, has been selected as a finalist in the Sixth Annual Independent Games Festival Competition. Final prizes will be announced at the Game Developer's Conference, March 24-26, 2004 in San Jose, CA. Also, his work on interactive drama is described in the article, "Bringing emotion to video games" at MSNBC.

> PROFESSOR ELIZABETH MYNATT (CoC)
She was interviewed on the "Invention and Innovation" show at VoiceAmerica, Internet-based talk radio. The segment aired on Fri., Jan. 30, 2004, on the topic of home electronics and technology. Mynatt answered questions regarding Aware Home activities and research.

> GABRIEL BROSTOW (CoC Ph.D. CANDIDATE)
He was featured on the front page of the Technique, Georgia Tech's student newspaper, in the article "Doctoral student wins Marshall." The story ran in the Fri., Jan. 23, 2004 edition. Brostow is the recipient of a Marshall Sherfield Fellowship, one of two of the Commission's post-doctoral fellowships in science and engineering. As a fellow, he will undertake post-doctoral research for a period of one to two academic years at a British university or research institute. See the Georgia Tech release.

> JAMES O'BRIEN (GVU ALUMNUS)
His work with breaking objects is the subject of the TechTV Show interview segment, "Simulating Cracks, Explosions, and Smoke," found online. Watch the video by clicking the link in the "Video Highlight" box. O'Brien is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of California at Berkeley.

II. Conferences

> PROFESSOR JEFF PIERCE (CoC)
He presented "Opportunistic Annexing for Handheld Devices: Opportunities and Challenges," a paper he co-authored with Heather E. Mahaney, at HCIC'04 held February 4-8 in Fraser, CO.

> GABRIEL BROSTOW (CoC Ph.D. CANDIDATE)
His paper was accepted to ECCV '04 as a full paper (oral presentation). The reference is:

G. J. Brostow, I. A. Essa, D. Steedly, and V. Kwatra,
"Novel Skeletal Representation For Articulated Creatures,"
to appear in Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Vision 2004,
Prague, Czech Republic, May 11-14, 2004.

II. Honors/Awards

> JAMES O'BRIEN (GVU ALUMNUS)
He is a recipient of the 2004 Alfred Sloan Fellowship. The Sloan Research Fellowships were established in 1955 to provide support and recognition to young scientists, often in their first appointments to university faculties, who were endeavoring to set up laboratories and establish their independent research projects with little or no outside support. Selection procedures for the Sloan Research Fellowships are designed to identify those who show the most outstanding promise of making fundamental contributions to new knowledge. Twenty-six Sloan Fellows have won Nobel Prizes later in their careers, and hundreds have received other honors. O'Brien received his doctorate in computer science from Georgia Tech in 2000. He is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of California at Berkeley.

[1/20/04 News]

SAVE THE DATE: The GVU Convocation is scheduled on Thursday, March, 25, 2004.

I. Media

> PROFESSOR TUCKER BALCH (COC)
Georgia Tech Research News ran the story, "Busy Bees: Computer Vision System Automates Analysis of Bee Activity of Insight into Biologically Inspired Robot Design," in a release on Dec., 9, 2003. The story focuses on his work with the animal movement analysis system as part of the BioTracking Project. The project is conducted by a team of Georgia Tech robotics researchers led by Balch. See http://gtresearchnews.gatech/newsrelease/bees.htm..

> PROFESSOR CHARLES ISBELL (CoC)
He has been named as a "Scholar of Note" in Black Issues in Higher Education magazine, January 15, 2004 issue. The magazine's cover story profiles young scholars who are making their research, teaching and training known in the academy and who are raising the bar for those who choose to follow in their footsteps.

> SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST CHRIS SHAW (CoC)
Buzzwords, a monthly electronic publication of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association, posted news on his work with a fire command training simulator in the story, "Tech Virtual Reality Training Aids Firefighters," on Dec. 1, 2003. See http://gtalumni.org/buzzwords/pastissues/dec03/article2.html

> JIM HUDSON (CoC Ph.D. CANDIDATE )
He has a paper scheduled to be published in 2004. The reference is:
Hudson, J. M., & Bruckman, A. (Forthcoming - 2004). "Go Away": Participant Objections to Being Studied and the Ethics of Chatroom Research. The Information Society, 20(2).

II. Conferences

> PROFESSOR TUCKER BALCH
He, along with Carl Anderson, Fall 2003 visiting professor and Icosystem Corporation scientist, were the organizers of the 2nd International Workshop on the Mathematics and Algorithms of Social Insects, held Dec. 15-17, 2003 at Georgia Tech. Conference proceedings have been donated to the Georgia Tech Library.

> PROFESSOR FRANK DELLAERT (CoC)
He gave an invited talk at the International Symposium on the Science of Modeling, the 30th Anniversary of the Information Criterion (AIC), in Pacifico Yokohama, Dec. 14-17, 2003.

III. HONORS/AWARDS
> GABRIEL BROSTOW (CoC Ph.D. CANDIDATE)
He is a recipient of the Marshall Sherfield Fellowship, one of two of the Commission's post-doctoral fellowships in science and engineering. The Fellowships, which will be funded by the Marshall Sherfield Fellowship Foundation, and administered by the Marshall Commission, will each enable an American scientist or engineer to undertake post-doctoral research for a period of one to two academic years at a British university or research institute. The aim of the fellowships is to introduce American scientists and engineers to the cutting edge of UK science and engineering, with the intention of building longer term contacts and international links between the U.K. and the U.S. in key scientific areas. For more information about the fellowship, see http://www.marshallscholarship.org/sherfield.html..

> PROFESSOR THAD STARNER (CoC)
He appeared in four "Cool Science" segments which aired on "CNN Headline News" on Mon., Oct. 20, 2003 and "Next@CNN" which aired Sat., Oct. 25, 2003, for interviews on his work with high-tech clothes that could save lives. The clothes were featured as the latest in wearable computer fashion at the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computer (ISWC), held Oct. 21-23, 2003 in White Plains, NY.

> TWO CoC TEAMS SELECTED FOR GAMES FESTIVAL SHOWCASE
Two Georgia Tech CoC Undergrad teams have been selected to appear in a student showcase at the Sixth Annual Independent Games Festival, scheduled for March 24-26, 2004, in San Jose, Calif. The games and team members are: 1.) "Kube Kombat," developed by Hemal Shah, Donko Jeliazkov, Kevin Legette and Nick Ralabate; and 2.) "Growbot," developed by Stephen Ingram, Graham Coleman, Dan Cunning and Hamed Hashemi. Both games were developed for the Fall 2003 offering of CS4455 Video Game Design and Programming. This is the third consecutive year that a Georgia Tech team has been selected for the student showcase. Past games selected for the festival include "XenoHammer" in 2002 and "Doggone Catastrophe" in 2003. See the announcement at http://www.igf.com/.

2003

[11/26/03 News]

ANNOUNCEMENT:

GVU HAS MOVED TO TECHNOLOGY SQUARE!
The administrative offices of GVU moved to the Technology Square Research Building (TSRB) on Mon., Nov. 24, 2003. We are located on the second floor. Our new address is:

GVU Center
Technology Square Research Building
85 5th Street, N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30332-0760 USA
Phone: (404) 894-4488
Fax: (404) 894-0673 (main)
Fax: (404) 894-3146 (3rd floor)

I. Media
> GVU MAKES COVER OF RESEARCH HORIZONS
GVU is the cover story in the Fall 2003 issue of Georgia Tech's Research Horizons magazine. Read what makes GVU an exciting place for computing research. See http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/events/news/rh-fall03.pdf.

> GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE MENTIONS GVU
The Fall 2003 issue of Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine features a caption on the GVU Center along with a photo of Aaron Bobick, GVU director (p. 47) as part of its cover story, "Tech's Bold New Campus" (see http://gtalumni.org/StayInformed/magazine/fall03/article1.html). The caption mentions the Center's move into TSRB as a conduit for more collaboration with businesses in Midtown and the Greater Atlanta community.

> GOVERNORS VISIT THE AWARE HOME
Georgia Governor Perdue and Idaho Governor Kempthorne visited the Aware Home on Fri., Nov. 7, 2003, to get hands-on demonstrations of the GVU Center Aware Home Research Initiative's latest technologies designed to promote independent and healthy aging. The distinguished list of visitors included representatives from the two Governors' offices, as well as the National Governors' Association, the Georgia Division of Aging Services, the Federal Administration on Aging, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Adult and Community Health. Read the story.

> PROFESSOR IRFAN ESSA (CoC)
He appeared in four "Cool Science" segments which aired on "CNN Headline News" the morning of Mon., Nov. 17, 2003, for interviews on his Digital Video Special Effects class (CS 4480). The segments featured student video projects from the class. To view the videos, see http://www.cc.gatech.edu/dvfx/. Essa recently discussed the evolution of the class at a GVU Brown Bag on Thurs., Nov. 20, 2003. See the Brown Bag video. Read the Brown Bag abstract.

> PROFESSOR WENDY ROGERS (PSYCH)
She was quoted in the Nov. 8, 2003 edition of the Akron Beacon Journal, in the story, "Grow old with grace high-tech inventions." Rogers commented on Aware Home research projects used to assist senior citizens in their homes.

> PROFESSORS JAREK ROSSIGNAC, CHRIS SHAW (CoC) AND JOHN GOLDTHWAITE (ARCH)
They are featured on the following NSF news sites for their participation in the Digital Clay Project: http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/tip031021.htm and http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/ma0344.htm.

> SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST CHRIS SHAW (CoC)
The Georgia Tech Newsroom posted news on his work with a fire command training simulator in the release, "Helping Firefighters with Virtual Reality Technology: Training Crucial to Safety," on Nov. 3, 2003.

> IGNACIO LLAMAS (CoC GRADUATE STUDENT)
He won second place in the Computer Graphics Forum 2004 Cover Image Contest competition, held as part of the Eurographics 2003 conference, September 1-6, in Granada, Spain. The image was created using Twister. Read more information on Twister.

> DELPHINE NAIN (CoC GRADUATE STUDENT)
Her article, "Integrated Routing and Storage for Messaging Applications in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," is scheduled to be published in a special issue of the Mobile Networks & Applications Journal (MONET). The article is co-authored by Nosh Petigara and Hari Balakrishnan.

II. Conferences
> UIST 2003
GVU had a large presence at UIST '03, held November 2-5 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Professors Gregory Abowd and Blair MacIntyre (CoC) served as program co-chairs. Professor Jeff Pierce (CoC) and GVU alumnus Ian Smith (Palo Alto Research Center) served on the planning committee. GVU alumnus Scott Hudson (Carnegie Mellon University) was on the doctoral symposium committee.

DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM:

"Intelligent Groupware to Support Communication and Personal Management," Joe Tullio (CoC)

"INCA: An Infrastructure to Support Novel Explorations of the Capture & Access Design Space," Khai Truong (CoC)

SESSIONS:

Gregory Abowd (CoC), chair of "Images and Video" Session

Jeff Pierce (CoC), chair of "Input" Session

Scott E. Hudson (Carnegie Mellon University and GVU alumnus), participant in the "GADGET: A Toolkit for Optimization-Based Approaches to Interface and Display Generation" session

D. Scott McCrickard (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and GVU alumnus), participant in the "Classroom BRIDGE: Using Collaborative Public and Desktop Timeline to Support Activity Awareness" session

DEMOS:

"MousHaus Table, a Physical Interface for Urban Design," Che-Je Huang, Ellen Yi-Luen Do (GVU alumna), Mark Gross (University of Washington)

"DART: The Designers Augmented Reality Toolkit," Blair MacIntyre, Maribeth Gandy, Jay Bolter, Steven Dow and Brendan Hannigan (Georgia Tech)

"Calendar Navigator Agent and Dialog Tabs Demonstration," Cornelis Snoeck, Thad Starner (Georgia Tech)

> Other Conference News

> PROFESSOR DIANE GROMALA (LCC)
She presented these lectures at the following conferences:

"The Function of Art in Restructuring Experience in Virtual Environments," 9th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM), October 15, 2003, in Montreal.
"Radical Innovations and Experimentation in Typography," Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), Sept. 13, 2003 in London.
"Old Habits and Open Wounds: The Visceral Response," Consciousness Reframed: The Post-Biological Era, July 4, 2003 at the University of Wales.
"Viscerality and Proprioception," Nomadische Grenzuberschreitungen: Kunst und Forschung (Nomadic Transitions: Art and Research), April 11, 2003 at the University of Art and Designin Zurich.

She was also invited to lecture at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Zurich in June. Her topic was "A Sense of Flesh: Embodied Digital Art."

> PROFESSOR JOHN STASKO (CoC)
He and his students had a paper accepted at IEEE InfoVis 2003, held Oct.19-21, 2003, in Seattle, WA. The paper, "FundExplorer: Supporting the Diversification of Mutual Fund Portfolios Using Context Treemaps," is co-authored by Christoph Csallner, Marcus Handte, Othmar Lehmann, and John Stasko. Othmar gave the talk. Also, one of the groups from Stasko's CS 7450 Information Visualization course last Spring tied for first place in the new Information Visualization Contest started at the conference and they received the Best Student Entry award. Jonathan D'Andries, JinYoung Hong, Mark Richman and Maryann Westfall comprise the group. Mark presented the project at the conference.

> DELPHINE NAIN (CoC GRADUATE STUDENT)
The paper she co-authored, "Algorithms for Stochastic Approximations of Curvature Flows," was accepted in ICIP 2003 (International Conference in Image Processing), held Sept. 14-17, 2003, in Barcelona, Spain. The co-authors are Gozde Unal, Gerard Ben-Arous, Nahum Shimkin, Allen Tannenbaum and Ofer Zeitouni.

> TRACY WESTEYN (CoC GRADUATE STUDENT)
She presented the paper, "The Georgia Tech Gesture Toolkit: Supporting Experiments in Gesture Recognition," at The Fifth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI-PUI '03) held Nov. 5-7, 2003, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Other co-authors are Helene Brashear, Amin Atrash and Thad Starner.

III. Books
> PROFESSORS JAY BOLTER AND DIANE GROMALA (LCC)
The MIT Press recently published their book, Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency. In the book, Bolter and Gromala argue that, contrary to Donald Norman's famous dictum, we do not always want our computers to be invisible "information appliances." They say that a computer does not feel like a toaster or a vacuum cleaner; it feels like a medium that is now taking its place beside other media like printing, film, radio, and television. The computer as medium creates new forms and genres for artists and designers; Bolter and Gromala want to show what digital art has to offer to web designers, education technologists, graphic artists, interface designers, HCI experts, and, for that matter, anyone interested in the cultural implications of the digital revolution.

[10/20/03 News]

I. Media
> PROFESSORS TUCKER BALCH AND FRANK DELLAERT (CoC)
They appeared on CNN on Mon., Sept. 22, 2003 and Sun., Sept. 28, 2003 respectively, in a segment on their research in computer vision and social behavior recognition. Dellaert and Balch are applying their work to the study of live colonies of ants and bees. The story included results of work by research scientist Zia Kahn; CoC graduate students Adam Feldmnan; and CoC undergraduate students Hank Wilde, Stephen Ingram, Kevin Gorham and Felipe Nascimento. See http://borg.cc.gatech.edu/CNN/.

> PROFESSOR THAD STARNER (CoC)
He appeared on CNN this morning, Mon., Oct. 20, 2003, in the three-minute segment, "Cool Science." He discussed his research with wearable computing and technology-aided sign language.

> PAM HASSEBROEK (SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY Ph.D. CANDIDATE)
An article written by her and College of Computing (CoC)/INTA Professor Seymour Goodman, and former CoC students Davis King and Andy Ozment, has been published in the Journal of Information Warfare. The reference is:

Goodman, S. E., Pamela Hassebroek, Davis King, and Andy Ozment. (2003)
International Coordination to Increase the Security of Critical Network
Infrastructures. Journal of Information Warfare, 2(2), 72-87.

> PARTICIPANTS NEEDED FOR ON-LINE PRIVACY SURVEY
Professor Colin Potts (CoC), along with Carlos Jensen (CoC) and Annie Anton of North Carolina State University, are conducting an on-line survey on how privacy concerns influence the way people behave. Sponsored by the GVU Center, NCSU's E-Commerce Center and ThePrivacyPlace.org. For more information, see http://www.theprivacyplace.org/iwatchsurvey/disclaimer.php.

II. Conferences and Papers
> UBICOMP '03
GVU was well represented at UbiComp '03, held October 12-15 in Seattle, WA. A listing of GVU participants follows:

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

Anind Dey - GVU alumnus (conference program co-chair, educator and researcher)
Gregory Abowd - CoC (member of Program Committee)
Steve Voida - CoC (student volunteers chair)
Khai Truong - CoC (conference webmaster)

DEMOS

Professor Sha Xin Wei (LCC) and graduate students from the GVU, College of Architecture and ECE, presented recent work on body and fabric-based sensing, gesture tracking, and continuous realtime media synthesis. The scenarios were the fruit of a summer Topological Media Lab seminar sponsored in part by the Rockefeller Foundation.

"Expressive Softwear for Responsive Playspaces"
Joey Berzowska (1), Arek Basirisk(1), Jill Fantauzza (2), Yvonne Caravia (2), Sha Xin Wei (2)
(1) Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University; (2) GVU, School of LCC, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Greeting Dynamics Using Expressive Softwear"
Jill Fantauzza (1), Joey Berzowska (2), Steven Dow (3), Giovanni Iachello (3), Sha Xin Wei (1)
(1) GVU, School of LCC, Georgia Institute of Technology; (2) Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University; (3) GVU, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Soft Architecture: Ambient Responsive Media for Collective and Parallel Play"
Yoichiro Serita (1), Pegah Zamani (2), Delphine Nain (1), Sha Xin Wei (3)
(1) GVU, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology; (2) College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology; (3) GVU, School of LCC, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Gestural Audio Softwear Instruments"
Sha Xin Wei (1), Yoichiro Serita (2), Steven Dow (2), Giovanni Iachello (2), Julien Fistre (3)
(1) GVU, School of LCC, Georgia Institute of Technology; (2) GVU, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology; (3) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

OTHER UBICOMP DEMOS

"Mobile Capture and Access for Assessing Language and Social Development in Children with Autism"
David Randall White (1), Jose´ Antonio Camacho-Guerrero (2), Khai N. Truong (1), Gregory D. Abowd (1), Michael J. Morrier (3), Pooja C. Vekaria(3), and Diane Gromala (1)
(1) GVU Center, Georgia Institute of Technology; (2) Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas e de Computacao, Universidade de Sao Paulo; (3) Emory Autism Center, Emory University School of Medicine
"The Narrator: A Daily Activity Summarizer Using Simple Sensors in an Instrumented Environment"
Daniel Wilson (CMU) and Christopher Atkeson (CMU and former GVU faculty member)

PAPERS

Sha X., Serita Y., Fantuazza J., Dow S., Iachello G., Fiano V., Berzowska J., Caravia Y., Nain D., Reitberger W., Fistre J., "Demonstrations of Expressive Softwear and Ambient Media, " UbiComp, 2003.

