{"66037":{"#nid":"66037","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Douglas Brooks Wins Best Poster Award at Computing Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDouglas Brooks won the Best Poster Award at the 2011 \nRichard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, held \nApril 3-5 in San Francisco. Mr. Brooks is a Ph.D. student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, where he works in the Human-Automation Systems Laboratory.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis poster, entitled \u0022Quantifying Upper-Arm Rehabilitation Metrics through Interaction with a Humanoid Robot,\u0022 describes using robotics to create an enjoyable physical rehabilitation session while obtaining quantifiable physical therapy metrics. By engaging the subject in a mimicking game with a humanoid robot, Mr. Brooks and his Ph.D. advisor Ayanna Howard use several image processing techniques in order to obtain the subject\u0027s arm positions throughout a video sequence. The arm positions are then used to determine the subject\u0027s range of motion and velocity data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery, the Computing Research Association, and the IEEE Computer Society. The conference is named for Richard Tapia, a professor and mathematician at Rice University who is nationally known for his leadership in education and outreach.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student Douglas Brooks won the Best Poster Award at the 2011 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, held April 3-5 in San Francisco.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. student Douglas Brooks won the Best Poster Award at the 2011 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, held April 3-5 in San Francisco."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2011-05-09 13:24:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:41","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"66038":{"id":"66038","type":"image","title":"Douglas Brooks","body":null,"created":"1449176916","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:08:36","changed":"1475894585","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:05","alt":"Douglas Brooks","file":{"fid":"192456","name":"douglas_brooks.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/douglas_brooks_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/douglas_brooks_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":42977,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/douglas_brooks_0.jpg?itok=tVt-kdJd"}}},"media_ids":["66038"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/humanslab.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"Human-Automation Systems Lab (HumAnS)"},{"url":"http:\/\/tapiaconference.org\/2011\/index.html","title":"2011 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"825","name":"Ayanna Howard"},{"id":"12074","name":"Douglas Brooks"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"13086","name":"Human-Automation Systems Laboratory"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}