This year's ASSETS Conference hosted its fifth Microsoft Student Research Competition (SRC) event. The SRC allows students from diverse ACM areas to present their work and get recognised for achievement. The competition had both Undergraduate and Graduate categories, with the following students winning in their respective categories.

Undergraduate Category

1. AudioWiz: Nearly Real-time Audio Transcriptions
   Samuel White, University of Rochester, USA
2. Utterance-Based Systems: Organization and Design of AAC Interfaces
   Timothy Walsh, The University of Delaware, USA
3. LocalEyes: Accessible GPS and Points of Interest
   Jason Behmer and Stillman Knox, University of Washington, USA

Graduate Category

1. GoBraille: Enhancing Independence and Safety for Blind and Deaf-Blind Public Transit Riders
   Shiri Azenkot and Emily Fortuna, The University of Washington, USA
2. Investigating Meaning in Uses of Assistive Devices: Implications of Social and Professional Contexts
   Kristen Shinohara, University of Washington, USA
3. Accessible Indoor Navigation
   Kyle Montague, University of Dundee, UK

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This year's ASSETS Conference hosted its fourth Microsoft Student Research Competition (SRC) event. The SRC allows students from diverse ACM areas to present their work and get recognised for achievement. The competition had both Undergraduate and Graduate categories, with the following students winning in their respective categories.

Undergraduate Category

1. Sensation Augmentation to Relieve Pressure Sore Formation in Wheelchair Users
   Raphael Rush, Queen's University, Canada
2. Designing AAC Interfaces for Commercial Brain-Computer Interaction Gaming Hardware
   Stephen Steward, The University of Delaware, USA

Graduate Category

1. iSET: Enabling in Situ and Post Hoc Video Labeling
   Mish Madsen, MIT, USA; Abdelrahman Mahmoud, American University in Cairo, Egypt; Youssef Kashef, American University in Cairo, Egypt
2. Defining Virtualization Based System Abstractions for an Indoor Assistive Living for Elderly Care
   Nova Ahmed, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
3. MGuider: Mobile Guiding and Tracking System in Public Transit System for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments
   Wei-Hsun Chen, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan

Labels: ASSETS, Awards, Student Research Competition

In May we announced that Xu Liu from the University of Maryland was one of the three winners in this year’s ACM / Microsoft Student Research Competition (SRC) for his paper on “Mobile Currency Reader for People with Visual Impairments”.

At the ACM Awards banquet this past Saturday, it was announced that he won First Place in the graduate student division. Congratulations Xu!

This is the second time in the past few years that a student from the ASSETS Conference SRC has won 1st place. This reflects very well on the quality of entries we get at the conference. We look forward to seeing more outstanding entries at ASSETS’09 in October.

For information about how students can enter the SRC at the upcoming ASSETS conference, see:
http://www.sigaccess.org/assets09/information/student-research-competition.php

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Xu Liu, from the University of Maryland, is a winner of this year’s ACM / Microsoft Student Research Competition (SRC) for his paper on “Mobile Currency Reader for People with Visual Impairments”.

This student competition takes place at many ACM conferences, including ASSETS. As one of the three winners at ASSETS, he was able to enter his work into the Grand Finals. The Grand Finals have entries from all participating ACM conferences in both graduate and undergraduate categories. In each category, there are three winners. We are extremely pleased that Xu’s work was honoured with a win in the graduate category. As a Grand Finalist, he is invited to attend the ACM Awards Banquet in San Diego next month — a ceremony that will honour many people in computing, including this year’s Turing Award recipient.

For more information about the SRC, see http://www.acm.org/src/.

ASSETS ’09 will again feature an SRC event. This is a great way to get visibility for student work! For information about how students can enter the SRC at the upcoming ASSETS conference, see http://www.sigaccess.org/assets09/information/student-research-competition.php.

Labels: ASSETS, Awards, Student Research Competition, Winner, Xu Liu