iSchool garners three Best Paper Awards at CHI 2008
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Best Paper Nominees and Awards have been announced for the CHI 2008 conference, to be held April 5-10 in Florence, Italy. Best paper nominees represent the top 5 percent of 714 full papers submitted. Best paper winners represent the top 1 percent, or 7 papers from all 714 submissions. Three papers by University of Washington authors were among the one percent selected as Best Papers. The iSchool's Jacob O. Wobbrock was honored with two Best Paper Awards. CHI is the leading international conference for Human-Computer Interaction, a rapidly-growing field that studies and facilitates how peopl