Monday, May 9, 2011

Congratulations to the student teams who won the 2011 CHI Student Design Competition

As listed at http://chi2011.org/authors/sdc/sdc-winners.html here are this year's top 12 Student Design Competition submissions. This was the eighth year of the CHI Student Design Competition. The competition has grown each year with increased international representation, always draws a large audience at CHI, and also provides a prime recruiting opportunity for identifying talented students. This year there were over 60 submissions from 11 countries.

12 Teams accepted for the 2nd Round (in no particular order)

Lingua: Cultural Exchange Through Language Partnerships
University of Michigan - Caitlin Holman, Jane Leibrock, Jose Rafael Jimenez, Daniel Greitzer, Tom Haynes

The Design Process of iConnect: Social Advice Application
University of Washington - Shane Wachirawutthichai, Nisha Singh, Ramji Enamuthu, Yun “Joyce" Zhou

Entrust: Connecting Low-Income HIV+Individuals with Health Care Providers
Iowa State University Ames - Clifford J. Gentry, Marisol Martinez, Philip Vander Broek, Douglas Choi, Stefan Ganchev

DiversIT: Inspiring Communication about Individuals’ Differences
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology - Timothy Ekl, Kenny Gao, Sarah Jabon, Joseph Salisbury, Eric Stokes

Cowabunga!: A system to facilitate multi-cultural diversity through CouchSurfing
Missouri Western State University - Sujoy Kumar Chowdhury, Jody Wynn

SignBright: A Storytelling Application to Connect Deaf Children and Hearing Parents
Iowa State University - Chad Harbig, Lei Zhang, Melissa Burton, Mariam Melkumyan, Jiyoung Choi

TimeCapsule: Connecting Past
Indiana University - Yikun Liu, Haidan Huang

Sharing the Knowledge
Art Center College of Design Pasadena - Dustin York, Zhengxin Xi

Interactive Therapy Gloves: Reconnecting Partners After a Stroke
Emily Carr University - James Hallam, Vanessa Whiteley

Face-back: Who is the illiterate again?
German University in Cairo - Hoda Hamouda, Mariam Hussein, Mohamed Sharaf-El Deen, Nermeen Abdel-Aziz, Shady Hanna

ViTu: A System to Help the Mexican People to Preserve and Celebrate their Culture
Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca - Mónica Isabel González Arribas, Emilio Sánchez Sánchez, Edgar de los Santos Ramírez

Foodmunity: Designing community interactions over food
Indiana University Bloomington - Shad Gross, Austin Toombs, Jeff Wain, Kevin Walorski