TECH NOTES

"A 2-way Laser-assisted Selection Scheme for Handhelds in a Physical Environment"
Shwetak N. Patel and Gregory D. Abowd (CoC)
"Is Context-Aware Computing Taking Control Away from the User? Three Levels of Interactivity Examined"
Louise Barkhuus (University of Copenhagen) and Anind Dey (Intel Research Berkeley and GVU alumnus)

WORKSHOPS

"Ubicomp Education: Current Status and Future Directions"
Organizers: Gregory D. Abowd (Georgia Tech, CoC); Gaetano Borriello (University of Washington); Gerd Kortuem (Lancaster University, UK)
"Multi-Device Interfaces for Ubiquitous Peripheral Interaction"
Organizers: Loren Terveen (University of Minnesota); Charles Isbell (Georgia Tech, CoC); Brian Amento (AT&T Labs)
"At the Crossroads: The Interaction of HCI and Systems Issues in UbiComp" Organizers: Brad Johanson (Stanford University); Jan Borchers (ETH Zürich, Switzerland); Bernt Schiele (ETH Zürich, Switzerland); Peter Tandler (IPSI Darmstadt, Germany); Keith Edwards (Palo Alto Research Center and GVU alumnus)

VIDEO

"Virtual Rear Projection"
Jay Summet, Ramswaroop Somani, James Rehg and Gregory Abowd (CoC)

> Other Conference News

> 7TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON WEARABLE COMPUTERS (ISWC 2003)
Graduate students Giovanni Iachello and Steven Dow will present aspects of Topological Media Lab work related to the TinyOS motes. This work supports a new project on mapping continuous gesture to rich, time-based media synthesis models. ISWC is scheduled to be held October 21-23, 2003, in White Plains, NY. The reference follows:

Sha Xin Wei, Giovanni Iachello, Steven Dow, Yoichiro Serita, Taz St. Julien, Julien Fistre, "Continuous Sensing of Gesture for Control of Audio/Visual Media", poster and demo accepted to International Symposium on Wearable Computers, 2003.

> PROFESSOR FRANK DELLAERT (CoC)
He was a member of the organizing committee for the 2003 Workshop on Higher-Level Knowledge in 3D Modeling and Motion Analysis (HLK 2003), held October 17 in conjunction with ICCV 2003 (the Ninth International Conference on Computer Vision) located in Nice, France.

> PROFESSOR GREG TURK (CoC)
He is a papers co-chair for the IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS 2003), scheduled October 19-24 in Seattle, WA. See the conference committee page at http://vis.computer.org/vis2003/committee/conference.html.

III. Talks
> PROFESSOR GREGORY ABOWD (CoC)
In his role as Director of the Aware Home Research Initiative, he spoke to the National Governor's Association meeting in New Orleans Sat., Oct. 11, 2003, on the topic of technology for successful healthy aging. On Nov. 17, 2003, he is scheduled to give an invited lecture at the Japanese International Ubiquitous Computing Symposium on the topic of software engineering challenges of ubiquitous computing. In addition, he will be giving an invited lecture at Samsung Electronics on Nov. 18, 2003, in Seoul, Korea.

IV. Awards/Honors
> KRISHNA BHARAT (GVU ALUMNUS)
He won the 2003 World Technology Award in the Media & Journalism category for his work at Google, Inc. Announced during the 2003 World Technology Summit held June 24-25 in San Francisco, the awards recognize those who are doing the work of the greatest likely long-term significance in their respective fields. Krishna also won the 2003 Webby Award in the news category as creator of Google News. The Webby Awards is the leading international honor for the world's best web sites. Krishna is a principal scientist at Google, working in the area of user interface and algorithmic support for Web search and content analysis (Web Information Retrieval). He received a Ph.D. in computer science from the College of Computing at Georgia Tech in 1996.

> THE AWARE HOME
On Fri., Nov. 7, 2003, the Aware Home will host a visit from Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne who is also chairman of the National Governors Association.

[9/19/03 News]

I. Media
> GVU LATEST NEWS
Read a recap and view photos from our Welcome Reception on Aug. 23, 2003. Learn more about GVU and Technology Square interaction.

> THE AWARE HOME
The Learning Channel (TLC) will feature the Aware Home in the four-part series "Destination Future: High Tech Metropolis" scheduled to air beginning on Sept. 21, 2003 at 3 p.m. See http://tlc.discovery.com/schedule/episode.jsp?episode=3&cpi=52456&gid=0&channel=TLC.

> RESEARCH SCIENTIST BILL RIBARSKY (CoC)
His and postdoc Peter Wonka's work on Instant Architecture software was featured in the MIT Technology Review News article, "Software Speeds Modeling" on Aug. 28, 2003. The software speeds up the process of moving a building from conceptual sketch to completion.

> PROFESSOR IRFAN ESSA (CoC)
He was interviewed on the air about digital cameras in the segment, "Clark Howard Talks Digital Cameras," broadcasted on WSB-TV Atlanta the week of Aug. 25, 2003

> PROFESSOR MARK GUZDIAL (CoC)
He was quoted in the Aug. 18, 2003 edition of The Whistle, in the article "A new approach to introductory computing for non-CS majors: Emphasizing communication rather than computation."

> PROFESSOR JANET MURRAY (LCC)
She was quoted in The Christian Science Monitor, Aug., 29, 2003 edition, in the article "Off to college to major in ... video games?" The story focuses on the burgeoning interest of video games as a valid field of study at colleges and universities. Murray comments on the need for future game designers to be broadly educated in the liberal arts.

> PROFESSOR JOHN STASKO (CoC)
He was interviewed about his Information Art project on "Go Digital," a weekly BBC World Service program which aired Sept. 1, 2003. The project, known as InfoCanvas, uses pictures to represent information people want to monitor. See the Infocanvas web and news pages. His work (along with researchers Erica Newcomb and Toni Pashley) with wireless PDAs was the focus of the article, "Grocery Shopping with a Wireless PDA," printed in the Spring/Summer 2003 issue of Research Horizons magazine on p. 27. The magazine also ran the story, , "Information as Art," (p. 30) on his work with InfoCanvas.

II. Conferences and Papers
> PROFESSORS GREGORY ABOWD AND BLAIR MACINTYRE (CoC)
They are co-program chairs for the 16th Annual ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) Conference held Nov. 2-5, 2003, in Vancouver, Canada. UIST is the premier forum for innovations in the software and technology of human-computer interfaces. Sponsored by ACM's special interest groups on computer-human interaction (SIGCHI) and computer graphics (SIGGRAPH), UIST brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse areas that include traditional graphical user interfaces, virtual and augmented reality, multimedia, new input and output devices and CSCW.

> PROFESSORS RICHARD CATRAMBONE (PSYCH) AND JOHN STASKO (CoC)
Their paper with former Ph.D. student Scott McCrickard and his student C.M. Chewar (both at Virginia Tech) was published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, May 2003 issue. The paper's title is "Establishing Tradeoffs that Leverage Attention for Utility: Empirically Evaluating Information Display in Notification Systems."

> PROFESSOR BLAIR MACINTYRE (CoC)
He is a co-program chair for ACM/IEEE ISMAR 2003 (International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality) scheduled Oct. 7-10, 2003, at the National Center of Sciences in Tokyo, Japan. ISMAR has 3 program chairs, one from Europe (Dieter Schmalstieg, Vienna University of Technology, Austria), one from Asia (Haruo Takemura, Osaka University, Japan) and one from North America (Dr. MacIntyre). ISMAR is the premiere conference on Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR), which are highly interdisciplinary fields involving signal processing, computer vision, computer graphics, user interfaces, human factors, wearable computing, mobile computing, computer networks, distributed computing, information access, information visualization and hardware design for new displays and sensors.

Also, MacIntyre, Jay Bolter (LCC), Maribeth Gandy (IMTC), Brendan Hannigan (Ph.D. Student, CoC), and Steven Dow (HCI MS Student, CoC) are demonstrating "DART, the Designer's Augmented Reality Toolkit" at the ACM UIST and ACM/IEEE ISMAR conferences in the fall. DART was developed in response to the needs of new media designers attempting to work with augmented reality (AR) as a new medium in MacIntyre and Bolter's class on Augmented Reality design, and is designed to support rapid prototyping and experience design for AR environments.

> PROFESSOR JAREK ROSSIGNAC (CoC)
He, his students and colleagues presented two papers at Eurographics 2003, held Sept. 1-6, 2003, in Granada, Spain:

"ShieldTester: Cell-to-cell Visibility Test for Surface Occluders," Isabel Navazo (UPC Barcelona, Spain), Jarek Rossignac, Joan Jou (UPC Barcelona, Spain), Rahim Shariff.
Proc. of Eurographics, September 2003. GVU Technical Report GIT-GVU-03-14.

"Out-of-core Compression & Decompression of Large n-dimensional Scalar Fields," Lorenzo Ibarria, Peter Lindstrom (LLNL), Jarek Rossignac, Andrzej Szymczak.
Proc. of Eurographics, September 2003. GVU Technical Report GIT-GVU-03-28.

> PROFESSOR JOHN STASKO (CoC)
He presented the paper "Be Quiet? Evaluating Proactive and Reactive User Interface Assistants" at the INTERACT 2003 conference in Zurich, Switzerland, Sept. 1-5, 2003. He co-authored the paper with Jun Xiao, Richard Catrambone. Stasko's student, Todd Miller, presented his research at the Doctoral Consortium of INTERACT.

