{"322171":{"#nid":"322171","#data":{"type":"news","title":"MS-HCI Students Off to UIST Student Competition in Hawaii","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThree student teams have been accepted into the ACM User Interface Software and Technology Student Innovation Contest taking place in Honolulu this October 5th to 8th. The \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.acm.org\/uist\/uist2014\/contest.php\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EUIST competition\u003C\/a\u003E \u201cis to innovate new interactions on state-of-the-art hardware,\u201d and this year\u2019s focus is household interfaces. The student teams and their projects are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam members:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Yuanyuan Lin (MS-HCI)\u003Cbr \/\u003E Zhengyang Shen (MS-HCI)\u003Cbr \/\u003E Mickey Muzi Li (MS-HCI)\u003Cbr \/\u003E Alan Dingtian Zhang (MS-CS)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProject: FoodieBuddy\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E FoodieBuddy is your best friend in the kitchen. It provides recipe suggestions based on your choice of ingredients and detects your need to prepare the right tool for you. You can control the whole FoodieBuddy set with voice or gestures during the whole cooking process -- no more oily hands on your device! FoodieBuddy will also be your note taker should you have any thoughts and tips to share with others.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam Members\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Yuan Gao (MS-HCI) \u003Cbr \/\u003E Chong Guo (MS-DM)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProject: MusePillow\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E We propose MusePillow, an intimate, soft and expandable interface for music spa. No matter whether you\u2019re getting to sleep, just having a rest, or even faced with insomnia, MusePillow can help with its stereo effect. MusePillow also lightens the pain of feeling your smartphone in the dark. With two touch-pads, a zipper and gyroscope, MusePillow interacts with the user naturally through tap, hold, shake, slide and so on. We also expect to demo how to connect MusePillow with other household devices such as lights and fans.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam Members:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPaul Lazarus (MS-HCI)\u003Cbr \/\u003ERushil Khurana (MS-HCI)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProject: Indoor Navigation for the Visually Impaired\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EImagine how easy life for the visually impaired would be if their house could \u0022talk\u0022 to them. Making houses more accessible is the main idea behind this project. In a nutshell, the prototype would allow furniture inside the house to communicate with the someone who is visually impaired with a message of \u0026lt;distance, direction\u0026gt;. For example, a chair would send a response of \u201c2 feet North\u201d to the person equipped with a Bluetooth earpiece (audio feedback) when the person is in range\/vicinity. The basic advantage of attaching the sensor directly to the furniture is that the \u0026lt;distance, direction\u0026gt; pair would always be relative to the receiver; hence allowing movement of furniture, which is a typical problem faced in audio mapping of a space in navigation solutions for the visually impaired.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Two student teams have been accepted into the ACM User Interface Software and Technology Student Innovation Contest taking place in Honolulu this October 5th to 8th."}],"uid":"28101","created_gmt":"2014-09-06 23:58:49","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:04","author":"Rachel Sheketoff","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-09-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-09-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"66442","name":"MS HCI"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3047","name":"ACM"},{"id":"2029","name":"Competition"},{"id":"167058","name":"Student"},{"id":"4924","name":"UIST"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}