{"587940":{"#nid":"587940","#data":{"type":"news","title":"IC Professor Thad Starner named to prestigious CHI Academy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing (IC) Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EThad Starner\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;was one of eight new members named to the CHI Academy this year, the Special Interest Group on Computer-Human\u0026nbsp;Interaction (SIGCHI) announced.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStarner\u0026#39;s inclusion in the prestigious group raises IC\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;current membership to seven. Other members from the school\u0026nbsp;include John Stasko, Keith Edwards, Beki Grinter, Beth Mynatt, Gregory Abowd, and Jim Foley.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStarner will be honored at the CHI 2017 conference on May 7 in Denver, Colo.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso of note from the upcoming conference are three \u0026quot;Best Paper Honorable Mention\u0026quot; designations for papers involving IC faculty and students:\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ELocating the Internet in the Parks of Havana\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Michaelanne Dye, David Nemer, Laura Pina, Nithya Sambasivan, Amy Bruckman, Neha Kumar),\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESidestepping the Elephant in the Classroom: Using Culturally Localized Technology to Teach Around Taboos\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Piya Sorcar, Benjamin Strauber, Prashant Loyalka, Neha Kumar, Shelley Goldman), and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIntersectional HCI: Engaging Identity Through Gender, Race, and Class\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Ari Schlesinger, Keith Edwards, Beki Grinter).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u0026quot;Best Paper Honorable Mention\u0026quot; designation indicates a paper that is in the top 5 percent of paper submissions for the conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECHI will be held from May 6-11 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Thad Starner named to prestigious CHI Academy."}],"uid":"33939","created_gmt":"2017-02-24 19:34:32","changed_gmt":"2017-02-24 19:34:32","author":"David Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-02-24T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-02-24T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"279861":{"id":"279861","type":"image","title":"Thad Starner","body":null,"created":"1449244184","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:49:44","changed":"1475894973","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:33","alt":"Thad Starner","file":{"fid":"198891","name":"13p1000-p17-004-f.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/13p1000-p17-004-f_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/13p1000-p17-004-f_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2300768,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/13p1000-p17-004-f_0.jpg?itok=LTtvARIL"}}},"media_ids":["279861"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1944","name":"Thad Starner"},{"id":"166848","name":"School of Interactive Computing"},{"id":"654","name":"College of Computing"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDavid Mitchell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Edavid.mitchell@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.mitchell@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}