Stasko and four GVU students (Rachel Fithian, Giovanni Iachello, Jehan Moghazy, and Zachary Pousman) had a paper titled, "The Design and Evaluation of a Mobile Location-aware Handheld Event Planner," presented at the Mobile HCI '03 conference in Udine, Italy, Sept. 8-11, 2003. Giovanni and Zachary presented the paper.

> MITCH PARRY (Ph.D STUDENT, CoC)
A paper he co-authored with Irfan Essa (CoC), "Rhythmic Similarity through Elaboration," was accepted at the 4th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2003), held October 26-30, 2003, at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.

> MARCIA RILEY (Ph.D STUDENT, CoC)
She presented her paper, "Enabling Real-time Full-Body Imitation: A Natural way of Transferring Human Movement to Humanoids," at the the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, held in Taiwan, Sept. 14-19, 2003. Co-authors are A. Ude, K. Wade, and C.G. Atkeson.

III. AWARDS
> MARK RICHMAN (MS-HCI Student)
The team project, "Zoomology: Comparing Two Large Hierarchical Trees," designed by Georgia Tech students Jin Young Hong, Jonathan D'Andries, Mark Richman, and Maryann Westfall, was awarded one of three first place awards in the international 2003 InfoVis competition. The award winners were from John Stasko's Spring 2003 Information Visualization class. They will present their work at the Ninth Annual IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization held October 19-21, 2003, in Seattle. Zoomology features an interface with zoomable detail windows and a modified treemap in an overview window.

IV. BOOKS
> PROFESSOR MARK GUZDIAL (CoC)
His book, Squeak: Open Personal Computing and Multimedia, edited by himself and Kim Rose has been translated to Japanese. Published by Prentice-Hall and known as the "NuBlue Book" in the Squeak community, the book has done well on Amazon.jp for several weeks, according to Rose.

[7/20/03 News]

> MORE GVU PARTICIPANTS AT SIGGRAPH 2003
Since 7-7-03, other faculty, students and alumni have notified GVU of their participation in SIGGRAPH '03, scheduled July 27-31 in San Diego, CA. The latest list we have follows:

PAPERS (Papers presented at SIGGRAPH '03 will be published in a special issue of ACM Transactions on Graphics)

Peter Wonka (CoC), Michael Wimmer, Francois Sillion and William Ribarsky (CoC)
"Instant Architecture"
L. Ibarria and J. Rossignac (CoC)
"Dynapack: Space-Time Compression of the 3D Animations of Triangle Meshes with Fixed Connectivity"
Ignacio Llamas, Byungmoon Kim, Joshua Gargus, Jarek Rossignac, and Chris D. Shaw. Proc. (CoC)
"Twister: A Space-Warp Operator for the Two-handed Editing of 3D Shapes"
Vivek Kwatra, Arno Schoedl, Irfan Essa, Greg Turk, Aaron Bobick (CoC)
"Graphcut Textures: Image and Video Synthesis Using Graph Cuts"
Yutaka Ohtake, Alexander Belyaev, Marc Alexa, Greg Turk (CoC) and Hans-Peter Seidel
"Multi-level Partition of Unity Implicits"

COURSES

Organizer: James A. Ferwerda (Cornell University)
Lecturers: James A. Ferwerda (Cornell University), Holly Rushmeier (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) and Benjamin Watson (Northwestern University and GVU alumnus)
Sun., July 27, 8:30 a.m. -12:15 p.m.
"Frontiers in Perceptually Based Image Synthesis: Modeling, Rendering, Display, Validation," Course #3
Organizer: Dana Batali (Pixar Animation Studios)
Lecturers: Byron Bashforth, Dana Batali, Chris Bernardi, Per H. Christensen, Thomas Jordan, David Laur, Guido Quaroni, Erin Tomson, Wayne Wooten (GVU alumnus), Pixar Animation Studios; Christophe Hery (Industrial Light and Magic)
Sun., July 27, 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
"RenderMan, Theory and Practice," Course #9
Co-Organizers and Lecturers: Greg Turk (Georgia Institute of Technology, CoC), Terry S. Yoo (National Institutes of Health); Lecturers: Jules Bloomenthal (Unchained Geometry), H. Quynh Dinh (Stevens Institute of Technology and GVU alumna), John C. Hart (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Ross T. Whitaker (University of Utah)
Sun., July 27, 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
"Beyond Blobs: Recent Advances in Implicit Surfaces," Course #13
Organizer: Perry Cook (Princeton University)
Lecturers: James O'Brien (University of California, Berkeley and GVU Alumnus) and Dinesh K. Pai (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey)
Tues., July 29, 2003, 1:45 p.m. - 5:30 p.m
"Physics-Based Sound Synthesis for Graphics and Interactive Systems," Course #36

> PROFESSOR TUCKER BALCH (CoC)
He appeared briefly on ESPN2 on Sun., July 6, 2003, in a segment on the RoboCup American Open soccer championships held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, April 30 - May 4, 2003. The segment aired during halftime at the U.S. National Soccer team match.

[7/7/03 News]

> GVU AT SIGGRAPH 2003
Several members of the GVU community will participate in SIGGRAPH '03, scheduled July 27-31 in San Diego, CA:

PAPERS (Papers presented at SIGGRAPH '03 will be published in a special issue of ACM Transactions on Graphics)

Peter Wonka (CoC), Michael Wimmer, Francois Sillion and William Ribarsky (CoC)
"Instant Architecture"
L. Ibarria and J. Rossignac (CoC)
"Dynapack: Space-Time Compression of the 3D Animations of Triangle Meshes with Fixed Connectivity"
Ignacio Llamas, Byungmoon Kim, Joshua Gargus, Jarek Rossignac, and Chris D. Shaw. Proc. (CoC)
"Twister: A Space-Warp Operator for the Two-handed Editing of 3D Shapes"

COURSES

Organizer: James A. Ferwerda (Cornell University)
Lecturers: James A. Ferwerda (Cornell University), Holly Rushmeier (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) and Benjamin Watson (Northwestern University and GVU alumnus)
Sun., July 27, 8:30 a.m. -12:15 p.m.
"Frontiers in Perceptually Based Image Synthesis: Modeling, Rendering, Display, Validation," Course #3
Organizer: Dana Batali (Pixar Animation Studios)
Lecturers: Byron Bashforth, Dana Batali, Chris Bernardi, Per H. Christensen, Thomas Jordan, David Laur, Guido Quaroni, Erin Tomson, Wayne Wooten (GVU alumnus), Pixar Animation Studios; Christophe Hery (Industrial Light and Magic)
Sun., July 27, 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
"RenderMan, Theory and Practice," Course #9
Co-Organizers and Lecturers: Greg Turk (Georgia Institute of Technology, CoC), Terry S. Yoo (National Institutes of Health); Lecturers: Jules Bloomenthal (Unchained Geometry), H. Quynh Dinh (Stevens Institute of Technology and GVU alumna), John C. Hart (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Ross T. Whitaker (University of Utah)
Sun., July 27, 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
"Beyond Blobs: Recent Advances in Implicit Surfaces," Course #13
Organizer: Perry Cook (Princeton University)
Lecturers: James O'Brien (University of California, Berkeley and GVU Alumnus) and Dinesh K. Pai (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey)
Tues., July 29, 2003, 1:45 p.m. - 5:30 p.m
""Physics-Based Sound Synthesis for Graphics and Interactive Systems"," Course #36

> PROFESSOR TUCKER BALCH (CoC)
He and CoC undergrad UROC student Ram Ravichandran were interviewed live on June 2, 2003, by Ann Kellan on "CNN Headline News" regarding the RoboCup American Open soccer championships held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, April 30 - May 4, 2003. Other Georgia Tech students involved in the project include CoC Ph.D. student Keith O'Hara, Ph.D. student Matt Powers, and M.S. student Bart Presenell. They were interviewed in two, three-minute segments. For clips and stills, see http://borg.cc.gatech.edu/CNN/.

[5/20/03 News]

> PROFESSOR AARON BOBICK (GVU DIRECTOR)
Georgia Tech's Research Horizons magazine Winter 2003 issue ran a blurb (p. 47) mentioning Discover magazine's article on his work with gait recognition. See the research news article.

> PROFESSOR GREGORY ABOWD (CoC)
On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, he testified before a U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging in the hearing, "Baby Boomers at the Gate: Enhancing Independence Through Innovation and Technology." He discussed how technology can provide assistance for an aging population. Also, Georgia Tech's Research Horizons magazine Winter 2003 issue ran a blurb (p. 47) on a mention by Newsweek magazine on the Aware Home.

> PROFESSOR TUCKER BALCH (CoC)
The Washington Post ran the May 13, 2003 article,"The Games Robots Play: Artificial Intelligence Researchers Have a Clear Goal in Sight," on his work with a Georgia Tech robotic dog team in the first RoboCup American Open soccer championships, held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, April 30 - May 4, 2003. The team advanced to the finals, but lost to CMU, 2-0. Still, it was an excellent showing and Tucker gives credit to CoC students Ram Ravichandran, Matt Powers, Keith O'Hara and Bart Presnell. He also expresses thanks for a Georgia Tech technology fee grant for the robots, to Intel for the computers to program them, and to Bob McMath and Leigh Bottomley for student travel support.

> PROFESSOR JIM FOLEY (CoC)
He was quoted, along with CoC Dean Rich DeMillo and CoC MS student Vivek Kaluskar, in the Atlanta Journal/Constitution article," "Jobs take trip abroad: Growing trend toward IT outsourcing is a boon for India," which ran on May 4, 2003.

