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 Team iVo, consisting of industrial design students Steve Aboud, Mike Albers and Tyler Nemes, won first place in the international human-computer interaction 2004 student competition at the annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Vienna, Austria, April 24-29. The competition featured student work from colleges all over the world, and included the top names in both interaction design and HCI. The team beat contestants from other colleges including Carnegie Mellon University, University of Illinois, Umea [Sweden], Ludwig-Maximilians in Germany, Illinois Institute of Technology, the University of Vienna, and more. The team received the highest overall results out of 26 teams from judges representing Sony, Adobe and other firms nationwide. The annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems had a record attendance of more than 1,800 of the top professionals, academics and educators in the fields of HCI, industrial design, interaction design and cognitive psychology, according to industrial design professor Jon Kolko. The design problem given to the students for the competition involved the Olympics and a hypothetical plan to gauge audience participation in scoring the gymnastics and diving competitions at the 2004 summer games in Athens, Greece. The students were asked to design a system that would allow audience members who are physically present at the event to cast their vote in real time. The competition took the form of a poster session with a judging question and answer session. Seven teams were then selected to advance to the finals of the competition. At the finals, teams were given 10 minutes to present a Powerpoint presentation to an open audience and then field five minutes of questions from the judges. Aboud and Albers represented SCAD in Vienna. All three members of Team iVo have declared interaction design as a minor. For more information about the competition or the contest, visit http://sigchi.org/chi2004/. Hannah Pittard, staff writer for The Chronicle, has been accepted into the M.F.A. program for creative writing at the University of Virginia with a Henry Hoyns Fellowship. She was one of only seven people selected for the two-year program, which will begin in August. The Savannah College of Art and Design took home one gold ADDY Award and two silver ADDY Awards April 16 at the American Advertising Federation’s seventh district annual ADDY Awards gala in Biloxi, Miss. Peng Hon Low, a graphic designer in the college publications department, won a gold ADDY for his work on the graphic design brochure. Low holds a B.F.A. degree in photography from SCAD and is an M.F.A. candidate in graphic design at the college. Jason Statts, an art director in the college publications department, won a silver ADDY for his work on the furniture design brochure. Statts holds a B.F.A. degree in illustration from SCAD. Mark Rand, a SCAD graphic design professor, won a silver ADDY for his work on the Silverworks 2003 catalog. Rand holds a B.F.A. in illustration and a M.A. in graphic design from SCAD. The American Advertising Federation’s seventh district includes local chapters from Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee. District ADDY winners are forwarded to the national level. |
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