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Sept. 1, 2017

Jacob O. Wobbrock has terrific news about two of his papers: His paper entitled, “Epidemiology as a framework for large-scale mobile application accessibility assessment” with co-authors Annie Ross (CSE), Xiaoyi Zhang (CSE), and James Fogarty (CSE) was nominated for the ACM SIGACCESS ASSETS 2017 Best Paper Award. Seven papers of 126 submissions were accorded the nomination. Of those, the best paper will be chosen prior to the ASSETS 2017 conference in October in Baltimore, MD. His paper entitled, “User-defined gestures for surface computing” with co-authors Meredith Ringel Morris (MSR) and Andrew Wilson (MSR), published in 2009, has now entered the Top-10 most-cited papers of all-time from the flagship ACM CHI conference. The paper is the youngest paper in the top-10 all-time cited papers, most having come from the 1990s.

Jessica Hullman received $10,000 from Adobe Systems for her research in building novel creative authoring applications, such as adding speech input to creative applications, like Photoshop, and building authoring tools for scientific figures. Congratulations, Jessica!

Katie Davis was interviewed for a piece that appeared in Inside Higher Ed. The article is titled, The Digital-Native Debate.

Joseph T. Tennis and Ph.D. students, Paula Carina de Araújo (Fulbright from Saõ Paulo State University) and Wan Chan Lee, had the following papers published:

  • Tennis: Perspective, Voice, Reference, and Warrant: A Sample of Ameliorations to the Multi-Perspective Design Requirement and Some Arguments Against It. (2017). In Advances in Classification Research Vol. 27; and Facets and Change: Design Requirements for Analytio-Synthetic Schemes in Light of Subject Ontogeny Research. (2017). In Faceted Classification Today: Theory, Technology and End Users: Proceedings of the International UDC Seminar 2017, London, UK.
  • Lee: Questions concerning the Foundation of Multi-perspective Classification. (2017) In Advances in Classification Research Vol. 27.
  • Araújo, Tennis, and Guimarães: The concept of epistemology in knowledge organization: O conceito de epistemologia na organização do conhecimento. (2017). In Memória, cultura e tecnologia na Organização do Conhecimento, 2017.

Annuska Zolyomi had a paper accepted to ASIS&T SIG/CR (Special Interest Group on Classification Research) titled, Challenges of Constructing a Multiple-Perspective Domain Analysis of Neurodiversity.