> PROFESSOR RAMESH JAIN (ECE)
THe gave a keynote talk, "Architecture of Experiential Systems," at the Workshop on Computer Architecture for Machine Perception on March 12, 2003 in New Orleans, LA.

> PROFESSOR JEFF PIERCE (CoC)
He presented the paper "Specifying Interaction Surfaces Using Interaction Maps," co-authored by Randy Pausch, at the 2003 SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, held April 28-30 in Monterey, CA. See the program.

> PROFESSOR JOHN STASKO (CoC)
His work with wireless PDA software for grocery shopping is featured in the article, "Handheld technology that helps grocery shoppers find the olives: mobile computing enters the retail arena," which ran on the cover of the April 21, 2003 edition of The Whistle. A photo of him, Erica Newcomb and Toni Pashley was also printed with the story.

> PROFESSOR GREG TURK (CoC)
He, along with Fakir S. Nooruddin, has a paper published in the journal, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. The reference is:
Fakir S. Nooruddin, Greg Turk
Simplification and Repair of Polygonal Models Using Volumetric Techniques
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 9, No. 2, April-June 2003, pp. 191-205.

> PROFESSOR SHA XIN WEI (LCC)
He has been awarded a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to study sociotechnical issues and best practices associated with the modes of international and interdisciplinary cultural production represented by projects such as his work with TGarden project's TG2001 event-environment. Sha will study patterns of conflict and collaboration in knowledge production, and emergent production practices in interdisciplinary projects like TGarden. The study will include similar art + technoscience projects based in Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Thanks in part to this grant, Sha has started a series of workshops on the theory and construction of next generation "TGarden" responsive media environments at the Topological Media Lab. The first workshop is hosted at GVU, May 5 - June 20, 2003.

> VIVEK KWATRA (CoC Ph.D. Student)
He had a paper published recently in the International Journal on Shape Modeling. The reference is:
Vivek Kwatra and Jarek Rossignac
Space-Time Surface Simplification and Edgebreaker Compression for 2D Cel Animations
International Journal on Shape Modeling, Vol .8, Number 2, December 2002

> PAM HASSEBROEK (School of Public Policy Ph.D. Student)
She, along with Professor Goodman and two former CoC students, contributed to the writing of a paper recently published in the Journal of Information Warfare. The reference is:
Goodman, Seymour, Pamela Hassebroek, Davis King, and Andy Ozment. (2003).
International Coordination to Increase the Security of Critical Network
Infrastructures. Journal of Information Warfare, 2(2), 72-87.

[4/22/03 News]

> GVU FACULTY AND STUDENTS ARE RECOGNIZED
Several GVU faculty and students received awards and honors during the 12th Annual College of Computing Awards Celebration on Mon., April 21, 2003. Recipients include:

UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS:

James H. Hayes - Outstanding Undergraduate Research

GRADUATE AWARDS:

Elaine Huang - Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant
Arno Schoedl - Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation
David White - Marshall D. Williamson Fellowship

FACULTY AWARDS:

Sven Koenig - Outstanding Junior Faculty Research
William Ribarsky - Outstanding Research Scientist Research

GEORGIA TECH INSTITUTE HONORS & AWARDS:

Elaine Huang - CETL/BP Foundation Graduate Teaching Assistant Excellence

CORPORATE AWARDS:

Nancy Babiarz, Amon D. Millner - Intel Fellowship (2003-04)
Joseph B. Uhl - Nortel Networks Scholarship (2003-04)
Tammara Massey, Marcela Musgrove - Verizon Scholarships (2002-03)

FOUNDATION AWARD:

Brian Landry - Packard Fellowship (2002-03)

AGENCY AWARDS:

Christopher Plaue - National Defense Science & Eng. Graduate Fellowship (2002-03)
David Minnen - NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2002-03)
Rachel Fithian, Giovanni Iachello, Daron Vroon, Stephanie Wojtkowski - National Defense Science & Eng. Graduate Fellowship (2003-04)
Tysen Perszyk - NSF Undergraduate Scholar (2002-03)

> GVU FACULTY HONORED FOR SERVICE TO GEORGIA TECH
Long-time Georgia Tech employees were recognized for their service at a Faculty/Staff Honors Luncheon on April 9, 2003. GVU faculty members Norberto Ezquerra and William Ribarsky were honored for 25 years of service to Georgia Tech. Professor Mark Guzdial was honored for 10 years of service.

> PROFESSOR MOSTAFA AMMAR (CoC)
He has been named a Regents' Professor, effective July 1. Georgia Tech can nominate up to two individuals per year for appointment as Regents' Professors. Candidates are nominated by their colleges based on excellence in research and teaching and contributions to their profession and to Georgia Tech over a considerable period of time. A committee made up of Regents' Professors and other chaired professors representing all six of the colleges considers the nominations and makes a recommendation to the Provost. Mostafa joins Ron Arkin (another GVU faculty member) as a Regents' Professor. News of Mostafa's honor was printed in the April 14, 2003 issue of The Whistle.

> PROFESSOR MARK GUZDIAL (CoC)
His work with wiki is featured in the article, "Quickiwiki, Swiki, Twiki, Zwiki and the Plone Wars Wiki as a PIM and Collaborative Content Tool," which is the cover story for the April 2003 issue of Searcher magazine.

> PROFESSOR KENNETH KNOESPEL (LCC)
He has been named chair of the School of Literature, Communication and Culture on campus. He served as interim chair of LCC from 1990-97. Other previous positions held at Georgia Tech include associate dean of Ivan Allen College, McEver Professor in Liberal Arts and Engineering and a professor in the School of History, Technology and Society. Tech Topics ran the announcement in its Spring 2003 issue on p. 17.

> PROFESSOR JOHN STASKO (CoC)
Two of his research projects have been featured online recently. His work with wireless PDA software for grocery shopping is featured in the article, "New PDA Tech Gives Shoppers Inside Story," available in Wireless Newsfactor webzine. News about the software is also online in the ACM Press newsletter blurb, "Software Uses Pictures to Represent Info People Monitor" EurekAlert (04/04/03). John's other project, InfoCanvas, which was presented at CHI 2003 in April, is featured online on the Georgia Tech Research News web site in the article, "Information as Art: Software Prototype Uses Pictures to Represent Information People Want to Monitor." The story will also be published in an upcoming issue of Georgia Tech Research Horizons magazine.

[3/20/03 News]

> MORE GVU PARTICIPANTS AT CHI 2003
Since the last "News" email dated 2-20-03, other GVU faculty, students and alumni have notified GVU of their participation in CHI 2003, scheduled April 5-10 in Fort Lauderdale, FL. The latest list we have follows:

PAPERS

Erica Newcomb, Toni Pashley (GVU alumni) & John Stasko (CoC)
"Mobile Computing in the Retail Arena"
Julie A. Jacko, Francois Sainfort, Leon Barnard, Paula J. Edwards, V. Kathlene Emery, Thitima Kongnakorn, Kevin P. Moloney, Brynley S. Zorich (all ISyE); Ingrid U. Scott, (University of Miami)
"Older Adults and Visual Impairment: What Do Exposure Times and Accuracy Tell Us About Performance Gains Associated with Multimodal Feedback?"
April 8, 2003; 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. (title of session: Accessibility interfaces")
Kirk Benson, Glenn Dean, Geoffrey Kuhlmann, Brian Sperling, Amy R. Pritchett, Julie A. Jacko (ISyE)
"Experimental Study of CoCkpit Displays of Traffic Information for Pilot Self-Spacing in Congested Airspace"
Thursday, April 10, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. (session title: Information Visualization and Navigation)

INTERACTIVE POSTERS

David Nguyen, Khai Truong (CoC)
"PHEmail: Designing a Privacy Honoring Email System"
Gillian Hayes, Jeffrey Pierce, Gregory Abowd (CoC)
"Practices for Capturing Short Important Thoughts"

STUDENT POSTERS

Jaroslav Tyman & Elaine Huang (CoC)
"Intuitive Visualizations for Presence and Recency Information for Ambient Displays"
Robert Amar, Steven Dow, Richard Gordon, Muhammad Raafay Hamid, Chad Sellers (CoC)
"Mobile ADVICE: An Accessible Device for Visually Impaired Capability Enhancement"

TUTORIAL

Alan Edwards (consultant); Alistair D.N. Edwards (University of York, UK) & Elizabeth Mynatt (CoC)
April 7, 2003, 9:00 - 17:30
"Designing for Users with Special Needs"

WORKSHOP

J.J. Cadiz, Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft Research); Scott McCrickard (Virginia Tech and GVU alumnus) & John Stasko (CoC)
April 7, 2003
"Providing Elegant Peripheral Awareness"

SHORT TALK

David Krum, Rob Melby, William Ribarsky (CoC); Larry Hodges (UNC)
April 9, 2003, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m
"Isometric Pointer Interfaces for Wearable 3D Visualization"

> OTHER NEWS ITEMS

> PROFESSOR AL BADRE (CoC)
He was honored at a retirement reception on March 18, 2003, in recognition of his 30 years of service at Georgia Tech and his role as founding director of the GVU HCI Master's Degree Program. His wife, Barbara, as well as his parents, were in attendance.

> PROFESSOR DIANE GROMALA (LCC)
She was named to the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Her artwork is also featured in Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology, by Stephen Wilson, published by MIT Press.

> LONNIE HARVEL (ECE RESEARCH SCIENTIST)
His work with using mobile technology for distance learning is highlighted on the Hewlett Packard website in a story on mobile technology and distance learning at Georgia Tech. He is collaborating with Professor Blair MacIntyre (CoC) and his work with augmented-reality experiences, who he mentions in the story.

