Prof. Walt Scacchi was quoted by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in an article on the game industry, titled "Game industry finds a foothold in St. Louis".
June 2013Prof. André van der Hoek is collaborating with Boeing, Intel, and Mirth in trialing the use of Calico – a distance collaboration tool for software design sketching – to learn how it behaves in supporting real-world design performed by teams distributed across the US.
June 2013Prof. Alfred Kobsa received $60,000 from Samsung Information Systems America to foster his research on privacy attitudes and behaviors in the use of mobile devices.
April 2013Prof. James A. Jones is hosting in-resident visitor and researcher Myunghee Han, from Samsung Electronics, Korea from April through September.
April 2013Prof. Bonnie Nardi has been elected to the CHI Academy, a group of researchers honored by SIGCHI, the ACM Special Interest Group in Computer–Human Interaction. Members are elected for making significant, cumulative contributions to the development of the field of human–computer interaction and for influencing the research of others.
January 2013Prof. Bonnie Nardi has co-edited the book Materiality and Organizing: Social Interaction in a Technological World, togther with Paul M. Leonardi and Jannis Kallinikos.
November 2012Prof. David Redmiles gave the opening keynote address, entitled “Awareness, Trust, and Tool Support in Distance Collaborations,” at the Brazilian Symposium on Collaborative Systems (SBSC 2012) in October in Sao Paulo, Brazil
October 2012Prof. Paul Dourish gave the opening keynote talk, entitled “The Materialities of Information: Databases and Representational Practice,” at NordiCHI 2012 – the main Nordic forum for human-computer interaction research.
October 2012Prof. André van der Hoek is serving as an Editor in Chief for the new Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development (JSERD), which is part of SpringerOpen - a suite of fully Open Access journals from Springer. Prof. Nenad Medvidovic is serving on the Editorial Board. JSERD launches in late September.
September 2012Prof. Cristina Videira Lopes has been awarded $500,000 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her research on Automatic Software Architecture Recovery: A Machine Learning Approach.
September 2012