{"51783":{"#nid":"51783","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Three College of Computing Women Place 2nd At CHI 2006 Design Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EATLANTA (May 2, 2006)--\u003C\/strong\u003EThree College of Computing students took second place in the design competition at last week\u2019s annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) conference in Montreal, Canada. Marshini Chetty, Andrea Grimes and Ellie Harmon are Ph.D. students within the Graphic, Visualization and Usability (GVU) Center at Georgia Tech whose efforts to produce a computer solution proved successful.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECHI 2006 is one of the most prestigious conferences in the area of Human Computer Interaction, and brings together international researchers and practitioners interested in designing computer technologies that are meaningful and easy for people to use. The student design competition is a major component of the conference and an opportunity for students to show how they would take a problem like this year\u0027s brief on fitness and wellbeing, and then produce a computer solution that helps people live a healthier lifestyle.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUtilizing a user-centered design process, Chetty, Grimes and Harmon\u00a0created and evaluated a system called FotoFit to encourage college students to develop and maintain healthy\u00a0habits. FotoFit leverages the medium of photography to provide student users with a visual overview of their diet and exercise routines.\u00a0Using their\u00a0cameraphone, students take pictures of the foods they eat and the activites they perform to then reflect on this information with a PC visualization component. For example, they can\u00a0track their activities at the gym with equipment that sends SMS workout summaries to their cellphones. The FotoFit\u00a0project was originally done as part of College of Computing Associate Professor Gregory Abowd\u2019s CS 6750 class, and was then submitted to the CHI student design competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EChetty, Grimes and Harmon came in second out of the 48 submissions that were reviewed by a panel of experts from three continents. \u0022This recognition speaks volumes about their human-centered design,\u0022 says Beki Grinter, College of Computing associate professor and student advisor to this project. \u0022It\u0027s an outstanding accomplishment in a very high profile setting.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about the CHI 2006 conference, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chi2006.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. students Marshini Chetty, Andrea Grimes and Ellie Harmon were winners at the annual ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) conference.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:47:01","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:16","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}