> PROFESSOR JEFF PIERCE (CoC)
His work on "personal information environment" technology was featured in the Microsoft PressPass web story, "Microsoft Sponsors University Innovation in Emerging Technologies," which appeared Feb. 19, 2003. The project is funded as part of Microsoft's annual Innovation Excellence Program.

> MOLLY STEVENS (IDT MASTER'S GRADUATE)
She had a paper, "Getting into the Living Memory Box: Family Archives and Holistic Design," accepted at 1AD: The First International Conference on Appliance Design to be held May 6-8, 2003, at HP Labs in Bristol, UK. The co-authors are Gregory Abowd, Khai Truong and Florian Vollmer .

> DAVID KRUM (CoC PH.D. STUDENT)
He had a paper, "Challenges in Building a Whole Earth 3D Information Space," accepted to the Second Young Investigator's Forum in Virtual Reality, held Feb. 12-13, 2003, in Phoenix Park, Kangwon Province, South Korea. Ten Ph.D. student papers were selected and students were provided travel to South Korea to attend the small workshop discussion on the future of virtual reality, media and related technologies.

> DELPHINE NAIN (CoC PH.D. STUDENT)
She presented an article titled, "Integrated Routing and Storage for Messaging Applications in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks" (co-authored with Noshirwan Petigara and Hari Balakrishnan), at the WiOpt'03 conference in Sophia Antipolis, France, on March 5. The presentation received an Honorable Mention for Best Student Presentation.

> RAMSWAROOP SOMANI (CoC MASTER'S STUDENT)
He won second prize in Nextel's, Sun's and Motorola's first-ever, nationwide University Wireless Developer Contest. "The three winning entries showcased the best applications based on the Java(TM) 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME(TM)) tailored for the university market and the mobile lifestyle of today's students and teachers," said Chris Hackett, Nextel's vice president, Education Markets. "Each of these applications creatively addressed challenges by providing extremely valuable tools and solutions for students, faculty and staff, and educational institutions. This type of innovation from tomorrow's developers inspires us to introduce a second contest later this year that will help foster the creation of other valuable applications." Entries were judged on the relevance of their applications for the university market, sophistication of the application and the business model. Representatives from Nextel, Sun and Motorola selected the first, second and third place winners. The contest was held Sept. 3 - Nov. 1, 2002.

[2/20/03 News]

> GVU AT CHI 2003
Several GVU faculty, students and alumni are participating in CHI 2003, held April 5-10 in Fort Lauderdale, FL:

PAPERS

Elaine Huang & Elizabeth Mynatt (CoC)
April 8, 2003, 14:30 - 16:00
"Tailoring Public Displays for Small, Co-located Groups"
Erica Newcomb, Toni Pashley (GVU alumni) & John Stasko (CoC)
"Mobile Computing in the Retail Arena"

INTERACTIVE POSTER

David Nguyen & Khai Truong (CoC)
"PHEmail: Designing a Privacy Honoring Email System"

STUDENT POSTER

Jaroslav Tyman & Elaine Huang (CoC)
"Intuitive Visualizations for Presence and Recency Information for Ambient Displays"

TUTORIAL

Alan Edwards (consultant); Alistair D.N. Edwards (University of York, UK) & Elizabeth Mynatt (CoC)
April 7, 2003, 9:00 - 17:30
"Designing for Users with Special Needs"

WORKSHOPS

Jennifer Lai, Noi Sukaviriya (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) & Elizabeth Mynatt (CoC)
April 6, 2003, 9:00 - 17:30
"Finding a 'Value' Matrix for Pervasive Multi-modal Application Scenarios"
J.J. Cadiz, Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft Research); Scott McCrickard (Virginia Tech and GVU alumnus) & John Stasko (CoC)
April 7, 2003
"Providing Elegant Peripheral Awareness"

> PROFESSOR AARON BOBICK, GVU DIRECTOR
He was quoted on his research on gait recognition featured in the BBC World article, "Cyber Gaitkeepers," which was available online at wwww.bbcworld.com on Jan. 23, 2003. The story focused on gait recognition as a tool to identify a person based on how he or she walks.

> PROFESSOR DIANE GROMALA (LCC) AND RESEARCH SCIENTIST CHRIS SHAW (CoC)
The Atlanta Journal/Constitution ran an article on their research project, the Meditation Chamber in the Jan. 22, 2003 edition. Larry Hodges, former GVU faculty member and CoC professor, is also quoted in the story titled, "Tranquility through technology: Virtual-reality meditation floats as way to monitor self relaxing." See http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/living/health/0103/22meditate.html. Also, Diane, Chris and Ken Graap (from Virtually Better and a Georgia Tech alumnus) appeared on CNN in a piece about the Meditation Chamber scheduled to air the week of Feb. 17. The segment is scheduled to air again on Sat., Feb. 22. Chris was quoted in USA Today Weekend Magazine on Dec. 18, 2002, in a story about video game design courses being offered in colleges across the country. He discussed how the courses are becoming a growing area of interest for students.

> PROFESSOR SHA XIN WEI (LCC)
His work, TGarden, has been selected as part of the Tenth Anniversary New York Digital Salon by a group of 10 major international curators. These include curators from the Whitney Museum and Guggenheim (New York); Tate (London); Walker Art Center (Minneapolis); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and ZKM (Germany). This collection includes works worldwide from the 1960's to the present by artists such as John Cage, Dumb Type, Toshio Iwai, Paul Miller (DJ Spooky), Shirin Neshat, and Nam June Paik. The curators were asked to select "works that have changed and are changing the course of art and music history, from the earliest days to the present, with an eye to the future." (Leonardo vol. 35, n. 5, 2002, p. 468). TGarden was selected to participate based on the strength of TG2001, the public performance works which were presented in Arts Electronica (Austria) and V2 (The Netherlands). Also, TGarden was reviewed in the fall issue of MIT Press' Leonardo Journal (Vol. 35, Issue 5, October 2002).

[1/17/03 News]

> PROFESSOR AARON BOBICK, GVU DIRECTOR
He was quoted in the Discover Magazine article, "Computers Watch Your Step," January 2003 issue, p. 13. The story focuses on gait recognition as a tool to identify a person based on how he or she walks.

> PROFESSORS TUCKER BALCH AND FRANK DELLAERT (CoC)
Their research in robotics was featured in the Atlanta Journal/Constitution story, "Research wags the robot dog at Georgia Tech," printed in the Dec. 7, 2002 edition. See http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/metro/atlanta/1202/07robotdogs.html.

> PROFESSORS DIANE GROMALA (LCC) AND CHRIS SHAW (CoC)
Diane and Chris exhibited "Dancing With the Virtual Dervish: Virtual Bodies," at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece, which ran Oct. 15, 2002 - Jan. 5, 2003. One of the very first artistic works in virtual reality, this piece was the result of an intensely collaborative effort between Diane, Chris and Israeli choreographer Yacov Sharir at the Banff Centre for the Arts. "Back in 1991, working in VR was a bit like painting and computing with one's feet," said Gromala. " So we have revisited the piece and radically overhauled it now that we can paint and compute with all limbs, not to mention proprioceptive senses." The work has enjoyed international exhibitions and has been featured on the Discovery Channel and the BBC, as well as published in art and computer science journals and books.

Also, Diane was invited to give a series of talks at IAMAS (the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences), the Center for Media Culture, and SOFTOPIA in Ogaki/Gifu, Japan, October 24-30, 2002.

> PROFESSOR THAD STARNER (CoC)
His research, "The Future of Wearable Computers," is cited on the ACM TechNews website at http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1030w.html#item16 (vol. 4, issue 417, Oct. 30, 2002).

> GRADUATE STUDENT ELAINE HUANG (CoC)
Her full paper, "Semi-Public Displays for Small, Co-Located Groups" co-authored with professor Elizabeth Mynatt (CoC), was accepted to CHI 2003, to be held in Fort Lauderdale, April 5-10. Elaine will present a GVU Brown Bag on her paper on March 20. See http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/events/brownbags/fy03/032003.html.

> THE AWARE HOME
The Aware Home is mentioned in the articles, "Home Sweet Smart Sensible Home," (see p. 32) and "Helpful Home: Technology gives house a sense of awareness," (p. 40). Both stories are printed in the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine, Winter 2003 issue, which focuses on how technology is impacting homes of the future. See http://gtalumni.org/StayInformed/magazine/win03/article1.html.

> THE BORG LAB (CoC)
A BORG Lab photo ran on the front page of The Whistle, Dec. 9, 2002 edition. Brian Feinstein, a senior majoring in computer science is shown operating robots which are part of the labs's search and rescue research. A .pdf of The Whistle can be downloaded at http://www.whistle.gatech.edu/archives/02/dec/09/dec9.pdf. For more information on the BORG Lab, see http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~borg/.

2002

[8/27/02 News]

> THE AWARE HOME
The laboratory is featured in the Spring/Summer 2002 issue of Georgia Tech's Research Horizons. The articles, "There's No Place Like Home" and "Jogging the Memory with Information from Sensors," focus on future computing technologies that will allow senior citizens to live alone in their homes longer. The stories contain quotes from GVU Director Aaron Bobick, Associate GVU Director Elizabeth Mynatt and GVU faculty members Gregory Abowd and Irfan Essa. See http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/reshor/rh-ss02/default.htm.

