UIST2022 Student Innovation Contest

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@ryosuzk:#uist2022 Excited to announce the 10 accepted teams for Student Innovation Contest! Thank you for all of the amazing submissions! Starting this year, SIC papers will be also published at ACM Digital Library! Stay tuned for awesome demo + paper! https://t.co/gi5c34k9EA

• Yay (blu3mo)(blu3mo)

  • The Columbia logo is cool.
  • There are many Japanese people, so maybe it spread through the Japanese HCI community?
    • UChicago’s is also from Nakagaki’s lab.

• Applications of Ultrasonic Levitation Devices

• Brainstorming

  • Things it can do:
    • Light objects can float.
      • If done well, even heavy objects can appear to float.
    • Objects can be touched while floating.
    • It can move autonomously (or appear to).
    • It can provide feedback to the hand.
  • Randomly list things that can float:
    • Floating text.
    • Putting a camera inside a machine.
    • Generating sound through the movement of floating objects (cyclic structure).
      • Like an automatic Theremin (rickshinmi).
    • Mechanics through pulling floating objects.

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UIST2022 Student Innovation Contest

• https://uist.acm.org/uist2022/cfp.html

• I’m co-chairing the#uist2022 Student Innovation Contest with Thijs Roumen.

• This year’s theme is “Ultrasound Levitation Kit”! Students can get and keep the device for free, thanks to our generous sponsors of UCL. Please apply! The deadline is 7/22 (2-column 2-page proposal without refs) and there are many prizes too.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1i7YrR3ZKo

• See the website for more detail: https://uist.acm.org/uist2022/cfp.html#sic

• You can also see last year’s video here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist…

• You can receive an ultrasound levitation device for free and if you create something interesting, you can present it at UIST.

  • Exciting! (blu3mo)(blu3mo)(blu3mo)

• It seems like a team of two is participating.

  • Maximum of two people.
    • Plan A: Participate with someone from Japan.
    • Plan B: Find someone from Columbia.
    • Plan C: Participate alone.
  • It’s difficult to involve hardware.
    • Development period is in August, September, and October.
    • Flying to the US in 202208
  • A faculty advisor is required.
    • Well, I’ll have to find someone who can lend their name.
      • Maybe look for someone at Columbia?

• Your goal is to design and implement a new interactive system using the ultrasound platform we will provide to you and combining it with any other prototyping materials you have available. To successfully address this challenge, you need to figure out what task(s) you want your system to support, and what interaction(s) you want your system to enable. Your system should motivate the use case and articulate a clear set of assumptions on how it will be beneficial for users. Finally, your system does not have to be limited to one user— ideas that involve well executed, multi-user, simultaneous interactions are often crowd favorites at UIST!