News Archive
Best Paper award at HRI 2022
March 11, 2022Congratulations to James Berzuk and Dr. James Young for winning the Best Paper Award in the Theory and Methods Category at the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction!
Honourable Mention award in CHI 2020
July 04, 2020Congratulations to Teng Han, alumnus, for winning the Honourable Mention award in 2020 the ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI 2020)!
More Awards Winners
December 10, 2019Congratulations to Ananta Chowhury for receiving a University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship (UMGF) to support her M.Sc. research. Congratulations also to Daniel Rea and Stela Seo, each of whom received an NSERC/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship. Best of luck to Ananta, Daniel and Stela!
Award and Distinction Winners !!
September 30, 2019Ali Neshati and MD Hosne Al Walid Shaiket are awarded the prestigious University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship (UMGF) for Ph.D. and M.Sc. level studies respectively. Besides,Delica Leboe-McGowan earned the distinction of President’s Scholar for her outstanding previous academic record. Congratulations to award winners and President’s Scholar!!
Honourable Mention award in C&C 2019
July 10, 2019Congratulations to Elaheh Sanoubari, PhD student, and Dr James Young for winning the Honourable Mention award in the 12th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 2019!
HCI Lab Alumnus Dr. Teng Han to join Chinese Academy of Science
April 21, 2019Our lab alumnus Teng Han will be joining the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Science as an Associate Researcher.
UManitoba HCI Lab wishes all the best for his future.
Honourable Mention award in CHI 2019
April 21, 2019Congratulations to Dr. William Delamare, alumnus, and Ali Neshati, PhD student, for winning the Honourable Mention award in 2019 the ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI 2019)!
Andrea Bunt awarded CS-Can | Info-Can Young Researcher Award
March 20, 2019Congralulations to Dr. Andrea Bunt for being a recipient of the 2018 CS-Can | Info-Can Young Researcher Award. https://cscan-infocan.ca/awards/andrea-bunt/
Best HCI Poster at Graphics Interface 2018
May 19, 2018Congratulations to Patrick Dubois, Daniel Rea, Meghan Chua and Kevin Hoang on their Best HCI Poster award at Graphics Interface 2018
Honourable Mention award in CHI 2018
April 04, 2018Congratulations to Gaganpreet Singh, Msc student and Dr. William Delamare, Postdoctoral fellow, for winning the Honourable Mention award in 2018 the ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI 2018)!
Best Paper Award in GI 18
April 04, 2018Congratulations to Junkyeok Kim, Msc student, and Dr. William Delamare, Postdoctoral fellow, for winning the Best Paper Award in 44th International Conference on Graphics, Visualization, & Human-Computer Interation(GI 18)!
HCI Lab Alumnus Dr. Barrett Ens to join Monash University
October 12, 2017Our Lab alumnus Dr. Barrett Ens will be joining the Immersive Analytics Group at the Monash University in Melbourne (starting on May 1st, 2018). Congratulations to Barrett! Barrett completed his PhD in 2016. He was selected for that year’s Distinguished Dissertation Awards from the FGS.
UManitoba HCI Lab wishes all the best for his future.
HCI Lab Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. William Delamare to join Kochi University of Technology
October 04, 2017Dr. William Delamare joins CHEC, Kochi University of Technology, Japan, as an Assistant Professor (similar to Postdoc in North America). He will work with Prof. Xiangshi Ren. Congratulations!
HCI Lab Alumnus Khalad Hasan to join San Francisco State University
June 22, 2017Our lab alumnus Khalad Hasan will be joining the Department of Computer Science at San Francisco State University as Assistant Professor.
UManitoba HCI Lab wishes all the best for his future.
Congratulations, Khalad!
Best Paper at Graphics Interface 2017
May 13, 2017Congratulations to Patrick Dubois on his Best Paper award at Graphics Interface 2017!
Robot Painter
April 28, 2016
Picassnake, a robot painter prepared for RobotArt competition, has been featured in IEEE spectrum
RobotArt team link
IEEE Spectrum article
“Would You Do as a Robot Commands?” Featured in Harvard Business Review Article
May 28, 2015Lab alumnus Derek Cormier's work, "Would You Do as a Robot Commands?", has been featured in a Harvard Business Review article. Take a look!
https://hbr.org/2015/06/when-your-boss-wears-metal-pants
Lab Alumnus, Xing-Dong Yang, to join at Dartmouth College
April 17, 2015Our lab alumnus Xing-Dong Yang will be joining the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College as Assistant Professor from July 1, 2015. UManitoba HCI lab wishes all the best in his new position.
Congratulations, Xing-Dong!
PaintBoard Wins Best Paper Award at ACM HAI 2014
November 05, 2014UManitoba HCI lab members Daniel J. Rea and James E. Young received a Best Paper Award at the 2nd International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction with co-author Takeo Igarashi for their paper "PaintBoard – Prototyping Interactive Character Behaviors by Digitally Painting Storyboards". Congratulations on this achievement!
Personal Cockpit on Discovery News
March 12, 2014With Barret Ens' Personal Cockpit you carry your apps in your hand, or stick them to the wall, or have then follow you. Discovery News has taken note.
http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/#clip1072073
“Humans Obey Robots” Media Reports
March 12, 2014Recent work by Derek Cormier on whether humans will obey order issued by robots has sparked discussions around the web. Brian Merchant at Vice.com praises the paper and reports that given that robots are to continue taking our jobs, more research is needed. Similarly, Jason Dorrier at SingularityHUB.com also covers the work and concludes "Human-robot interaction will grow in coming years, particularly in healthcare and the military. A greater body of behavioural research can inform future designs and potentially prevent harmful obedience. (Or, we might add, promote healthy disobedience.)".
Derek's Project Brian Merchant's article at Vice.com Jason Dorrier's article at SingularityHUBNew Scientists Interviews Barrett Ens about his “Cockpit for Apps”
February 20, 2014Here is the link for the news:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129574.900#.UwvTxIXD9HV
6 Papers Accepted at CHI2014
January 27, 2014Our lab has had 6 papers accepted at CHI this year. Check out our publications page for more details.
Dr. Pourang Irani Receives Research Chair
November 29, 2013Dr. Pourang Irani is a new Tier 2 (awarded $500,000 over the next five years) Canada Research Chair in Ubiquitous Analytics. Irani has a vision for the next generation of analytic tools in which ubiquitous comput ing will facilitate insight-driven interaction with data, anywhere.
Launch of new website for HCI lab
April 23, 2013The new website for HCI lab has been launched. Please visit this website to learn about the people, research, projects and all the latest news about the HCI lab.
CrashAlert in the MIT Tech Review
April 15, 2013CrashAlert was covered by the MIT Tech Review. Click here for details.
First Place in People Choice Category at UIST 2012
October 10, 2012Jedi (puppet) Masters won first place in the People Choice category at the UIST 2012 student competition. Congratulations to all team members!!!
CHI 2012 Best Paper Award
April 10, 2012Andrea Bunt received a Best Paper award at the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012) for her paper entitled "Improving Command Selection with CommandMaps" with co-authors Joey Scarr, Carl Gutwin and Andy Cockburn.
Scholarship Winners
April 10, 2012Daniel Rae, Barrett Ens and Derek Cormier are awarded the NSERC and Stela Seo and Adnan Khan are awarded the Graduate Funding Package(GFP) for completing their graduate work. Congratulations to award winners.
IUI 2012 Best Paper Award
March 02, 2012Jim Young's paper, "Style by Demonstration: Teaching Interactive Movement Style to Robots", has received the best paper award at the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2012) .