Hayes Receives Google Glass Accessibility Award!
Congratulations to Gillian Hayes and her collaborators Don Patterson (UCI Informatics) and Monica Tentori (CICESE, Ensenada, Mexico), whose proposal “Wearable Visual Supports for People with Autism Spectrum and other Neurodevelopmental Disorders” has been accepted to receive a Google Glass Accessibility Award from Google Inc.! Gillian, Don, and Monica will receive Google Glass devices as well […]
STAR Paper Wins Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2014!
Congratulations to Amy Voida, Lynn Dombrowski, Gillian Hayes, and Melissa Mazmanian, whose paper “Shared Values/Conflicting Logics: Working Around E-Government Systems” won an Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2014! Abstract: In this paper, we describe results from fieldwork conducted at a social services site where the workers evaluate citizens’ applications for food and medical assistance submitted […]
Gillian Hayes Honored as Part of 2014 ICS Dean’s Awards
The ICS Dean’s awards have been announced, and Gillian won the Dean’s Mid-Career Award for Research in recognition of the STAR group’s research efforts! Dean’s Award for Research: Michael Goodrich For his contributions in the area of parallel and distributed algorithms Dean’s Mid-Career Award for Research: Gillian Hayes For her contributions in the area of human-computer interaction […]
STAR CHI 2014 Papers
STAR group members will be presenting three papers at CHI this year: Brubaker, J. R., Dombrowski, L., Gilbert, A., Kusumakaulika, N., & Hayes, G. R. (2014). Stewarding a Legacy: Responsibilities and Relationships in the Management of Post-mortem Data. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014. Haimson, O. L., Brubaker, J. R., & […]
Interactive Technologies for Autism, New Book Co-Authored by Hayes, Published Online!
The new book Interactive Technologies for Autism: Synthesis Lectures on Assistive, Rehabilitative, and Health-Preserving Technologies, co-authored by Gillian Hayes and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers, is now published online! Development, deployment, and evaluation of interactive technologies for individuals with autism have been rapidly increasing over the last decade. There is great promise for the […]
Dr. Hayes Speaker at California Senate Hearing on Autism!
This morning, Gillian gave a speech as part of the California Senate Subcommittee on Autism hearing! Catch Gillian in the video of the live-stream starting around 1:10:10. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzQcL6t9hpI&w=575]
Technology Tools for Students with Autism Book Published, Featuring Hayes and Brubaker!
The new book Technology Tools for Students with Autism: Innovations that Enhance Independence and Learning, published this month by Brookes Publishing, features two chapters authored by STAR Group members! Gillian and Jed are authors on the chapter “Using Mobile Technologies to Support Students in Work Transition Programs”, and Gillian is also an author on the […]
Dr. Hayes Headlined Recent UCInsights Conference on Autism!
Congrats to Gillian, who recently spoke at the UCInsights conference titled “The Autism Spectrum: Help and Hope” about her research on technologies for autism. STAR PhD students Sen Hirano and Kate Ringland also presented demos of their autism technologies projects, vSked and SensoryPaint.