Three members of the Sketch Recognition Lab in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University attended the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) in Atlanta, Georgia where they were awarded the 2015 IUI Best Poster Award. In attendance to present the poster were undergraduate student Trevor Nelligan, graduate student Seth Polsley, and Dr. Tracy Hammond, director of the lab.
Graduate student Jaideep Ray and Dr. Michael Helms, and Dr. Julie Linsey, both from Georgia Tech University were co-authors on award-winning poster.
For Nelligan and Polsley, IUI it was the first conference they have attended.
"My experience at IUI was amazing,” Nelligan said. “It was an honor to take part in the exchange of ideas between some of the leading scholars in our field. Hearing the presenters share their work was great, and being able to dialogue with them about it afterwards was an incredibly exciting opportunity. Along with that, exploring Atlanta and visiting our collaborators at Georgia Tech made for a perfect conference experience.”
The title of the award-winning paper is "Mechanix: A Sketch-Based Educational Interface." The Mechanix project is funded in part by an NSF project.
“Trevor and Seth did an amazing job presenting, and it was even more impressive given that this was their first presentation at an international conference. I am so proud of them as well as everyone on the Mechanix team,“ said Hammond.
This year’s IUI conference is the 20th annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. The conference is important because it is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. ACM is also interested in building relationships with professionals from related fields, such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design and the arts.
ACM IUI 2015 include three keynotes, 47 long and short papers, 16 posters, eight demonstrations, four workshops, three tutorials, 12 student consortium papers, and five invited papers and a demo from TiiS.