Dr. Hammond and others from the Sketch Recognition lab are featured in the Texas A&M Engineer magazine. http://engineering.tamu.edu/magazine/2012/sketch-recognition/

Danielle Cummings and Paul Taele were both awarded fellowships for the National Science Foundation's East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) program for summer 2012! The EAPSI fellowship allows graduate students to pursue their research interests and gain international research experience and greater cultural awareness with counterparts in East Asian and Pacific host countries and institutions. Danielle will be conducting research in Christchurch, New Zealand with Dr. Mark Billinghurst in the Human Interface Technology Lab at the University of Canterbury, while Paul will be conducting research in Taipei, Taiwan with Dr. Mike Chen's Mobile Lab at National Taiwan University's Department of Computer Science. The award is jointly sponsored by the National Science Foundation and its counterparts in the Royal Society of New Zealand and National Science Council (Taiwan). Congratulations to both Danielle and Paul for being awarded this fellowship!

Five SRL undergraduate REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) students participated in the REU Poster Session on Tuesday, August 2, 2011 (4 pm - 6 pm) and in the USRG Poster Session on Friday, August 5, 2011 (8:30 am to 12 pm).

Kate Boxer, Essa Haddad, Sarin Regmi, and Alex Reynolds presented "Haptigo".
Abstract: Coming soon!

Laura Murphy presented "Mechanix Interface Design for Desktop and Android Applications".
Abstract: Mechanix is a sketch-based interface designed to teach freshman engineers how to draw trusses and free body diagrams. The Mechanix interface is constructed to feel similar to doing homework on a sheet of paper. We began developing a mobile version of Mechanix, named MechMobile, during the summer semester. Upon designing elements for Mechanix and redesigning them for MechMobile, we discovered this process needs to take into account Android-specific characteristics. Limitations (such as small screen size and the lack of a mouse), standard usage (menu usage and common gestures), and extra features (the ability to use multi-touch gestures and buttons built in to the hardware) all must be considered. This led to a set of guidelines that allowed MechMobile to retain a visual style similar to Mechanix while also integrating the look-and-feel of Android applications. This poster details the UI design decisions we made while creating elements for MechMobile.