> PROFESSORS TUCKER BALCH AND FRANK DELLAERT (CoC)
Their research with robots was highlighted on "CBC NewsWorld," Canada's version of" The Today Show." The story, "Advances in Robotics on Display at A.I. Meeting," is available online at: http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/08/01/robots020801. The video link is http://www.cbc.ca/clips/ram-newsworld/kelley_balch_dellaert020731.ram. Tucker and Frank were in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in July as participants in an artificial intelligence conference There, they received the Technical Innovation Award in the 2002 AAAI Robot Competition & Exhibition. Also, Frank was quoted in the July 29, 2002 edition of the Edmonton Journal in the story, "Robots Ready to Strut Their Stuff: The Guy Who Lets the Dogs Out." The story describes his and Tucker's work with using robots in search-and-rescue missions. Tucker's quote on artificial intelligence and robotics, taken from the Toronto Sun, was printed in Georgia Tech's The Whistle, Aug. 19, 2002 edition, on p. 2. The .pdf can be downloaded at http://www.whistle.gatech.edu/archives/02/aug/19/index.html.

> PROFESSOR DIANE GROMALA (LCC))
Her research with the Meditation Chamber, along with GVU faculty member Chris Shaw and former faculty member Larry Hodges, is featured in the Spring/Summer 2002 issue of Georgia Tech's Research Horizons. The article, "Modernizing Meditation" can be found at http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/reshor/rh-ss02/default.htm. The Atlanta Business Chronicle ran a story on the Meditation Chamber titled, "Virtual Meditation Helps Achieve Zen-like Calm," in its July 26, 2002 edition. Also, Diane's "BioMorphic Typography" sketch was presented at the SIGGRAPH 2002 Sketches and Applications program (contributors: Pravin Bhat, CoC; Jenna Bilotta, IMTC/LCC; Nassim Jafarianimi, LCC; Florian Vollmer, ID). Diane was invited to deliver two papers and screen video work at two other conferences: BEAP (Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth) and Consciousness Reframed, held in Perth, Australia, July 27-Aug. 7.

> PROFESSORS BLAIR MACINTYRE (CoC), JAY BOLTER (LCC) AND MARIBETH GANDY (IMTC RESEARCH SCIENTIST)
Their sketch was accepted to the SIGGRAPH 2002 Sketches and Applications program. The reference is: "Three Angry Men: Dramatizing Point-of-View using Augmented Reality," (Blair MacIntyre, Jay David Bolter, Jeannie Vaughan, Brendan Hannigan, Emmanuel Moreno, Markus Haas, Maribeth Gandy). SIGGRAPH 2002 is held in San Antonio, Texas, July 21-26.

> PROFESSOR THAD STARNER (CoC)
Thad and Professor Janet Kolodner (CoC) demonstrated Georgia Tech research to Congress members and their aides in June to support NSF funding. As part of the CRA Government Affairs' participation in the 2002 CNSF Capitol Hill Science Exhibition, Thad demonstrated CoC Ph.D. student Helene Brashear's work on sign language recognition. To view photos of Thad and Janet at the event, see http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/content.php?cid=10.

> CHRIS SHAW (CoC SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST)
He was chair of the Panels program at SIGGRAPH 2002 held July 21-26, 2002, in San Antonio, Texas. Twelve panels were presented throughout the week on topics such as the well-attended "Games: Dominant Medium of the Future" with Will Wright and Ken Perlin, and "Interactive Stories: Real Systems, Three Solutions" with Will Wright and Michael Mateas, who joins Georgia Tech in January 2003. Also, Chris, along with GVU Ph.D. student Tazama St. Julien, presented the sketch "Firefighter-Training Virtual Environment" at SIGGRAPH. The sketch is a virtual environment in which the user, a commanding officer trainee, instructs teams of virtual firefighters to perform different actions to put out virtual fires.

> A. FLEMING SEAY (GVU ALUMNUS)
Fleming presented the sketch "The Meditation Chamber: A Debriefing" at SIGGRAPH 2002. At the 2001 Emerging Technologies portion of the conference, more than 400 attendees experienced The Meditation Chamber. This sketch discusses design and implementation of this installation, and the data it generated. Authors are: A. Fleming Seay, now at Carnegie Mellon University, Diane Gromala (LCC), former faculty member Larry Hodges and Chris Shaw (CoC).

[7/24/02 News]

> PROFESSOR TUCKER BALCH (CoC)
Tucker and three CoC undergraduate students participated in RoboCup-2002 in Fukuoka, Japan, June 19-25, 2002. RoboCup is an international research and education initiative created to foster artificial intelligence and robotics research. Students Brian Feinstein, James Irizarry and Ram Ravichandran worked for two months, programming four dog-like robots to play soccer in the Robot World Cup. For more information, see http://www.robocup2002.org/.

> PROFESSOR JAY BOLTER (LCC)
He is featured in the "Faculty Profile" section of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine, Summer 2002 issue. The article, "Augmented Reality: LCC professor helps break the boundaries between technology, literature" is found on p. 70.

> PROFESSOR LARRY HODGES (CoC)
He has accepted a position as Chair of the Department of Computer Science in the College of Information Technology (IT) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. In his new role, Larry will contribute to the growth and development of both the College of IT and the CS Department. Larry enjoyed a 14-year career at Georgia Tech and is one of the founders of the GVU Center. He is known for his extensive research in virtual environments, 3D HCI and virtual reality exposure therapy.

> RAVI RUDDARRAJU, UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT
Ravi won the 2002 Intel Research Award Contest for Undergraduates. His project on "Multi-Camera Eye Tracking" will be presented at the symposium in April 2003 at Intel, with other winners of the same award nationwide. Ravi award follows last year's winner of a similar award by James Hays (Art Styling of Video) from the Computational Perception Lab. Also, special thanks go to Antonio Haro, a Ph.D. student in the College of Computing, who helped Ravi with his project.

[4/25/02 News]

> GVU FACULTY AND STUDENTS ARE RECOGNIZED
The Georgia Tech Faculty/Staff Honors Luncheon, held on April 10, recognized these GVU faculty members:

Jay Bolter (LCC) - Class of '34 Distinguished Professor Award

Amy Bruckman (CoC) - Young Faculty Award, GIT Chapter Sigma XI Award

Richard Catrambone (Psych) - The Don Bratcher Human Relations Award

The 11th Annual College of Computing Awards Ceremony on April 23 recognized the following GVU faculty and students:

FACULTY AWARD RECIPIENTS

Amy Bruckman - Outstanding Junior Faculty Research
Irfan Essa - The William A. "Gus" Baird Faculty Teaching
Jarek Rossignac - Outstanding Senior Faculty Research

GRADUATE AWARD RECIPIENTS

Arno Schoedl - Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant
Jason Brotherton - Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation

CORPORATE AWARD RECIPIENTS

James Hudson - IBM Research Fellowship
Jason Ellis, Drew Steedly - Intel Fellowship (2001-02)

TEN YEARS OF SERVICE TO GEORGIA TECH

Professor Colin Potts

> GVU STUDENTS WIN SAIC BEST PAPER AWARD FOR THE FOURTH TIME!
Olugbenga (Benga) Omoteso and David Krum, students of GVU faculty members William Ribarsky, Thad Starner, and Larry F. Hodges, won a Best Paper Award in the Georgia Tech Student Paper Competition sponsored by SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation). They will receive the award today, April 25, at 103 West restaurant in Atlanta. The reception begins at 6:30 p.m.

Benga, a graduate student in the GVU M.S. program and David, a Ph.D. student in the College of Computing, continue a winning tradition dating to 1989, the year Ben Watson (now a professor at Northwestern University) won this competition. Since then, GVU students have won the award four times. Benga and David's paper is titled "Speech and Gesture Multimodal Control of a Whole Earth 3-D Visualization Environment."

> PROFESSOR AMY BRUCKMAN (CoC)
She is the recipient of the 2002 Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies. As part of the award, Amy is invited to deliver an address at AERA (American Educational Research Association) 2003. Also, her article, "The Future of E-Learning Communities" was published in Communications of the ACM, April 2002 issue, 45:4, pp. 60-63.

> PROFESSORS JAY BOLTER AND DIANE GROMALA (LCC)
They have been invited to participate in the Aesthetic Computing Workshop in Dagstuhl, Germany, July 15-19. The workshop is an investigation in alternative, cultural and aesthetically-motivated representations for models found in computer science.

> PROFESSOR DIANE GROMALA (LCC)
She has been invited to present a paper and workshop at the University of MontPellier, France, for the TechnoDance and Movement Research Conference, June 15-22. Also, she will present a paper at Consciousness Reframed, in Perth on August 1. Recently, she represented the United States at the formative meeting for the Global Digital Arts Portal, an initiative of the United Nations' Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) which is headquartered in Paris. She also presented a paper at CHI 2002, as part of the Physiological Computing Workshop in Minneapolis on April 21.

> PROFESSOR JOHN STASKO (CoC)
He received an NSF grant (HCI program) for his proposal, "Fostering Peripheral Information Awareness through Personalized, Expressive Art. " It is a three-year grant for $422,930.

> PROFESSOR BLAIR MACINTYRE (CoC) AND JAY BOLTER (LCC)
Their sketch, "Three Angry Men: Dramatizing Point-of-View Using Augmented Reality," was accepted to the SIGGRAPH 2002 Sketches and Applications Program. Sketch credits also include Jeannie Vaughan, Brendan Hannigan, Emmanuel Moreno, Markus Haas and Maribeth Gandy.

