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Travel Grant Recipients
Over 30 Travel Grants were awarded in 2014-2016 thanks to the generosity of State Farm. The most recent awards include:
- Anandghan Waghmare
Conference: UbiComp 2017, Maui Hawaii, 9/11/17 - 9/15/17
Paper Presentation: "Soundtrak: Continuous 3D tracking of a finger using active acoustics" - Yiran Ma
Conference: CHI 2017, Denver CO, 5/6/17 - 5/12/17
Student Volunteer - Sumeet Jain
Conference: Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Maui Hawaii, 9/11/17 - 9/15/17
Paper Presentation: "Soundtrak: Continuous 3D tracking of a finger using active acoustics" - Samuel Weiller
Conference: Civic Hack - Building the First Police Accountability Platform, San Francisco CA, 3/30/17 - 4/4/17
Conference Participant - Rachel LeRoy
Conference: Civic Hack - Building the First Police Accountability Platform, San Francisco CA, 3/30/17 - 4/4/17
Conference Participant - Aditi Dhar
Conference: 2017 UXDC Conference, Washington D.C., 4/13/17 - 4/17/17
Conference Participant - Sahib Singh
Conference: O'Reilly Design Conference, San Francisco CA, 3/19/17 - 3/22/17
Conference Participant - Ho Ryun Song
Conference: Designing Interactive Systems 2017, Edinburgh UK, 6/11/17 - 6/14/17
Paper Presentation - Geunbae Lee
Conference: Digital Summit, Seattle WA, 3/26/17 - 3/28/17
Student Volenteer - Mandy Chu
Conference: 2017 UXDC Conference, Washington D.C., 4/13/17 - 4/17/17
Conference Participant - Akansha Gupta
Conference: O'Reilly Design Conference, San Francisco CA, 3/19/17 - 3/22/17
Conference Participant - Lorina Navarro
Conference: Tapestry Conference, St. Augustine FL, 2/28/17 - 3/2/17
Data Visualization - Yiran Ma
Conference: HCI International 2017, Vancouver Canada, 7/9/17 - 7/14/17
Paper Presentation - Shuli Liu
Conference: IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, Seoul Korea, 4/17/17 - 4/23/17
Student Volunteer - Bradlyn Walker
Conference: Game Developers Conference, San Francisco, 2/26/17 - 3/4/17
Glitch Powerleveling Program - Vedant Swain
Conference: CHI 2017, Denver, 5/5/17 - 5/11/17
Student Volunteer - Steve Jones
Conference: CHI 2017, Denver, 5/5/17 - 5/11/17
Student Volnteer - Yunnuo Cheng
Conference: CHI 2017, Denver, 5/5/17 - 5/11/17
Paper Presentation - Karan Pratap Singh
Conference: IEEE VR Conference, Los Angeles, 3/18/17 - 3/25/17
Poster: Design of Impossible Spaces for Locomotion in Room-Scale VR Narratives - Amit Garg
Conference: IEEE VR Conference, Los Angeles, 3/18/17 - 3/25/17
Poster: Design of Impossible Spaces for Locomotion in Room-Scale VR Narratives - Meeshu Agnihotri
Conference: ACM CSCW 2017, Portland, OR, 2/15/17 - 3/1/17
Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing 2017 - Reema Upadhyaya
Conference: ACM CSCW 2017, Portland, OR, 2/15/17 - 3/1/17
Reflections on Design Methods for Underserved Communities workshop - Udaya Lakshmi
Conference: Convey UX, Seattle, WA, 2/28/17 - 3/2/17
Student Volunteer - Lu Dong
Conference: International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE), Orlando, FL, 7/27 - 7/31/16
Abstract presentation: A non-obtrusive pen-based interface for student feedback in high school classrooms - Wesley Wang
Conference: International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE), Orlando, FL, 7/27 - 7/31/16
Poster presentation: Virtual Reality and Education - Nivedita Arora
Conference: BCI Meeting 2016, Pacific Grove, CA, 5/30 - 6/3/16
Extended abstract: Mobile Wearable Brain Computer Interface - Samuel Cheng
Conference: CHI 2016, San Jose, CA, 5/8 - 5/13/16
Student volunteer - Sarthak Ghosh
Conference: CHI 2016, San Jose, CA, 5/8 - 5/13/16
Poster presentation: Ringteraction: Coordinated Thumb-Index Interaction Using an Interactive Ring - Ridhima Gupta
Conference: CHI 2016, San Jose, CA, 5/8 - 5/13/16
Conference participant - Varsha Jagdale
Conference: CHI 2016, San Jose, CA, 5/8 - 5/13/16
Conference participant - Xiaoxuan Wang
Conference: CHI 2016, San Jose, CA, 5/8 - 5/13/16
Conference participant - Caroline Foster
Conference: Place Sensing Wearables Workshop, Singapore, 3/21-3/26/16
Workshop participant - Reema Upadhyaya
Conference: Place Sensing Wearables Workshop, Singapore, 3/21-3/26/16
Workshop participant - Samuel Weiller
Conference: Place Sensing Wearables Workshop, Singapore, 3/21-3/26/16
Workshop participant - Lakshmi Ravindrababu
Conference: Game Developers Conference, San Francisco, CA, 3/14-3/18/16
Conference ambassador - Lorina Navarro
Conference: Game Developers Conference, San Francisco, CA, 3/14-3/18/16
Conference ambassador - Jeremy Xia
Conference: South by Southwest, Austin, TX, 3/11-3/15/16
Conference participant - Qin Li
Conference: Interaction 16, Helsinki, Finland, 3/1-3/4/16
Student volunteer - Manasvi Lalwani
Conference: Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2015, Houston, TX, 10/14-10/17/15
Conference participant
Outstanding Project Award Winners
Each year, MS-HCI students who complete and present the most outstanding projects among their peers are awarded a $500 prize. These graduating students were nominated by their project advisors and then selected by the MS-HCI faculty coordinators following their presentations in late April. In the 2014-2016 and 2015-2016 school years, State Farm, corporate sponsor of the Program, funded this award.
2016 Recipients
- Ridhima Gupta | AlumniBase | Carl DiSalvo, Advisor
- Matt Moldavan | Instructor Dashboard for Computer Science EBooks | Mark Guzdial, Advisor
- Andrew Nelson | Designing Digital Services for Gleaning in Atlanta | Carl DiSalvo, Advisor
- Clement Zheng | Design of Interactive Systems for Personal Fabrication | Jim Budd, Advisor
2015 Recipients
- Florian Foerster | User-Centered Design of an Adaptive Mobile App for Cancer Patients | Beth Mynatt, Advisor
- Brighton Vino Jegarajan | Companion Experiences for Live Sports - InSync | Janet Murray, Advisor
- Tim Major | Visualization Support for Model-Based Systems Engineering | Rahul Basole, Advisor
- Michael Lefco | Digital Icon Based Asthma Action Plan | Rosa Arriaga, Advisor
Last modified: Apr. 24, 2017
