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News]
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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).
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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"
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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"
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.cfm?Section=Articles&Subsection=Display&ARTICLE_ID=99510.
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