Roel Vertigaal playing with our interactive installation ‘follow the leader’
Project for coca201, a class by School of Computing, Queens University in Kingston Ontario
Music is by HOOB
Doors Open Queen’s – the EQUIS lab today!
As part of Doors Open Queen’s, we’re opening the EQUIS lab to the general public today, 12:00 noon-1:00 PM. Location is 141 Collingwood St.
There are a lot of interesting events around campus this week as part of this program; see http://www.queensu.ca/giving/ways/communityappeal/eventsinfo.html for all the details.
Nick
Human Media Lab students succeed!
Dear all,
I am running out of superlatives to celebrate the achievements of our graduate students. Here are today’s news from the Queen’s School of Computing Human Media Lab graduate cohort:
1) Rob Dijkstra and Chris Perez received a CHI 2011 Honorable Mention Award for their paper “Evaluating Effects of Structural Holds on Pointing and Dragging Performance with Flexible Displays”. This is a great accomplishment at the top conference in Human Computer Interaction.
2) Chris Perez and Andrew Stephenson (supervised by Jim Cordy) had their demo “An inflatable hemispherical multi-touch display”, a CISC 878 graduate course project, selected as Top Demonstration at the Tangible, Embodied and Embedded Interaction 2011 conference in Madeira, Portugal.
Congratulations to Rob, Chris and Andrew, and to the HML Director Professor Roel Vertegaal. Keep up the excellent work!
Selim
Queen’s Graduate Computing Society Conference
Dear all,
It is with a great sense of pride that I offer my congratulations, on behalf of the Queen’s School of Computing, to our graduate students who, for the second consecutive year, have organized and run a successful Queen’s Graduate Computing Society Conference this past weekend.
http://www.queensu.ca/sgs/news/archives/2011/compute.html
I understand that planning is already underway for the 2012 edition!
Selim
March Break Open House 2011
March Break Open House 2011 photo of Sacha Robinson explaining a biomedical technical breakthrough!
Great photo by Mike Lea of the Kingston Whig Standard!
Congratulations to Kasif Ali on his successful NSERC postdoctoral fellowship application!
Congratulations to our CGS and PGS NSERC Award winners!
Hazem Radwan Ahmed receives the Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship.
Douglas Wightman Receives an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship.
Cheryl Savery receives an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship.
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships Program
The NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships (PGS) Program provides financial support to high-calibre students who are engaged in master’s or doctoral programs in the natural sciences or engineering. This support allows these students to fully concentrate on their studies and to seek out the best research mentors in their chosen fields. NSERC encourages qualified Aboriginal students who are interested in the program to apply.
Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarships Program
The Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) Program provides financial support to outstanding eligible students pursuing master’s or doctoral studies in a Canadian university. The Government of Canada established these prestigious scholarships, to be awarded through national competitions by the granting agencies, to ensure a reliable supply of highly qualified personnel to meet the needs of Canada’s knowledge economy. Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholars will help renew faculty at Canadian universities and will be the research leaders of tomorrow.
Cheryl Savery wins Best Paper at ACM Symposium
Queen’s School of Computing Ph.D. Candidate Cheryl Savery of the EQUIS Lab today received a “Best Paper” award at the ACM Symposium on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, currently ongoing in Hangzhou, China, for her paper “It’s About Time: Confronting Latency in the Development of Groupware Systems”.
This award was granted to the top two full papers out of a total of 268 submissions.
Congratulations Cheryl, to you and to your supervisor Dr. Nick Graham. This is great news!
Selim
Apple’s iPad 2 competing in bigger market
“[Mr. Jobs] might make a cameo appearance to pop in, make the announcement and pop out,” said Roel Vertegaal, an associate professor in human-computer interaction at Queen’s University. “It’s also possible that Tim Cook will do the honours, which is actually much more likely.”
Amy VanBerlo invited to CRA’s Grad Cohort Workshop
Dear all,
Congratulations to Queen’s School of Computing graduate student Amy VanBerlo who has just been invited to the Computing Research Association’s Grad Cohort Workshop, to be held in April at Boston. All travel and lodging expenses are covered, thanks to support from Microsoft and Google (among others).
The workshop is organized by CRA-W, which is the CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research that is jointly sponsored by NSF and NSERC.
Amy is completing her Master’s degree under the supervision of Randy Ellis.
This is the second time this academic year that CRA recognizes the work done by students in the School of Computing.
Selim