[3/22/02 News]

> PROFESSOR GREGORY ABOWD (CoC)
On Tuesday, March 19, he appeared as a guest on NBC's "The Today Show" to discuss Aware Home research. Today Show Co-host Katie Couric wore the Gesture Pendant, a device that recognizes and translates gestures into commands for home appliances. Also, Gregory is quoted in the Feb. 8, 2002 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education article,"'Electronic Whiteboards' Add Flexibility to Classrooms." An expert who has been conducting research on electronic whiteboard use since the mid '90s, he comments on the advantages and disadvantages of the technology.

> PROFESSOR AMY BRUCKMAN (CoC)
She has been selected as a Computing Research Association (CRA) Digital Government Fellow, which honors the best and brightest young computer researchers. Supported by the National Science Foundation's Digital Government Program, the goal of the fellowship is to build ties between the academic and industrial computing research communities, as well as among information technology workers in federal, state and local governments. As a Fellow, Amy will give a public lecture, receive an $1,000 honorarium and be featured in a future issue of Computing Research News.

> PROFESSOR MARK GUZDIAL (CoC)
He served on the Doctoral Consortium as part of the 33rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2002), held Feb. 27-March 3 in Northern Kentucky. Also, the conference accepted his paper titled "Teaching the Nintendo Generation to Program: Preparing a new strategy for teaching introductory computer programming." The paper was co-authored by Elliot Soloway from the Advanced Technology Lab at the University of Michigan.

> PROFESSOR JULIE JACKO (ISyE)
Her book, The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications, is scheduled to be released in September 2002. Co-authored by Andrew Sears from the University of Maryland, the book covers foundational principles, as well as the most recent advances in conceptualizing, designing and evaluating computing technologies spanning several traditional and non-traditional platforms. Leading experts in the field of HCI share their expertise, experience and insight regarding research, technological advancements and specific methodologies. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. are the publishers. For an advanced copy, call 1-800-926-6579 or send email to orders@erlbaum.com.

> PROFESSOR THAD STARNER (CoC)
Considered as one of the leading researchers in the field, his work with wearable computing is featured online at Innovations@Georgia Tech. The March 4, 2002 story is titled "Wearable Computing: Providing Everyone with a Personal Assistant. "

[2/15/02 News]

> PROFESSOR AL BADRE (CoC)
His book, Shaping Web Usability: Interaction Design in Context, is steadily rising on the Amazon.com bestseller list. As of Feb. 15, it is listed as #4 among Amazon.com web usability books and #5 among 70 usability books and it rates five out of five stars! The book offers a structured approach to Web usability, describing several contexts in which each site must be viewed, from the genre to which it belongs to the individual page. The book then provides a concrete methodology for designing a site effectively for the convenience, practicality and pleasure of its users. Several real-world examples are used to illustrate the book's concepts. The foreword is written by Dr. James Foley, CoC Professor, Associate Dean and Stephen Fleming Chair in Telecommunications.

Follow this navigation at the Amazon.com website to see the latest ranking of his book: Top Sellers > Books > Subjects > Computers & Internet > Web Development > HTML, Graphics, & Design > Interface Design. Click here for more book information.

> PROFESSOR LARRY HODGES (CoC)
Atlanta Magazine, as part of their February 2002 special issue, "Body and Soul" features his work with virtual reality exposure therapy in the article "The Power of Technology" by Mary Jo DiLonardo (p.72). Chris Shaw (CoC), senior research scientist, is also mentioned in the article for his closely associated work with "Fire Training Simulation."

2001

[10/04/01 News]

> PROFESSOR DIANE GROMALA (LCC)
She was selected as "one of the world's most influential artists" to be featured in a series of monographs by Zanders, a German patron of the arts. The other featured artists are Peter Greenaway (film), Zaha Hadid (architecture) and Tomato (UK design collaborative).

> PROFESSORS LARRY HODGES, CHRIS SHAW (CoC); DIANE GROMALA, JAY BOLTER (LCC)
Their SIGGRAPH ETech exhibit, "The Meditation Chamber," was featured on the front page of the Business Section of the Los Angeles Times, August 14, 2001 edition, pp. C1 and C6. The SIGGRAPH exhibit included the collaborative teamwork of: Fleming Seay, Chris Campbell, Colin Henderson (CoC); Sue Rinker, Eli Wendkos, Dawn Pendergast, Robert Hill, Chris Aquino, Robert Todd (LCC).

> PROFESSOR ELIZABETH MYNATT (CoC)
She was interviewed by NPR, morning edition, about the Aware Home and her research on the Aging in Place project. The segment aired in August.

> PROFESSOR THAD STARNER (CoC)
He was interviewed in August on the "Mitch Albom Show" (based at Detroit radio station WJR, but simulcast on MSNBC) about his work on wearable computing.

> PROFESSORS JOHN STASKO (CoC), RICHARD CATRAMBONE (PSYCH), SCOTT MCCRICKARD (GVU ALUMNUS)
They won the "Best Paper" award at this summer's INTERACT Conference held in Tokyo in July. The paper was "Evaluating Animation in the Periphery as a Mechanism for Maintaining Awareness," based on Scott's dissertation work.

> JAMES HAYS, CoC UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT
His proposal, "Art Styling for Video," was selected to receive a $2,000 grant from the Intel Research Award Contest for Undergraduate Students.

> PAPERS ACCEPTED AT CSCL 2002

Several GVU students and faculty have had several papers accepted for The Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) 2002 Conference held January 7-11, 2002 in Boulder, Colorado.
They are:

- Long Papers:

Authors: Amy Bruckman, Carlos Jensen, and Austina DeBonte
Title: "Gender and Programming Achievement in a CSCL Environment"

Authors: Jochen Rick, Mark Guzdial, Karen Carroll, Lissa Holloway-Attaway, and Brandy Walker
Title: Collaborative Learning at Low Cost: CoWeb Use in English Composition

Authors: Mark Guzdial, Karen Carroll
Title: "Explaining the Lack of Dialogue in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning"

- Short Papers:

Authors: Jakita Owensby, Janet Kolodner
Title (paraphrased): "Case Reuse Suite"

Authors: James M. Hudson, Amy Bruckman
Title: "Disinhibition in a CSCL Environment"

Authors: Jason B. Ellis, Amy S. Bruckman
Title: "What Do Kids Learn from Adults Online? Examining Student-Elder Discourse in Palaver Tree"

Authors: Colleen Kehoe
Title: "Design Reviews with Remote Critics in an Asynchronous Environment"

Authors: Jochen Rick
Title: "Towards a Poor Learning Environment"

Authors: Jochen Rick
Title: "AudioExplorer: Multiple Linked Representations for Convergence"

[7/16/01 News]

> PROFESSOR LARRY HODGES
His research with Virtual Reality Therapy was printed in a short news article which ran in the June 25, 2001 issue of Newsweek magazine (p. 53). The article mentions the ATDC Company Virtually Better, which licenses the VR Therapy software. Included is a picture featuring several GVUers, including: Diane Gramola, Fleming Seay, Chris Shaw, Zach Wartell and Omoteso Olybenga (Benga), plus CoC staff members Cynthia Bryant and Susan Jackson. Larry's work was also featured in the article, "Immersed in a Virtual World,"> printed in the Spring/Summer 2001 issue of Georgia Tech's Research Horizons magazine (p. 18).

> PROFESSOR THAD STARNER
He was awarded a patent for his research on the following: "Method and Apparatus for Automated, Context-Dependent Retrieval of Information." B. Rhodes, T. Starner, P. Maes, and A. Pentland. Awarded May 22, 2001 (US6236768). European forthcoming. Documents stored in a database are searched for relevance to contextual information, instead of (or in addition to) similar text. Each stored document is indexed in term of meta-information specifying contextual information about the document. Current contextual information is acquired, either from the user or the current computational or physical environment, and this "meta-information" is used as the basis for identifying stored documents of possible relevance.

Also, a article on Thad's work appeared in the 'Wireless" column of USA Today, July 2, 2001 edition. See the column, titled "Today's cyberborgs get an eyeful," at http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/wireless/2001-07-02-wearable-pc.htm.

> PRABIR MEHTA, HCI MASTER'S DEGREE STUDENT
He is featured in the article, "Work in Progress," printed on the front page of the Metro section in the Atlanta Journal/Constitution, June 18, 2001 edition. The article focuses on the difficulty students from India and other countries have in finding employment as the number of jobs in technology fields declines.

[5/29/01 News]

> CO-WEB WINS FIRST PLACE NATIONAL AWARD
The CoWeb research project won first place in the McGraw-Hill Technology Design Competition held in May. Submitted as TechLINC (a network of on-line chat and meeting rooms where students and professors can hold discussions), the research project won in the area of technology design and application for Rhetoric and Writing Technologies in Higher Education. The competition and judging was rigorous with top-notch educational designers and composition/rhetoric scholars, thus the honor was quite a coup. The project was awarded not only for its technical and design elements, but also for its pedagogical application in writing-intensive curricula. GVU faculty members Gregory Van Hoosier-Carey (LCC) and Mark Guzdial (CoC) are affiliated with the research.

> PROFESSORS GREGORY ABOWD AND ELIZABETH MYNATT (CoC)
They were interviewed for an "Aging in Place" segment which aired Wednesday, May 23, 2001 on ABC News. "Designing an Easier Home," an article relating to the segment which quotes the professors, can be read http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/WorldNewsTonight/wnt010523_design_boomers.html. The video can be viewed there as well.

> DAVIS KING, PH.D. STUDENT (CoC)
He was interviewed about his research on 3D compression technologies and quoted in the article, "Big Pictures, Little Packages" recently published in the May 2001 issue of Computer Graphics World magazine. Davis is noted as the creator of 3Dcompression.com, a clearinghouse for information on 3D graphics and other complex datasets.See http://cgw.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.
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