April 2012:
Imager alum Ron Maharik
won the
Faculty of Science Graduate Prize for his MSc record.
April 2012:
Imager members won the Best Student Paper (HCI Track) at
Graphics Interface 2012
for "Individual Differences in Personal Task Management: A Field Study in an
Academic Setting" by Mona Haraty, Diane Tam, Shathel Hadad, Joanna McGrenere, and Charlotte Tang.
April 2012:
Imager faculty Joanna McGrenere, Dinesh Pai, and Alla Sheffer received
NSERC Discovery Accelerator Awards
in the 2012 competition.
March 2012:
Imager alum Gordon Wetzstein won the
Alain Fournier Ph.D. Dissertation Annual Award for 2011.
March 2012:
Imager faculty member Joanna McGrenere won a CACS/AIC
Outstanding
Young Canadian Computer Science Prize for 2011.
March 2012:
Vincent Levesque, Louise Oram and Karon MacLean win Best Paper at 2012 Haptics Symposium
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March 2012:
Imager faculty Karon MacLean co-chairs the
IEEE Haptics Symposium in Vancouver, on March 4-8. Drop by to see 50 demos of int'l cutting-edge research targeting the sense of touch, and much more.
February 2012:
Imager faculty Dinesh Pai will give the
keynote talk
at the ACM SIGGRAPH I3D conference this year.
January 2012:
Imager has four papers
appearing
at CHI 2012, part of eight from UBC.
January 2012:
Imager faculty Wolfgang Heidrich received the
Charles
McDowell Award for Excellence in Research, one of UBC's most presitigious
research prizes.
January 2012:
PC World lists the
programmable
friction touch pad interaction techniques developed in Imager/SPIN
as one of the top ten tech research projects from the past year.
Watch the video here.
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