* Best Paper Award - Wu, A., Joyner, D. and Do, E. Y., Move, Beam, and Check! Imagineering Tangible Optical Chess on An Interactive Tabletop Display, ACM Computers in Entertainment, Volume 8, Issue 3, Article 20, 15 pages, Dec. 2010, doi>10.1145/1902593.1902599

* Ellen delivered a keynote "Things that Think, Spaces that Sense and Places that Play" at the First International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia Dec, 2010, Allahabad, India

* Ellen delivered a keynote speech at Keio University (Nov, 2010) at the Symbiotic, Safe and Secure System Design – International Symposim on Biofied Buildings, Nov 26, at Keio University, kenchiku pdf , at Sydney University (Nov 2010) and several universities in Taiwan (May 2010)

* Featured in the Information Technology section of the Chronicle of Higher Education article Composers and Computers Work in Harmony at Georgia Tech's Music Center, by Eric Kelderman, Jan 30, 2009 issue.

* Ellen delivered a keynote speech titled "Unlocking Human Potential through Technological Innovation - Interdisciplinary Research at Georgia Institute of Technolog" at Intelligent . Quality . Good Life conference sponsored by National Science Council, and hosted by INSIGHT Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Jan 19, 2009. The keynote paper in proceeding pp. 11 - 20.

* Ellen in the news and video of Piano Touch/Mobile Music Touch - Reinventing the Way People Learn to Play the Piano November 7, 2008

* Ellen delivered a talk at the Planning, Design + Built Environment PhD Program's Doctoral Seminar at Clemson University on Octber 17, 2008

* Ellen delivered a talk at HCI Seminar at Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, on October 4, 2007.

* Ellen delivered a keynote speech titled "Every Drawing Tells a Story at Spatial Cognition in Architecutral Design, September 19, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.

* Ellen delivered a keynote speech titled "Patient Room of the Future" at the Smart Living Space Symposium , June 8-9, 2007, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, supported by the National Science Council in Taiwan. Here is a couple slides from the talk

* Electronic Cocktail Napkin (and Ellen) featured in the UK's Computer Shopper "Britain's Biggest Technology Magazine," feature story of Sketch Recognition, March 2006, 224-227. (did not get all the facts right, but nice being mentioned)

* Design Sketches and Sketch Design Tools, in Knowledge-Based Systems, Volume 18, Issue 8, December 2005, Pages 383-405, is ranked 14th on the Top 25 Hottest articles during Jan-March 2006 in the Subject Area: Computer Science, Journal: Knowledge-Based Systems

* Drawing on the Back of an Envelope: a framework for interacting with application programs by freehand drawing, Computers and Graphics, 24 (6) (2000) pp. 835-849 Best Paper Award, Journal in Computers and Graphics (2000)

* Ellen delivered a keynote speech titled "Things that Think, Spaces that Sense and Places that Play" at the Smart Living Space Symposium, June 1-2, 2006, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, supported by the National Science Council in Taiwan, also a talk at the HCI Groups in Computer Science at National Taiwan University - Things that Think, Spaces that Sense, and Places that Play, a short overview of the talk.

Here is part of the Home in the Digital Age presentation

* Featured in "Next Generation Tools for Architects", by Denise Fulton, Northwest Science & Technology magazine http://www.nwst.org/, Autumn 2002 issue, pp. 32-37. PNWST.pdf or /archi/NW-ST/.

* "Next Generation Tools" featured on the University of Washington's homepage http://www.washington.edu Nov. 6-12, 2002. See the page that links to the text only story summary http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/design.html, also archived at UW-News/design.html or UW-News/NextTools.pdf