News Archive. Sometimes it's hard to keep track of everything we're up to.
2008
Summer, 2008
Along with Tom Rodden at Nottingham, Keith will be Program Chair for CHI 2010 in Atlanta.
Keith has been appointed to the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board; this is a group of 18 experts from computing, law, and public policy who advise, analyze, and critique the security and privacy technologies of Microsoft's core products and services.
August 7, 2008, Keith Edwards gave an invited talk at Intel Research Seattle: Human-Centered Networking Research at Georgia Tech.
Keith and Steve Voida have a paper appearing at UIST 2008: Re-framing the Desktop Interface Around the Activities of Knowledge Work
Along with Pam Hinds at Stanford, Keith will chair the Doctoral Colloquium at CSCW 2008.
Erika Poole has a paper appearing in UBICOMP this September in Korea. She also has a paper appearing in the Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, special issue on CSCW, Technology, and Diagnostic Work. Fellow Pixi lab member, Christopher Le Dantec, has a paper appearing in CSCW this November in San Diego and a feature in the upcoming September/October issue of ACM interactions.
Erika Poole has been recognized as a leader in technology and politics: Women in Technology and Politics &/or Policy
Pixi Lab members land prestigious summer internships: Erika Poole is off to MSR Redmond and the Social Computing Group and Craig Tashman is off to the MSR Cambridge and the Integrated Systems Group
Erika and Chris will be at the Values in Design workshop to be held August 8-16, at Santa Clara University.
April, 2008
Catch Chris and Keith in an interview about their work on homelessness & technology by the Italian newspaper Nova100.
March, 2008
Erika Poole and Jennifer Stoll have been awarded The Google 2008 Anita Borg Scholarship
Chris and Keith were awarded CHI Best Paper for Designs on Dignity: Perceptions of Technology Among the Homeless
February 27, 2008
Keith Edwards has been awarded tenure! Celebrations are underway and on-going.
January, 2008
Several Pixi members have papers accepted to CHI08! Designs on Dignity: Perceptions of Technology Among the Homeless, Sesame: Informing User Security Decisions with System Visualization, and TALC: Using Desktop Graffiti to Fight Software Vulnerability
2007
November 14-15, 2007
Pixi Lab researchers will present their paper, "Moving Toward the Middle: The Case Against the End-to-End Argument in Home Networking" at the ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Hot Topics in Networking (HotNets-VI) November 14-15 in Atlanta.
September, 2007
Jennifer Stoll's paper, "Exploiting the User: Adapting Personas for Use in Security Visualization" was accepted to the VizSec 2007 Workshop, to be held in Sacramento, CA 2007.
September 18-21, 2007
Keith Edwards, Erika Shehan, and Jennifer Stoll presented their paper "Security Automation Considered Harmful?" at NSPW in North Conway, New Hampshire.
September 19-21, 2007
Christopher Le Dantec presented his paper The Mechanisms of Value Transfer in Design Meetings at DTRS7 in London.
September 10-13, 2007
Jeonghwa Yang presented her work, "ICEbox: Toward Easy-to-Use Home Networking" at INTERACT 2007, Rio De Janerio, Brazil.
August 2007
NSF awards $900,000 for project on tangible interaction led by Pixi Lab researchers.
August 2007
Keith Edwards receives Phase-I commercialization grant from VentureLabs to develop a next-generation home router.
August 2007
Pixi lab receives $12,000 NSF grant to support undergraduate research in human-centered home networking.
June - July
Keith Edwards invited to visit University of Nottingham and Microsoft Research Cambridge for the summer to initiate research collaboration with Georgia Tech
Summer
Pixi Lab members land prestigious summer internships: Jennifer Stoll is off to PNNL; Craig Tashman is off to the VIBE Group at Microsoft Research
May/June
Christopher A. Le Dantec attended to the 2007 Design Research Summer School at CMU for an intense week of design research
May 3
Pixi lab members Shanks Krishnan and Shivam Goya pulled down a first place award in the 2007 IMS Research Competition. mobMedia, a location-based media sharing and social networking application was awarded in the Teen / Young Adult category. For more details, see the press release. Congrats Shivam and Shanks!
May 2
Keith Edwards gives an invited talk at Cisco Research on "Human-Centered Home Networking Research at Georgia Tech"
May
Pixi Lab members present two full papers at CHI 2007: “ Home Networking and HCI: What Hath God Wrought?” and “ Give and Take: A Study of Consumer Photo-Sharing Culture and Practice,”
May
Erika Shehan organizes and runs CHI workshop on "Security User Studies: Methodologies and Best Practices"
April 18
Two Pixi Lab teams tie for 2nd place in the Undergrad Research Symposium People's Choice category: Catie Donnelly and John Keyser for their "Ambient Router" project, and Sarah Tursell and Jeremy Duvall for "A Smart Router for the Home Network."
February
Jennifer Stoll has a paper accepted at the 2007 Creativity and Cognition Conference Graduate Student Symposium, “IdeaMurals: a Graphical Interface for Supporting Ideation in Public Policy Knowledge Work”
2006
Fall
Pixi lab member Aras Bilgen lands an internship at Microsoft Research Cambridge.
Summer
Pixi lab members land prestigious internships! Good luck to Jeonghwa Yang (Intel Research), Craig Tashman (IBM Almaden), Erika Shehan (Department of Homeland Security), and Jennifer Stoll (Sandia National Labs).
April 23
Three Pixi members participate in the IT@Home Workshop at CHI 2006 in Montreal.