Daniel Wigdor has volunteered as CHI’s first chair of People’s Choice Talk Awards(for 2014). The goal is to reward high-quality talks by allowing conference attendees to vote for their favourites. The People’s Choice Awards will be presented at the end of the conference. So, CHI 2014 presenters, be on notice: a good talk can lead to fame and fortune!
Connaught New Researcher Award
The Connaught Fund will be sponsoring Daniel Wigdor’s lab with a New Researcher Award at the top level of funding.
Michael Glueck to Receive GI Best Student Paper Award
We learned this morning that Mike Glueck‘s paper, A Model of Navigation for Very Large Data Views, has been selected for the Michael A.J. Sweeney Award for best student paper at GI 2013. Congratulations to Mike, and his co-authors, Tovi Grossman of Autodesk and Prof. Daniel Wigdor.
Brave NUI World Translated into Chinese
Our book, Brave NUI World | Designing Natural User Interfaces for Touch and Gesture, has been translated into Chinese.
Presenting at ACM CHI 2013
Daniel Wigdor and collaborators will be presenting 3 papers at ACM CHI 2013, April 29-May 2 in Paris.
Tactual Labs Launched
Tactual Labs is a start-up deciated to the development of technologies related to high-performance interactive systems, building on work done in the lab.