{"64257":{"#nid":"64257","#data":{"type":"news","title":"\u2018Liquid Text\u2019 Project Wins GTRIC Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student Craig Tashman took first prize in Georgia\nTech\u2019s 2011 Research \u0026amp; Innovation Conference (GTRIC), held Feb.\n8 in the Student Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETashman\u2019s project, \u201c\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.liquidtext.net\/\u0022\u003ELiquidText:\nActive Reading through Multitouch Document Manipulation\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E,\u201d (website temporarily under construction) presents\nan innovative way to read and annotate documents, taking full advantage of\ntablet PCs and other, larger touch-screen interfaces to significantly enhance\nreader experiences with text documents. Tashman took home a $15,000 prize as\nGTRIC\u2019s first-place winner.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u201c\u003C\/em\u003EWe are creating a different way to\ninteract with text, where the document is no longer a fixed, monolithic unit,\nbut rather a flexible, fluid representation controlled by the reader through\nmulti-finger touch and gesture input,\u201d said Tashman, a doctoral student in\ncomputer science. \u201cEarly studies have already shown broad interest in our technology from people in many areas of knowledge work.\nConsequently, we are currently refining our designs and are working to\ncommercialize the technology.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOverall, the College\n of Computing did very\nwell at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sga.gatech.edu\/graduate\/GTRIC\u0022\u003EGTRIC 2011\u003C\/a\u003E.\nSvetlana Yarosh and Kimberly Weaver, both Ph.D. students in human-centered\ncomputing, took home $5,000 fellowship awards, while Ph.D. student Yogesh\nMundada (computer science) and master\u2019s student Justin Ratcliffe \u003Cem\u003E(\u003C\/em\u003Ehuman-computer interaction\u003Cem\u003E)\u003C\/em\u003E and Yogesh Mundada received $1,500 travel\nawards. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOrganized and hosted by the GT Student Government\nAssociation, GTRIC featured two poster sessions that included approximately 400\ngraduate research projects and awarded some $85,000 in total prizes and grants.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student Craig Tashman took first prize in Georgia\nTech\u2019s 2011 Research \u0026amp; Innovation Conference (GTRIC), held Feb.\n8 in the Student Center. \u003Cem\u003ESource: Office of Communications\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27166","created_gmt":"2011-02-15 13:27:45","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:10","author":"Juliet Helms","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"8121","name":"gtRIC"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael Terrazas\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInterim Director of Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Computing at Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:mterraza@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emterraza@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}